Ashley Crawley is named a 2020 McNair Scholar

We just learned that Ashley was accepted into the 2020 cohort for the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate achievement program here at Rutgers and we couldn’t be more proud!

The McNair program is a very competitive program that helps students to pursue a doctoral degree by providing faculty mentoring, network building, support from other McNair Scholars and other professional development activities.

Ashley works incredibly hard and we can think of no one more deserving of such an honor.

“Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.”

– Ronald E. McNair

Barker Lab Senior Pavan Yecham Inspires new Freshman interested in Science and Health

Our Senior undergraduate, Pavan Yecham, just finished teaching his first college course with mentoring from Dr. Barker. The Rutgers First-Year Interest Group Seminars (FIGS) program allows exceptional Seniors like Pavan to create lesson plans, schedule laboratory tours, and to help quickly set new freshman off on their career paths. We were so happy to participate in this wonderful program and look forward to supporting it in the future.

The Barker Lab was awarded an NJ ACTS grant

A collaborative project between Dr. Barker and Dr. Catherine Jensen Peña was just awarded a pilot project grant from the New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science. This collaborative project focuses on pain as a trigger for opioid dependence in the context of epigenetic susceptibility.

Dr. Barker is Featured by NJDiscover

Calvin Schwartz recently visited the Barker Lab for a light-hearted discussion about the lab itself and all things surrounding the brain.

It was fun to tackle each and every one of Calvin’s questions, including questions about about the state of drug addiction and mental health in the state of NJ and in the the United States as a whole, future ways to interface the brain with computers, and of course the goals the brand new lab hopes to accomplish.

The full interview can be found here.

New Beginnings

The lab has officially launched! We have officially welcomed Phillip Darias as a new Lab Manager and Phillip and Dr. Barker are busy getting things ready for a few lucky graduate students that will start in the Fall of 2019!

Per Ardua ad Astra!

Now Hiring!

We are excited to announce that the lab will be hiring a Laboratory Manager to start as soon as January 2019. The posting can be found here.

Also, the lab will be recruiting 1-2 Graduate students to start in the Fall of 2019 or Fall of 2020 and Postdoctoral Fellows are always welcome to apply. See the instructions on the Join The Team Page if you are interested.

Barker Lab- Starting January 2019

We are excited to announce the start of the Barker Lab at Rutgers University in January of 2019.  Individuals with an interest in working as research assistants should contact Dr. Barker at djamesbarker@gmail.com.