A CNT Monthly Newsletter

April 2023

HONORS AND AWARDS

Congratulations to University of Washington undergraduate students Rachel Mariko Iritani and Makaha Jordan Mharmo (Yazdan Lab) who received Mary Gates Scholarships.
Congratulations to Maneeshika Madduri (Orsborn Lab/Burden Lab) who was a best student paper award finalist (top 3) for her 2022 Cyber-Physical & Human Systems Conference paper titled "Co-Adaptive Myoelectric Interface for Continuous Control."
Congratulations to Zachary Ip (Yazdan Lab) for defending his PhD thesis ("Vascular conditions alter hippocampal neurophysiology and cortico-hippocampal communication") successfully.
Toni Haun, lab manager in the Yazdan lab, was recognized last month in the collaboration category at the UW Distinguished Staff Award Reception for her excellent work within the lab and with the lab's collaborators at the UW and across the country.

UPCOMING EVENTS

International Symposium for Neural Regeneration, April 23-27, 2023 (Stevenson WA).
Neural Computation and Engineering Connection, May 11-12, 2023 (Seattle WA).
NeuroAI Montreal, September 18-22, 2023 (Montreal, Canada).

CNT IN THE NEWS

Brain toys and students at desks in the background.

The CNT participated in last month's Brain Awareness Week. High school students from the Neuroscience for Neurodiverse Learners program and elementary students from Wellington Elementary School visited the CNT to learn about neural engineering and neuroscience. CNT faculty, students and staff also visited classrooms around the Puget Sound area to speak with young students.

The NeuroTEC RSO (previously CNT Student Leadership Council) will host an Open House event in mid-April! The Open House will feature seminars about neurotechnology from researchers at UW and from industry, and a catered social hour.

NEW CNT PUBLICATIONS

Belloir, T., Montalvo-Vargo, S., Ahmed, Z., Griggs, D.J., Fisher, S., Brown, T., Chamanzar, M. and Yazdan-Shahmorad, A. Large-scale multimodal surface neural interfaces for primates, iScience, Volume 26, Issue 1, 2023, 105866, ISSN 2589-0042, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105866.
Griggs, D., Belloir, T., Zhou, J. and Yazdan-Shahmorad, A. (2023). Convection enhanced delivery of viral vectors. In: Eldridge, M.A., Galvan, A. (eds) Vectorology for Optogenetics and Chemogenetics. Neuromethods, vol 195. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2918-5_12.
Steine-Hanson, Z., Rao, R.P.N. and Brunton, B. Neural manifolds underlying naturalistic human movements in electrocorticography, Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) 2023 abstract.
Rajeswaran, P., Payeur, A., Lajoie, G. and Orsborn, A.L. Compact neural representations in co-adaptive brain-computer interfaces, Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) 2023 abstract.

Rao, R.P.N. Brain Co-processors: Using AI to restore and augment brain function, in Handbook of Neuroengineering (edited by Nitish V. Thakor, Springer, 2023).
Bjanes, D.A. and Moritz, C.T. Artificial sensory feedback to the brain: Somatosensory feedback for neural devices and BCI, in Handbook of Neuroengineering (edited by Nitish V. Thakor, Springer, 2023).
Caldwell, D.J., Herron, J.A., Ko, A.L. and Ojemann, J.G. Motor BMIs have entered the clinical realm, in Handbook of Neuroengineering (edited by Nitish V. Thakor, Springer, 2023).
Pham, M., Sample, M., Dasgupta, I., Goering, S. and Klein, E. Developing ethical guidelines for implantable neurotechnology: The Importance of incorporating stakeholder input, in Handbook of Neuroengineering (edited by Nitish V. Thakor, Springer, 2023).
Wang, H., Swore, J., Sharma, S., Szymanski, J.R., Yuste, R., Daniel, T.L., Regnier, M., Bosma, M.M. and Fairhall, A.L. A complete biomechanical model of Hydra contractile behaviors, from neural drive to muscle to movement, PNAS, online March 10, 2023.
Versalovic, E., Klein, E., Goering, S., Ngo, Q., Gliske, K., Boulicault, M., Specker Sullivan, L., Thomas, M.J. and Widge, A.S. Deep brain stimulation for substance use disorders? An exploratory qualitative study of perspectives of people currently in treatment, J Addict Med, March 3, 2023 doi: 10.1097/ADM.0000000000001150.