Understanding the Brain: Training the Next Generation of Researchers in Engineering and Deciphering of Miniature Brain Machinery
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 …
Jonathan Sweedler, the James R. Eiszner Family Endowed Chair in Chemistry and Director of the School of Chemical Sciences at Illinois, will lecture on “Measuring the chemical mosaic of the brain: the high throughput chemical characterization of individual neuronal cells.” …
Neal Cohen, Founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute, will lecture on “Memory, Disorders of Memory, and the Human Brain.” Taylor Jorgensen, MBM trainee and PhD student in Neuroscience, will give an introduction.
The lecture is free and open …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
MBM faculty have been busy over the past few months! Here are a few highlights:
Gelson Pagan-Diaz, Karla Ramos-Cruz, and Rashid Bashir found that training neurons early in their development improved their connectivity and responsivity. Pagan-Diaz is the first author …
The MBM Program continues its Frontiers in Miniature Brain Machinery lecture series with Taher Saif. He is a Professor of Mechanical Science & Engineering and Neuroscience at the University of Illinois, and one of the core faculty of the MBM …