{"id":63,"date":"2017-09-19T13:10:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T17:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/wang-lab\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2022-06-20T17:16:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T21:16:12","slug":"lab-rotation-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/worm-lab\/lab-rotation-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab Rotation Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-63\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-63-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-63-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-63-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p>Dr. Wang is a Ph.D. thesis advisor to students in Neuroscience,\u00a0Cell Biology, and Genetics and Developmental Biology\u00a0areas of concentrations. The lab currently has the following potential projects for lab rotation students:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Perform electrophysiological studies on brain slices and cultured neurons of wild-type and knockout mice to determine whether novel regulators of the BK channel discovered with <em>C. elegans<\/em> play conserved roles in mice.<\/li>\n<li>Perform electrophysiological studies with wild-type and mutant worms to determine how chemical and electrical synapses interplay to produce locomotion and other behaviors.<\/li>\n<li>Determine where melatonin acts in <em>C. elegans<\/em> neural circuit to regulate sleep.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The lab provides an excellent training environment for graduate students. Diverse techniques, including electrophysiological, genetic, optogenetic, and cell biological techniques, are used. Students have ample opportunities to interact with knowledgeable lab members.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Wang is a Ph.D. thesis advisor to students in Neuroscience,\u00a0Cell Biology, and Genetics and Developmental Biology\u00a0areas of concentrations. The lab currently has the following potential projects for lab rotation students: Perform electrophysiological studies on brain slices and cultured neurons of wild-type and knockout mice to determine whether novel regulators of the BK channel discovered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 13:34:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/worm-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/worm-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/worm-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/worm-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/worm-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/worm-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/worm-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/worm-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}