Neural Engineering Lab - Group

Nathalia Peixoto, PhD

I am an assistant professor of Bioengineering with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of GMU.  Until August 2006 I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Krasnow Institute, focusing on seizure control with low frequency electric fields.  I also developed microfabricated oxygen sensors to profile metabolic activity in cardiac cells at Stanford. During my PhD at USP (Brazil) I developed microelectrode arrays and investigated primary neuronal cultures. As part of my PhD project, I spent almost two years in Germany (in Bonn) as a researcher with the German Retina Implant project. During my Masters (at Unicamp, Brazil) I investigated the spreading depression phenomenon in the chicken retina.

My research interests include implantable electrodes and systems, hybrid systems (cell cultures and electronics), control of assistive technology, bioMEMS (bio-micro-electro-mechanical systems), and experimental models of neuro­pathologies such as epilepsy and spreading depression.

Current research group

Name	email (all at gmu.edu) or current position	Research Project	Office	Website / status
Mason	Golden.Retriever@ gmail.com	Eat all bones and stuffed neurons we come up with	Ashburn	see figure above.
Hossein G. Nik	hghaffar	Smooth control of assistive technology	STII-268	http://mason.gmu.edu/~hghaffar/ M.S. student
Saugandhika Minnikanti	sminnika	Carbon nanotube based structures	STI-6	PhD student
Keith Jamison	Univ.Minnesota	Biosensors with cell cultures	STI-4	pseudo scientist
Daniel Tabatabai	dtabatab	Processing of Biological Signals	off-site	M.S. student, ECE
Mona Singh	JHU	Quantifying brain damage	KI 126	undergraduate apprentice (Fall 07) Senior, Social Sciences
Michael Sullivan	Univ.Texas	Bioamplifier and EMG wearable computer	STII-268	undergrad apprentice (Spring 07) Senior, ECE
Zach Wester	Univ of Virginia	Circuis for oscillators and measurement of physiological signals	KI 126	high school research project (Spring 07 on)
Philip Naudus	pnaudus1	Apnea detection in ECG signals	STII-208	undergrad apprentice (Summer 07) Junior; ECE and Physics
Ashutosh Priyadarshy	Alumn	Accelerometers for Wheel chair control (Fall 07)	STII-268	high school research project (Fall 07/ Spring 08)
Priya Chaturvedi	now at Vanderbilt	Carbon nanotubes	STI-6	Scholars program. (Spring 08), Neuroscience
Phuong Lu	plu1	Gel electrophoresis, data analysis	STII - 268	Undergraduate apprentice (Summer 08)
Marilia Pereira	marigabio  at yahoo.com.br	Inflammation in the brain	Krasnow	Visiting scholar (Summer 08)
J.M.R. Ascariz	jmra at depeca dot uah dot es	Embedded system for in vivo measurements	STII-268	Visiting professor (Summer 08)
Kassandra Jackson	kjacksof	Carbon nanotube electrodes	STI-6	REU-NSF (Summer 08, Fall 08, Spring 09). Sophomore, Chemistry.
Raamin Samiyi	rsamiyi	Iridium oxide electrodes	STI-6	sophomore (Neuroscience), Fall 08. Apprentice during Spring 2009.
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