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Dan’s sleep paper is accepted in Journal of Neuroscience
Congratulations, Dan and coauthors! His paper “Sleep analysis in adult C. elegans reveals state-dependent alteration of neural and behavioral responses” is accepted at Journal of Neuroscience and is out in Early Release! https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1701-20.2020 In this paper, Dan asked a basic question regarding how the nervous system changes its sensory responses during sleep. Sleep increases the […]
New preprint on a refractive-index-matched polymer for better light sheet imaging
Our collaborative effort with Hari Shroff at NIH and AcuityNano to characterize a new embedding polymer for live and fixed samples with much better image quality is out, here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.04.324996v1 Getting great 3D imaging of live samples in a light sheet system requires refractive-index-matched materials, typically close to water (n = 1.333), but many embedding […]
Congrats, Hamilton on advancement to candidacy!
Hamilton White unconditionally passed his qualifier and advanced to PhD candidacy last Friday! Congrats!
Dan’s sleep preprint is out!
Congratulations Dan and co-authors on submitting the sleep paper! Adult C. elegans spontaneously sleep in microfluidic devices (depends on fluid flow, oxygen, hunger, and sensory stimulation), and we asked how neural responses change in sleep and awake states. Read more here: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/791764v1
Congratulations, Dr. Kyra Burnett!
Our newest PhD graduate successfully defended her thesis, “High-throughput and High-resolution Functional Imaging Methods to Identify Mechanisms of Variable Neural Excitability in C. elegans“. Congratulations to Dr. Kyra Burnett! In this dissertation, Kyra explored neural responses to a repeated stimulus whose neural response could change minute-to-minute, or remain consistent, identifying the neurons detecting novel stimuli, […]
Ross wins Sigma Xi doctoral dissertation award
Ross wins the 2019 Sigma Xi Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award for his PhD dissertation in 2018. This award, established in 1983, is presented for outstanding research by students at the doctoral and master’s levels and is sponsored jointly by the Society of the Sigma Xi and the Committee on Graduate Studies and Research. Congrats, Ross!
International summer
Our graduate students have been active internationally this summer! Ross Lagoy presented a talk at the CeNeuro2016 conference in Nagoya, Japan on July 30 about his work towards screening chemicals that restore normal neural dynamics in vivo. Kyra Burnett is at IMP Vienna visiting the lab of Dr. Manuel Zimmer to learn whole-brain imaging techniques […]
NSF funding to develop long-term, stimulated multineural imaging
Prof. Albrecht has received a 3-year NSF award titled “Long-term brain circuit imaging with chemical and optogenetic stimulation.” from ENG/CBET/BME.
Student Awards
Congratulations to lab members for achieving several awards at WPI! Graduate student Kyra Burnett was awarded the 2016 Alfred and Janet Potvin Award for academic excellence and service to the Biomedical Engineering Department for her dedication and organization of outreach events, including Touch Tomorrow and Introduce a Girl to Engineering, as well as representing the […]
Moruzzi Teaching Innovation Award
Dirk Albrecht, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, received the 2016 Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award. Presented in memory of a longtime faculty member in electrical and computer engineering, the award recognizes innovation in undergraduate education. He was honored “for his innovative efforts to enhance student engagement through hands-on learning in a large enrollment bioinstrumentation […]
