ABOUT

LINNce stands for Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Neuroengenharia e Neurociências (or Laboratory of Neuroengineering and Neuroscience). LINNce supports essentially all the research performed by me, by Professor Laila Damázio, and our students from graduate programs and also undergraduate courses. 

The name of the lab, besides being an acronym for what we do, relates to the beautiful wild animal lynx which, according to mithology, is a creature with supernatural vision capable of unrevealing the hidden misteries of nature.

The lab is located at the Casa Verde (Green House) in the Tancredo Neves campus of UFSJ, two kilometers down the road to Ritápolis. There is a nice view over there.

In this place, we successfull gathered talents and infrastrucure to do beautiful, honest, and inspiring science.

PEOPLE

Professors

	Vinícius Rosa Cota, PhD Associate professor, DEPEL Founder and coordinator of LINNce Editor for the Journal of Open Hardware Guest Associate Editor for the Frontiers in Neuroscience Journal - Neuroprosthetics Member of the Research and Development Council of Open Science Brasil   Neuroengineering, biomedical engineering, neuroscience
	Laila Cristina Moreira Damázio, PhD Associate professor, DEMED   Ischemia, physical trainning, neuroscience

Post-docs

Doctorate students

Masters students (current and past)

	Sofia M.A. Falco Rodrigues, Eng. Graduate student of Electrical Engineering (PPGEL / UFSJ) (former)   SynchroLinnce: a toolbox for assessment of synchronism in electroencephalographic recordings - development and application
	Maikon Lorran, Eng. Graduate student of Electrical Engineering (PPGEL / UFSJ) (former)   Open Stim: an arduino-based open source electrical stimulator of biological tissue - development of comand and power stage shields
	Wenderson Silva, Eng. Graduate student of Electrical Engineering (PPGEL / UFSJ) (former)   Electrographic spectral signatures of animals submitted to acute seizures and temporally unstructured electrical stimulation
	Bruna Marcela Bacellar Drabowski, MSc Former graduate student of Bioengineering (PPBE / UFSJ) (former)   Role of nucleus accumbens in the suppression of seizures with temporally unstructures electrical stimulation
	Orlando Cantelmo Júnior, MSc Former graduate student of Bioengineering (PPBE / UFSJ) (former)   Antiepileptogenic effects of temporally unstructured electrical stimulation

Undergraduates

	João Pedro Oliveira Undergraduate studend of electrical engineering   In silico investigation of the therapeutic mechanisms of nonperiodic stimulation in the treatment of epilepsy: a network approach using Izhikevich neurons
	Heitor de Carvalho Barros Terra Undergraduate studend of electrical engineering   In silico investigation of the therapeutic mechanisms of nonperiodic stimulation in the treatment of epilepsy: a single neuron approach using Hodgkin-Huxley models
	Isabela Colem Castelo Borges Undergraduate studend of medicine   Nonperiodic stimulation as a means to treat Parkisonian symptoms: a pilot study with animal models
	Larissa Altoé Réboli Undergraduate studend of psychology  (former)   Neural function of rats submitted to different patterns of electrical stimulation
	Hugo Roque da Silva Undergraduate studend of Electrical Engineering  (former)   MindWave as a tool for the assessment of attention in undergraduate students submitted to different teaching scenarios
	Vinícius Guimarães Lopes Undegraduate student of electrical engineering  (former)   Force transducer acquisition system to study papilar muscle contractility Development of a system to suppress stimulation artifacts from LFP recordings
	Bábara Figueiredo Former undergraduate student of electrical engineering  (former)   Automation of a vivarium using IoT
	Sávio Batista Former undergraduate student of electrical engineering (former)   Automation of a vivarium using IoT
	Bruna Cândido, BSc Former undergraduate student of physical education (former)   Effect of physical trainning of rats submitted to reperfussion ischemia

INFRASTRUCTURE

We have been fortunate to receive grants from FAPEMIG, CNPq, and also from the university that enabled us to acquire equipment to establish a diversity of essential scientific methods. These are some of them:

Surgical procedures

• A surgery room equipped with stereotaxic apparatus with electronic control and digital display, electrical drill, surgical table, etc.

Behavior

• Devices for analog and digital video recordings;
• Open-field;
• Elevated plus maze (colaboration with UFSJ-CCO);
• Object exploration setup;
• Ledder climbing, and more.

Electrophysiology

• In vivo local-field potentials recording system coupled with video (2 setups);
• Multi-channel, digitally programable electrical stimulator with stimulus isolation unit;
• Built-in bilateral electrical stimulator of constant-voltage pulses (4 setups)

Computational Neuroscience

• Izhikevich models
• Hodgkin-Huxley models
• Neuron simulator, NEST, NetPyNE

Histology

• Fume hood,
• Freezing microtome
• Microscope, and all supplies for standard histology (e.g. cresyl staining)

Technological development

• Electronic bench eqquiped with osciloscope, wave generator, power supply, multimeter, protoboard, and hundreds of electro-electronic components

Chemistry 

• Bench for simple chemical preparations such as drug solutions, precision weighter (in colaboration),  pH-meter, magnetic shaker, and etc.

Computational neuroscience

• Modern computer for computational simulations using NEST, Neuron, and Matlab using distinct well-stablished models for single cells and networks, such as Brunell's, IaF, Izhikevich, and Hodgkin Huxley.

OUR MAIN PARTNERS

SUPPORT