Dr. Abigail Koppes-
Principal Investigator

Undergraduate Researchers Win Big with PEAK Awards

The ABNEL lab could not be prouder of our outstanding group of undergraduate researchers! We have three PEAK award winners: Christina Aniolek (top left) won the Base Camp award, Iris Chang (bottom left) won the Ascent award, and Stephen Landry (right) also won the Ascent award. These PEAK awards were all bestowed in response to each of their research proposals.

Christina and Stephen work under the guidance of PhD candidate, Bryan Schellberg, and Iris operates alongside PhD student, Brent Buchinger. With such excellent students and mentors, these teams are sure to make new discoveries!

 

Bryan Just Keeps Winning – BioEl2025 Student Talk Award

Looking for more of a challenge, ABNEL's PhD student, Bryan Schellberg, headed to Austria to attend the BioEl2025 conference. During this event, Bryan gave a talk titled "In-situ monitoring of cellular function on-chip via automated, non-invasive luminescence sensing"...

Katelyn and Bryan’s publication is accepted!

Congrats to Katelyn and Bryan on the acceptance for their article titled "Electrical and magnetic stimulation separately modulates the extent and direction of neurite outgrowth in an ionically conductive hydrogel". This article will be officially published soon in the...