Highlights of Neural Microsystems Lab in 2009
1. Dr. Jit Muthuswamy was invited
to speak at a a focus session on “Intracortical Probes: How to get
Probes and Neurons Together,” at the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering,
Munich, Sept. 7-12, 2009. The title of his presentation was “Bringing
neurons and devices together in vivo using mechanical depth control
of implanted microprobes.”
2. Manuscript titled “Non-hermetic
Encapsulation Materials for MEMS Based Moveable Microelectrodes for
Long-Term Implantation in the Brain,” authored by Nathan Jackson
(doctoral student), Sindhu Anand (doctoral student), Murat Okandan,
and J Muthuswamy is now in press for publication in IEEE/ASME
Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems.
3. Massoud L. Khraiche, doctoral
student in the Neural Microsystems lab successfully defends his doctoral
dissertation titled, "Novel biochip for simultaneously
monitoring mechanical and electrical properties of neurons in
vitro" on July 24, 2009 and will join the Biomedical Engineering
department at University of California, San Diego as a post-doctoral
fellow.
4. Massoud L. Khraiche (doctoral
student in Neural Microsystems lab), was awarded First Place for
his Distinguished Oral Presentation at the 10th Annual University
of California Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium, held at Merced
June 19-21, 2009. His paper was titled "Early Onset of
Electrical Activity in Developing Neurons Cultured on Carbon Nanotube
Immobilized Microelectrodes" and authored by Massoud Khraiche,
Nathan Jackson and Jit Muthuswamy.
5. Nathan Jackson, doctoral
student in the Neural Microsystems lab successfully defends his
doctoral dissertation titled, "Neural Recordings in the Brain
Using Novel Movable MEMS Microelectrode Arrays," on May 29,
2009. Nate will now take up his position as Micro-medical Implant
Engineer in NMI Natural and Medical Sciences Institute, Tuebingen,
Germany.
6. Manuscript titled "Assessment of gliosis around moveable
implants in the brain," authored by Paula Stice (doctoral
student) and J Muthuswamy is now in press to be published in Journal
of Neural Engineering. The paper is available for free in the IOP stacks
until July 25, 2009.
7. Arati Sridharan, doctoral student in the Neural Microsystems lab
successfully defends her doctoral dissertation titled,
"Photoelectrochemical Characterization of Bacterial Light
Harvesting Structures for Novel Optoelectronic Biohybrid
Devices," in April 2009 and joins the Neural Microsystems
lab as a post-doctoral fellow.
8. Manuscript titled “Optoelectronic energy transfer at novel
biohybrid interfaces using light harvesting complexes from
Chloroflexus aurantiacus,” authored by Arati Sridharan (doctoral
student), J Muthuswamy and V Pizziconi, is now in press for
publication in Langmuir.
9. Paula Stice, doctoral student in Neural Microsystems lab
successfully defends her doctoral dissertation titled,
"Assessment of the Reactive Astrocyte Response Around Fixed and
Movable Chronic Microimplants in the Brain," in February 2009
and will join the US patent and trademark office as a patent
examiner.
Highlights of Neural Microsystems Lab in 2008
1. Nathan Jackson, doctoral student and Prof.
Muthuswamy's article titled "Flexible Chip Scale Package and
Interconnect for Implantable MEMS Movable Microelectrodes for the Brain,"
is now in press for publication in IEEE/ASME Journal of
Microelectromechanical Systems.
2.
Outstanding Paper Award
Abstract titled "Flexible
Interconnect and Packaging for MEMS-based Moveable Neural
Microelectrodes" authored by doctoral student Nathan Jackson and
Jit Muthuswamy was selected as one of two Outstanding Papers of the 41st International Symposium on
Microelectronics and Packaging, held in Providence,
Rhode Island, November 2-6, 2008.
3. Tingting Wang, PhD graduate and Prof. Muthuswamy's article titled
"Immunosensor for detection of inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA
using quartz crystal microbalance," is now published in the
journal Analytical Chemistry.
4. Article titled "Immobilization of Functional Light Antenna
Structures Derived From The Filamentous Green Bacterium Chloroflexus
aurantiacus," authored by Arati Sridharan (doctoral student),
Jit Muthuswamy, Jeffrey LaBelle and Vincent Pizziconi is now
published in Langmuir.
5. Tilak Jain (PhD graduate) and Prof. Muthuswamy's paper originally
published in the journal Lab
on a Chip was recently profiled in the magazine Chemical Biology published by
the Royal Society of Chemistry
as a news
feature.
6. Tilak Jain (PhD graduate) and Prof. Muthuswamy's article titled
"Microelectrode array (MEA) platform for targeted neuronal
transfection and recording," published in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
Letters (55(2):827-832,2008).
7. Research from our paper titled, "Microelectrode array (MEA)
platform for targeted neuronal transfection and recording"
authored by T Jain (mentored doctoral student) and J Muthuswamy
published in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering Letters was
recently featured as a news
article in February
2008 issue of IEEE
Spectrum (monthly magazine of IEEE with a circulation of
over 390,000 worldwide) -http://spectrum.ieee.org/feb08/5944.
8. Nathan Jackson (doctoral student) received the 1st place award for
the best student research poster at the IMAPS (International
Microelectronics and Packaging Society) 4th International
conference and exhibition on Device Packaging held in Scottsdale,
Arizona on March 17-19.
9. Nathan Jackson (doctoral student) and Prof. Muthuswamy's article
titled "Artificial dural sealant that allows multiple
penetrations of long-term implantable brain probes" in press for
Journal of Neuroscience methods.
10. Rajarshi Saha, a graduate student in Neural Microsystems
laboratory successfully defends his doctoral dissertation titled
"Novel polysilicon based implants for single neuronal recording
and stimulation," in February 2008 and joins a post-doctoral
position in Georgia Tech, Atlanta.
11. Prof. Muthuswamy was invited to make a presentation in a session
on "Novel Bioengineering devices," in Biozona 2008,
in Tuscon, AZ on April 8, 2008.
12. Prof. Muthuswamy, was invited to make a presentation on
"CMOS assisted gene injection," at the upcoming 2008 CMOS
Emerging Technologies Workshop in Vancouver, BC, Canada on Aug.
6th, 2008.
