Summer Research Student PD

ELIGIBILITY

• Undergraduate students with strong interest in neuroscience research and who demonstrate enthusiasm for, commitment to, and availability for the full program are encouraged to apply.
• Previous courses or lab work in neural circuits or neurodegenerative disorders are helpful but not required.
• Research assistants must reside in or near Providence for the summer.

Brown University Health employees are expected to successfully role model the organization's values ofCompassion,Accountability,Respect, andExcellenceas these values guide our everyday actions with patients, customers, and one another.

In addition to our values, all employees are expected to demonstrate the core Success Factors which tell us how we work together and how we get things done. The core Success Factors include:

• Instill Trust and Value Differences
• Patient and Community Focus and Collaborate

RESPONSIBILITIES

What Research Assistants Learn

• Introduction to gait dysfunction
• Neurophysiology of gait and gait disorders
• High resolution motion capture with EMG, IMU, EEG, and behavior
• Analysis of above data
• Basic human neuroscience lab procedures
• Ethical conduct of human research
• Experimental hypotheses, rationale, and methods for laboratory's summer research project
• Presentation skills and critical reading of primary literature
• Research administration/IRB/regulatory maintenance

What Research Assistants Do

In this project, research assistants (RAs) will be working to characterize gait and movement in people with neurological gait dysfunction. Research assistants will help with the technical setup and support for data collection for the subject population and controls, which entails going to the Center for Innovative Neurotechnology for Neural Repair (CINNR) at 717 Allens Ave in Providence. RAs may be responsible for secure transport of data from CINNR to the RIH-based lab. RAs will be responsible for data curation and pre-processing as well as assisting in data analysis techniques. RAs will have the opportunity to contribute to experimental design, hypothesis testing, and design and implementation of analysis. Day-to-day tasks include but are not limited to: implementation and testing of behavioral experiments, testing of end-to-end data collection procedures, recruitment of subjects and controls, curation and analysis of data in python, and presentations of progress and results. RAs will work closely with students, postdocs, PIs, and clinicians on a variety of additional tasks relevant to this project.

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Brown University Health is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and maintaining a work environment free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment.

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