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mentor and I also created a behavior recording apparatus out of a cardboard box, a petri dish rack, a roll of packaging tape, a small laptop speaker, and a camera. Though assembled of random parts and garnering many amused reactions from my lab-‐‑mates, I used this equipment to discover that the loss of electrical synapses correlated with a decrease in auditory startle behavior. The entire summer was incredibly rewarding and I emerged feeling well-‐‑prepared and exceptionally motivated to pursue a PhD. In the year since completing the XXXX internship, I have further developed my professional goals. I was asked to be a supplemental instructor for the XXX Chemistry department and in that capacity, I prepared and taught lessons for students who wanted additional help in their first semester chemistry course. While this was one of the most challenging things I have done, the rewards of seeing my students succeed sparked a desire to become a professor in addition to conducting research. I have since been invited back to the XXX lab as a technician, where I continue to study the molecular underpinnings of electrical synapse formation. This has only enhanced my interest in the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying circuit building. I want to understand how a finely-‐‑tuned nervous system develops time and time again from a handful of unspecified cells. The human brain, with its trillions of synaptic connections, is the most complex set of machinery known to humankind. It is able to accept environmental stimuli, learn, and then in turn influence its environment. In order to become that fully functioning system, neurons must determine their cellular fate, guide axons, identify synaptic partners, and create connections before organizing electrical and chemical information. There are an incredible number of opportunities for these processes to go wrong, and yet in most instances it does not. Development from that first neural stem cell to a mature brain is an amazing feat of nature and the sheer amount that is not known about it both frustrates and excites me. That combination of emotion is what fuels my drive to continue on this path. The resources available through the XX Neurobiology and Behavior program will put me in an ideal position to investigate the fundamental questions about neural circuit building. The program offers several courses that I am eager to take, especially NEUBEH 502: Sensory and Motor Systems and BIOEN 498B: Neural Engineering, as I feel these courses offer information and tools I need to study how meaningful circuits form. I am interested in working with Dr. XX XXX, with whom I would use microfluidic devices to engineer my own artificial circuits and thereby learn what the system requires to do so. I could also see myself succeeding in Dr. XX XXX’s lab where investigating the genetics underlying simple sensory networks would give similar insight. I expect to be challenged by graduate school, and am prepared to take advantage of the numerous opportunities to better my scientific intellect in order to become an academic researcher at a top university. I expect to succeed and earn a place in the scientific community that will enable me to collaborate with the foremost scientists in my field as I work to explore the many unasked questions in neuroscience. 33
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