16 April 2026: Marco and Qiangrui's Paper is online in Advanced Materials
A heroic effort in the lab comes to a good end as Marco and Qiangrui's paper lands in Advanced Materials. We show for the first time plasmonic enhancement of the fluorescence of proteins in live mammalian cells. Not only that, the big finding of the paper is that coupling to plasmonic antennas can manipulate the photocycle of the protein and enhance their function. This opens up a whole new way of engineering protein function. Great job Marco and Qiangrui!
2 April 2026: Alejandro's paper in on ArXiv
Alejandro publishes his take on rare-aware autoencoding on ArXiv while looking for the right conference. Nice work!
24 February 2026: a Quantum Diamond Biosensor
We collaborated with the lab of Riochi Ishihara for their work on a quantum diamond biosensor. Now on ArXiv!
28 September 2025: Rui's Analysis is online
Rui's meta-analysis of voltage imaging analysis pipelines is online! Stay tuned for the followup!
11 June 2025: Alejandro teaches computers physics
Alejandro's work on unsupervised physical parameter estimation from video data is out at the computer vision and pattern recognition conference!
10 June 2025: Laurens takes a detour
Or should we say his robots do? Laurens applied what he learned about control of biological neural networks in the context of robotics, and created a new neural network architecture that controls robots with unlearned morphologies and an only partially observable parameter space,better. now online!
29 January 2025: George and Quangrui create directional neural networks!
George and Qiangrui's paper, in our ongoing collaboriation with the lab of Angelo Accardo, appears in Advanced functional Materials. Qiangrui grew stem-cell derived neural networks on nanostructured samples that George printed with controlled effective shear modulus. We found improved maturation rates, and influence on network directionality and growth cone morphology. Great work George and Qiangrui! It made the internal cover!
17 December 2024: Zhenzhen's work on zebrafish voltage imaging is online
Zhenzhen's paper on developing a toolbox for multitissue zebrafish voltage imaging is online. nice work Zhenzhen and Rui!
17 june 2024: Laurens teaches a computer to control activity in a network of neurons
Lauren's work on automating the optogenetic control of neural network activity is online! nicely done!
