Posts Tagged ‘neuroscience’

Undergraduate Research Opportunity!

Posted on: November 26th, 2012 by

The West Virginia University Center for Neuroscience continues to cultivate the next generation of neuroscientists with an opportunity for undergraduate students to participate in our 9-week Summer Undergraduate Research Internship (SURI) program. Accepted students will gain invaluable experience as they study and work in high-tech facilities across over 40+ laboratories housed in modern research facilities.

Students accepted to the 2013 SURI program will receive a $4,000 stipend, paid throughout the program, plus housing in the WVU-leased Pierpont Apartments, located near the Medical Center Campus.

Please click on the the link below to to find out more!

Undergraduate research opportunity

Undergraduate Research Opportunities!

Posted on: August 16th, 2012 by

If you are an undergraduate interested in earning some credit doing neuroscience research please click on the following link!

Undergraduate Research Opportunities for the Fall

Bees can reverse the effects of aging

Posted on: July 16th, 2012 by

A team from Arizona State and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences found that bees who have left the nest and no longer nurse the young begin aging very quickly. When persuading these bees to nurse again their ability to learn new things improved; perhaps due to increased plasticity?

To read the article, click here.

 

Obituary: Sir Andrew Huxley

Posted on: June 2nd, 2012 by

Sir Andrew Huxley, who was awarded the Nobel Prize along with Sir Alan Hodgkin for figuring out the mechanism behind nerve impulses, has died. Read his obituary in the Guardian here.

Online Electronic Textbook

Posted on: May 27th, 2012 by

This is a fantastic free online textbook covering a vast amount of neuroscience topics; there are some pretty cool videos embedded in the text as visual aids to the concepts covered.

The project is headed up by Dr. John Byrne at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and is intended as an online study aid.

American Academy of Neurology – Annual Meeting

Posted on: April 21st, 2012 by

The American Academy of Neurology is having its 64th annual meeting in New Orleans. Click here to find out more.

Postdoc and Graduate Student Opportunities in the Day Lab

Posted on: January 7th, 2012 by

Adventure in Panama, Suriname, and Guyana:

The Neurobiology and Endocrinology of Manakins.

A position is open a for a postdoc and a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Lainy Day  in the Biology Department at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS.Successful applicants will be involved in studies analyzing the relationship between neuroanatomy / neuroendocrinology and courtship display complexity in birds of the manakin family (Pipridae).  Fieldwork will take place in Panama and along the Amazon Basin in Suriname and Guyana.

For more information, please click here!