Understanding the Brain: Training the Next Generation of Researchers in Engineering and Deciphering of Miniature Brain Machinery
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 …
Multiple MBM faculty and trainees will combine their efforts to facilitate two new grant programs from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Alzheimer’s Foundation, in collaboration with Beckman Institute’s Neurotechnology for Memory and Cognition research group.
Hyunjoon Kong’s research …
The MBM Program offered a demonstration booth at the Beckman Institute’s Open House March 8 and 9. Trainees Amanda Weiss and Mikhail Kandel, who are members of the MBM Student Leadership Council, led planning and preparation for this demonstration.
The …
The MBM Program’s Principal Investigator, Dr. Martha Gillette, delivered the Beckman Institute Director’s Seminar March 7 on “The Clocks that Time Us: Dynamics in Brain Metabolism and Sleep.”
Abstract: Our behaviors—eating, learning, sleeping—are shaped by a clock in the brain. …
MBM faculty Brad Sutton and Rashid Bashir delivered lectures at Carle Foundation Hospital September 19, 2018. The talks were part of the “Bench-to-Bedside Series,” a collaboration between the Department of Internal Medicine at Carle Foundation Hospital and the Beckman Institute, …
MBM Trainee Collin Kaufman delivered a presentation at the Beckman Institute’s Graduate Student Seminar on September 5, 2018. His topic was “A Locomotor Spinobot: Engineering a Functional Spinal Cord-Skeletal Muscle Bioactuator.”
Kaufman’s research has determined that coopting preexisting motor circuits …