ACES NEWS: URBANA, Ill. – Before humans can benefit from new drug therapies and nutritional additives, scientists test their safety and efficacy in animals, typically mice and rats. But, as much as they’ve done for biomedical research, rodents aren’t always the best research model for studies on neonatal brain...
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ACES NEWS: URBANA, Ill. – When scientists need to understand the effects of new infant formula ingredients on brain development, it’s rarely possible for them to carry out initial safety studies with human subjects. After all, few parents are willing to hand over their newborns to test...
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- Lav Varshney and Nathan Schroeder combine their respective knowledge in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Crop Sciences along with their neuroscience knowledge to approach a growing issue in the midwest, soybean cyst nematodes. These worms are capable of destroying entire crops. Read about...
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How would you describe your background? (I.E. where are you from? How did you first get interested in your area of research? Etc.) When I started looking at colleges in my junior year of high school, I saw a major called “Neuroscience and Behavior” in a college brochure, and I thought it was the coolest thing I’d ever heard of – understanding the biological basis for how and why we do what we do. I went to Smith College for my undergrad, and my first year there was also the first year that neuroscience was listed as an official major in the course catalog. After finishing...
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Career Development What field in Neuroscience did you study? Behavioral Neuroscience. What about the research process did you enjoy? Really just the discovery and learning process. You get to ask questions about the most advanced organ ever created and try to solve it. Even negative results yielded information, so it was always an exciting journey. Did you prefer gathering the data, brainstorming its meaning, the writing process, defending your research, presenting your research, etc. Brainstorming and presenting are...