A CNT MONTHLY NEWSLETTER

JANUARY 2020

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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A gift honoring mothers and teachers assists university students who are advancing neurotechnology
A new award in 2020, made possible by Joseph and Anusha Fernando, will provide a financial boost every year for a center-affiliated student who has made identifiable contributions to neurotechnology or human-machine interaction.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Congratulations to Fatma Inanici (Moritz lab, UW Department of Rehabilitation Medicine) who last month defended her Ph.D. dissertation successfully ("Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation for Restoration of Upper Extremity Function after Spinal Cord Injury").

Congratulations to Tim Brown (Goering lab, UW Department of Philosophy) who last month defended his Ph.D. dissertation successfully ("Modulating Agency: the Moral and Aesthetic Import of Closed-Loop Deep-Brain Stimulation").

Congratulations to CNT Education Research Manager Kristen Bergsman (UW College of Education) who last month defended her Ph.D. dissertation successfully ("Professional Learning through Collaborative Curriculum Design in a Research-Practice Partnership").

Congratulations to Bethany Kondiles (Perlmutter and Horner labs, UW Graduate Program in Neuroscience) who last month defended her Ph.D. dissertation successfully ("Cortical Stimulation Induces White Matter Plasticity following Spinal Cord Injury").

UW CNT faculty member Josh Smith has been named a Fellow of IEEE for contributions to far- and near-field wireless power, backscatter communication and electric field sensing.

UPCOMING EVENTS

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Registration is open for the 2020 Neural Computation and Engineering Connection! NCEC 2020 is January 30-31, co-hosted by the UW Institute for Neuroengineering, the UW Computational Neuroscience Center and the Center for Neurotechnology. Registration is free but required. Please register at this website. Registration closes on Thursday, January 16.

UW Graduate Program in Neuroscience Seminar: Dr. Dora Angelaki (Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine), January 13, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

UWIN seminar: Short talks by Fred Rieke (Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, UW) and Arka Majumdar (Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UW), January 8, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

CNT IN THE NEWS

CNT Co-Director Rajesh Rao is senior author of a new paper in Science Advances that uncovers the process of how our mind operates when it makes choices in large group settings, such as online forums and social media. The study has been featured in media outlets such as Futurity and UW News.

RECENT PAPERS OF INTEREST

Sun, W., et al., Gabapentinoid treatment promotes corticospinal plasticity and regeneration following murine spinal cord injury, The Journal of Clinical Investigation, December 3, 2019

Leemhuis, E., De Gennaro, L. and Pazzaglia, A.M., Disconnected body representation: neuroplasticity following spinal cord injury, Journal of Clinical Medicine, December 4, 2019

Harnie, J., et al., The recovery of standing and locomotion after spinal cord injury does not require task-specific training, Elife, December 11, 2019

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

NIH BRAIN Initiative: Biology and Biophysics of Neural Stimulation (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

NIH BRAIN Initiative: Next-Generation Invasive Devices for Recording and Modulation in the Human Central Nervous System (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Required)

Reeve Foundation Quality of Life Grants Program award. Applications for the first Cycle 2020 open on Feburary 3, 2020.

Please send additional news and event items for inclusion in this newsletter to CNT Executive and Education Director Eric Chudler .

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