McLaughlin Institute Interns delve into Parkinson’s research to enhance Montana high school science programs

August 13, 2008

The first day C.M. Russell High School science teacher Jon Davis walked into Dr. Deborah Cabin’s lab at the McLaughlin Research Insti­tute http://www.montana.edu/mri/ earlier this summer, he was overwhelmed.

Cabin’s research lab focus­es on Parkinson’s disease, and on the first day of his 10-week internship, Cabin slammed the biology teacher with terminol­ogy such as “neurodegenera­tive” and “a-synuclein,” which had his head swimming.

“I said to Dr. Cabin, ‘I didn’t understand everything you said,’” Davis recalled. “But you learn quickly.”

By KRISTEN CATES Tribune Staff Writer

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