In July 2022, Ligia Cota Vieira; Research Scientist, mentored two high school students from the Abu Dhabi Indian School and the American School of Dubai. Throughout their four weeks of research internship, the students learned a range of wet laboratory skills, including fly pushing, sample collection, brain dissection, immunohistochemistry, and confocal microscopy. Apart from these techniques, a theoretical account of Drosophila and Date Palm genetics.
In June 2022, Raghuvanshi Rajesh; Research Technician, supervised an incoming NYUAD undergraduate student who worked as a research intern in Claude Desplan's Neural Development lab. The student gained experience in various wet laboratory techniques throughout the four-week research internship, including fly pushing, sample collecting, brain dissection, immunohistochemistry, and confocal microscopy. Theoretical talks on flow cytometry principles, single-cell transcriptomics, antibody-based tissue labeling, and Drosophila genetics were used to supplement these methods.