James Hinman, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Illinois, will lecture on “Neural basis of cognitive maps in multiple reference frames” at 4:00 pm in 2269 Beckman Institute and on Zoom September 7, 2022. William Baker, MBM trainee and PhD candidate …
MBM Returns to the Urbana Farmer’s Market for 2022
MBM trainees shared some education about science with the public at the Urbana Farmer’s Market June 11, 2022. Jennifer Walters, Samuel Okyem, Sara Bell, Charles Marchini, and Miles Norsworthy all gave up some of their Saturday morning to talk with …
Aadeel Akhtar gives November 9 Frontiers lecture
Aadeel Akhtar, CEO and Founder of PSYONIC, lectured on “PSYONIC – Advances in Commercial Sensorimotor Bionic Limbs” November 9 at 4:00 pm in 2269 Beckman Institute and on Zoom. Shannon Berneche, MBM trainee and PhD candidate in Neuroscience, gave an …
Hyunjoon Kong gives April 20 Frontiers in MBM Lecture
Hyunjoon Kong, a Robert W. Schaefer Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Pathology as well as a Co-Principal Investigator of the MBM Program, will lecture on “Engineering of Cell Secretome Regulators for Tissue Vascularization and Homeostasis” at 4:00pm in …
Gabriel Popescu gives April 13 Frontiers in MBM Lecture
Gabriel Popescu, William L. Everitt Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and core faculty in MBM, spoke on “Phase imaging with computational specificity (PICS) for biomedical applications” April 13, 2022 at 4:00pm on Zoom. Shannon Berneche, MBM Trainee and …
Alysson Muotri gives MillerComm / Frontiers in MBM Lecture April 6
Alysson Muotri, Professor and Director of the Stem Cell Program at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, will lecture on “Human Brain Organogenesis – creating a nervous system outside the womb” April 6, 2022 at 4:00pm on …
Catherine Murphy gives February 16 Frontiers in MBM Lecture
Catherine Murphy, Larry R. Faulkner Endowed Chair in Chemistry and Head of the Department of Chemistry, will lecture on “Nanoparticles (potentially) on the Brain: Towards Detection or Therapy of Neurodegenerative Disease with Gold Nanocrystals” at 4:00pm in 2269 Beckman Institute …
Brad Sutton to give January 26 Frontiers Lecture
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, …
Science Communication Lecture: Esther Ngumbi, December 1, 2021
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 …
Join us for the 4th annual MBM Retreat!
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 …