2021-2022 (Bachelor-Thesis): Yale-NUS College
- Bachelor-thesis titled “Cosmetic neurology at scale: developing a high-throughput phenotypic screening for novel nootropics in D. melanogaster” supervised by Dr. Jan Gruber.
- Optimized drug delivery (CAFÉ feeding assay) and 3 different behavioral tests for automation purposes.
- Independently performed statistical analysis (power calculations, t-test, ANOVA) and visualizations of experimental data using R.
- Created hypoxia recovery assay to model recovery from anesthesia in fruit flies.
- Discovered that lacing fly food with caffeine, nicotine, modafinil, and l-theanine all improve the rate of recovery from CO2 anesthesia in relation to sucrose-fed flies.
- My thesis project showed how an invertebrate model can be used to model whole-body phenotypes (e.g. wakefulness) and could be followed-up to investigate combinational use of nootropics (colloquially referred to as “stacking”).
