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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 […]
Congrats, Hamilton on advancement to candidacy!
Hamilton White unconditionally passed his qualifier and advanced to PhD candidacy last Friday! Congrats!
“Rapid and gentle hydrogel encapsulation” selected for First Anniversary Collection
“Rapid and gentle hydrogel encapsulation of living organisms enables long-term microscopy over multiple hours”, published in June 2018, has been selected for the Nature Communications Biology first year anniversary collection .
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 […]
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 […]
New website
Welcome to our new lab website. We’re under construction, so check back soon for updates.
