Robert Mihai Haret
EDUCATION
College / University
Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy
Highest Degree
Doctor of Medicine (MD)
Major Subjects
Human anatomy, physiology & genetics; biochemistry; microbiology; cell biology; biophysics; histology; pharmacology; internal medicine; surgery.
Country
Romania
Lab Experience
Stereotaxic injection of kainic acid in the mouse hippocampus; Electrocorticographic (ECoG) recordings; Microtome & vibratome sectioning of mouse brain; Primary cell culture technique; Confocal microscopy; Immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence techniques; Fly husbandry, genetics & dissection of Drosophila CNS; Using Fiji (ImageJ), Python (NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib and PyTorch), Adobe Illustrator, GraphPad Prism and SPSS.
Projects / Research
- 2020 – 2021: Dissertation: Optimizing a temporal lobe epilepsy mouse model induced by intrahipocampic injection of kainic acid
- 2016 – 2020: Investigating neuroprotective strategies for primary rat hippocampal cell cultures subjected to oxygen - glucose deprivation
- 2019: Investigating the role of decorin, an autophagy – activating extracellular matrix protein, in Alzheimer’s Disease using novel in vivo mouse models
- 2018: Investigating the neuron – glia communication via Reactive Oxygen Species in an in vivo Drosophila model
Scholarships / Awards
2021 – 2022: | Stipend by the International Max Planck Research School |
2018: | Gurdon/The Company of Biologists Summer Studentship |