Controlling and Characterizing the Interface Between Electronics and the Brain

The ability to record from specific types of cells is essential for disentangling the complicated interactions within neural systems. Unfortunately, implantable neural probes are currently unable to achieve cell-type specificity when recording in vivo. I will use surface chemistry that I helped develop as a postdoctoral scholar that enables the control of a probes’ local cellular environment. This work provides a promising tool that I will use in future studies to understand the different populations of neural cells in brain regions that are difficult to access with conventional, light-based methods.