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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

TRPV1, synaptic plasticity, hippocampus, LTP, long-term potentiation

College

Life Sciences

Department

Physiology and Developmental Biology

Abstract

As a new and untried undergraduate researcher, I aspired to do something to impact the lives of others through a modest research contribution of my own. While I have not lost that aspiration, I have been \ surprised to discover that, in fact, others have been the ones making the greater impact in my life. I offer my deepest thanks to Dr. Edwards for his endless patience in explaining time after time things that I should have already known. His impromptu diagrams will always be the first pictures my mind calls up in moments of explanatory need. I also express appreciation to my lab partners, without whose hundreds of hours in the lab, I would not have but one tenth of the data to use in writing the honors thesis that resulted from my research; namely, Jason Couch, Mike Castle, Steve Daniel, Blake Nelson, Matt Mors, and Curtis Walther. I would most especially like to thank Tyron Jensen for being a most reliable partner and friend time and again during the research, presentation, and writing stages of this work. I also thank the Office of Research and Creative Activities for placing their trust with me in the form of two ORCA grants. Finally, my deepest love and gratitude I give to my wife, Jenn. I cannot recall a single word of complaint on her part against the long hours and late nights that I devoted to the project. The research has been published in Chiasm, BYU’s Undergraduate Journal of Neuroscience, as an honors thesis, and has been presented as an award winning research poster at several research conferences, including two international Neuroscience conferences.

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