July 28, 2019
By: Nithin Ragunathan
After a grueling, yet rewarding 8 weeks of lab work, BSURF 2019 has concluded. My summer experience culminated Friday evening with the Duke Summer Undergraduate Research Showcase (pictured above), during which I presented my poster. This summer has been...
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July 21, 2019
By: Nithin Ragunathan
Very few times in life do we get a chance to hear from people who are at the very top of their field— intelligent, communicative, innovative, paradigm-shifting individuals who have improved the lives of millions with their work. Dr. Robert...
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July 14, 2019
By: Nithin Ragunathan
This week, I've prepared an early draft of the abstract for my poster: The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is a cortical brain region implicated in a variety of functions, including emotional self-regulation and the reward pathway. This project utilizes optogenetic...
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July 7, 2019
By: Nithin Ragunathan
Bonjour tout le monde, this week I’m here to detail what a typical day in the Yin lab looks like for me. Each day, my schedule heavily depends on the availability of the operant conditioning boxes in the lab. Recently,...
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June 30, 2019
By: Nithin Ragunathan
Opioids are an impending crisis in this country and across the globe. The prescription of these heavy painkillers is highly controversial, with some medical professionals claiming that it’s too much and others claiming it’s too little— but we know one...
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June 23, 2019
By: Nithin Ragunathan
This week, I had the opportunity to sit down with the principal investigator of my lab, Associate Professor Dr. Henry Yin of the Duke Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. I’d like to personally thank him for taking the time to...
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June 18, 2019
By: Nithin Ragunathan
The great American philosopher Alicia Keys once declared that “Big lights will inspire you” on a track with Jay-Z. It’s this sentiment that I’ll be spending my summer trying to extrapolate to my mice. See, my project involves optogenetic...
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June 9, 2019
By: Nithin Ragunathan
[caption id="attachment_3660" align="alignnone" width="169"] Me in the lab[/caption] Making the long walk from French Family Science Center to Genome Sciences Research Building II into the Yin Lab for the first day of BSURF, I felt nervous about my first day...
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