Our final week at the lab was rather slow, there wasn't much to do as the animals recovered from their surgeries. Unfortunately, the experiments with the new cohort of animals will start Monday, right after Ry and I leave. However, we still found things to...
It was a big week for the lab, and almost everybody was super busy all week. The arrival of the mew GWAS cohort meant surgeries all week. The surgeries were to insert catheters in the rats, allowing for drugs to be administered intravenously. The way...
Week four of my time in La Jolla has been fantastic. It was an exciting week in the lab as we received the new GWAS rats. These rats are different from the normal rats in that it is an outbred group rather than an inbred...
Week three of the internship has been good. Work in the lab has been a continuation of what we have already been doing. All groups of rats we were running are still running and no other groups were started. Though two of the alcohol rats...
This was an exciting week for my internship as I was finally able to handle the rats being used for research. Most of what the interns in the lab (including me) do is transfer rats from their home cages to self-administration chambers and back, while...
My time in San Diego/La Jolla is off to a great start. Ry and I arrived on Saturday, and were greeted by our host mom, Claire, and her house keeper, Magdalina. They have both been very gracious and generous. Spending time with them has especially...