**PLEASE NOTE: The Martinot Lab is offering commuter research placement options ONLY for Summer 2023. There will be NO residential or virtual element for this placement.**

The Martinot Lab works on mycobacterial genetics and virulence factors. We are interested in tuberculosis host-pathogen interaction and the development of novel whole cell tuberculosis vaccines, using murine and non-human primate models of human disease. We also focus on comparative pathology (HIV/SIV, Zikavirus, TB, COVID-19). Students will be integrated in the current research projects of the lab, which will involve image analysis of digital histology and immunohistochemistry slides using Aperioscope (open source) software for image analysis and HALO (remote access) to analyze tissue specimens obtained from experimental animal models of tuberculosis infection or COVID-19.

**PLEASE NOTE: The Mozaffarian Research Lab is offering commuter and virtual research placement options for Spring 2023, and residential, commuter, and virtual research placement options for Summer 2023.**

Dean Dariush Mozaffarian's research focuses on dietary priorities for obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases, and on evidence-based policy approaches to reduce these burdens in the US and globally. Projects continue exploring key dietary and metabolic fatty acids, other nutrients, foods and dietary patterns and incident cardiometabolic diseases, mortality, and healthy aging. There are data checking and analyses needed for both the Global Dietary Database and Food-Price projects that students can contribute to. Mentorship will be provided through the weekly Mozaffarian Research Lab meetings that take place, the project specific meetings that are held, as well as regular 1:1s, all of which take place via videoconference or in-person. Specific intern projects are available here. Please note which project you would like to work on in your personal statement for the application.

**PLEASE NOTE: The Nutrition Exercise Physiology and Sarcopenia Laboratory is offering residential and commuter research placement options ONLY for Summer 2023. There will be NO virtual element for this placement.**

The Nutrition Exercise Physiology and Sarcopenia Laboratory conducts studies to understand the age-related changes in skeletal muscle structure and function. The lab seeks to understand the role that nutrition and exercise play in this process. Lab activities will include pipetting, aliquoting, gel electrophoresis, assisting with RT PCR, and more.

**PLEASE NOTE: The Development of Identity and Community Engagement Lab is offering residential and commuter research placement options ONLY for Summer 2023. There will be NO virtual element for this placement.**

Prof. Johnson’s lab conducts research on how adolescents and young adults make decisions about whether and how to be civically engaged, and whether and how they aim to promote social justice in their civic actions. The lab also investigates how these decisions are related to young people's identity development (for example, gender or racial identity development). Lab activities will include planning research studies (such as developing survey or interview questions, reading research articles about previous studies and writing short summaries of them), data collection (such as joining team trips to conduct interviews or helping to send out emails to recruit participants), data analysis (such as reading interview transcripts and writing initial thoughts about topics and themes), and assisting in the preparation of writing scientific reports and academic journal articles (such as reading articles about prior studies and writing short summaries, preparing written descriptions of study results).