Friday, June 13, 2025

Week 2: Amelia

This week, research got very busy very quickly. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday were spent doing cranial windows and GCaMP injections in mice for a study in the Liston lab. These mice will be imaged in three weeks with a 2 photon microscope. I enjoyed the problem-solving of merging techniques from each of our labs. I got to see different methods of doing cranial windows and learn how to do the injections solo. I also attended my first lab meeting on Wednesday, which was a practice talk for a thesis proposal, which was well timed as it gave me some great context about the lab's previous and current work. I also got to try brain slicing on a Cryostat, which I had previously only done on a Vibratome. 

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