The McCullagh Lab needs more masters and PhD students!

Graduate positions available (masters and PhD) in new faculty’s lab in the Integrative Biology Department at Oklahoma State University.
*Funding available through TAships and summer funding provided through start up until grant funding is obtained.
*Research conducted in the lab focuses on Neuroscience and specifically sound localization processing in the brain of vertebrates. More narrowly, projects available exploring auditory hypersensitivity/binaural hearing in autism spectrum disorder and Fragile X Syndrome, comparative Biology of rodent and amphibian species.
*Techniques the lab uses include: anatomy/histology, in vivo physiology, behavior, data analytics, optogenetics, viral tracing, knock out mouse strains/genetic mouse strains.

Women and underrepresented minorities are strongly encouraged to apply.

*Preferred skills for applicants:

1. willingness to learn and motivation to work hard (while keeping work/life balance and mental health),
2. coding experience (R, Python, Matlab),
3. wet lab/field experience, strong letters of reference

If based in the US could potentially start in Spring 2021. Else start date would likely be summer 2021/Fall 2021.

Funding is around 23K (not including summer funding). Summer support is available for at least one summer (possibly two, for a total of almost 31K of annual support). Hopefully research assistant support will become available with future grant funding. Applicants will be strongly encouraged to apply for extramural funding (with support from Dr. McCullagh) to support their careers.