I am not currently hiring new undergraduate researchers (updated Nov 2025). I will announce the next round of hiring here (the lab website) and in the department “This Week at DNS” emails. If you’d like to receive a direct email alerting you when the next round of applications open, you can sign up here: https://forms.gle/Vtdw345KDQJViSU49. Thanks for your interest in the lab, and please reach out to me via email as you have any questions. You can find more information about the lab below.

 

This position is currently filled. I expect to employ this position continuously until 2029 (dependent on continued NSF funding).

 

The Solomon-Lane Lab is a welcoming, collaborative group, and we are committed to an inclusive, honest, and fair environment for research and learning, free from discrimination or harassment of any kind. We prioritize teamwork, respect, and positivity. This is a Lab where you are encouraged to be your whole self. Every voice and perspective matters. In fact, it is the different perspectives, interests, ideas, and identities of lab members that make our science and our lab successful and unique!

 

The Lab is in the Department of Natural Sciences of Pitzer and Scripps Colleges, within the Claremont Colleges. The Claremont Colleges are a consortium of 5 liberal arts colleges (plus 2 graduate institutions). With 5 colleges together on adjacent campuses, this is an outstanding place for intellectual curiosity, scientific discovery, and professional development.

 

Research in the lab focuses on the development of social behavior and its regulation by behavioral, endocrine, and neural mechanisms using a fish model system. This NSF-funded project will specifically investigate early-life social experiences and how they shape behavioral phenotype long-term via developmental plasticity in underlying neural mechanisms, including vasopressin and stress axis signaling.

 

Research approaches and skills included: behavioral observations and analysis (including manual observation, automated tracking, social network analysis, and modeling), hormone sample collection (water-borne, tissue) and analysis (ELISA, LCMS), qPCR to measure neural gene expression, RNAscope (focusing on neural vasopressin and stress axis signaling), data visualization and analysis using RStudio, and scientific communication. No previous research or course experience is necessary.