Pedro Gracias

Pedro Gracias
Biomedical Engineering
pgracias@ulf.edu
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Pedro is a senior biomedical engineering student at the University of Florida. He is collaborating on the MARTEENI project in which he will be understanding the applications and interactions of PEDOT:PSS on MARTEENI by implanting these devices in Lewis Rats. 

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Carson A Boogaart

Carson Boogaart 
Biomedical Engineering
cboogaart@ufl.edu
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Carson is a fourth-year biomedical engineering student. He will be collaborating on MARTEENI in which he will help accomplish goals of understanding the applications and interactions of PEDOT: PSS on MARTEENI. He will be performing lab tasks such as cryo-sectioning, aiding in the surgeries of the implantation of this device into Lewis Rats, and chronic collection of data of animals implanted.

Are the effects of microstimulation different for different brain layers? Find out here!

Morgan Urdaneta is the first author of this paper with beautiful illustrations: Layer-specific parameters of intracortical microstimulation of the somatosensory cortex

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Elizabeth Olivo

Elizabeth Olivo

Biomedical Engineering | Purdue University
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Ultramicroelectrode arrays

Elizabeth received her B.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida in 2022. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, studying the neuronal response to electrical microstimulation and the optimization of these technologies.

Fun facts: She has a three legged cat, is the second in her family to continue into graduate school, and owns a plant that measures 12 feet long.

Dr. Malone!!

Ian Malone has successfully defended his thesis!