Affiliates

Research within WITNe is conducted across labs that communicate openly. Our engineering researchers, medical researchers and medical practitioners work closely together, sharing knowledge, resources, people, collaborator networks, animal models, grant support, access to industry contacts, training opportunities and increased visibility.

LOCI LAB

Kevin Eliceiri Headshot

Kevin Eliceiri

Director and Principal Investigator, Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI) Laboratory

Associate Professor, Department of Medical Physics and Department of Biomedical Engineering

These frames demonstrate collagen fibers encapsulating indwelling neural devices. Panel A and B quantify and visualize, respectively, that collagen fibers are only observed on the surface of the device, not in the surrounding parenchyma. Panel C shows fibers encircling the device as well as extending along the length of it.

MISSION

Develop advanced optics and computational techniques for imaging and experimentally manipulating living specimens

WHAT WE’RE UP TO

Computational optics research
Imaging the cellular microenvironment of wound healing models
Developing software tools such as FIIJI for 3D visualization analysis

https://loci.wisc.edu/

Brant Lab

Jason Brant

Neurotologist & Associate Professor in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery

Gunnar Quass

Scientist

Jordan Mumm

Research Specialist

MISSION

Shape the future of hearing restoration by integrating outcome-oriented clinical investigations into current technology and the development of next-generation bioengineered neural interface implants.

WHAT WE’RE UP TO

Developing inner ear and brain living electrodes that can replace crude metal interfaces with physiological synapses
Interrogating neuronal population interplay during cochlear implant stimulation on a single neuron level
Developing new auditory stimulation strategies for existing implants based on back-end brain activity

https://brantlab.otolaryngology.wisc.edu/