Achievement

IGERT trainee Alycia Gailey of the Lindau group at Cornell traveled to Seattle, Washington in summer 2010 as part of a collaboration with the Phillips lab at University of Washington. This group has invented a novel chronically implantable electrode for in vivo voltammetry. During her visit she learned how to fabricate the electrode to implement for her in vivo experiments. She refined the procedure for implanting this new electrode by performing practice surgeries on cadaver rats, with the aim of eventual wired in vivo recordings of dopamine release.