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"My name is Ye Sun. I am now a PhD student in Dr. Ryohae Yasuda's lab in Max Planck Florida
Institute for Neuroscience. Our brain is composed of maybe trillions of neurons and those neurons
have very small protrusions on their dendrites. And those are the major sets to communicate
with other neurons. They disappear and then grow new ones all through our life. And then
the new formed spines are very important for our new formed memory. That's one of the potential
function and my project is to visualize the nanostructure for those new formed spines.
So the most part that I like to working in a lab is that when you start a project, there
will be tons of problems, difficulties, the issues that you need to solve. Put something
that is full of problems into something that is working smoothly and product data. And
then when you collect those information you get from your experiment you have your expectations
and hypothesis. Sometimes they feed them, that's perfect and sometimes they just surprise
you and if it's in a good way that feels really amazing. That's the part I like.
I was born in Shenyang which is a city in the Northeast part of China. I had my college
in [??] University which is in the center of China. There will be tons of times that
your hypothesis doesn't work. That happens all the time. So you just need to be strong
and you cry a little bit and then stand up again. To be a scientist, you need to have
a high tolerance of loneliness on some level. Although we communicate with our lab members
and we are work closely with each other but you have to spend most of the time with yourself.
The part that attracts me most is that I can see everything under the electromicroscope.
Seriously everything. I can see the mitochondria which is the very small organelles in our
body. That is kind of the experience not all scientists could get.
Here are the slides that I prepared and you can see the neurons in blares. I think we
need to go a little bit further. Cut a little more and then we can get our target region.
And you can take a look.
I see myself work in the industry in science related companies that I can service the people
who work in the lab to make their life easier and I can also see myself to be a teacher,
to teach the next generation. Science is fun as long as you are patient and you don't mind
the all the failures that might hit you. It's really going to help you if you can take an
intern. You can really experience the life in lab by yourself and then you will see if
you like it or not."