July 8, 2017
By: Annika
Although my lab is in the division of translational neurosciences, most of our day-to-day work involves cellular, molecular and microbiology. We’re currently comparing two methods for bacterial DNA extraction from mouse feces to study shifts in their microbiomes during depression,...
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By: Maddie Go
9:00am (Mon & Fri) / 10:00am (Tues-Thurs) Arrive at lab. Say good morning to everyone. Receive a friendly round of nods/verbal greetings back. Check in with my mentor Jacob. Exchange our plans for the day, and confirm any meetings we...
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By: Iris Chang
Hudson Hall is usually chilly when I walk in. I take the steps all the way to the back, the path once a maze but now familiar, up the stairs, and into the Annex. I check in with my graduate...
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By: Rebecca Lee
(That title sounded better in my head) My day begins with a reminder that I should probably go to the gym more often (never knew three flights of steps could wind me so much). Thus begins my entire day of...
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July 7, 2017
By: Ian Levitan
Research Question: To what extent do the D3 and D4 receptors play a role in mediating a response to a schizophrenia drug? What implications would this have for the need for more highly specific drugs in the future? Metabotropic (7-TM...
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July 3, 2017
By: Justin Savage
My project comes out of the work of my mentor Katie Baldwin. Katie used data collected from the Barres lab at Stanford to compile a list of genes that were highly expressed in astrocytes relative to other cells in the brain....
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By: Aaliyah Davy
Cryptococcus neoformans is a cryptic pathogenic yeast that is able to elude macrophages by replicating its chromosome set (among other cellular components) until it's too big to be engulfed. The result are huge polyploidal cells, called titan cells, that are...
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July 2, 2017
By: Bruny Kenou
Weed. Marijuana. Mary Jane. J. There are many names for the drug that most of us know so well. Many people all over the country have been pushing for the legalization of marijuana with places like Colorado having succeeded. Though...
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By: Annika
Our gut microbiomes have long been known to be critical for immunity, nutrient processing, etc. More recently, research has suggested that gut bacteria play an important bidirectional role in brain development & function, and the modulation of stress response. Major...
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By: Kristie Kim
Ever heard of the Philadelphia chromosome? How about imatinib or Gleevec, the highly successful miracle drug most famously used to treat CML (chronic myelogenous leukemia)? If so, you may have heard of my lab’s focus: the Abl family of protein...
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By: Martín Acosta
Even though my summer research project can be summarized as simply running a seemingly endless amount of HPLC samples, such a description would not do service to the lab I’m a part of. What I will do is part of...
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By: Alie Fink
One of the core approaches my lab uses to model depressive-like symptoms in mouse models is the social defeat paradigm. This paradigm allows my lab to simulate behavioral conditions that lead to the onset of depressive-like symptoms which we can...
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By: Michael Ong
The Di Giulio Lab focuses on ecotoxicology, the study of contaminants in the environment and their effects on organisms. Most of his work investigates how polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and nanoparticles affect the development of zebrafish and killifish. My project...
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By: Cassie Ingram
The focus of my lab is developing and characterizing self-assembling, self-adjuvanting nanofibers and other materials to induce certain immune responses to provide another possible platform for vaccine design and other medical applications. I have been paired with Lucas Shores, a...
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By: Maddie Ojeda
Autoimmune diseases are very challenging to treat. They lead a person’s body to go into a self-destruction mode, killing many perfectly healthy cells in the process. Furthermore it is often times difficult to pinpoint the reasons for the onset of...
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By: Chumba Koech
The overall theme of my lab concerns looking at the pathways of insulin secretion so that we can better understand type 2 diabetes. One of my post doc focuses for her project involves the relationship between GLP-1 and GIP. In...
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By: Georgia Young
The research project I am working on in the Alberts Lab examines how drought, and the stress caused by drought, can affect pregnancy and conception in wild baboons. We are specifically studying the wild baboon population in Amboseli National Park...
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By: Maddie Go
When you hear the word “spine,” your first thought is probably a backbone: that familiar stack of vertebrae running from the base of your skull to your tailbone. At least, that’s what popped into my head when I first discussed...
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