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Hey. I'm a soon-to-be Neuroscience graduate student at Weill Cornell. In the meantime, I'm a pre-doctoral research fellow at NIDA in Baltimore, doing ICSS studies in mice.
[edit] CURRENT PROJECTS
- Starting and improving articles on opioid and cannabinoid chemicals, with structures and as many citations as possible.
Started:
Naltrindole
Oripavine
Apamin
Meptazinol
DAMGO
Naloxazone
Mirfentanil
To start:
Straub tail
Naloxonazine, other hydrazone/azine derivatives
DALDA et al.
N-arachidonoyl-serotonin
Elmiric acids/N-arachidonoyl-glycine
O-2220 et al. (PMID 17827022)
Eticlopride
Improgan
To improve:
Cannabinomimetic aminoalkylindoles - JWH-018 and JWH-073
Thebaine
Baclofen
Ohmefentanyl
Endorphin/Endomorphin/Nociceptin
Opioid/Narcotic
Brain stimulation reward
Cannabinoid
Endocannabinoid system
Virodhamine
2-Arachidonyl glyceryl ether/GPR55
James Olds
N-Arachidonoyl dopamine
- Getting published! We're writing up the manuscript on all the data I've been acquiring at while at NIDA due to several unexpectedly interesting/important results. It'll be my first co-author credit, although my wiki-time may be dramatically reduced in the meantime.
- Revising the reviews I wrote on the Cannabinoid receptor and Opioid receptor systems, and their oligomerization, and studying this using FRET methodology (after Rios, Gomes, and Devi, 2006). I submitted final drafts as my thesis in May, but I'm thinking of carrying this research into grad school if possible, and maybe using surface plasmon resonance techniques to study the interaction...we'll see.
