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 | |
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| Mason Gutt | Golden.Retriever.Lab.Mascot | Eat all bones and stuffed neurons we come up with | Ashburn | see figure above. | |
| Neil Moser | nmoser | Biosensors | n.a. | PhD student (part time) | |
| Hamid Charkhkar | hcharkhk | BCI | 3918 | PhD student | |
| Saugandhika Minnikanti | sminnika | Carbon nanotube based structures | 3918 | PhD student | |
| Akshay Deverakonda | Thomas Jefferson HS | LTP in cell cultures | KI126 | intern during summer of 2009. (junior, Thomas Jefferson High School) | |
| Zainab H Benchekroun | zhamedab | snail cell cultures | KI-126 | apprentice Spring 2010, Junior CpE. | |
| Sarah Choi | schoik | modeling/cell cultures | 3914 | sophomore/Honors College; Spring 2010 | |
| Sohaib Akhter | sakhter2 | Zii Egg software and bioinstrumentation | junior in Bioengineering | ||
| Hossein G. Nik | Engineer with Rhein Tech and iKare. | Smooth control of assistive technology | 3918 | http://mason.gmu.edu/~hghaffar/ M.S. student |
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| Keith Jamison | Univ.Minnesota | Biosensors with cell cultures | STI-4 | pseudo scientist | |
| Alex Behnaz | GoldWater Scholar (2010) | Processing of Biological Signals | KI-126 | ECE student (apprentice, summer of 2009). Senior in EE | |
| Mona Singh | JHU | Quantifying brain damage | KI 126 | undergraduate apprentice (Fall 07) Senior, Social Sciences |
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| Michael Sullivan | Univ.Texas | Bioamplifier and EMG wearable computer | STII-268 | undergrad apprentice (Spring 07) Senior, ECE |
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