May 21, 2018 Meaghan Creed has developed a novel device for assessing preferences by mice among fluids in their homecages, i.e. two-bottle choice test. She shared the design on http://hackaday.io and contributed the summary of it below. https://hackaday.io/project/158279-automated-mouse-homecage-two-bottle-choice-test Often in behavioral neuroscience, we need to measure how often and how much a mouse will consume […]
FaceMap: Unsupervised analysis of rodent behaviors
May 15, 2018 We developed a toolbox for videographic processing of head-fixed rodent behaviors. It extracts the principal components of the animal’s behavior, either in a single movie, or across movies recorded simultaneously. Several regions of interest in the movie can be processed simultaneously (such as the whisker pad or the nose). We found that […]
Kids Campaigns at the Benton Foundation – draft, send suggestions and corrections to larry@american.edu
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Olson Scholars Final Research Presentation
After several months of hard work, decision making, and learning, I have completed my research project. I was lucky enough to present my findings and research to my peers as well as Professor Boesenecker and Professor Sullivan Robinson. I received great feedback which I was able to bring back to my research paper in order to […]
SIS Undergraduate Poster Presentation
April 21, 2018 | School of International Service Atrium It was an amazing experience to take part in the SISU-306 Poster Presentations in the SIS Atrium yesterday alongside the rest of the Olson Scholars. It was a new experience to take my findings from a project of this scope and turn it into a poster, especially […]
Poster and presentation
Mentorship Post #10
Thank you, Dr. Shinko for being such a supportive mentor, and I appreciate all of your guidance in my research process. Your feedback was extremely valuable, and your advice was crucial in helping me through my research journey. On May 7, 2018, I had my final thirty-minute mentor meeting with Dr. Shinko to wrap up […]
Research Symposium Award
IRC Internship Presentation
See what I learned during my internship at the International Rescue Committee, and how it connects to international relations!