November 2026 Newsletter

A CNT Monthly Newsletter November, 2026

Honors and Awards

• Congratulations to Ruyan Li (mentor: Jeffery Herron and Jesse Miles) and Lloyd Son (mentor: Azadeh Yazdan-Shahmorad) who were both selected as 2026-27 Levinson Emerging Scholars at the UW.

Upcoming Events

• CNT members at SDSU, together with NanoFAB.SDSU Industrial Consortium, will hold a half day symposium titled “Intersection of neuroscience and AI – lessons from theoretical and computational neuroscience on scaling up and resources efficiency for next-generation AI system architectures” on November 5, 2026 (San Diego, CA).
• Neuroethics 2027, April 7-9, 2027 (Madrid. Spain and virtual).
• 10th Annual Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Conference, July 26-29, 2027 (Edinburgh, UK)

CNT in the News

New CNT Publications

• Faucher, C., Tang, W., Collins, T., Fu, X., Kassegne, S., Adibi, S. and Islam, M., Resolving the precursor-to-carbon transformation in PEGDA: A synergistic reactive molecular dynamics and evolved-gas analysis study. Carbon Lett. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42823-026-01136-0.
• Vargo, S.M., Hong, N., Hatanaka, G., Jain, V., Pan, H., Wang, R.K., Bair, W., Yazdan-Shahmorad, A. and Chamanzar, M., Towards maximizing optical access through Smart Dura. J. Neural Eng. 23 056036.
• Henderson, R.P., Dang, V., Trinh, M.L., Batista, C.M., McGiffin, M.N., Samejima, S., Moritz, C.T. and Mondello, S.E., Comparing optogenetic and electrical spinal cord stimulation for forelimb recovery after cervical spinal cord injury in rats. Neurotrauma Reports. 2026;7. doi:10.1177/2689288X261494886.

Recent Papers of Interest

• Stimulation within an integrated rehabilitation pathway for traumatic cervical spinal cord injury: Safety and 12-month functional outcomes, J. Clin. Med., 2026.
• Efficacy of combined repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and occupational therapy in spinal cord injury patients: a randomized controlled clinical study, Spinal Cord, 2026.
• Tetragrip: a functional electrical stimulation (FES) device for enhancing upper limb function in people with tetraplegia – development, technical evaluation, and pilot clinical investigation, J. Med. Eng. Technol., 2026.
• Brain-computer interface for post-stroke upper-limb recovery: a systematic review integrating clinical efficacy with neuroplasticity evidence, Front. Neurol.. 2026.

Job Opportunities

• Assistant Professor 1, Neuroscience, Columbia Univ. (New York, NY)
• Assistant Professor 2, Teaching in Neuroscience, Dept. Psychology, UCLA (Los Angeles, CA)
• Assistant Professor 3, Bioethics and Humanities, Univ. Washington (Seattle, WA)
• Assistant/Associate Professor 1, Computational Neuroscience, Dept. Neuroscience, Univ. Texas (Richardson, TX)
• Assistant/Associate Professor 2, Dept. Neuroscience, Northwestern Univ. (Chicago, IL)
• Assistant/Associate Professor 3, Center for Neuroscience, UC Davis (Davis, CA)
• Assistant/Associate Professor 4, Dept. Neuroscience, Univ. Texas (Austin, TX)
• Assistant/Associate Professor 5, Dept. Neuroscience, Yale Univ. (New Haven, CT)
• Associate/Full Professor, Dept. Biomedical Eng. (Neuroengineering), Univ. Texas (Austin, TX)
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Neural Circuits and Movement, Jude Children’s Research Hospital (Memphis, TN)

Funding Opportunities

• Dana Professional Development Awards
• BRAIN Initiative: Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization– Next Generation Sensor Technology Development (U01 Clinical Trial Optional)
• BRAIN Initiative: Preclinical Proof of Concept for Novel Recording and Modulation Technologies in the Human CNS (R18 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
• International Travel Awards