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Daphne Soares’s (NACS '02), discovery of Dome Pressure Receptors, pressure-detecting mounds that enable crocodilians to detect movement of prey in water, appears in Nature. | Research Topics | |
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| Position: | Assistant Professor |
| Departments: | Elec. & Computer Eng |
| Research Areas: | Neuromorphic Engineering and Sensory-Motor Integration |
| Research Levels: | Cell/Molecular Neuroscience |
| Research Approaches: | Hardware Modeling/Robotics, Theory/Modeling, Molecular/Cell Biology |
| Research Note: | Biotechnology, Channel capacity and efficiency of blowfly photoreceptors, Channel capacity and efficiency of silicon photoreceptors, Fundamental limits on switching energy of the CMOS inverter, Silicon-On-Sapphire (SOS) Photodetectors |
| NACS Status: | Regular |
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2211 A.V. Williams College Park, MD 20742 301-405-6629 pabshire@isr.umd.edu http://www.ece.umd.edu/%7Epabshire/ |
Monica Deshpande ( Ph.D candidate) Monica wanted an interdisciplinary program so she could blur the line between a ‘biologist’ and an ‘engineer’. Monica joined NACS abd Dr. Payne’s lab to study the initial phototransduction events that occur in dim light. |
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Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program | T: 301-405-8910 | F: 301-314-9566 | Email: NACS@umd.edu
2131 Biology-Psychology Bldg, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
