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Prospective Graduate Students

Positions are available for graduate students in the Carthew lab.  Please apply through one of the two biomedical sciences PhD graduate programs or the MSc Biotechnology graduate program.

    IBiS        http://www.ibis.northwestern.edu

    NUIN      http://nuin.northwestern.edu

    MSc        http://www.biotechtraining.northwestern.edu

For interested first-year graduate students

Lab rotations occur on a quarterly basis, and the expectation is that a student devotes some of their studies on the completion of a 10-week project under the direct supervision of a lab member with the guidance of Dr. Carthew. Rotation projects can be tailored to a student’s interests and skills, but below are some examples of potential rotation projects.

1. •Function of miRNAs in insulin secretion
   

2. •Real-time-lapse imaging of protein expression in developing tissue
   

3. •Transposon silencing by piRNAs in female germ cells
   

4. •Regulation of miRNA activities by growth factors in cell culture
   

5. •Engineering a miRNA reporter for real-time translation
   

6. •Mathematical 3D modeling of cellular geometry
   

7. •The interface between nutrition and miRNA regulation