Skills
Analysis & Problem Solving: Experimental Design, synthesizing large quantities of data, designing and analyzing surveys, creating spreadsheets, organizing databases, incorporating creativity and design into research
Interpersonal: leadership, mentoring, collaboration, group and individual instruction
Project Management & Organization: Goal setting with timelines, flexibility, attention to detail, independence, adaptability, persevering
Communication: writing concisely for non-scientists, presenting to small and large groups, grant writing, writing scientific manuscripts
Research: dissections of fixed organisms, tissue, and embryos, planarian animal husbandry, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, RNA interference, cryostat and microtome sectioning, PCR, fluorescent microscopy
Interpersonal: leadership, mentoring, collaboration, group and individual instruction
Project Management & Organization: Goal setting with timelines, flexibility, attention to detail, independence, adaptability, persevering
Communication: writing concisely for non-scientists, presenting to small and large groups, grant writing, writing scientific manuscripts
Research: dissections of fixed organisms, tissue, and embryos, planarian animal husbandry, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, RNA interference, cryostat and microtome sectioning, PCR, fluorescent microscopy
Tools & Programs
Basic Knowledge: Archivist's Toolkit, STATA
Intermediate Understanding: R, Prism (Graph Pad), SPSS
Proficient: Microsoft Word, Excel, ImageJ (Fiji), Canva, Photoshop
Intermediate Understanding: R, Prism (Graph Pad), SPSS
Proficient: Microsoft Word, Excel, ImageJ (Fiji), Canva, Photoshop
Current Research: Dopaminergic Neuron Regeneration in Planarians
Image Alt text: How do planarians grow a new brain infographic. Bubble on the left shows an oval-shaped planarian with text "planarians are aquatic flatworms that can regenerate, or regrow, new body parts - including a brain!" A numbered list shows the cellular process with drawings of stem cells becoming neurons and making connections. Text reads "1 sense injury. signals from the wound travel to tell the cells in the body that they need to make a new brain. 2 stem cells migrate. these builder cells will turn into all the cells needed to make a new, working brain. 3 cells become specified. the builder cells turn into specific types of cells due to a combination of signals. 4 neurons mature & migrate. neurons move to their correct position in the brain. 5 neurons connect. neurons reach out to other neurons for signaling. 6 brain functions normally. Below is a drawing showing an injured planarian regenerating. In days 1-2, new white tissue called the blastema appears. Days 3-6 tissue darkens and the brain grows. Day 7 involves brain patterning – the eye spots appear. By day 14, the full brain and eyes have recovered. References: Godoy Scientific Reports 2020 and Roberts-Galbraith Elife 2016.
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Previous Research
Clinical Affective Neuroscience LabDefeatist Performance Beliefs in Patients with Schizophrenia and Clinical High-Risk Youth |
Neuroscience Summer Undergraduate Research Experience |
Tropical Entomology in Ecuador and the Galapagos |
Publications
If you don't have access, I would be happy to send you a pdf!
Undergraduate Thesis (Clinical Affective Neuroscience Lab)
Graduate Rotation Work - LNFPiii synaptic plasticity (Filipov Lab)
Graduate Rotation Work - LNFPiii neuroinflammation (Filipov Lab)
If you don't have access, I would be happy to send you a pdf!
Undergraduate Thesis (Clinical Affective Neuroscience Lab)
Graduate Rotation Work - LNFPiii synaptic plasticity (Filipov Lab)
Graduate Rotation Work - LNFPiii neuroinflammation (Filipov Lab)