Student Volunteer for Fish Behavioral Testing
The Cummings Lab is investigating how the social environment (the different types of males a female interacts with) influences female behavior such as stress, social tendencies, mate preferences, and cognition. Tasks during summer 2018 would include fish husbandry and behavioral testing, and video data analysis. Note that there is the possibility of field experience at Brackenridge Field Labs (collecting wild fish).
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Summer 2018. Students interested in continuing in the fall on other projects are welcome, though continuing into next semester is not required.
1. Fish husbandry (feeding, changing water, illness care, etc)
2. Social Rearing Experiment tank care
3. Behavior and Cognition video data analysis
4. Behavioral testing (running social tendencies, mate preferences, anxiety tests on individual fish)
