- Congratulations to UW CNT member Amy Orsborn who received a Washington Research Foundation Ronald S. Howell Distinguished Faculty Fellowship. Dr. Orsborn also was recently awarded a National Institutes of Health RO1 grant for her project titled “Optimizing co-adaptation in motor BCIs by uncovering brain-decoder interactions.”
- Congratulations to Felix Schwock, a graduate student in the laboratory of Azadeh Shahmorad-Yazdan, who received an IEEE Signal Processing Society Scholarship.
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- Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE 2024), February 29-March 5, 2024 (Lisbon and Cascais, Portugal).
- Advances and Challenges in Neurotech Development and Translation, March 10-15, 2024 (Galveston, TX).
- Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2024 Annual Meeting, April 13-16, 2024 (Toronto, Canada).
- American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting, April 13-18, 2024 (Denver, CO).
- 16th International Neuromodulation Society World Congress, May 11-16, 2024 (Vancouver, Canada)
- 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, July 15-19, 2024 (Orlando, FL).
- Optogenetic Approaches to Understanding Neural Circuits and Behavior, July 21-26, 2024 (Lucca/Barga, Italy).
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Many CNT members will
present their work later this month at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington, D.C. Accepted abstracts include those from CNT members
Jeffrey Herron, Azadeh Shahmorad-Yazdan, Eric Chudler, Rajesh Rao, Chet Moritz, Mehrdad Jazayeri, Steve Perlmutter, Jeffrey Ojemann, Polina Anikeeva and Adrienne Fairhall.
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Keiretsu Forum is a new CNT Innovation Ecosystem partner. Keiretsu Forum is an investment community of accredited private equity angel investors, venture capitalists and corporate/institutional investors interested in early stage startups in the neurotechnology field. The total number of members in the
CNT Innovation Ecosystem is now 78.
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Applications for the
2024 CNT Research Experience for Undergraduates program are now being accepted. During this 10-week program, undergraduate students work on research projects with scientists and attend workshop training sessions in ethics and scientific communications. The program runs from June 11, 2024 to August 16, 2024; applications are due on January 15, 2024.
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- Garwood, I.C., Major, A.J., Antonini, M-J., Correa, J., Lee, Y., Mahnke, M.K., Miller, E.K., Brown, E.N. and Anikeeva, P. Multifunctional fibers enable modulation of cortical and deep brain activity during cognitive behavior in macaques. Sci. Adv.9, eadh0974(2023). DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adh0974.
- Stanis, N., Khateeb, K., Zhou, J., Wang, R.K. and Yazdan-Shahmorad, A., Protocol to study ischemic stroke by photothrombotic lesioning in the cortex of non-human primates. STAR Protocols, DOI: 10.1016/j.xpro.2023.102496.
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RECENT PAPERS OF INTEREST
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- Research Technician, laboratory of CNT faculty member Amy Orsborn, University of Washington.
- Assistant Professor, Statistics, Data Science, Computational or Theoretical Neurosciences, UC Berkeley
- Assistant or Associate Professor, Neuroengineering, Brown University.
- Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin.
- Assistant/Associate Professor, Sensorimotor Rehabilitation/Neuromodulation, Rehab Robotics, Neuro-prosthetics, Northeastern University.
- Neuroscience/Neurotechnology staff and faculty positions, The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University.
- The UW Computational Neuroscience Center is currently accepting applications for its T32 Training Program. This program supports graduate students and postdoctoral fellows doing collaborative research between theoretical and experimental labs.
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To include news items and announcements in the monthly newsletter, please contact CNT Executive and Education Director
Eric H Chudler.
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