Skills:
Animal Handling - Mice, Rats, Rabbits Behavior - Social: Maternal behavior, maternal defense, ingestive behavior Anxiety-like: Elevated plus maze, light/dark box Depression-like: Forced swim test Learning and Memory: Eye-blink conditioning, Morris water maze, Physiology/Pharmacology - Injection: Site-directed neural injections, intraperitoneal, subcutaneous, intramuscular Dosing: Drug dosage, adenovirus titration Anesthesia: Ketamine/xylazine cocktail, isoflurane Euthanasia: CO2, ketamine/xylazine cocktail, and nembutal, Anatomy - Surgery: Stereotaxic, Headbolt Dissection: Tissue punches, microdissection with laser, Cellular - Brain sectioning: Microtome, cryostat Fixation: chemical-perfusion with paraformeldyhyde, acrolein, frozen Immunocytochemistry: c-Fos Histology: X-gal, Nissl Microscope: laser, fluorescence, light, Molecular DNA and RNA isolation cDNA synthesis Primer construction PCR qRT-PCR DNA gel electrophoresis, Computer skills MS office Sigma stat Sigma plot Mxpro Endnote, Leadership skills Over 8 years of experience in mentoring and training lab members, and managing laboratory to run in an efficient and cohesive manner.