• Proficiency in a variety of behavior evaluation in the normal rat and rat with nerve system disorder/injury: motor scoring, grid walk and runway analysis, treadmill locomotor data collection• Expertise in locomotion EMG analysis, VICON 3D motion analysis• Hand-on experience in animal surgery: vertebral laminectomy, spinal cord contusion injuries, craniotomy, dorsal spinal hemisection, chronic recording and stimulating electrodes implantation• In-depth knowledge of anatomical assessment: anterograde cortical labeling, retrograde spinal cord motorneuron labeling, quantitative immunohistochemistry, light microscopy, image analysis• Extensive knowledge in electrophysiology: chronic recording of muscle EMG, operant conditioning of targeted spinal cord pathway, nerve stimulating cuffs, chronic EMG recording electrodes, brain microarray electrodes, etc.• Well-versed for image processing and analysis
Listed skills include Applied Behavior Analysis, Animal Surgery, Anatomy, and Image Editing.