Affiliations

• Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
• The Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research
• University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
• Department of Neurobiology
• Department of Anesthesiology
• Center for Neuroscience (CNUP)

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

Biology Resources

• Pain Research Forum
• NCBI Entrez
• Allen Institute for Brain Science
• GENSAT
• St.Jude Brain Gene Expression Map
• 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

Funding Sources

• National Institutes of Health R01.

• NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant R21

• 2012 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar

• CMRF

• Virginia Kauffman Award

• Whitehall Foundation Research Grant

Upcoming Meetings of Interest

• Cell Symposia: Genes, Circuits and Behavior
  Toronto, June 2013
• CSH 2013 Meetings – Wiring the Brain
  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, July 18-22 2013
• 7th World Conference on Itch (WCI)
  Boston, September 2013
• The Assembly And Function
  Of Neuronal Circuits
  Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland. September 29th – October 4th 2013

Undergraduate Resources

• Exhaustive List of Research Opportunities (Courtesy of RIT)
  
• University of Pittsburgh Honors College BPhil Degree
  
• University of Pittsburgh Arts & Sciences Research Opportunities
  
• University of Pittsburgh Arts & Sciences Summer Research Programs
  
• University of Pittsburgh Dept. of Biological Sciences Research Opportunities
  
• University of Pittsburgh Dept. of Neuroscience Research Opportunities