Borton Lab
Designing, developing, and deploying neurotechnology to better understand the nervous system and improve human lives
Designing, developing, and deploying neurotechnology to better understand the nervous system and improve human lives
New paper alert! Our first-in-human study of a bidirectional spinal cord interface, Perilesional neuromodulation replaces lost sensorimotor function in persons with spinal cord injury, is out in Nature Biomedical Engineering. Huge congratulations to Dr. Jonathan Calvert, Dr. Samuel Parker, and the whole team!
New paper alert! Dr. Radu Darie and team describe a modular, high-bandwidth, bidirectional implantable device for neural interrogation in the Journal of Neural Engineering.
New paper alert! Dr. Christopher Black's work showing that transient gamma events delineate somatosensory modality in S1 is now published in iScience.
Congratulations to Dr. Jonathan Calvert on starting as Assistant Professor at UC Davis and launching the Calvert Neuroengineering Science Lab!
A warm welcome to our newest lab members: Ph.D. student Shivam Chaudhary, master's student Benjamin Fargnoli, and undergraduate researcher Anya Pramanick!
Alumni updates: Charlie Levine has started a Ph.D. in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program, Dr. Sophie Brown is now a postdoc at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, and our Senior Machinist John Murphy has retired to live the beautiful life. We miss you all!
We are funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Institute for Neurological Disease and Stroke, the National Institute for Mental Health, and the Department of Veterans Affiars.
The Borton lab is committed to creating an environment for the team that supports a diversity of thoughts, perspectives and experiences, and honors your identities (including race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, ability, etc.). Our lab seeks to recruit, support, and retain members from diverse backgrounds and groups that have historically been underrepresented in the sciences. As a team, we are committed to creating a learning and working environment where individuals feel supported and invested in the lab mission, and each other.
We are always looking for driven team members to help us design, build and implement novel neurotechnology for investigating the nervous system. Students with an electrical/biomedical engineering and/or neuroscience background are encouraged to apply. If interested in joining the lab, please send a note to Prof. Borton (), and we will get back to you.
Research staff openings |
We do not have any Research staff openings at this time. |
Postdoctoral Research Associate openings |
General announcementWe invite applications for Postdoctoral Research Associates to help advance our laboratory mission. Specific areas of interest are electrophysiology analysis and biomarker detection in complex brain and spinal cord signals, as well as implantable hardware development. Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S. Interested candidates should email a CV and recent publications to Prof. Borton ( ) directly with reference to potential project details |
Doctoral student openings |
General announcementWe are always eager to bring motivated, creative, and rigorously trained students on to our team. Interested students should explore the Brown University Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Neuroscience graduate programs to familiarize themselves with the university. Interested candidates should email a CV to Prof. Borton ( ) directly |
Masters student openings |
Closed-loop paw tracking for precise laser stimulationWe invite Masters students to join our pain research team to develop a closed-loop tracking system that follows the foot of a freely moving mouse, enabling precise laser stimulation of the paw. The project combines computer vision, camera hardware, and closed-loop feedback control, and offers the opportunity to learn about optogenetics. See here for more details on the Neural Dynamics of Pain Processing project. Interested candidates should email a CV to Claire Petersen ( ) directly |
Undergraduate student openings |
Chip design for the Smart, Safe, Switch platformWe invite undergraduate students with interest and experience in chip design to join the Smart, Safe, Switch team, which is building a modular hardware and software platform to accelerate the development of implantable neurotechnology. See here for more details on the project. Interested candidates should email Gabriela Porto Machado ( ) directly |