Training Opportunities in Olfaction and Computational Neuroscience

Urban Lab Projects: (e-mail Dr. Urban nurban@cmu.edu for more details)

Projects may involve in vitro whole cell recording, fluorescence imaging of calcium transients, studies of olfactory behavior in mice, computer simulations. 

• Physiological investigations of the circuitry of the mammalian main and accessory olfactory bulb.
• Dendritic integration in the main and accessory olfactory bulb.
• Experience-dependent changes in olfactory bulb circuitry.
• Simulations of lateral inhibition in the olfactory bulb.
• Computational and physiological mechanisms of oscillations and synchrony in the olfactory system.

Programs and Funding

Graduate students
I am affiliated with the following PhD programs

• CMU Department of Biological Sciences
• Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh (CNUP)
• Program in Neural Computation (CMU)

Students in any of these graduate programs can rotate in or do PhD work in my lab. 

Undergrads
Undergrads wanting a summer research experience work in my lab through participating in the following summer programs, or just by contacting me.

• CMU Summer undergraduate research program (SURP), which is funded by:
  • NSF Research experience for undergraduates program
  • HHMI Undergraduate Science Education Program
• CNUP summer undergraduate research program
• Program in Neural Computation Undergraduate Program (Contact Nathan Urban)
  

Undergrads wanting information on neuroscience coursework can look at the biology department website

• Undergraduate Neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon
• Neuroscience Track in Biological Sciences Major

Collaborators

Our work involves interactions with a number of collaborators, including:

• Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh Department of Mathematics
• Troy Margrie, University College London
• Pavel Osten, Northwestern University