Wynton Brown: Addiction Research at TSRI, La Jolla Week Six
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 do. Given the large numbers of animals that were dissected […]
Wynton Brown: Addiction Research at TSRI, La Jolla Week Five
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 catheters work is that a syringe is attached to the […]
Wynton Brown: Addiction Research at TSRI, La Jolla Week Four
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 one. Most of the rats they work with are inbred, […]
Wynton Brown: Addiction Research at TSRI, La Jolla Week Three
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 may be done after this week, depending on what the […]
Wynton Brown: Addiction Research at TSRI, La Jolla Week Two
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 also cleaning the self-administration chambers. Cleaning the chambers, though it […]
Wynton Brown: Addiction Research at TSRI, La Jolla Week One
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 interesting, since Claire has a very different perspective than I […]