Week 8: Amelia

 Final week! At the beginning of this week, I prepared for and presented on my summer immersion experience. Trying to fit everything into 4 minutes was very challenging, but it forced me to reflect on the material and how to condense the background of the project. On Tuesday I also had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Osborne, who is doing clinical work with neurosteroids and postpartum depression. Since my lab is interested in getting into this topic, getting the chance to chat with her and ask her questions was so helpful! Wednesday was the last day of surgeries I was able to observe, and I got to see a deep brain stimulation stage 2 surgery (where they implant the battery and connect it) and a battery replacement surgery. Finally, we did 2p calcium imaging for our Sorcs3 project, but with PRISM implants this time, instead of cranial windows. The PRISM implants allowed us to get many more cells in our field of view! Next steps will be to edit the 2p suite code to ensure the ROIs are being detected correctly and statistically analyze our results. It was exciting to be able to see a good portion of a project through in the 8 weeks we were here, and I am definitely bringing a lot of knowledge back to Ithaca.