Lab awarded $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) program. UCSC News highlight – Effort aims to uncover the learning and reasoning potential of brain organoids

Prof. Sharf invited to give lecture at the 2025 International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) AI and Digital Biology Symposium in Seattle – Innovation Showcase: Next Generation Electrophysiology For Functional Characterization of Organoids

Prof. Sharf wins 2025 Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) Young Investigator Award. UCSC News highlight – Brain organoid models will be used to study how the strongest genetic predictor of schizophrenia impacts circuit development.

Prof. Sharf awarded 2025 Baskin Engineering Seed Grant Award with Prof. Eshraghian in ECE.

Elliot’s paper Pathological microcircuits and epileptiform events in patient hippocampal slices posted on bioRxiv

TJ’s revised paper Protosequences in brain organoids model intrinsic brain states is now up on bioRxiv

Computational tools developed in the lab were used to map seizure propagations in patient hippocampal slices. Andrews et al Nature Neuroscience 2025 – UCSC News highlight

Prof. Sharf invited to give lecture on Brain organoids as a window into the brains primordial operating system at LabWeek at Edge Esmerelda in Healdsburg – talk

Jens Duru awarded 2023 ETH Doc.Mobility Fellowship to Engineering Circuits of Brain Organoids to Model Activity Pathways in the Human Brain

Postdoc paper Functional neuronal circuity and oscillatory dynamics published in Nature Communications – New highlight in Nautilus Magazine by Prof. Ken Kosik

Lab established July 2022 – Beckman Foundation latest news