Check out this wonderful write-up from the Vanderbilt School of Engineering about the work going on in our lab.

Daniel presented the lab’s latest work at the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering symposium. This meeting brought together early-career innovators from across industries to tackle some of the nation’s most challenging problems. Topics ranged from neural engineering and quantum computing to fusion energy and sustainable aerial mobility.

The whole lab attended the Symposium for Community Engagement Across Neuroscience and Engineering, a local event organized by the Vanderbilt Brain Institute and sponsored by the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative

Grace, Daniel W., and Max all presented their work! Huge congrats to Max for being awarded FIRST PLACE for his poster on his open-source, multi-purpose beveler for neuroscience!!!

We are so excited to welcome Thai and Lauren as our newest PhD students! Happy first day of 17th grade!

The lab joined 2000 other people and ran in the Titans 5K in Nashville. In Herculean effort that some are saying rivaled the original Rocky movie, Daniel G. ran away with the annual title. Maybe the students will have better luck next year.

Taylor presented her work at the VUSE summer research symposium! She made fantastic progress on a combination of materials to create transparent, flexible, and mechanically stable neural interfaces

Taylor’s time with us is already nearing its end! The summer has flown by. We got together for food and drinks before her big upcoming summer symposium.

Grace and Daniel presented their work at the VINSE Nanoexchange - a conversation-style summer seminar series on brainstorming their projects with the Vanderbilt engineering community.

We’re excited for Taylor Donen from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology to join us as a summer researcher! The whole lab (and some family) got together for a delicious brunch.

Congrats to Mica, who joined the VINSE Tech crew for the summer!

Daniel visited the University of Miami Departments of Biology and Neuroscience to discuss the lab’s latest work.

Huge congrats to Max Sharp on graduating and receiving his BME degree! We are very excited that he has decided to stay in the lab as a technician and use his engineering expertise to facilitate multiple projects.

The lab got together for tacos and ice cream to say goodbye to Camila as she ventures off to start her PhD program at UPenn. We will miss her but are excited to see all the amazing things she accomplishes!

The lab snagged multiple NSF GRFPs!! A huge congrats to Camila Romero and incoming BME PhD student Lauren Iskander on their awards! Hailey Edelman also received an honorable mention. We are so proud of their achievements and hard work getting these proposals submitted.

The lab developed the projects “Dynamic Neural Decoding for Adaptive Neuroprosthetic Control” and “An All-Optical Brain Computer Interface” and worked with teams at the Vanderbilt Brain Hack all weekend developing analytical pipelines for our ephys and optical data.

Our two-photon microscope is up and running!

Our first single-unit spikes recorded with polymer neural interfaces we built in-house! Congrats to Grace and Daniel W., who have worked hard perfecting the implantation approach.

Happy holidays from the Gonzales Lab! We celebrated the end of the year with food, drinks, cookie decorating, and a gift exchange

Our first year ever at VINSE NanoDay! Daniel G. was an invited speaker. Grace and Daniel W. both presented posters. Congrats to Daniel W. on a best poster award!!!

PBS NOVA toured through the Vanderbilt cleanroom to learn about all our cool facilities. Congrats to Grace for making an appearance and chatting about sputter deposition!

Not lab news but still very important. Congrats to the team!

Congrats to both Grace and Daniel for winning the 2024 VINSE Image competition! While fabricating their neural interfaces, they take beautiful pictures along the way. See more images of our work here.

We’re so excited to have Hailey join the lab as a PhD student! She comes to us with a BS in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from Yale and a wide range of experiences in animal research. She will play a critical role in getting our work in neural circuits up an running. Welcome Hailey!

We celebrated the end of a fun and productive summer and said goodbye to Thaissa. We hope she comes back soon!

Thai presented her fantastic summer research. She characterized a material called indium-tin oxide for achieving cellular-scale, fully transparent electrodes on polymer-based neural probes. Great work!!

Congrats to Grace, who has joined the VINSE cleanroom team of superusers! This designation means she has shown significant expertise in microfabrication and will support full-time cleanroom staff by training new users, troubleshooting equipment, and developing new fabrication processes.

Lab lunch at Velvet Taco to start the summer off right!