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  • BYB Summer Camp Internships: Cort Turns Up for Optogenetics
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    BYB Summer Camp Internships: Cort Turns Up for Optogenetics
    • June 16, 2014
    • by Will Wharton
    My name is Cort Thompson and I’m one of the incredibly privileged interns working at Backyard Brains this summer. I’m an undergraduate neuroscience student at Michigan State University and this summer I am working to bring the cutting edge technique of optogenetics to the classroom while also observing the courtship behaviors and gustatory system of […]

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