The Value of Communication

While I have only worked in Dr. Mooney’s lab for a short time, I feel like I have learned an amount of knowledge far vaster than what I expected from a brief eight weeks of lab work. From learning lab...

George Romero Mentors: Jiaxuan Qi, Richard Mooney, Ph.D. Department of Neurobiology - Duke University School of Medicine Previously studied neurons and cell types within the brain have been characterized using methods that are considerably slow, inefficient, and expensive. To present,...

Now that we have passed the halfway point of BSURF, I realize more and more that science is an art of communication. While the experiments we conduct and the data we collect have their own intrinsic value, as Dr. Grunwald...

Alright - a day in the life at the Mooney Lab. First off, I’d like to say that there isn’t really one “typical” day or set routine in the lab. The day pretty much depends on the experiments you want...

Complex questions never have one simple answer. Similarly, the hardest questions never offer the most satisfying answers. Reflecting on my conversation with my PI, Dr. Mooney, I realized this remains true for many questions in the field of research. We...

First full week at the Mooney Lab: complete. What can I say, this week has assuredly presented some steep learning curves. From accidentally sacking my bird (an affectionate euphemism I suppose) during a brain injection surgery to being unable to...

I think all of us know someone who we would describe as a birdbrain. You know, that one friend or distant cousin who’s just not completely there all the time. I’m not quite sure how this saying came to be,...