Anja Kunze, Ph.D.

Want to join us in 2026? This was our last year full of #research #publications #graduations #defenses and #conferences:

We are very excited to share the latest work from our lab about profiling extracellular vesicles and micro RNA release from life neurons in a neurodegenerative model. Check out: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad… #neuro #Alzheimer #extracellular #cargo #vesicles #microfluidics

Our research from the last IEEE NER conference is in the news … Read more here: montana.edu/news/25091/mon…

@IEEE #NER: Mckennah just presented our latest results in #graph-inspired #neuronal assembly communication this morning at the IEEE NER conference!

Last month: We celebrated and said farewell to our 3rd PhD student coming out from our lab: Congratulations to Mackenna Landis for successfully defending her thesis!!! Wishing her lots of new experiences in her next chapter in the UK.

Congratulations to Zeynep Malkoç for successfully defending her PhD thesis about #microtechnologies for #EVs, calcium hotspots, and #AD #biomarker discovery. We will miss her and wish her all the best for her next scientific steps.

This is what’s happening in our lab, this week: Congratulations to Mackenna for getting her paper out: Intra-axonal Nanomagnetic Forces Differentially Impact hTau40 Transport Dynamics … | ACS Nano pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… #STEM #NIH funded #nanotechnology

That was 2024 in @TheKunzeLab: Many steps towards progress and growth, graduations, publications & collegiality. We wish all current and former lab members, collaborators, mentors, supporters & sponsors a Happy New Year in 2025!

Find a collection of #microscopy #images taken in the #lab using #technology we also apply for #brain #cell #modulation to better understand #neurodegenerative #diseases — give your favorite #picture a like! —> facebook.com/share/1DdCGtcG…

Fresh of the press: Another pre-print from the lab about parallelized nanomagnetic modulation and electrophysiology recordings. Read more in ACS Nano doi.org/10.1021/acsnan…

… And that was it, congratulations to Dr. Beck for passing his Ph.D. defense, and best wishes to your next endeavor in @KrishnaJayant lab at #Purdue university

That’s what’s happening today in @TheKunzeLab: amazingly proud and excited for @Connor_Beck_MSU who will defend his PhD thesis today and become the first graduate student from my lab. #neuroengineering #nanotech #stem #graduate

This paper shows exciting results from experiments where we applied nanomagnetic force stimulation to fully grown neuronal networks and applied short (< 5 min) stimulation periods.

Parallelized Mechanical Stimulation of Neuronal Calcium Through Cell‐Internal Nanomagnetic Forces Provokes Lasting Shifts in the Network Activity State - Beck - Small - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Latest publication, in pre-print: Congratulations to @Connor_Beck_MSU for first authorship about using NanoMagnetics to shape the structure-function of millimeter-scaled neuronal networks during the growth state. Read more: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… #nanotechnology #neuro #NSF

And we surrounded the sun with another academic year, submitted papers, presented at conferences, taught a new cohort of #BioMEMS students #microfluidics, overcame #research and #tool challenges, and #met over delicious food many times. Next up: Finals week & summer research!

Shout out to our #undergraduate #researchers in @TheKunzeLab for putting in many hours to support our ideas, test new hypotheses, and help analyze large amounts of data. Celebrating their milestone and final projects at the Spring Research Symposium @montanastate @Montana_INBRE

Congratulations to our #venture team, Neurofluidic Diagnostics, for pitching at the MSU 100k Venture Competition and going home with two checks!!! Thanks to #msulaunchpad and #jabsbizschool for making this event happen.

@MedicineUVA @ProfScottBME @uvahealthnews @UVA Congratulations!

Preeminent expert in the use of nanotechnology to understand and fight disease, Evan Scott, PhD, has been appointed director of the UVA Institute for Nanoscale Scientific and Technological Advanced Research, or nanoSTAR. @ProfScottBME @uvahealthnews @UVA news.med.virginia.edu/research/evan-…