Faculty member: Elizabeth Mietlicki-Baase
Project name: Neurohormonal controls of food reward
Project goals: This project uses rodent models to understand how feeding-related hormones act in the brain to govern feeding, food reinforcement, and body weight.
Project tasks: Students will have the opportunity to learn skills such as rodent handling, injection techniques, behavioral/physiological data collection and analysis.
Duration of research experience: Summer, Fall
Time commitment: 6+ hours/week (some morning/early afternoon weekend work is required)
Will this be in person or remote: In person in a lab