The NPR Lab is proud to have Janak Gaire presenting his research at Neuroscience 2016 in San Diego this week. Janak’s poster showed data on a transgenic mouse expressing fluorophores in neurons, microglia, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes.
Dr. Francisco Delgado
Post-Doc
Biomedical Engineering
fdelgado@ufl.edu
Neural interfaces
[expand title=”Read more”]Francisco received his B.S. in biomedical engineering with a minor in mechanical systems design from Florida International University in Miami. After completion of his degree he moved to Gainesville to begin his doctoral research. In 2010 he joined the Epilepsy Research Lab under the leadership of Dr. Paul R. Carney; here Francisco garnered experience in the field of central nervous disorders and the tools and techniques used to study and treat them. During his tenure in the Epilepsy research lab he was awarded a prestigious CTSI TL1 fellowship, which supported his study of nanotechnological methods for the treatment of epilepsy. His work focused on the interplay of drug delivery technologies and disease, and he wrote his dissertation on the influence of tissue structure and delivery environments on treatment strategies for neurological diseases.
After graduating with his PhD, Francisco joined the Neural Prosthetics Research Lab under Dr. Kevin Otto as a postdoctoral fellow. His current research includes novel methods of stimulating and recording in the peripheral nervous system in vivo, and understanding the outcomes of these methods as they pertain to the restoration of function or improvement of learning. In the future, he hopes to extend this work to create novel technologies to interface with neurological tissues to treat disease, enhance function, and develop a better understanding of how the brain functions.[/expand]
The NPR Lab is proud to have Janak Gaire and Matthew McDermott representing us at the 2016 BMES Annual Meeting in Minneapolis this week. Janak will be giving a talk on a novel mouse model expressing endogenous fluorophores while Matthew will be presenting a poster on drug release of coated neural devices.
Avi Matarasso
Chemical Engineering
avimatarasso@ufl.edu
Dr. Kevin Otto (center-left) and members of his lab attended the 8th International IEEE EMBS Neural Engineering Conference in Orlando, Florida to present research on neural prosthetic interfaces. Graduate student Matthew McDermott gave an oral presentation (center-right and bottom left) titled, “The Effect of Multiple Thin-Film Coatings of Protein Loaded Sol-Gel on Total Multi-Electrode Array Thickness.” Graduate student Heui Chang Lee (3rd from center on right) gave a poster presentation titled, “Quantitative Histological Assessment of Probe Flexibility.” Post-Doc Dr. James Graham (4th from center on right, and bottom right) presented a poster and oral presentation titled, “Histological Evaluation of Implanted Tissue-Engineered Electronic Nerve Interface (TEENI) Devices.”
Mary Regan
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
mregan1014@ufl.edu
[expand title=”Read more”] Mary is currently a 4th year student in the Biological Engineering department here at UF and is planning on pursuing a PhD in biomedical Engineering after graduating. She is specifically interested in using nanoparticles for drug delivery and disease detection, but is currently focused on learning about immunohistochemistry, brain biology, and general research methodology.[/expand]
Seth Currlin
Ph.D. student
Interdisciplinary Science with specialization in Neuroscience
scurrlin@ufl.edu
Neural implants and neural stimulation
Dr. James B. Graham
Post-Doc
Biomedical Science
jbgraham@ufl.edu
Neural tissue-device interfaces
[expand title=”Read more”]Dr. James B. Graham received his BA degree in biology from La Salle University in 1996 and his PhD degree in biomedical science with a double concentration in neuroscience and clinical translational science from the University of Florida in 2015.
From 2001 to 2010, he was a senior biological scientist at the University of Florida where he focused on various methods to analyze functional recovery in animal models of peripheral nerve injury. During his tenure in the department of pediatric neurology, he published several highly cited reports in well established peer reviewed scientific journals, was awarded a patent from the University of Florida Office of Technology and Licensing with his co inventor and mentor, Dr. David Muir, and was a vital leader and innovator in the development of several commercialized peripheral nerve regenerative components.
He is currently a Post-Doctoral Associate in the Neuro Prostheses Research Laboratory under the mentorship of Dr. Kevin J. Otto where his work focuses on developing and analyzing peripheral nerve electrical interfaces for sensory and motor applications of prosthetic devices. [/expand]
