May 2022 Newsletter

A CNT Monthly Newsletter

May 2022

UPCOMING EVENTS

Several CNT members (Azadeh Yazdan, Tim Brown, Eric Shea-Brown) will speak at An Evening With Neuroscience event on May 6, 2002 (6:00-9:00 pm) at the University of Washington, Kane Hall 130.
2022 Implantables Workshop, May 9-10, 2022, NC State University, Raleigh, NC.
UW Graduate Program in Neuroscience Seminar: Dr. David Gire (Assistant Professor, UW Psychology) will present “Algorithms and neural circuits for complex natural behavior,” May 23, 2022, 3:30 – 4:50 pm in HSB D-209 (and streamed at: https://washington.zoom.us/j/91561927660).
Neuroergonomics Conference & NYC Neuromodulation Conference, July 28-August 1, 2022, New York City, NY (abstracts due May 2, 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).
University of Washington Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Colloquium Lectures:

Lan Luan (Rice University), Ultraflexible electrodes for long-lasting, bi-directional interface with the central nervous system, May 3, 2022, 10:30 am.
Aaron Batista (University of Pittsburgh), The view of cognition from motor cortex, May 10, 2022, 10:30 am.
Rikky Muller (UC Berkeley), May 17, 2022, 10:30 am.
Samantha Santacruz (University of Texas, Austin), Neurotechnologies for brain I/O and scientific applications, May 24, 2022, 10:30 am.
Shreya Saxena (University of Florida), May 31, 2022, 10:30 am.

CNT IN THE NEWS

Congratulations to CNT Executive Director/Education Director Eric Chudler and CNT co-Director Rajesh Rao who have received funding for the NSF-supported project “REU Site: Sensorimotor Neural Engineering.” This grant will support summer undergraduate neural engineering research for 2022-2025.

Groups of students at desks working on computers for their hackathon projects.

Last month, the Synaptech and NeuroTEC organizations held their 2022 Hackathon at the CNT. The hackathon hosted 25 participants in seven teams who developed projects over one weekend. The winning team ( Tim Li, Sunny Zheng, and Yanfeng Cui) was “Automated Annotator” which used deep learning to extract brain activity features.

CNT faculty member Sara Goering participated as a panel member at the Ethics and Policy Symposium (SEPS 2022), From Plants to Privacy: Science Ethics for the Modern Era on April 9, 2022.

NEW CNT PUBLICATIONS

Caldwell, D. and Rao, R.P.N., Restoring touch through electrodes implanted in the human brain will require engineering around a sensory lag, The Conversation, March 30, 2022.
Valencia, D. and Alimohammad, A., Towards in vivo neural decoding. Biomed. Eng. Lett., 2022.
Peterson, S.M., Singh, S.H., Dichter, B., Scheid, M., Rao, R.P.N. and Brunton, B.W., AJILE12: Long-term naturalistic human intracranial neural recordings and pose, Sci. Data, 9, 184, 2022.