To schedule a meeting with Dr. Pollard to discuss an opportunity listed below, please contact by email at apollard@uab.edu.
To schedule a meeting with Dr. Pollard to discuss an opportunity listed below, please contact by email at apollard@uab.edu.
Research in our lab:
The Pollard Lab develops and applies experimental and computational methods to quantify electrical characteristics of heart tissue. We are specifically interested in using systems of very small and closely spaced electrodes on different types of tissue preparations as a way to resolve cardiac action potentials, characteristics of propagation, and passive electrical properties documenting how small groups of cells couple to one another electrically.
What methods/tools do we use:
• A range of tissue preparations including different animal models and tissue-engineered heart patches.
• Assembly of electrode arrays using silver wires for unique electrophysiological recordings of tissue impedance.
• Software development (in MATLAB) for data processing of electrophysiological recordings in action potential development and propagation.
• Hardware development including printed circuit board prototyping and design.
About you:
You should enjoy working on challenging experimental techniques and/or programming tasks. You will be working with an interdisciplinary team of scientists from engineering and cardiology. You should have the ability to work in a team, have good management and communication skills and be highly motivated and committed to pursuing interdisciplinary research.