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Listening in on the Brain's Electrical Conversations with Better Tools

New tools for recording brain activity, developed in the Knight Campus lab of Felix Deku, could one day decode Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.

The human brain contains more connections between neurons than there are stars in the Milky Way. Decoding the electrical activity behind all those cells is the massive task that excites neural engineers like Felix Deku, who are working to build better tools for recording brain activity.

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Documentary by Knight Campus Impact Team Member Mark Blaine Premieres
And Knowledge to Keep Us, a documentary co-produced by Knight Campus Impact Team member Mark Blaine premiered on PBS in November and is now available for streaming.
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Guldberg Presents to UO Board of Trustees
Knight Campus Executive Director Bob Guldberg joined UO leaders to help present UO President Scholtz's strategic planning initiative to the Board of Trustees at their quarterly meeting on Dec. 10, 2024.
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Plesa Receives Murdock Trust Commercialization Grant
Knight Campus assistant professor Calin Plesa has received a $75,000 grant from the MJ Murdock Charitable Trust through its Commercialization Initiation Program
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Knight Campus Celebrates First Bioengineering Ph.D.
Kylie Williams, a PhD candidate in the Guldberg Lab, successfully defended her dissertation. She will become the first student to receive a Ph.D. in bioengineering at the Knight Campus
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Knight Campus Graduate Students Recognized at Oregon Bioengineering Symposium 2024
Three Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering graduate students received awards at the Oregon Bioengineering Symposium
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Student Startup with Knight Campus Ties wins iGEM Grand Prize
ClearMark Biosciences, a startup company founded by two students with Knight Campus ties, won the Grand Prize at the 2024 iGEM Startup Showcase
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Knight Campus Students and Faculty Presenting at OBS 2024
Students and faculty from the UO and the Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering are presenting at the Sixth Annual Oregon Bioengineering Symposium at Oregon Health & Science University on Nov. 15, 2024.
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Knight Campus Undergraduate Scholar a finalist for for Rhodes Scholarship

Knight Campus Undergraduate Scholar Oliver Loreto has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, the world’s oldest international fellowship award.

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Knight Campus-based iGem Team Wins Silver Medal
The UO iGEM team, advised by Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering assistant professor Calin Plesa, competed at the iGEM Grand Jamboree in Paris in October and brought home a silver medal in the Infectious Diseases category.
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Knight Campus PhD Students Launch Soccer Team
Graduate students in the Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering partnered with grad students from the Department of Human Physiology to form a cross-departmental local recreational soccer team through City of Eugene Athletics.

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