Location

CHEN Building, Room 105
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Contact

Namas Chandra
Distinguished Professor, Bio-Medical Engineering
namas.chandra@njit.edu
973-596-6366

Monuel Aulov​
Business Manager
monuel.m.aulov@njit.edu
973-596-6452

The Rotarod is used in motor skills tests in rats such as evaluating balance, grip strength, and motor coordination.

The Center recognizes the diverse array of behavioral changes that may occur following brain injury. Hence, the center is fully equipped to perform assays to determine deficits in motor co-ordination, memory, anxiety and sleep. More specifically, the Rotarod (Make and model) is a performance test based on a rotating rod with forced motor activity being applied by the test animal (rat). The test measures parameters such as balance, grip strength and motor coordination of the subjects; especially in testing the effect of brain injury. 

Newark College of Engineering 

CIBM3

Graduate Students 

• ​Daniel Younger

• Sudeepto Kahali

• Jose Rodriguez

• Ningning Shao

• Aswati Aravind

• Bogumila Swietek (Millie) ​

• Abdus Ali

• ArunReddy Ravula

Undergraduates

• Geetasravya (Sravya) Vegunta

• Swathi Pavuluri

• Rahul Shah

• Aayush Verma

• Ajay Gandhi

• Sushni Mukkamalla

• Osama Mahgob

• Waleed Mujib 

• Shahbaz Choudry 

• Swata Gade

• Manisha Kannan

• Mitushi Khare

• Aleykha Thota

• Julia Nguyen

• Navya Pendyala

• Supriya Iyer

• Zenit Winfield

• Thinuri Fernando

• Sainithin Kuntamukkala

• Chandni Patel

• Rashmi Venkatarama

• Shafia Talat

Laboratory of Neurovascular Neuroinflamation and Neurodegeneration

Graduate Students

• Xioatang Ma 

• Yiming Cheng

• Agnieszka Agas

• Ziren Wang 

• Huilin Yang 

Undergraduates

• Ricardo Garcia 

• John Emmanuel Cruz Badiola 

Center for Rehabilitaion Robotics

Graduate Students

• Kevin Abbruzeesse

• Madeline Corrigan

• Peter Michael

• Ala'a Al-Rashdan

• Oyindamola Owoeye

• Ashley Mont

• Erick Nuñez

NESH Laboratory

Graduate Students

• Min Zhang

• Nima Alamatsaz

• Dhara Rhana

Undergraduates

• Jaasrini Vellore 

• Patrycia Puzio 

Neural Prosthetics Laboratory

Graduate Students

• Ali Ersen 

• Sinan Gok 

• Ferhat Erdogan 

• Ozan Cakmak

• Ahmet Asan 

College of Science and Liberal Arts 
 

STG Laboratory

Graduate Students

• Dalia Salloum 

• Xinping Li 

• David Fox

• Jordan Storms 

• Elizabeth Cronin 

• Supriya Kannan

Undergraduates 

• Rebecca Deek 

• Rohit Premkumar 

Fluid Locomotion Laboratory

Graduate Students

• Callie Crawfod 

• Haley Amplo

• Audrey Biondi 

• Zachary Robben

• Tim Gassler

Neuroethology Laboratory

Graduate Students

• Diana Pamela Rivera Parra 

• Andrea Roeser 

Undergraduates 

• Monica Khattak 

Swarm Laboratory

Graduate Students

• Nicole Dykstra

• Abid Haque

• Subash Ray 

• Courtney Rockenbach

• Maggie Wisniewska

• Prit Zaveri 

Undergraduates 

• Scott Bingham

• Nicole Korzeniecki

• Wajihah Memon

• Amisha Naik

• Oluwatobi Olarogba 

• Ana Pais 

• Ezekiel Sandor 

• Purva Shah 

• Zainah Shahsamand

Haspel Laboratory 

Graduate Students

• Lan Deng

• Anmol Mittal

Undergraduates

• Hardik Darji

• Aditya Rawal

• Assma Itani

Keck Center for Topological Dynamics

Graduate Students

• Arooj Aslam 

• Kai Qian 

• Ssu-Ying Chen 

• Wenting Chen 

Neuroecology of Unusual Animals

Graduate Students

• Grace Capshaw 

• Kathryn Gallman

Dr. Yong-Ick Kim's Lab

• Pyong Hwa Kim

Victor Matveev's Lab

• Yinbo Chen

The Morris Water Maze is a behavioral test used with rodents. The Morris Water Maze measures the subject spatial memory, movement control and cognitive mapping.

The Morris water maze  is a behavioral tool used to study spatial learning and memory.  The basic procedure for this task is that the rat is placed in a large circular pool and is required to find an invisible platform that allows it to escape the water by using various cues. The animal is given several rounds of training before the actual testing day. The escape latency, which is the time it takes to find the platform is noted. In normal animal, the escape latency improves with each training cycle. Hence, an extension of this latency suggests a cognitive decline or deficit in spatial learning/ memory.

Elevated Plus Maze 

The Elevated plus maze is another maze used to test anxiety levels in laboratory rodents. The rodent’s aversion to moving in the un-enclosed spaces is used to measure the anxiety levels of the rodent. 

Elevated Zero Maze

The Elevated zero maze is used to asses anxiety-like behavior in rodents. Anxiety-related behavior is measured by the degree to which the rodent avoids the unenclosed areas of the maze 

The Elevated Zero Maze (EZM)  and Elevated plus maze (EPM)  are used to text anxiety based on the general aversion of rodents to open spaces.  The elevated zero maze (EZM) is an elevated circular runway with alternating open light areas and enclosed dark areas. The continuous nature of this apparatus eliminates the problem of the EPM in how to account for the animal's presence in the center area of the EPM. The test uses an elevated, plus-shaped (+) apparatus with two open and two enclosed arms. Anxiety indicated by an increase in the proportion of time spent in the closed spaces as opposed that spent in the open spaces.

Animal Storage Cage/ Habitation Chamber is where the rodent test subjects are kept and cared for before they are used in various testing.

The center (CIBM3) houses an animal satellite facility exclusively for the CIBM3 users and is approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Rutgers University. The satellite facility is equipped with automatic 12:12hr light dark cycle and (air cycles - and add any other special things). In the current setting, the facility can house up to 60 animals (rats) for a period of 2 months (Refer to figure 19). 

Leica CM3050 Research Cryostat.

The Research Cryostat is primarily designed for cyrosectioning of delicate samples such as brain samples. The apparatus maintains a very low temperature making fine sectioning easier to do.