Featured in the April 10 Daily Illini, Aadeel Akhtar, founder of PSYONIC, is featured for the bionic hand he has been working on and is currently produced by PSYONIC. He states, “Our prosthetic hand is actually faster, smaller and stronger than all the other prosthetic hands that are out there...
Caught with the Cookie Jar"Slug City" studies the neural basis of decision with sea slugs and octopuses. The research aim is to study how animals organize their behavior by integrating motivation, experience and sensation.
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Innovative ResearchPushing the edge of science to discover the future
Pulling Apart the BrainThe Interactive 3D brain model from BrainFacts.org.
More Department News
- Hakai Magazine (Campbell River, Canada, April 17) – Mark Hauber, an animal behavior researcher at the U. of I., has discovered that year after year a female common murre will produce an egg with a shell pattern that has an individualized, recognizable pattern that is nearly identical to her previous eggs by manipulating just two pigments.
- On April 10, Associate Professor's Dan Llano, MIP and Stephanie Ceman, CDB, debated before the Neuroscience Program weekly seminar audience as to whether they believed beta-amyloid plaques cause Alzheimer's disease.
Systems Biology Understanding of the Effects of Lithium on Affective and Neurodegenerative Disorders
Lithium has many widely varying biochemical and phenomenological effects, suggesting that a systems biology approach is required to understand its action.
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Faculty Spotlight
We welcome Brian B. Monson to the Neuroscience faculty. Dr. Monson is an assistant professor of Speech and Hearing Science. He received his Ph.D. in Speech, Language, and Hearing Science at the University of Arizona with minors in Neuroscience and Theatre Arts. His Masters in Physics (Acoustics) is from Brigham Young University with a minor in Vocal Performance and his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering was received from Utah State University.
Alumni Spotlight
Dr. Daeyeol Lee has been named a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins University. Lee graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995 (MS in Biology) and 1995 (PhD in Neuroscience). Established by Michael Bloomberg, Lee will be among 50 professors from around the world named to these posts who are pioneering interdisciplinary fields.
