Jay Alcazar: University of California, San Diego: Last Week
This was my last week here at UCSD in the George lab and it was pretty sad but at the same time exciting. I was happy to be returning home and being able to share my amazing experience but at the same time I was sad to be leaving such an amazing lab full of […]
Jay Alcazar: University of California, San Diego: Week 5
Welcome back. This week in the lab has been pretty active. We help with the GWAS experiments all week in the mornings as per usual. After we helped with GWAS this week we got too pick brains as Sierra put it. So to begin with Sierra gave us a small cylinder filled with liquid called […]
Jay Alcazar: University of California, San Diego: Week 4
This week in the lab has been a lot of reading for me. I have been working on reading various papers on Neuropsychopharmacology, which is the field of study the George lab is categorized under. Neuropsychopharmacology is essentially the study of how drugs affect the mind, as well as behavior; for us we do this […]
Jay Alcazar: University of California San Diego: Week 3
Welcome back! This week was a really busy week in the lab. We helped with the GWAS experiments in the mornings as per usual and then we started on to other things. Another lab member is starting a project on alcohol self-administration so I helped reassemble the rats chambers for that on Monday and Tuesday. […]
Jay Alcazar: University of California, San Diego: Week 2
Hello again! Week 2 of my internship has gone by really fast. We had a short week because the lab had a 4 day break because of 4th of July which was really cool. In the few days in the lab we finished up the remainder of our paperwork so we could finally be able […]
Jay Alcazar: University of California, San Diego: Week 1
Hello! My name is Jay Alcazar and my internship is at UCSD. The George lab that I am working in used to be at Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla but they just moved to UCSD recently because they are no longer able to be at Scripps because the building is being demolished. Myself and […]