• Education
    Tim recently taught the Neurophysiology Section of a Biomedical Engineering Course, “Quatitative Physiology,” at the University. Notably, this was the first time ByB did its cricket ganglia nicotine experiment in a public setting. Did it work? Maybe…the smooth metal of the desk table made the manipulator very slippery with its brick support, and holding onto […]
  • ByB Partners with Business School
    Biz
    ByB applied last week to the second stage of the Zell Institute Dare to Dream grant. This grant, should we get it, will give us some funds for our initial runs of SpikerBoxes (stay tuned…we are close to final production). The grant, run every school semester by the UM Ross Business School, has three stages, […]
  • Concentrate Media interviews Backyard Brains
    Marketing
    Concentrate Media, an Ann Arbor business magazine, recently interviewed Greg about ByB. You can read the article here. Note: The opinions of Greg Gage do not represent the opinions of ByB. We acknowledge that insect brains and human brains are different. Brief Primer for the newbies -Insects don’t have mylein sheaths on their axons. -Insects […]