Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Polina Anikeeva

Thursday, January 15, 2026

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Moore B270

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Polina Anikeeva, Department Head, Matoula S. Salapatas Professor in Materials Science and Engineering; Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Associate Director, Research Laboratory of Electronics; Director, K. Lisa Yang Brain-Bod, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

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Professor Polina Anikeeva's Bioelectronics Group draws inspiration from neurobiology to create minimally invasive materials and devices to interface with the nervous system. Her team develops multifunctional, multimaterial fibers that enable optical, electrical, and chemical interfaces with neurons in the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral organs. These fiber-based probes empower neuroscience research by permitting recording and manipulation of neural activity. Taking advantage of low conductivity and negligible permeability of biological matter to weak magnetic fields, the research group designs and synthesizes a range of magnetic nanomaterials capable of transducing remote magnetic signals to stimuli perceived by biological receptors. To date, magnetic nanomaterials have enabled magnetothermal, magnetomechanical, and chemomagnetic modulation of neurons in vivo. The technologies developed in the Bioelectronics Group are advancing the fundamental neuroscience of brain-organ communication and paving the way to minimally invasive treatments of neurological and psychiatric conditions.

https://dmse.mit.edu/people/faculty/polina-anikeeva/

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