Understanding the Brain: Training the Next Generation of Researchers in Engineering and Deciphering of Miniature Brain Machinery
Brad Sutton, Technical Director of the Biomedical Imaging Center and Abel Bliss Faculty Scholar in the College of Engineering, will lecture on “Ultrafast functional MRI: A tool for examining spurious correlations in fMRI connectivity” at 4:00pm on Zoom. Jennifer Walters, …
Jennie Gardner joined the program on January 1, 2021, while a third-year student, and is expected to graduate in 2024. Her graduate program is psychology and she completed her undergraduate degree in psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. …
Esther Ngumbi, Assistant Professor of Entomology and African-American Studies, will lecture on “Communicating Your Research with the Public” at 4:00pm in 2269 Beckman Institute and on Zoom. Olawale Salaudeen, MBM trainee and PhD student in Computer Science, will give an …
Jennifer Walters joined the program on January 1, 2021, while a third-year student, and is expected to graduate in the spring or summer of 2023. Her graduate program is neuroscience and she completed her undergraduate degree in neuroscience at the …
Sara Bell joined the program on January 1, 2020, while a second-year student, and is expected to graduate in 2023. Her graduate program is chemistry, and she completed her undergraduate degree in chemistry at Illinois State University. Her current research …
Miles Norsworthy joined the program as a third-year Cell & Developmental Biology student in January 2020 and is expected to graduate in 2023. He completed his undergraduate degree in molecular & cellular biology at the University of Illinois. His research …
Join us for the 4th annual Miniature Brain Machinery Retreat! We will have some great plenary lectures by David Boas, Manu Platt, Franklin Carrero-Martinez, and Michael Levin, along with lightning presentations by our program trainees William Baker, Sara …
August was a busy month for the MBM Program! As we ease into the fall, please join us in welcoming six new members of our team, beginning with two new trainees:
Samuel Okyem is a second-year chemistry student who …
Roy Dar, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, will lecture on “Modulating Gene Expression Fluctuations to Bias HIV Decision-Making and Stem Cell Fate Determination.” Jennifer Walters, MBM trainee and PhD student in Neuroscience, will give an introduction.
The lecture is free and …
Alison Bell, Getz Professional Scholar and Professor of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior, will lecture on “The evolution of behavior in sticklebacks.” Shannon Berneche, MBM trainee and PhD student in Neuroscience, will give an introduction.
The lecture is free and open …