Backyard Brains Welcomes Interns from MSU
Summer is finally shining rays of sunlight on our lovely hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and with it Backyard Brains is welcoming its newest bright minds from Michigan State University’s Undergraduate Neuroscience department. Marta, Olivier, Alex, Cort, and Dylan met in the BYB office at the early hour of 10am (well, early for a college student during the summer!) Monday, June 2, to begin familiarizing themselves with the other members of the BYB team, our experimental procedures, and the plans for the next two months.
Each of the five students is planning on writing a research paper, with the goal in mind of each having a publication by the end of the summer. The topics include:
- Operant Conditioning of Cockroaches
- Four Channel RoboRoach
- Circadian Rhythms of Cockroaches
- Optogenetics with Drosophila
- RoboScorpion