Understanding the Brain: Training the Next Generation of Researchers in Engineering and Deciphering of Miniature Brain Machinery
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 Miniature Brain Machinery Program sent a delegation to the annual NSF-NRT meeting in Washington, DC September 27-28. Representing the program were faculty Martha Gillette and Joon Kong, trainee Gelson Pagan-Diaz, coordinator Anne (Sofya) McKinney, and evaluator Lizanne DeStefano.
The …
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 …