Collaborate / Research partnerships
EL PASO, TEXASHelp test how experience shapes sleep, adaptive behavior, and recovery.
Bring an experimental method, a time-resolved dataset, or a competing explanation. We build collaborations around a defined scientific question and the work needed to answer it.
Discuss a collaborationUSEFUL STARTING POINTS
Connect time-resolved activity records, acquisition metadata, and sleep-scoring expertise to investigate how timing, continuity, and transitions change.
A useful first output: an analysis plan that identifies eligible records, defines the temporal contrast, and preserves animal and batch structure.
Sleep workstreamCombine behavioral tasks, longitudinal data, and quantitative models to distinguish adjustment to an outcome from changes in movement or motivation.
A useful first output: a design brief with the manipulation, comparison behavior, performance checks, and predictions that differ between accounts.
Adaptive-behavior workstreamHelp design exposure removal, recovery measurements, and a later challenge that can separate retained regulation from residual injury or selection.
A useful first output: a pilot protocol with recovery criteria, assay reliability checks, developmental timing, and independent replication.
Stress-recovery workstreamThese are starting points for discussion. Related questions in cellular neuroscience, circuits, cognition, and human behavior are also welcome when the proposed contribution is clear.
Collaboration areas
From inquiry to collaboration
Define the scientific question and the output that will advance it: an analysis of sleep dynamics, a validated measure, or an experiment ready for pilot work.
Your inquiry is stored for review of the question, available evidence, and the contribution each collaborator could make. A public source link or concise description helps ground the discussion.
Agree on what the records or assay can measure, which units are independent, and which competing explanations the design could distinguish. Identify a clear criterion for proceeding or revising the plan.
Set the scope, roles, resources, data permissions, analysis and review responsibilities, authorship expectations, and intended outputs before substantive work begins.
No. A useful initial message names the question, the system or dataset, the evidence already available, and the uncertainty a collaboration could resolve. Describe the contribution you could make and the expertise or resources still needed.
Questions beyond the current workstreams are welcome when they connect to neuroscience or the biology of adaptation. A useful proposal identifies the system, the measurement, and the expertise needed.
Yes. Share a public link or a nonconfidential description, including the measurement, time resolution, independent subjects or samples, and available acquisition metadata. A data dictionary or example schema is often more useful at first than a large file. Access and reuse permissions are established separately before material is exchanged.
The scope, decision to be resolved, contributors’ roles, data permissions, resources, and intended output. Authorship expectations, review responsibilities, and any limits on sharing should be discussed at the outset and revisited if the work changes.
Researchers at any career stage are welcome to describe a potential contribution. This page accepts collaboration inquiries; it does not advertise employment or funded training positions.
No. This form is for research collaboration. Clinical care and enrollment inquiries belong with the responsible provider or study team.
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