Precision Biosystems Laboratory

May 2012 News

The collaborative work between the Boyden Lab at MIT and the PBL is published in Nature Methods

Learn more from the article synopsis in MIT News article “Robots that reveal the inner workings of brain cells” and be sure to check out more of our public media links on our site.  

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April 2012 News

Professor Forest gives an invited lecture to the Atlanta IEEE-EMBS chapter entitled “Automated patch clamping of neurons in the mammalian brain in vivo”

The PBL comes in 3rd in the team competition in the Pi Mile!

March 2012 News:

Georgia Tech’s Invention Studio and Inventure prize are featured on the White House blog

Prof. Craig Forest receives the Lockheed Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award to recognize outstanding educators in the College of Engineering.

An article entitled,”Automated whole-cell patch clamp electrophysiology of neurons in vivo,” has just been accepted at Nature Methods, one of the top journals in the world.  This research involves a pioneering technology — the adoption of robotics into in-vivo neuroscience –that enables the recording and single-cell analysis of neurons in the living brain.    The PBL and the Boyden lab at MIT have been in close collaboration for 2.5 years to make this happen.

Suhasa wins the Outstanding poster presentation award at the Georgia Tech research and innovation conference.

January 2012 News:

The PBL spins out a startup company, Neuromatic Devices, based on the patent pending technology for automated whole-cell patch clamp electrophysiology of neurons in vivo.

Journal articles submitted to Biomedical Microdevices and Lab on a Chip are accepted for publication.

Team Heart Thromb’s design for a point-of-care optical reader in conjunction with PBL’s research on platelet thrombosis wins first place at the Mechanical Engineering Department’s Capstone Expo.

The Inventure Prize receives the Georgia Tech Research Corporation Undergraduate Innovation Impact Award (2011)

November 2011 News:

Suhasa Kodandaramaiah presented at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting in blustery Washington, DC

Chris Phaneuf and Suhasa Kodandaramaiah presented their research as the Annual meeting of the American Society for Precision Engineering in mile high Denver, CO.

Suhasa Kodandaramaiah presents the McGovern Special Neurotechnology Seminar titled “Automated whole cell electrophysiology in vivo” at the Mcgovern Institute, MIT.