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  • New BYB Intern Studies How Fast Venus Flytrap Plans for Its Next Meal
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    New BYB Intern Studies How Fast Venus Flytrap Plans for Its Next Meal
    • February 6, 2025
    • by bybadmin
    Hello! My name is Matías Morales. I am studying biochemistry in the neuroscience laboratory at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile (also called USACH). We study the NKCC1 channel role in the hippocampus in a model of autism in rats using electrophysiology methods. During hippocampal development, the concentrations of the channels responsible for regulating intracellular […]
  • Update: Chilean Internship Plant Conduction Velocity Project Summary y Adiós (Por Ahora)
    Education
    Update: Chilean Internship Plant Conduction Velocity Project Summary y Adiós (Por Ahora)
    • March 27, 2024
    • by Jelena Ciric
    — Written by Carla Contreras Mena — Hello! Carla Contreras Mena from Santiago, Chile, here again. Welcome to the conclusion of my work during my internship with Backyard Brains. Experiment Update In the last few months, I’ve had to study more about plants. Why? Because, In my daily life in the laboratory, I’m not very familiar with the […]
  • Backyard Brains Welcomes Newest Chilean Intern: Conduction Velocity in Different Plants
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    Backyard Brains Welcomes Newest Chilean Intern: Conduction Velocity in Different Plants
    • January 12, 2024
    • by Jelena Ciric
    — Written by Carla Contreras Mena — Hello, I’m Carla Contreras Mena, a student of Biochemistry at the University of Santiago of Chile (which we locally call Usach). I currently work in a Neuroscience Laboratory with professor Dr. Patricio Rojas, where we are investigating the neurophysiological difference of electrical activity in the mouse hippocampus between a […]
  • Chilean High School Interns Say Goodbye (For Now!)
    Education
    Chilean High School Interns Say Goodbye (For Now!)
    • April 15, 2023
    • by Jelena Ciric
    Editor’s note: This is Part II. You can read Part I here. Danae Hello, I am Danae Madariaga, a senior at Alberto Blest Gana high school. I have participated in a data collection project with Etienne, Tim, and Derek for three months. Throughout this time, I have learned many things such as the use of Google Colab […]
  • [Summer’16 Internship] Neuroscience of Grasshopper Jumps
    Education
    [Summer’16 Internship] Neuroscience of Grasshopper Jumps
    • August 25, 2016
    • by Greg
    DESCRIPTION Update June, 2017: My paper was published! Check it out here in JUNE (Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education). … Why are grasshoppers so hard to catch?! I aim to study the neuroscience behind this question by replicating past studies on grasshopper vision. Grasshoppers can sense an approaching object and quickly hop away to avoid collision with the object […]
  • [Summer’16 Internship] Neuroscience of Grasshopper Jumps: Classic experiments: DCMD response to approaching balls
    Education
    [Summer’16 Internship] Neuroscience of Grasshopper Jumps: Classic experiments: DCMD response to approaching balls
    • August 25, 2016
    • by Greg
    With the ideal ITI determined, I can move on to the set of core experiments: testing to see how the DCMD neuron behaves when simulated black balls of different sizes and velocities approach the grasshopper’s exposed eye. So my little friends spend about 2 hours on top of the SpikerBox for these experiments. I continue to […]
  • [Summer’16 Internship] Neuroscience of Grasshopper Jumps: How does screen brightness affect DCMD response?
    Education
    [Summer’16 Internship] Neuroscience of Grasshopper Jumps: How does screen brightness affect DCMD response?
    • August 25, 2016
    • by Greg
    Now that I’ve collected ample data for the “classic” experiment of testing the DCMD response to objects approaching at various sizes and velocities, I want to keep exploring grasshopper vision. So far, the iPad screen is kept at maximum brightness, so the contrast between the white background and the black ball is high and clear. […]
  • [Summer’16 Internship] Neuroscience of Grasshopper Jumps: New & improved ITI test
    Education
    [Summer’16 Internship] Neuroscience of Grasshopper Jumps: New & improved ITI test
    • August 25, 2016
    • by Greg
    In the ‘Preliminary data‘ log, I had begun my data collection and analysis journey. I first performed the intertrial interval, or ITI, test, to determine the ideal time between 2 stimuli so that the time is long enough to avoid the grasshoppers’ habituation to the simulated balls. The results figures I showed in that previous […]
  • [Summer’16 Internship] Neuroscience of Grasshopper Jumps: Recording live neurons: the SpikeRecorder app
    Education
    [Summer’16 Internship] Neuroscience of Grasshopper Jumps: Recording live neurons: the SpikeRecorder app
    • August 24, 2016
    • by Greg
    In the project instructions, I’ve briefly talked about the BYB SpikeRecorder app that I’ve been using on an iPad to add to my grasshopper vision project the flavor of a low-cost-and-DIY-albeit-of-great-quality tool. Here, I’ll talk about it in a bit more details to give the spotlight to one of the main components of my project. Firstly, […]
  • [Summer’16 Internship] Neuroscience of Grasshopper Jumps:  A new naming system for database!
    Education
    [Summer’16 Internship] Neuroscience of Grasshopper Jumps: A new naming system for database!
    • August 24, 2016
    • by Greg
    As I experiment on more and more little grasshoppers, I realize the importance of organization skills. Specifically, I’m talking about how messy my housekeeping of the recordings and analyses have been. In an earlier post, I wrote that my naming system for each grasshopper is in the following format: [day][month][letter indicating order in the day]. […]
  • [Summer’16 Internship] Arduino, EEG, and Free Will
    Education
    [Summer’16 Internship] Arduino, EEG, and Free Will
    • August 20, 2016
    • by Greg
    By Patrick Glover DETAILS A longstanding debate in philosophy focuses on the existence of free will. Do humans have some inherent moral agency, or are our brains just biological machines, subject to the same physical determinism as any other animal? Modern neuroscience can provide some insight to these questions, such as Benjamin Libet’s famous 1986 experiments that […]
  • Zombie Snails experiment: Mindless Methodical Movement
    Education
    Zombie Snails experiment: Mindless Methodical Movement
    • August 17, 2016
    • by Greg
    DESCRIPTION Do you consistently think “breathe in, breathe out” or “left, right, left, right” when you’re walking? Unless you’re London Tipton (http://dai.ly/x31iwo0?start=346 to 6:02), you probably don’t. How is this possible? All humans have neural networks called central pattern generators (CPGs) that control rhythmic movements like breathing and walking. Unfortunately, it is nearly impossible to study […]
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