Bass Connections Student Stories: Sarah Rapaport
The most meaningful aspect of Bass Connections has been the ability to simultaneously delve into my passions and conduct interdisciplinary, real world applicable and implementable research.
Degree
Neuroscience ’18
Project Team
Perception, Language and Memory (2014-2015)
Interventions Improving Neurosurgery Patient Outcomes in Uganda (2017-2018)
The most meaningful aspect of Bass Connections has been the ability to simultaneously delve into my passions and conduct interdisciplinary, real world applicable and implementable research.
My senior thesis is titled “Conditional LRP1 Knockout Murine Model for Traumatic Brain Injury”, which is essentially the development of a mouse model to study a receptor that is implicated in mediating functional outcomes after brain injury. Both Bass teams I have been a member of have also been centered around brain injury, with one revolving around the intersection of brain injury and language and the other aimed at improving neurosurgery outcomes in Uganda. All three research experiences have given me the opportunity to pursue my passion for brain injury research in a multidisciplinary way.