Brandon Ho
Brandon Ho
Bioscience Internship: Kriegstein Lab, UCSF
Internship Mentor: Dr. Li Wang (UCSF-CCSF Inclusive Mentoring Fellow)
Poster: Cell-type specific changes during brain development in autism
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My name is Brandon Ho and I graduated at SFSU with a kinesiology degree because of my love for fitness. After realizing that fitness is a hobby and not a career, I decided to go back to my roots, where I studied biotechnology in high school. Through the CCSF Biotech program, I was able to enroll in various biotech courses and even participate in an internship. Now, I am a UCSF intern at the Kriegstein’s lab, where we are interested in studying mechanisms of brain development in humans and working to understand what goes wrong in neurodevelopment disorders and how to correct them. Under the supervision of my mentor, postdoc Li Wang, we are working on a project to investigate cell-type specific changes in cultured primary brain tissue and study the changes from the knockdown of an autism related gene. In the Kriegstein Lab, I have learned many techniques such as designing primers, PCR, gel electrophoresis, cloning, bacterial transformation cell line maintenance, sectioning, Immunostaining, confocal microscopy and I hope to one day use my skills to work in industry and learn new ones.
Brandon Ho - Cell-type specific changes during brain development in autism - Spring 2021 CCSF Bioscience Internship.pdf
Brandon (right) with his internship mentor, Dr. Wang, at UCSF.
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