User:Sytae

Hello. I am currently working at Howard Hughes Medical Institute as a Junior Research Technician. The big goal of our lab is to build a complete, three-dimensional map of the drosophila melanogaster nervous system. After working on the screening project using the GAL4-Driver line, I am currently working a project to determine neuron polarity using the Split GAL4-UAS system. I work with numerous scientists and research technicians to produce data for the project. One of the tasks that I have is dissecting the brain and the ventral nerve cord of the drososphila adult and larvae, which is a very 'soothing' task (my apology to all the fruit flies that gets sacrificed everyday). I also do immunohistochemistry, confocal imaging of the brains and ventral nerve cord, and some programming to annotate the data in the 'Workstation', which is a software that creates 3D image of the neurons. Besides working and taking classes at Johns Hopkins, I am also an Emergency Medical Technician and an interpreter at various organizations.