The Mahler Lab is missing an important person–You! We are looking for 1-2 graduate students in 2016. Interested parties can apply to the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program at UCI. In addition to soaking in the lovely Southern California Climate on UCI’s beautiful campus, you will take classes and rotate in 2-3 labs during your first year. Read More…
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Looking for Undergraduate Volunteers!
The Mahler lab has come to life! We are rocking 16 shiny operant boxes and numerous other behavioral apparatuses, immnohistochemistry, and fluorescent/brightfield microscopy setups. We are just getting down to science, and we have lots to do–viral vectors to validate, tissue to Read More…
Undergrads Wanted for Fall 2015!
Mahler lab is in business! We will be looking for UCI undergraduates to volunteer in the lab starting in the fall quarter. You’ll learn about our research on the behavioral neuroscience of addiction and motivation, get to help out with experiments, and you can arrange course credit for your participation. Applicants must meet the following Read More…
Birth of a Laboratory, part 1
The Mahler lab welcomes its first employees: Richard Dang: Lab Manager Hannah Schoch: Postdoc Leyu Chiu: Postbacc. Ladies and gentlemen, let’s get ready to rumble!
Undergraduate Summer Research Opportunity!
NIDA is funding undergraduates from underrepresented populations interested in doing addiction-related research this summer. If you’d like to be funded to come to Irvine and work in the Mahler Lab, please go here. Our lab is research site 11, “Role of Ventral Pallidum Projections to VTA in Reinstatement of Cocaine Seeking” Your projects will follow Read More…
New Review Paper
We have a new paper explaining what we think the peptide neurotransmitter orexin (also called hypocretin) may do. Check it out!
Join Us!
The Mahler Lab debuts on April 1, 2015 (no joke!) We are looking for talented grad students and postdocs who would like to help me get the lab up to full speed! Email: mahler@musc.edu for more information