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BMES presentations
Congratulations to students presenting their work at BMES in Tampa, FL! Sneha Shastry, BME’15, will compete in the BMES Undergraduate Design Competition for her team’s invention “Automated System for High-Throughput Chemical Screening in C. elegans” presenting on Oct. 9 at 1:45p, after being selected one of 6 finalists. REU students Allison Marley (ASU) and Cortni Dick […]
UMMS-WPI Seed Funding
WPI and the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) launched the Collaborative Seed Funding Grant Program to nurture new joint research programs. The Albrecht lab (WPI) and Alkema Lab (UMMS) received funding for a project entitled “Accelerated Drug Screening in a Whole-Organism Model for Calcium Channelopathies.” This project will develop methods to directly observe brain […]
Welcome summer REU students
Summer REU students Cortni Dick (MIT) and Allison Marley (ASU) joined the lab Monday! Both will be working with microfluidic devices and neuronal imaging, investigating how neuronal responses to chemical and light stimuli change with chemical perturbation and behavioral states.
New website
Welcome to our new lab website. We’re under construction, so check back soon for updates.
Potvin Awards announced
Congratulations to graduate student Ross Lagoy for receiving an Alfred R. and Janet H. Potvin Award in Biomedical Engineering, given to outstanding graduate students in biomedical engineering. Other recipients are graduate student Katrina J. Hansen, and undergraduate Kevin S. Ackerman ’16.
IEEE EMBS Young Investigator Award
WPI Biomedical Engineering Assistant Professor, Dirk Albrecht, was awarded a Young Investigator Award from the IEEE-EMBS BRAIN Grand Challenges Conference held November 13-14, 2014 in Washington, D.C. Thirteen awardees were selected from nearly 200 attendees presenting their neuroscience work related to the BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies), a public/private investment announced in […]
