Ry Gould Week 6 (Last Week)
Finishing my last week at the George Lab has been both exciting and melancholy. I am excited to get back to Colorado and see friends and family again, but I will also definitely miss my fellow lab members and San Diego. I have learned a lot about how behavioral research with animals works, and more […]
Ry Gould Week 5
This week was a busy week for most of our lab, but a slow week for the interns. Dissections of one cohort of rats took up Monday, and we were able to watch the procedure of sacrificing them and the whole dissection process. The rest of the week surgeries were done on rats. I got […]
Ry Gould Week 4
This week my lab received a shipment of new animals. We got 180 out bread (genetically diverse) rats. These rats will be run in similar experiments as have been preformed previously in the lab, but sense they are not in bread they will be useful for finding genetic markers that may be associated with addiction. […]
Ry Gould Week Three
This week I continued work on the same animal behavior research I had been doing. I did not get a chance to head to the molecular biology department to help with that side of things, but I was fine with this because it is a little bit more exciting to be working with the rats. […]
Ry Gould: Beginning of Rat Handling for Behavioral Research – Week 2
The second week of my internship was very interesting as I had the opportunity to do work that was quite different from the molecular work I did last week. Having completed two courses regarding humane animal experimentation and animal handling, I was able to touch and move rats used in TSRI addiction research. For the […]
Ry Gould: First Week at The Scripps Research Institute
My name is Ry Gould and my internship is at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla California, an area of San Diego that is close to the shore. Arriving in San Diego for my internship things started a bit slow. This was due to the lab having the majority of its members away for […]