Nicole Chambers Email and Phone Number

I am currently conducting research in Dr. Mark Moehle's lab, where I am studying neural correlates of motor and non-motor deficits in rodent models of movement disorders using fiber photometry and ex vivo electrophysiology.

I conducted research in the laboratory of Dr. Karim Oweiss, where I was involved in a clinical trial of closed-loop, dual site deep brain stimulation in essential tremor patients into the VIM and VO thalamus--specifically, I designed experimental protocols for research visits, communicated with patients, collected EMG and accelerometry data with wireless, surface-mounted sensors and recorded brain activity from contacts on the DBS leads both intra-operatively during lead implant and during follow-up visits.

• Examined effects of acetylcholine on Parkinson's disease motor deficits and L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia.• Performed lesion and cannulation surgeries.• Real Time Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction• High Performance Liquid Chromatography• Immunohistochemistry• In vivo microdialysis and microinfusions• Various behavioral assays including Abnormal involuntary movements test, Catwalk, and Forepaw adjusting steps test.• T.A. for Freshman Research Immersion Program Neuroscience Stream for 3 semesters. Duties included teaching students about research, experimental design, and providing hands-on experience with behavioral assays, wet lab tasks including HPLC and PCR. Also T.A. for various courses including Research Methods, Statistics, Behavioral Neuroscience.• Served as Instructor of Record for Behavioral Neuroscience, Perception, and a Junior/Senior Seminar on Techniques in Neuroscience

• Literature Review on Emotion Recognition and Electroencephalography• Used E-Prime to program multiple computer experiments examining developmental research questions.• Prepared stimuli for an upcoming experiment examining emotion and event related potentials.• Ran participants in EEG experiments.• Trained graduate and undergraduate students to use EEG equipment.• Recruited older adults for studies by sending out letters and making phone calls.• Managed older adult participant database.• Preprocessed and analyzed EEG data.

Taught a research methods laboratory course in psychology. Taught students about APA style, writing a research paper, research design, conducting research, and how to analyze data.

January 2012-August 2012: Research Assistant for Biology of Affect and Motivation Lab• Made choreographed grooming chain figures in Microsoft Excel from videos of rat grooming.• Analyzed tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity in Image J.• Analyzed rat ultrasonic vocalizations in SASLab Pro.• Handled and trained rats for experiments.• Assisted during neurosurgery.___May 2011-May 2012: Research Assistant for Stress and Headache Study• Helped to pilot scripts for meditation/relaxation.• Helped to pilot the post-test measures (including cold pressor task, running participants, setting up and tearing down) in summer 2011.• Trained other research assistants in post-test measures.• Ran participants for post-test measures.___April 2011: Research Assistant for Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Study• Coded data