Understanding the Brain: Training the Next Generation of Researchers in Engineering and Deciphering of Miniature Brain Machinery
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 …
MBM faculty continue to achieve new developments in research and advancing knowledge in their fields. Here are just a few recent developments that have made it into the news.
Rashid Bashir, along with Brian Cunningham, and Yi Lu, have …
MBM Trainee Collin Kaufman has recently explanted an intact rat’s spinal cord into a biobot with a 3-D muscle system made of engineered tissue. The biological-robot hybrid could pave the way to major medical advances.
“When we looked more deeply …
MBM faculty Rashid Bashir recently co-led a project to develop a smartphone-based device to detect coronavirus. The device is an inexpensive smartphone accessory that can detect viral and bacterial pathogens in about 30 minutes. The team of researchers is adapting …
Congratulations to MBM faculty Rashid Bashir, who has been named a National Academy of Inventors Fellow. The NAI Fellows Program highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made …
Congratulations to MBM faculty Hyunjoon Kong and Rashid Bashir, MBM trainee Gelson Pagan-Diaz, and MBM Frontiers lecturer Marni Boppart for the recognition of their research into neuron integration on muscle fibers!
Their work was recently published in an Advanced Science …
This October was a great month for MBM faculty Rashid Bashir. First, he was named the new Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign October 10, and then received the 2018 Robert A. Pritzker …
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 taught a lecture on “Neuron Electrophysiology” August 7 at the 2018 EBICS Engineering Cellular Systems Summer School. The lecture was part of a six-day series of classes on engineering, biological, and physical science laboratory techniques …