Dr. Luis Hernandez-Nunez's lab seeks to uncover the fundamental principles of brain–body communication and whole-organism homeostasis. They combine genetics, optical physiology, systems neuroscience, engineering, and computational modeling to reveal how neural circuits across the body coordinate physiology and behavior.
Home Departments: Genetics and Biology
Faculty Advisor: Anne Brunet
Talk Title: Single-cell transcriptomics reveals restoration of neuronal progenitors in the old neurogenic niche by partial reprogramming
Event: Biology of Aging - Gordon Research Seminar and Conference
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Danielle Mai
Talk Title: Single-molecule dynamics of confined branched polymers
Event: American Physical Society March Meeting 2024
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Ellen Kuhl
Talk Title: Microstructural heterogeneity influences on the flexural rigidity of the axon
Event: Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering – CMBBE 2019
Awarded in 2020
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Ellen Kuhl (Mechanical Engineering) and Miriam Goodman (Molecular & Cellular Physiology)
Awarded in 2014
Talk Title: Single-molecule tracking of Smoothened reveals binding in the primary cilium that is altered by pathway agonists
Event: American Society of Cell Biology 2014
