Affiliations

• Pittsburgh Sensory Neuroscience
• The Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research
• Department of Neurobiology
• Center for Neuroscience (CNUP)
• Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
• Department of Anesthesiology
• The Brain Institute
• Medical Science Training Program (MSTP)

 

Biology Resources

• http://casestudies.brain-map.org/celltax#section_explorea 
• http://mousebrain.org/genesearch.html
• https://linnarssonlab.org/dorsalhorn/

• Pain Genes Database
• Pain Research Forum
• NCBI Entrez
• Allen Institute for Brain Science
• GENSAT
• UCSC Genome Browser
• Mouse Genome Informatics, Jackson Laboratory
• ExPASy
• BioNumbers
• Primer3
• MGI mouse Cre recombinase specificity
• NIH Cre driver mice database
• Genepaint
• International Knockout Mouse Consortium
• Scopus
• GENSAT Retina Project

Science Organizations

• • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Society for Neuroscience
  • International Forum for the Study of Itch
  • American Pain Society
  • International Association for the Study of Pain
  • The Association for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology

 

Undergraduate Resources

• Exhaustive List of Research Opportunities (Courtesy of RIT)
• CNUP Summer Undergraduate Research Program
• Interdisciplinary Biomedical Graduate Program’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program
• Conte Center for Neuroscience for Mental Disorders Research Program
• University of Pittsburgh Honors College BPhil Degree
• University of Pittsburgh Honors College Summer Research Programs
• University of Pittsburgh Arts & Sciences Research Opportunities
• University of Pittsburgh Dept. of Biological Sciences Research Opportunities
• University of Pittsburgh Dept. of Neuroscience Research Opportunities
• University of Pittsburgh Dept. of Neuroscience & Biological Sciences Undergraduate Certificate in Life Science Research
• University of Michigan Medical School’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)

Upcoming Meetings of Interest

• • The Genetics of Neuropathic Pain and its Comorbidities
    10 September 2018 to 11 September 2018
    Bar Harbor, Maine, US
  • One-Day Research Symposium on Chronic Pain
    11 September 2018
    Boston, Massachusetts, US 
  • 17th IASP World Congress on Pain 2018
    12 September 2018 to 16 September 2018
    Boston, Massachusetts, US
  • SfN’s 48th annual meeting: Neuroscience 2018
    3 November 2018 to 7 November 2018
    San Diego, California, US
  • 2019 APS Scientific Meeting
    3 April 2019 to 6 April 2019
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US

Current Funding Sources

• National Institutes of Health R01
• Fight for Sight.
• 30,300, 3000 Pain Research Challenge
• American Hearing Research Foundation Grant

 

Previous Funding Sources

• NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant R21
• 2012 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar
• Whitehall Foundation Research Grant