News
- A joint 2 year grant with Shinung Ching's group (ESE) was funded by McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience. Congrats Shinung!
- Raman Lab receives a 3 year grant from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled 'Hybrid chemical sensing with bio-electronic nose.' This study will begin in July 2016.
- Lab welcomes three undergraduate researchers: Alex Chen (SURF Fellow), Zhengdao (Neil) Chen and Lo Ray for summer 2016.
- ESE students Srinath Nizampatnam and Lijun Zhang join the lab for thir PhD. Welcome guys!
- Nalin publishes his first authored paper in Sensors and Actuators B. The manuscript is entitled 'The I/O transform of a chemical sensor'. Well done Nalin!
- An invited review article on olfactory coding and behavior published as a cover article in Current Opinion in Insect Science (Dec 2015). Congrats Deb!
- Chao Li successfully defends his PhD disseratation. Chao will now move to New York to become a data scientist at BankRate (09/014/2015).
- Barani Raman receives a NSF CAREER award (09/01/2015).
- Debajit Saha receives a q year fellowship from the McDonnell Center for Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Well done Deb! (August 2015).
- Haoyang Rong receives a 2 year Imaging Science Pathway fellowship (August 2015). Congrats Hao!
- Nalin Katta receives a Center for Biological and Systems Engineering Scholarship (August 2015). Congrats Nalin!
- Paper accepted for publication in Nature Communications 2015.
- Nathan King receives a 2 year Imaging Science Pathway fellowship (August 2014). Congrats Nate!
- Lab receives a 3 year grant from the Children Discovery Institute. This is a collaboration with Audrey Odom's group . This project entitled 'Towards Noninvasive Diagnosis Of Malaria Infection Through Exhaled Breath Analysis' will begin Feb 2014.
- Chao Li receives a Center for Biological and Systems Engineering Scholarship (August 2014). Congrats Chao!
- Paper published in Dec. 2013 issue of Nature Neuroscience as a Cover article
- Lab receives a 3 year grant from the Office of Naval Research. The project titled 'Neuromorphic chemical sensing with minaturized chemical sensor arrays' will begin in Dec 2012.
- Barani Raman receives for the Wolfgang Gopel award from the International Society for Olfaction and Chemical Sensing, May 2011.
- Lab receives receives a two-year grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce for research titled “Pattern Recognition Methods for Non-Invasive Chemical Monitoring in Complex Environments".
- Our lab receives funding from the McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience, June 2010.
- Our work on olfactory coding and signal processing appears as a highlighted article in the Feb 10 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience , Feb 2010.
- Research on microsensor array for non-invasive diagnostics appears as the cover article of IEEE Special issue on Breath Analysis
Media Coverage
- "Raman seeks to replicate sense of smell with NSF CAREER Award " , Tony Fitzpatrick, WUSTL Engineering News, September 2015.
- "Locusts provide insight into brain response to stimuli, senses" , Beth Miller, WUSTL Engineering News, April 2015.
- "Swarming insect provides clues to how the brain processes smells" , Beth Miller, WUSTL Engineering News, November 2013.
- "Security Innovators" , Beth Miller, WUSTL Engineering Momentum, Spring 2013.
- “What’s that smell,” Christine Piggee, Analytical Chemistry, Nov 4, 2008
- "Sniffing out a better Chemical Sensor,” Mark Esser, NIST Tech beat, October 28, 2008
- “Pavlov’s moth: olfactory learning and spike timing-dependent plasticity,” J. P. Meeks and T. E. Holy, Nature Neuroscience, Vol. 11, pp. 1126-1127, October 2008.
- "Moths with a Nose for Learning,” Mark Esser, NIST Tech beat, October 1, 2008
- “Neural nets find a niche,” David Perear, Defense Systems Magazine, July 7, 2008
- "The Science of Scent,” Susan E. Cotton, Texas A&M Engineering Research Magazine, 2006.