Postgraduate student positions

Two MSc positions: (1) in the area of single cell retinal ganglion cell imaging and electrophysiology and (2) in the area of optic nerve cell and tissue culture.

One PhD position in the area of retinal ganglion cell axon transport in experimental optic nerve damage.

Location and facilities

The Retina and Optic Nerve Research Laboratory is a 7,000 sq. ft. multidisciplinary laboratory that houses six principal investigators who are all individually funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), NSERC and private foundations.  There are around 25 post-doctoral fellows, graduate and elective students and research technicians providing excellent training and opportunities with collaboration.  The projects in the laboratory range from ion channel physiology to animal models of eye disease.  The laboratory is superbly equipped with state-of-the-art equipment for imaging (including confocal microscopy, cell ion imaging in isolated cells and whole tissue and in vivo imaging of the retina and optic nerve), electrophysiology (single cell, whole animal), immunohistochemistry, tissue and cell culture and molecular biology.

Contact

Balwantray C. Chauhan (bal@dal.ca)