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In Polina Anikeeva’s lab, postdoctoral fellow Sharmelee Selvaraji joins researchers from across materials science, electronics, and neurobiology in pursuit of a deeper understanding of neurodegenerative diseases, and in search of opportunities for early intervention.
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Mark Harnett, an associate professor at MIT, still remembers the first time he saw electrical activity spiking from a living neuron. He was a senior at Reed College and had spent weeks building a patch clamp rig — an experimental setup with an electrode that can be used to gently probe a neuron and measure its electrical activity. “The first time I stuck one of these electrodes onto one of these cells and could see the electrical activity happening in real time on the oscilloscope, I thought, ‘Oh my God, this is what I’m going to do for the rest of my life. This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen,’” Harnett says.
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The Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences celebrated its scientists and their discoveries, while exploring some of the most pressing questions in their fields at the biennial Brains on Brains symposium April 29.