April 2022 Newsletter

A CNT Monthly Newsletter

April 2022

HONORS AND AWARDS

Congratulations to Maneeshika Madduri (Amy Orsborn Lab); Manneshika is the UW Electrical and Computer Engineering Travel Grant Winner for Best Foundations Theory Research for her project “A Game-Theoretic Model for Co-adaptive Brain Machine Interfaces.”

UPCOMING EVENTS

People at a poster session during a conference

Teaching Neuroscience: Reviving Neuroanatomy, April 13, 2022 (online).
The 3rd International Workshop on Neural Engineering & Rehabilitation, May 9-11, 2022 (online).
Learning How to Translate and Commercialize Neurotechnology, June 6-7, 2022, Minneapolis, MN.
8th Annual BRAIN Initiative Meeting, June 21-22, 2022.
International Neuroethics Society Annual Meeting, November 2-4, 2022, Montreal, Canada, and online (abstracts due May 31, 2022).
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, November 12-16, 2022, San Diego, CA (abstract submission opens June 15, 2022).

CNT IN THE NEWS

Patent Hacks Foundation, LLC, is a new Industry Member to the CNT Industry Affiliate Program. Patent Hacks® is a patent education company founded by three former USPTO patent examiners with the goal to help people protect their ideas affordably.

Photographs of Rajesh Rao and Amy Orsborn

CNT co-director Rajesh Rao and CNT faculty member Amy Orsborn are two of the speakers at the 3rd International Workshop on Neural Engineering & Rehabilitation. The call for posters closes on Friday, April 15, 2022.

CNT faculty member Eran Klein comments about the neuroethical issues related to recent research that uses an implanted device that reads signals from the brain.

Scott Ransom giving a presentation at the front of a classroom during Brain Awareness Week

CNT faculty, staff and students participated in 2022 Brain Awareness Week by visiting (in-person and virtually) students in elementary, middle and high school classrooms. (Photo on left: Scott Ransom, CNT Director of Industry Relations and Innovation, speaks with a group of students during 2022 Brain Awareness Week.)

Photograph of Tim Brown and the cover of his new book titled Black Panther and Philosophy

Timothy Brown, past CNT graduate student and post-doctoral researcher, now an assistant professor in UW Bioethics & Humanities, has recently published the book titled Black Panther and Philosophy: What Can Wakanda Offer the World?

NEW CNT PUBLICATIONS

Kuo, C-H., Casimo, K., Wu, J., Collins, K., Rice, P., Chen, B-W., Yang, S-H., Lo, Y-C., Novotny, E.J., Weaver, K.E., Chen, Y-Y. and Ojemann, J.G., Electrocorticography to investigate age-related brain lateralization on pediatric motor inhibition, Frontiers in Neurology, 13, 2022.
Khateeb, K., Bloch, J., Zhou, J., Rahimi, M., Griggs, D.J., Kharazia, V.N., Le, M.N., Wang, R.K. and Yazdan-Shahmorad, A., A versatile toolbox for studying cortical physiology in primates, Cell Reports Meth., 2022, 100183, ISSN 2667-2375, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crmeth.2022.100183.