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  • Investigating Cockroach Vision: An Intern Project by U of M Undergrad Greg M.
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    Investigating Cockroach Vision: An Intern Project by U of M Undergrad Greg M.
    • March 27, 2015
    • by Will Wharton
    My name is Greg McMurtry. I am a sophomore at the University of Michigan studying mechanical engineering, and I have been working with Backyard Brains for the past four months. Currently, I am working with cockroaches and their descending contralateral movement detector “DCMD” neuron. Current research suggests that this neuron is correlated with the detection […]
  • Gift from Iran thanks to Open Source: cockroach research tools and experiments made by students
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    Gift from Iran thanks to Open Source: cockroach research tools and experiments made by students
    • March 6, 2015
    • by Tim Marzullo
    On January 1st, we received a New Year’s gift from another continent: Neuroscience tools and experiments made by a group of high school students selected from the 20 best rated schools of Iran. They were written lab reports, submitted for an interdisciplinary neuroscience competition that utilized our open source experiments with cockroaches as a resource […]
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