Open Positions

The McLoughlin Lab is actively recruiting one graduate student in the 2025-2026 academic year. 

That being said, we are often looking for motivated postdocs, technicians, and undergraduate students
interested in neurodegenerative disease research. 

GRADUATE STUDENTS

We are looking forward to welcoming rotation students for the Fall 2025-Winter 2026 school year! In an effort to find the best-fit students for the few rotation slots, rather than a first come first serve scenario, the current lab members and I created a rotation student intake form that we are asking all interested to complete. We intend to fill the first two rotation (fall cycle 1 and late-fall cycle 2) slots by the end of June 2025, if not sooner! We will not be accepting summer 2025 rotation students due to many papers/grant applications and travel plans that will occupy this summer. In addition to filling out the intake form above, please do reach out to Dr. McLoughlin via e-mail for more information about the lab.

Our group has accepted rotating graduate students from Neuroscience, Human Genetics, Cellular & Molecular Biology, PIBS, and MSTP.  If you're a graduate student in another department at the University of Michigan and interested in rotating/joining, reach out, and I can pursue faculty affiliation to allow for working with my group during your degree program. 

If you are not yet a University of Michigan graduate student, you can read more about applying to the Department of Human Genetics here or the Neuroscience Graduate program here. Please feel free to email me with any questions!  

Note: Plans for the 2026-2027 graduate student recruitment efforts are yet to be determined. 

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

Postdoctoral fellows who are interested in working in neurodegenerative disease research should be soon-to-be or recent PhD and/or MD graduates. If interested, please send Dr. McLoughlin your CV and a cover letter detailing your past/ongoing research interests, your plans for future projects, and your long-term career goals. Please also include contact information (name, email, phone) for at least two references. I'm very happy to discuss how we can carve out independent research questions for your own career development.  

UNDERGRADUATES

We are not actively recruiting undergraduate research assistants for Winter 2026. However, if you have interest for upcoming semesters to assist with molecular wet lab studies in the lab, please send an e-mail with a short note about your interest in our lab, roughly how much time you would have available for research, your CV/resume, and a transcript highlighting any relevant coursework to Dr. McLoughlin in case a position were to come open. 

STAFF

We are not actively recruiting staff support for the lab.