Center for Systems Neuroscience, Neurophotonics Center, and NSF NRT UtB: Neurophotonics Seminar – Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Please join us at 12:15 PM on Wednesday, December 18, 2019, where Polina Anikeeva from MIT will lead a seminar at:
Boston University Photonics Center
8 Saint Mary’s Street, Room 906
Boston, MA 02215
Check in will start at noon and the speaker will start at 12:15 PM
Lunch will be served.
On Wednesday, December 18, 2019, Polina Anikeeva, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, will lead a discussion on “Modulation of Neural Function with Electronic, Optical, and Magnetic Tools” developed in the Bioelectronics Group. This lunch seminar will be held at the Boston University Photonics Center, 8 Saint Mary’s Street, Room 906, Boston, MA 02215.
Polina will discuss how new tools capable of addressing neuronal signaling complexity are urgently needed, for understanding the function and dynamics of the nervous system and for finding treatments for the neurological and psychiatric conditions that increasingly affect our aging society. By leveraging fiber-drawing methods from the telecommunications industry, the Bioelectronics group creates flexible and stretchable probes capable of recording and stimulation of neural activity as well as delivery of drugs and genes into the brain and spinal cord. The group also develops a broad range of magnetic nanotransducers that convert externally applied magnetic fields into thermal, chemical, and mechanical signals, which can then be perceived by ion channels on neurons.
Registration is required to ensure a lunch will be ordered for you.