# PhD Applicant, Neuroscience résumé example

An academic CV for a graduate school application: two years at the bench, a first-author preprint, posters and teaching.

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## Mara Lindqvist — Undergraduate Researcher, Neuroscience

Fourth-year neuroscience student at UNC Chapel Hill applying to PhD programs in systems neuroscience for fall 2027. Two years of chronic two-photon imaging in mouse barrel cortex, a first-author methods preprint, and a spine-detection pipeline that cut manual scoring from nine hours a week to one.

### Experience

**Undergraduate Research Assistant**, Synaptic Plasticity Laboratory, UNC Chapel Hill · September 2024 – present

Chronic two-photon imaging in juvenile mouse somatosensory cortex; 15 hours a week during term.

- Runs the imaging sessions and spine-tracking analysis for a 14-animal longitudinal study, now in revision at a physiology journal.
- Wrote a semi-automated spine detector on 2,400 hand-labeled images that cut manual scoring from nine hours a week to one, with 96% agreement against two blinded scorers.
- Designed and built a head-fixation plate for juvenile animals after the commercial part failed on three mice; the design file is now used by three other laboratories.
- Trains incoming undergraduates on stereotaxic surgery and perfusion; four of the five have stayed past a year.

**Summer Research Fellow**, Ridgeline Institute for Brain Science · June 2025 – August 2025

- Quantified interneuron density across six cortical layers in 42 sections, reaching the lab reference values within 4% on a first attempt.
- Presented the ten-week project to an institute-wide audience of 90 and was one of two fellows invited back for a second summer.

**Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Introductory Neurobiology**, Department of Biology, UNC Chapel Hill · August 2025 – May 2026

- Led two weekly discussion sections of 24 students and held four office hours; section mean on the final sat 6 points above the course mean both terms.

### Education

- B.S. Neuroscience, minor in Statistics · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · August 2023 – May 2027

### Skills

- **Laboratory**: Two-photon imaging, Stereotaxic surgery, Immunohistochemistry, Cryosectioning, Mouse colony management
- **Analysis**: Python, MATLAB, R, ImageJ, Mixed-effects models, Bootstrap resampling
- **Scholarly practice**: Manuscript drafting, Animal protocol writing, Poster design, Peer mentoring