Ji-Xin Cheng and Xiaojun Cheng to Present at BioPhotonics Conference 2023

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Professors Ji-Xin Cheng and Xiaojun Cheng will be featured speakers later this month at the BioPhotonics Conference. Learn more below. Join Photonics Media online Oct. 24-26 for the BioPhotonics Conference, a virtual event highlighting innovation in the life sciences and biomedical optics. The conference will feature three keynotes and 38 presentations across three days promoting microscopy, spectroscopy, and imaging. Read more here: […]

Regina Sloutsky awarded NPC Collaborative Project Award for exoWALK

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Thanks to funding from the NPC Collaborative Project Award, Regina Sloutsky, research physical therapist and second year Rehabilitation Sciences PhD student, will continue work with NPC Faculty on the project “exoWALK: EXOsuit-assisted Walking Automaticity and Locomotion Kinetics.”  exoWALK is a lightweight wearable robotic exosuit designed to assist stroke patients in walking. After having a stroke, […]

David Boas and Team Awarded NIH BRAIN CONNECT Funding

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As one of 11 grants, with a total support cost of $150 million, Professor Boas et al. will utilize their portion of the funding for their research on “Mapping Connectivity of the Human Brainstem in a Nuclear Coordinate System” Read more here: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/news-events/highlights-announcements/nih-brain-initiative-launches-projects-develop-innovative-technologies-map-brain-incredible-detail Project Abstract: The ~1 billion neurons that form the human brainstem are […]

New Article from Lei Tian

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Professor Tian, et al. have recently been published for their paper on “Asymmetric metasurface photodetectors for single-shot quantitative phase imaging.” Read the full article here: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/nanoph-2023-0354/html?lang=en ABSTRACT: The visualization of pure phase objects by wavefront sensing has important applications ranging from surface profiling to biomedical microscopy, and generally requires bulky and complicated setups involving optical […]

New Article from Hadi T. Nia on creating a “Crystal Ribcage”

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Hadi T. Nia and his team were part of a new publication on nature covering a “Crystal ribcage: a platform for probing real-time lung function at cellular resolution.” Their advancements now allow for real time study of mouse lung functionality. Read the abstract below, and the rest of the article here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-023-02004-9?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nmeth ABSTRACT: Understanding the dynamic pathogenesis […]

New Article from Kamal Sen’s Lab

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In a new article as part of the Journal of Neurophysiology, Kamal Sen and his lab have been recently published for their work considering “A robust and compact population code for competing sounds in auditory cortex.” Read the full article here: https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/jn.00148.2023 ABSTRACT – Cortical circuits encoding sensory information consist of populations of neurons, yet […]