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 …
Larry Young to give April 7 Frontiers in MBM Lecture
Larry Young, William P. Timmie Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University, will lecture on “The Neural Circuitry of Social Bonding and Empathy: Implications for Autism.”
The lecture is free and open to the public via Zoom at …
Rashid Bashir to give March 10 Frontiers in MBM Lecture
Rashid Bashir, Dean of the Grainger College of Engineering and Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering, will speak about “Forward Engineering of Cellular Systems and Biological Machines.”
The lecture is free and open to the public via Zoom at 4:00pm, March …
Rhanor Gillette to give February 3 Frontiers in MBM lecture
The MBM Program continues its Frontiers in Miniature Brain Machinery lecture series with Rhanor Gillette, Emeritus Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology. He will speak on “Enhancing Complexity in Brain Machinery and Behavior: How and Why?”
The lecture is free …
Meet a Trainee: Amanda Weiss
One of our first cohort of trainees, Amanda Weiss joined the program as a first-year graduate student January 1, 2018 and is expected to graduate in 2022. She completed her undergraduate degree in neuroscience at Muhlenberg College and is the …
Meet a Trainee: Brian Baculis
As one of our initial trainees, Brian Baculis joined the program as a second-year graduate student January 1, 2018 and is expected to graduate in 2021. His major is neuroscience and he completed his undergraduate degree in neuroscience at Temple …
Meet a Trainee: Kathryn Sullivan
Kathryn Sullivan joined the program as a second-year graduate student in January 2018 and is expected to graduate with a PhD in bioengineering in 2021. She completed undergraduate degrees in materials science & engineering and bioengineering at Carnegie Mellon University. …
Meet a Trainee: Collin Kaufman
As one of our initial trainees, Collin Kaufman joined the program as a third-year graduate student January 1, 2018 and is expected to graduate in 2021. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in neuroscience with a focus on neuroengineering, neuromuscular junctions, …