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!

We’re super excited to have Thaissa join the lab for summer through the Vanderbilt School of Engineering Summer Research Program! Thai joins us from Johns Hopkins University and has a strong background in electrical engineering. She will be working towards characterizing the optical, mechanical, and electrical properties of our transparent, flexible neural probes.

Lab construction complete! We’re moving in and setting up. We’re excited to get our electrophysiology and imaging rigs installed over the summer.

We’re super excited to have Daniel Woods join as the lab’s second PhD student! Daniel is a native Tennessean and received both a BS and Masters in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He will be co-advised by Christos Constantinidis and help establish our first major collaboration as we expand our technologies from rodents to non-human primates.

Prof. Jacob Robinson (Daniel’s PhD advisor) visited for a seminar at the Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscience and Engineering. The whole team enjoyed a chance to tour our new lab space and meet their academic grandpa.

We’re so excited to welcome Camila Romero to the lab as our first research technician! Camila earned her BS in Neuroscience from West Virginia University. She has an extensive neuroscience skillset that will hugely benefit multiple projects, but will also aid in the lab’s microfabrication efforts. Welcome Camila!

Jenna and Runda join as the lab’s first undergraduate researchers. They are bringing their backgrounds in cognitive neuroscience and computer science to understand the role of predictive coding during neuroprosthetic tasks.

Hello World! We’re up and running. Lab space is due to officially open Summer 2024.

We’re so excited to have Grace join as the lab’s first PhD student! Grace is in the BME PhD program and comes to us from Bucknell University with a strong background in engineering and long-term interest in neural interfaces.