Summer Internship Opportunity
This summer, the BrainMap Project is offering individuals who are interested in pursuing a career in research, the opportunity to participate in the BrainMap Summer Internship Program working as an unpaid coder. Our past coders have gone on to pursue careers in neuroscience, medicine, psychology and psychiatry at various prestigious universities.
Job Description:
A main tenet of BrainMap is to maintain a database of published neuroimaging studies to promote the sharing of data (see BrainMap.org). Interns will be responsible for coding papers (i.e., adding new neuroimaging studies into the BrainMap database). Over the summer, coders extract data (e.g., conditions, experiments, brain foci [locations/coordinates]) from neuroimaging articles that are then, inputted into our BrainMap database. Summer interns usually work on a particular project, e.g., code articles for a particular disease like Schizophrenia, ADHD, MS, etc. to one of our three database sectors (the functional or task-activation [TA], the structural or voxel-based morphometry [VBM)] and resting-state or voxel-based physiology [VBP)]) At the end of the summer, interns will also have the opportunity to run their own meta-analysis; the results of which can then be presented at various conferences, e.g., Southwestern Psychological Association (SWPA), Texas Psychological Association (TPA) conference, etc.
Qualifications/Background:
Interns should have an interest in scientific research and be able to comprehensively read and break down neuroimaging research articles to extract relevant data. As regards background, we have had all types of undergraduate/graduate interns, as well as high school interns, as previous interns (e.g., Pre-Med, Nursing, Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Neuroscience/Imaging, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Bioinformatics).
Requirements:
Interns must be able to commit to a minimum of 15-20 hours per week and be able to meet with the coding team, if necessary. This internship will be primarily, virtual and work can be done remotely with the use of a personal laptop/computer; it will run a total of 8 weeks from July to August.
Benefits:
Interns will gain a better grasp of how neuroimaging research, as a whole, is conducted and will be exposed to relevant research papers, as well as current/preliminary findings coming out of our lab at the Research Imaging Institute (RII). We will go over some neuroscience basics, research design as it pertains to and differs in neuroimaging research (especially task-based studies) and explore datasets within the three sectors of the BrainMap database as we learn how to run a meta-analysis.
Contact Info:
If you have questions, you may email either Michaela Robertson (Research Scientist/BrainMap Summer Internship Program Manager) at robertsonm3@uthscsa.edu or you may also ask any questions you may have and send your resume/CV to Janaye at dews@uthscsa.edu (Research Assistant/ BrainMap Summer Internship Program Supervisor) for consideration. We only have a handful of intern spots open for the summer, so please apply early. Potential candidates will be contacted by phone in the following weeks, to set-up zoom interviews.