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Tomorrow 10/25 at 4pm: Lukasz Bugaj, PhD, @BugajLab @Penn presents "Perturb to understand: optical and thermal control of condensation, signaling, and cell behavior" at our @ucsf Friday Seminar Series in Basic and Translational Research. ow.ly/65Me50TSQCG

Very honored to deliver an invited talk at the 4th Optogenetic Technologies and Applications Conference at the beautiful Wightman Mansion in Boston (image below).  My presentation was titled “Wireless, Battery-Free Optoelectronic Systems for Optogenetic Studies With Small Animal Models”.  I presented an overview of the history of our work in this area, up to and including some very recent results that combine implantable devices for physiological/behavioral monitoring with those for optogenetic neural control in mice (Neuron, 2024 @NeuroCellPress; see below), and some unpublished work on implantable ‘optogenetic displays’.  One general feature of our approach in these and other related sub-fields of neuroengineering research is to consider device designs that can be adapted for scaled production.  Our aim here is not to stop with ‘hero’ publications on advanced device technologies, but to follow through to provide broad access to any interested neuroscience investigator.  The vehicle for this purpose is an engineering-oriented small company (Neurolux, Inc @NeuroLuxInc) that we launched ten years ago to respond to in-bound requests for devices -- no VCs, no investors, no pitch decks, no exit strategies, etc, just engineering excellence and a robust, sustainable business model.  Thanks to the conference chairs, Prof. Lukasz Bugaj @BugajLab, Prof. Emmanuel Tzanakakis and Prof. Megan McClean @McCleanLab for the invitation to participate! cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S08…

Join us for the 2024 Optogenetics Technologies conference in Boston! Outstanding lineup including: @AdamEzraCohen, @KhammashLab, @MoeglichLab @toettch @ProfJohnARogers @DunlopLab @coledeforest , Haifeng Ye many more. 🗓️Sept. 10-12 Abstracts due 6/7! aiche.org/sbe/conferences/op…

Excited to share our new @biorxivpreprint in which we demonstrate the formation and maintenance of cellular memories in melanoma during acquisition of therapy resistance - dependent on the transcription factor AP-1 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… (1/9)