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Plans the program for our off-site community-building, collaboration-inducing and science-sharing retreat.

Alberto Salleo

Novel materials and processing techniques for large-area and flexible electronic/photonic devices. Polymeric materials for electronics, bioelectronics, and biosensors. Electrochemical devices for neuromorphic computing. Defects and structure/property studies of polymeric semiconductors, nano-structured and amorphous materials in thin films. Advanced characterization techniques for soft matter.

Guosong Hong

Guosong Hong's research aims to bridge materials science and neuroscience, and blur the distinction between the living and non-living worlds by developing novel neuroengineering tools to interrogate and manipulate the brain. Specifically, the Hong lab is currently developing ultrasound, infrared, and radiofrequency-based in-vivo neural interfaces with minimal invasiveness, high spatiotemporal resolution, and cell-type specificity.

Kalanit Grill-Spector

Kalanit Grill-Spector is a Professor in Psychology and the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. Her research examines how the brain processes visual information and perceives it. She uses functional imaging techniques to visualize the living brain in action and understand how it functions to recognize people, objects and places. Additionally, she investigates how the anatomical and functional properties of the brain change from infancy to childhood through adulthood, and how this development is related to improved visual recognition abilities.

Bianxiao Cui

Dr. Bianxiao Cui is the Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of Chemistry and a fellow of the Wu Tsai Stanford Neuroscience Institute at Stanford University. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the University of Chicago and a BS degree from the University of Science and Technology of China. Dr. Cui develops new tools to study the nano-bio interface, membrane curvature, electrophysiology, and signal transduction in cells at normal and disease conditions. As a scientist and a teacher, she enjoys working with young scholars to explore the natural world with scientific innovations.

Mariapaola Sidoli

Paola is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Will Talbot in the Department of Developmental Biology. Her research interest focuses on understanding the cell biology of myelinating glial cells using zebrafish genetics.

Rabindra Shivnaraine

Rabindra (Robin) Shivnaraine is a post-doctoral fellow working with Professor Brian K. Kobilka in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology.  Professor Kobilka has demonstrated that movements within G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) underlie their function.  To directly measure these movements, Robin is collaborating with the laboratory of Professor Steven Chu to bring innovative single-molecule techniques to capture and assess these movements.

Daniel Bear

Dr. Brear is interested in finding out if artificial neural networks, if given biologically realistic architectures and sensory experience, "learn" representations that resemble those found in animal brains. If they can, these computational models could explain how sensory information guides decisions. Eventually, they could endow artificial agents with the rich repertoire of animal behavior.

Yi Liu

Yi is a Ph.D. candidate in Ada Poon’s group in the Department of Electrical Engineering. She is currently studying the mechanisms of extracellular electrical stimulation and analyzing the effects of different current waveforms applied at the electrode. In the future, she plans to electrically stimulate the mouse hippocampus for memory recovery as a potential treatment for early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. Before joining Stanford, Yi received her B.S. degree in physics at Peking University in China.

Isabel Iselin Cusick Low

Isabel is a PhD candidate in the Stanford Neurosciences Program. She works in the Giocomo Lab studying how our internal state—like whether we are alert or tired—affects the way our brains work. Prior to Stanford, Isabel received a BA from Bowdoin College and worked as a research technician at Harvard Medical School. In addition to her graduate work, Isabel is Co-President of NeuWrite West (neuwritewest.org), where she works to promote communication between neuroscientists and non-scientists so as to make neuroscience accessible to anyone curious about the brain.

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