Links We Like
Scientific Societies
American Society for Neurochemistry (ASN)
International Behavioral Neuroscience Society (IBNS)
International Narcotics Research Conference (INRC)
Newborn Brain Society (NBS)
Radiation Research Society (RadRes)
Society for Neuroscience (SFN)
National Training and Mentoring Resources
Entering Mentoring program
Johns Hopkins updated list of graduate fellowships
Science careers Individual Development Plan site
National Postdoctoral Association
Local Training Resources
CHOP's Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Training Program (Neurodev Disab T32)
CHOP Trainee Portal
Training opportunities at CHOP for postdoctoral fellows, physician fellows and/or graduate students
Penn Med's Training Grant: Remapping Neurology Through Translation and Innovation (Neurology T32)
University of Pennsylvania Biomedical Postdoctoral Programs
Penn Med's Biomedical Graduate Studies
Penn Med's Neuroscience Graduate Group (NGG)
Penn's MindCORE (Mind Center for Outreach, Research, and Education)
PennMed's NGG Graduate-Led Initiatives and Activities (GLIA)
PennMed's Pharmacology Graduate Group (PGG)
CHOP Responsible Conduct of Research site
Extremely useful links for mentors and mentees from PennMed
Penn New Student Orientation page (good for grad students too!)
Local Links
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
The University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine (PennMed)
CHOP/PennMed Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (IDDRC)
PennMed Eisch Lab Website
U@Penn portal
Calendar of secular and religious holidays at UPenn
CHOP Office of Faculty Development
Productivity links
UPenn's Franklin Library
Collaborator links
Lab of Ann M. Stowe, University of Kentucky, senior author on this amazing paper of which Dr. Eisch was delighted to be a part and ongoing Eisch Lab collaborator
Touchscreen resource links
Rodent touch screen online/virtual community
Mousebytes, open science, mouse genomics, cognition, and imaging data sharing
Glia resource links
Microglia RNAseq atlas (Stevens, Carroll Labs)
Brain RNAseq (Barres Lab)
Funding Institutes and Resources
National Institute of Drug Abuse
National Institute of Mental Health
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
NIH ERA Commons
NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORT)
NIH's Assisted Referral Tool (ART)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH)
The Brain and Behavior Foundation (sponsor of NARSAD grants)
Social media
Eisch Lab tweets about science (rotates among current lab members): Twitter handle @EischLab
Amelia tweeting in personal capacity: Twitter handle @AJEisch
"Locked" links (login required)
Connect.chop.edu for access to CHOP intranet (where you can get to Concur and BRAVO), Research Intranet, Webmail, Annual Performance Review, and CHOP One
CHOP Office of Academic Training and Outreach Programs (ATOP)
List of CHOP Research Affinity Groups
Note: The Eisch Lab believes it is important to use animals in biomedical research.
As stated and detailed here and here, practically every present-day protocol for the prevention, control, cure of disease and relief of pain is based on knowledge attained – directly or indirectly – through research with animals. The utility and necessity of animals in research is supported by numerous organizations and institutions worldwide.
The Eisch Lab is a proud to be a preclinical lab that uses rodents (mice and rats) to achieve our ultimate goal of understanding brain structure and function. We believe understanding rodent brain circuitry - and dentate gyrus circuitry in particular - in health and in pathological situations will advance neuroscience research and may provide new insights into the structure and function of the human brain. Our work subscribes to local and national standards of animal use and care as this is good for our animals and good for our research.