Within the Behavioral Neuroscience Program
It is common for students, postdocs and staff to learn procedures and use equipment across the Behavioral Neuroscience labs. Expertise is available in numerous areas, including:
- behavioral analysis across diverse functions (including learning/memory, affective, and motivated behaviors)
- cesarean birth in rodents
- chemogenetics
- fiber photometry
- genotyping
- histology
- immunohistochemistry (including the use of multiple fluorescent markers)
- in situ hybridization
- microbiome sequencing
- neural lesioning
- neuroanatomical tracing
- neuropharmacological manipulation
- Northern, Southern, and Western blot analyses
- optogenetics
- primary cell culture
- radioimmunoassay
- receptor autoradiography
- RT-PCR
- stereotaxic surgery
- telemetric quantification of biological rhythms
- transgenic rat and mouse lines
- up- and down-regulation of gene expression
Elsewhere on Campus
State-of-the-art facilities and training are available in numerous areas, including:
- confocal microscopy
- electron microscopy
- fMRI
- DNA and protein sequencing
- High performance computing