After two years of working in a SMµ÷½ÌËù laboratory that recently gained international media attention for its work with snakes and heart disease, graduating senior Ryan Doptis has set his sights on becoming a research scientist. Doptis, a molecular, cellular and developmental biology major from Las Vegas, will graduate on Dec. 16. He has worked the past two years in the laboratory of SMµ÷½ÌËù-Boulder Professor Leslie Leinwand, the chief scientific officer of SMµ÷½ÌËù’s Biofrontiers Institute.