Phoenix Ding

- Join Mucke Lab focusing on neurodegenerative disease research - Design and conduct experiments using RT-PCR, Western Blot, and staining, combined with a novel RNA-seq ML algorithm, to study different Tau protein modulation in Alzheimer’s Disease (manuscript in preparation) - Oversee breeding, weaning, mortality monitoring, perfusion and dissection to assess the potential therapeutic effects of TREM2 in Dravet’s syndrome mice model - Perform RT-PCR validation for MS proteomics DEG analysis in a humanized Alzheimer’s mice model - Manage multiple transgenic mouse lines, performing PCR analysis and scientific literature reviewing in discovering an unexpected random insertion and germline recombination event

- AI Biotech Startup Networking & Due Diligence - LinkedIn weekly article writing for AI Biotech Research

- Extensive outreach within Berkeley and Bay Area entrepreneurship & VC ecosystem and help Berkeley Engineers build their own startup - Organize speakers event, cofounder mix, in person social, startup crash course and VC office hour

- Collaborate with UCSF professors to develop the standardized digital imaging iOS app for teledermatology - Clarify Product Market Fit through interviews with dermatologists, customers, and competitors in the space - Communicate and design software prototype using SWIFT, Figma, Object Capture and AWS

- Look for the next unicorn in B2B digital health and biotech through daily company screening - Due diligence on technology, regulation trend, market size, competitors, and health care payers - Construct Cap Table and Financial Returns Analysis - In-depth industry report to discover opportunities on Mental health, FemTech, and Neurotech

- With Pro. Muming Poo, the founding Director of Institute of neuroscience - Conduct EEG recording on methamphetamine induced psychosis monkey model and discovered enhanced beta2-band oscillations in temporal lobe denoting auditory hallucination - Scientific literature search and reading to locate psychosis related brain areas - Monitor and analyze sleep pattern, cognitive test results, abnormal behaviors of monkey model - Processing EEG data using MATLAB and suggest functional connectivity between frontal and temporal lobe

- With Pro. Yang Dan, NAS member, HHMI investigator - Optogenetic activation of tagged NST neurons promoted NREM sleep and tracing the baroreflex circuit co-modulate sleep and cardiovascular rhythm - Weld custom-made optrodes to transmit light and active NST neurons - Dissect mice and cryosectioning mice brain slides - Genotyping through PCR and DNA electrophoresis to determine mice strain - Immunohistochemistry and fluorescence in situ hybridization

· With Pro. Qing Zhou, Family and Culture Lab · Conduct psychophysiological measure · Read and group discuss scientific papers · Analyze and process questionnaire · Process eletrophysiological data