Ryan is an intern at the Gunaydin Lab at UCSF and a student at CCSF’s biotech program. He graduated from San Francisco State University with a B.S. in Biology with a Concentration in Physiology, and a minor in Chemistry. Ryan spent his internship working alongside his mentor on a project regarding active avoidance in mice with chronic stress. He hopes to apply the experience gained from his internship and the biotech program in either academia or industry.

Internship skills obtained:

• Basic mouse handling

• Noldus, Ethovision and Arduino software utilized to record behavioral data of mice as they 

• Performed active avoidance training in a shuttle box paradigm

• Recorded neural activity of mice using fiber photometry

• Perfusions

• Microtome brain slicing

• Tagging mice and obtaining tissue samples for genotyping