MBM faculty Gabriel Popescu, professor of electrical and computer engineering, was recently named as one of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Fellows of the Class of 2021. Popescu was nominated, reviewed, and elected by his peers and …
Support and Commitment
Dear Members of the MBM Community,
America aspires to be a land of freedom, equality, and opportunity. But now there has been a crescendo of the repression and violence that led to the successful non-violent defiance of Martin Luther King, …
Meet a Trainee: Karla Ramos-Cruz
Karla Ramos-Cruz joined the program as a first-year graduate student in May 16, 2018 and is expected to graduate in 2022. Her major is bioengineering and she completed her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez. …
Sara Bell and Taylor Jorgensen Present in Research Live! 2021
Congratulations to MBM trainees Sara Bell and Taylor Jorgensen for making it to the finals in this year’s Research Live Showcase!
Sara Bell, who is pursuing her PhD in Chemistry, presented her research on “Single Cell Chemistry of the Brain.” …
Martha Gillette wins 2021 Vision and Spirit Award
Congratulations to our PI, Martha Gillette, for winning the 2021 Vision and Spirit Award at Beckman Institute! The annual award recognizes faculty who have fostered collaboration in their research and exemplify the vision of Arnold Beckman, the Institute’s founder.
“She’s …
Meet a Trainee: Jorge Maldonado De-Jesus
Jorge Maldonado De-Jesus joined the MBM program on May 16, 2018, while a first-year graduate student, and is expected to graduate in 2022. His graduate program is neuroscience and he completed his undergraduate degree in applied biotechnology in the Ana …
MBM Faculty Ranked as Excellent, Fall 2020
Congratulations to MBM faculty who made the Fall 2020 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students at the University of Illinois! The list is based on the ratings from the Instructor and Course Evaluation System (ICES) that students …
Check out our virtual open house!
MBM trainees are creating content to help teach miniature lessons about the brain and give tours of their labs. We’ve put together a few of these in a new page for our website, as a sort of virtual open house.…
Noo Li Jeon to give March 17 Frontiers lecture
Noo Li Jeon, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Seoul National University, will speak on “Microfluidics and Neuroscience: From 2D Compartmented PDMS Chips to 3D Injection Molded Devices.”
The lecture is free and open to the public via Zoom at 4:00pm, …
Hee Jung Chung to give April 14 Frontiers in MBM Lecture
Hee Jung Chung, Associate Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience, will speak on the following topic:
“Novel mechanisms by which Kv7 channel and STEP enzyme control seizure susceptibility, and future directions to employ human organoids to test the …