Ayo Adewakun
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Ayo graduated from New York University in Neural Science, and minors in Chemistry and Psychology.
As an undergraduate student researcher in Dr. Robert Froemke’s lab at NYU Langone Medical Center, his work in the lab focused on recording from the vagus nerve in mice. The vagus nerve, which is the 10th cranial nerve, and regulates responses from the internal organs. His role in the project is to construct and cuff electrodes to record nerve impulses from the vagus nerve as a method to track activity in the internal organs, implant them through survival surgeries, and analyze and interpret the following stimulated responses versus baseline responses. The significance of this work is to determine the process through which internal viscera are monitored and regulated, which would be a significant development in the field of neural and cellular sensation and information relay. Through BP-ENDURE, he was given the chance to branch out into another aspect of neuroscience that is less behavioral spend the summer working in Dr. Shigeki Iwase’s lab at the University of Michigan, researching neurogenetics and focusing on the mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disorders through the histone demethalyses KDM5C and LSD1. |