December 2025 Newsletter

University of Washington

Honors and Awards

Congratulations to Chary Batista (labs of Steve Perlmutter and Sarah Mondello) and Ali Sadeghi (lab of Christoph Hofstetter) who both received 2025-2027 Weill Neurohub Fellowships.

UW Future Tense, Neuroscience, AI, and Society seminar: “The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI” by Cory Doctorow, December 4, 2025,
7:00 pm (Seattle, WA).
2026 Kavli Frontiers of Science, March 5-7, 2026 (Irvine, CA); CNT member Amy Orsborn is an introductory speaker.
Neural Plasticity and Recovery after Traumatic CNS Injury & Stroke, January 19–22, 2027 (Breckenridge, CO); CNT co-director Chet Moritz is a featured speaker.
American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Annual Meeting, April 11-13, 2026 (Arlington, VA)
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, July 26-30, 2026. (Toronto, Canada).

UW CNT member Josh Smith and CNT co-director Chet Moritz work with postdoctoral researchers to bring work from the lab into the real-world.

Salvatori, T., Mali, A., Buckley, C.L., Lukasiewicz, T., Rao, R.P.N., Friston, K and Ororbia, A. A survey on neuro-mimetic deep learning via predictive coding. Neural Netw. 2025 Oct 10;195:108161. doi: 10.1016/j.neunet.2025.108161.
Smith, L.I. and Orsborn, A.L. Customizable artificial simulator for developing, planning, and training personnel on neurophysiology and surgical procedures in non-human primates. J Neurosci Methods. 2025 Dec;424:110587.
Henderson, R.P., Mondello, S.E. and Moritz, C.T. Electrical and optogenetic spinal cord stimulation for movement recovery after spinal cord injury. Cur. Opin.Neurol., 38:654-659, 2025.

Open Rank Faculty 1, Neuroscience, The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
Open Rank Faculty 2, Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI)
Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track), Neuroscience, Tufts University, (Boston, MA)
Tenure Track Assistant Professor (Adaptive Neurotechnologies), EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Postdoctoral Fellow (Brain–Computer Interfaces), Systems Neural Engineering Lab, Emory University and Georgia Tech (Atlanta, GA)
Research Engineer (Brain–Computer Interfaces), Systems Neural Engineering Lab, Emory University and Georgia Tech (Atlanta, GA)