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Internship(Interns at their daily morning lab meeting) We’re excited to announce that we have 6 new interns in biology and engineering fields here for the summer! The Backyard Brains summer internship is an intensive 10 week program for students to participate in hands-on neuroscience research and experiment design with award-winning neuroscientists. Interns will be using Backyard Brains products as […] -
InternshipCall for Undergraduates in biology or engineering fields Do you have an interest in neuroscience? Electrical, Mechanical or Computer engineering? Want to develop your own experiments and publish your results? Learn to communicate with the public? Maybe even all of the above? Then you’re in luck! The Backyard Brains Summer Internship is an intensive 10 week program for undergraduates to participate in hands-on neuroscience […] -
InternshipSo you’re trying to pick up Crickets? In this day and age there are services for everything; online dating for farmers, pastors, and anyone who’s looking for that special someone. Just nothing out there to help you find that very special cricket love. Well don’t worry, you won’t need a special site or even special skills! […] -
ExperimentHello again! This is the mind-reader reporting to you with updates on my project. I have had quite the scientific adventure since last sharing my research so sit down, grab your tea (or coffee or pop or kool-aide – I don’t judge) and prepare for a rollercoaster. With no success from LED oddball tasks, I moved […] -
InternshipYou know what’s great about fruit flies? Nothing. fig. 1 Fruit flies suck Nothing, that is, other than their benefit as a model organism for simple and fast transgenic experimentation — but who really cares about all that. Drosophila melanogaster are butts, so what if they could die? Well they can (vinegar and plastic-wrap), we don’t need […] -
InternshipGreetings, this is Trevor coming live from Ann Arbor in a basement… We have one week left in the internship and things are finally starting to come together. Last time I made a post, I was without a doubt on the struggle bus in terms of getting data worthy of a poster, let alone a journal […] -
InternshipHello my name is Bailey! I am a junior majoring in electrical engineering at Michigan State University and am doing an internship at Backyard Brains this summer. Sorry I missed the first blog post, I was travelling in Japan with my sister! I know it doesn’t look like it from the picture, but I was doing […] -
HardwareName: Katelyn Rowley School: University of Michigan (Go Blue!) Major: Biomedical Engineering Hobbies: Running (I’ve run a half marathon and I hope to run a full one someday!), journaling, trying new restaurants in Ann Arbor, being outdoors, finding new music to listen to (Florence and the Machines, Bon Iver, classic rock, you name it) What’s up interwebz? When I […] -
InternshipHey! What’s up? My name is Trevor Smith, currently a senior at the fabulous Michigan State University, and I am lucky enough to be participating in an internship at Backyard Brains this summer. I am currently working on pheromone detection in moth antennae, specifically how sensitive male moths antennae are to the female pheromone used […] -
InternshipMy name is Nick Weston and I am an intern in the summer program at Backyard Brains. I’m an an undergraduate student studying neuroscience at Michigan State University and during this internship I plan on trying to capture neuronal spiking activity from the internal organs of a crickets ear while also trying to record and […] -
ExperimentMy 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 […] -
EducationHello loyal subjects! Your Scorpion King is back with another update. First I’ll some news from the homeland-more scorpions have joined the family! There are now a pair of Red Claw scorpions (named for their large, reddish tinted claws) among my 8-legged roommates. Dinner time! Here’s a video I got of my Red Claw chowing down on […]