Team:NYMU-Taipei

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  • Goal

Create wireless neuro-stimulator, focusing on achieving remote neuro-stimulation to minimize the invasion and damage to the neuron

  • Why do we want to do that?

Optogenetics, the latest neuroscientific method, has improved specificity for stimulating certain cell types of neurons, reversible bi-directional stimulation, and elevated spatiotemporal precision. However, to achieve neuronal network stimulation, light cables are still needed, leaving long-standing annoying issues regarding immune responses unresolved.

  • Specific aims

    • 1. Wireless stimulation for neurons
    • 2. Minimize neuro-immuno response

  • Our design

To achieve this goal, we use a species of magnetic bacteria, Magnetospirillum magneticum AMB-1. We have chosen mms13, a transmembrane protein as our target for protein design in this bacterium, as it serves as a linker between reception of wireless magnetic field and optogenetic neuro-stimulation output. Regarding the neuroimmune response, we choose three genes to achieve symbiosis within glial cell: MinC, a division inhibitor, INV, a gene for invasion and LLO, a gene for facilitated escape from phagosomes.


  • Our design is made up of the following two devices:

  • Achievements

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  • Our institute
  • The official web pages of our school - National Yang Ming University (NYMU):
    • [http://web.ym.edu.tw/front/bin/home.phtml in Chinese]
    • [http://nymu-e.web.ym.edu.tw/front/bin/home.phtml in English]
  • Follow the two links below to see The Beauty of NYMU
    • [http://issue.ym.edu.tw/cia/new/ Take a panoramic scenery view of our university]
    • [http://issue.ym.edu.tw/cia/new/tw/ym720.html Take a tour of our university]

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