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Miniature Brain Machinery

Understanding the Brain: Training the Next Generation of Researchers in Engineering and Deciphering of Miniature Brain Machinery

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Posted on December 6, 2022November 3, 2022

Webinar Review: Dancing with Epilepsy: Pathology, Animal Models, and Translation

Our trainees review webinars in their given fields and share abstracts to help colleagues outside their discipline make an informed choice about watching them. As our program bridges diverse disciplines, these abstracts are beneficial for our own group in helping …

Posted on April 26, 2022November 11, 2022

Aadeel Akhtar gives November 9 Frontiers lecture

Aadeel Akhtar and PSYONIC's Ability HandAadeel 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 …

Posted on December 15, 2020April 14, 2021

Hee Jung Chung to give April 14 Frontiers in MBM Lecture

Hee Jung ChungHee 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 …

Posted on September 24, 2019September 30, 2019

Graham Huesmann to give Clinical Frontiers in MBM Lecture

Graham HuesmannThe MBM Program continues its Frontiers in Miniature Brain Machinery lecture series with Graham Huesmann, MD / PhD. Huesmann is an Epileptologist / Neurologist and Research Assistant Professor at Carle Foundation Hospital and the Molecular & Integrative Physiology Department and …

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Overview

Discoveries relevant to our brains, which influence and control such a wide range of actions, emotions, and thoughts, have relied on two complimentary approaches: cognitive and behavior studies and brain cell and tissue biology studies. Our research traineeship program utilizing miniature brain machinery, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), combines these two paradigms to train the next generation of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) workforce to advance discovery. Our students are recruited from neuroscience, cell and developmental biology, molecular and integrative physiology, chemistry, chemical and biomolecular engineering, bioengineering, electrical and computer engineering, and psychology to foster a culture of innovation and translational research, and will significantly impact efforts to understand and control brain activities ongoing at other institutions.

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Dorothy Gordon
Program Manager, NRT-MBM
2215 Beckman Institute, MC-251
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
405 North Mathews Avenue
Urbana, Illinois 61801
dorothyh@illinois.edu | 217.300-3638
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