Nalini R
- Research Program Mentor
PhD Doctor of Philosophy candidate
Expertise
Neuroscience, Biology - Cell and Molecular, Neurodegenerative diseases, Mass Spectrometry
Project ideas
Project ideas are meant to help inspire student thinking about their own project. Students are in the driver seat of their research and are free to use any or none of the ideas shared by their mentors.
Create a Scientific Poster!
Create a scientific poster on a topic of interest that has an introduction, methods, results, and conclusion sections.
Design a hypothetical clinical drug trial to test the efficacy of a new Alzheimer's disease drug.
Learn how to set up an experimental design to test a new Alzheimer's disease drug. What controls are important? Who are the ideal patients? What metric is being assessed? How do you know if the drug worked?
Design a Mass Spec based experiment to test a new Alzheimer's drug in mice.
What does the drug do? What mouse model do you use? What are you measuring? What controls will you set up? What is the end read out be? What proteins will you investigate?
Write a scientific review of a topic of your choice!
Learn how to gather information from previous literature to construct a literature review on any topic of interest.