The BRAIN Center

We’re honored to share that Yoshua Lima-Carmona, one of our Ph.D. students and President of the BRAIN-AccelNet Student Network, will be a speaker at the EBRAINS Summit 2025 in Brussels. He will present “Connecting Movement, Music, and Brain Health: Building an International Collaborative Future” during the PhD Networking Session on the opening day of the summit.

🎓It’s highly recommended for students to attend this session as it goes beyond the science to discuss the how of international collaboration. Whether your background is in neuroscience, arts, engineering, or a related field, your perspective is valued and we invite you to participate in a frank conversation about navigating cross-border research frameworks and building professional relationships.

To Mentors & P*s: Exposure to the broader scientific community is critical for a doctoral student for the transition from trainee to independent investigator. We urge you to encourage your students to attend as this is a specific opportunity for them to see how network-to-network collaborations (like AccelNet) function in practice, helping them understand the global ecosystem they will interact with.

📅 December 8
👥️: Open to the public
📍 PhD Networking Session

For more info: https://summit2025.ebrains.eu/programme/ebrains-phd-networking-event

Happening this 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟗𝐭𝐡, we’re taking 200-year-old music and mixing it with futuristic neuro-tech and let the neurons do the talking. It’s art, it’s science...✨️✨️

Sounds beautiful right? Join us live at the 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐄𝐆𝐆 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐬 at 𝟓:𝟒𝟓 𝐏𝐌 𝐂𝐄𝐓 (Central European Time)😉

🎶 Exciting news!
We are thrilled to announce the upcoming AccelNet Workshop on Movement, Music, and Brain Health
🌟Taking place November 10–11, 2025 at UCSF Sandler Neurosciences Center (Day 1) and UCSF Mission Hall (Day 2).

Funded by NSF AccelNet (Award #2412731), this workshop brings together researchers, artists, industry leaders around the globe to explore how music and movement can advance brain health through convergent research, data sharing, and creative collaboration 🌍.

This workshop marks a key milestone in building international frameworks for Brain–Body–Music research

We look forward to welcoming all participants soon in San Francisco!

Pepe Contreras-Vidal

🎭 One of our featured performances:
La Catrina Monarca – a multimodal art-science performance by Geraldina Wise, in collaboration with Lizbeth Ortiz and the Houston creative team. Combining choreography, wearable abstract sculpture, and original classical music (“Las Campanas”), the piece explores transformation and cultural resilience through the lens of neuroscience and art.
(5:00 PM, San Francisco Time Zone)

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🌟𝐌𝐲𝐨𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩 (𝐏𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐭 𝐄𝐱𝐨𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐚𝐢𝐭) has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝!🌟

We appreciate the support, you can vote here: https://tournify.fly.dev/poll/cmgse4lnu01us2kd06nolkezo

MyoStep is a next-generation soft exoskeleton developed here at the University of Houston, in collaboration IUCRC, the NSF UH BRAIN Center and TIRR Memorial Hermann to address motor impairments that impact children's ability to participate in physical activities, academics, and self-care. It is designed to be a lightweight, "soft power suit" that provides mobility and independence for children with conditions like cerebral palsy.

Read more about MyoStep here: https://stories.uh.edu/2025-child-exoskeleton/index.html

👏Another La Catrina Monarca Performance with the environmental artist Geraldina Wise💃.
Join us for a performance blending art, science, AI, and ecology to explore deep themes of resilience transformation, and ancestral heritage. This is an art-science collaboration between the IUCRC BRAIN CENTER neuroengineering team🧠 (Maxime Annel Pacheco Ramírez, Yoshua Lima-Carmona, & Lianne Sánchez Rodriguez) and the multimedia artist Rodrigo Cid Velasco.
★Open to Public ★
📆: November 10th
📍: Sandler Auditorium at University California San Francisco
🕓: 5:00PM

A performance blending art, science, AI, and ecology to explore deep themes of resilience, transformation, and ancestral heritage.
Come out tomorrow, October 29th, to Jorge Pardo's Folly at the University of Houston to see the amazing art-science performance La Catrina Monarca with artist Geraldina Interiano Wise. It’s a powerful art-science collaboration with the IUCRC BRAIN CENTER neuroengineering team (Maxime Annel Pacheco Ramírez, Yoshua Lima-Carmona, & Lianne Sánchez Rodriguez) and the multimedia artist Rodrigo Cid Velasco.

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🎨 2025 AccelNet Emerging Artist-in-Residence Opportunity
📍 The BRAIN Center | Houston, Texas, USA
🧠 Where neuroscience meets creativity.

The Brain Health AccelNet—an International Network of Networks funded by the National Science Foundation—invites applications for its 2025 Emerging Artist in Residence (AiR) Program.

We’re seeking performing, digital, installation, and media artists eager to push the boundaries of art and science. Residents will co-create with world-class researchers, exploring AI, brain-computer interfaces, music, movement, and mobile brain-body imaging under the Open Science Framework.

The AccelNet residency is designed to offer an emerging performing, multi/new media, installation artist or creative professional substantial time to develop a new body of work at the interface of art-science and thereby create new meaning in close partnership with faculty and students. The goal is to accelerate and promote creativity and innovation in coupled brain activity, expressive movement and music catalyzed by artificial intelligence, brain-computer interface, computational methods, and mobile brain-body imaging technology.

Duties include actively participating in the AccelNet’s annual meeting, workshops and seminars, collaborating with faculty and students, and co-creating an art-science performance research study or multimedia interactive research exhibition under the Open Science Framework (Data, Tools, Code, Approach).

🎓 What’s included:
– $7,500 in funding
– Access to advanced neurotechnology & studio/lab space
– Collaboration with scientists, engineers, and students
– Performance or exhibition at U.S. or European AccelNet events

🗂️ Applicants should submit:
– Artist statement
– Resumé and portfolio (in a single PDF)
📧 Email to: [email protected]
📌 Subject line: “AccelNet AiR Your-Last-Name”

📅 Deadline: May 1, 2025, or until filled

The mission of the Movement, Music and Brain Health AccelNet is to identify and accelerate new convergent trans-disciplinary research that aims to understand the mechanisms and develop applications, by which practicing music and dance impacts brain function, creativity, and promotes health and well-being across the lifespan.

Let your creativity fuel innovation in brain science.

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