Cellular Neuroscience Lab
At Louisiana Tech University
Mark A. DeCoster, PI
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
& Institute for Micromanufacturing
Associate Director, CBERS
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Current and Past Funding
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1) Completed: National Science Foundation (NSF) #1547693- EAGER
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2) Completed: NSF #1632891- Brain Initiative- Epilepsy
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3) Current: James E. Wyche III Endowed Professorship (Via LaTECH)
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4) Current: Louisiana Board of Regents Fund: "Lateral Flow Device with Micro- and Nano- Scale Degradable Components"
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5) Current: Tissue Repair-Collaborative Research Project with Stone Research Foundation
OUR RESEARCH
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Psychiatric disorders are a major health challenge in today’s world. Our laboratory research is directed at using and developing nanotechnology to understand how the brain works at the cellular level in healthy or diseased states such as traumatic brain injury and brain cancers.
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The laboratory is designed for biochemical and digital image analysis of cellular events in the brain using a variety of molecular biology techniques, imaging and computational modelling. We have recently been involved in an initiative funded by the National Science Foundation in association with NSF's "Understanding the Brain" initiative focusing on neuroscience and cognitive science and which supports the BRAIN initiative announced by the White House in April 2013. The project will focus on understanding the initiation of epileptic seizures and longer-term impacts of brain function.
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