Onur Aydin

A forward-engineered muscle tissue driven soft robotic swimmer

The paper builds a biohybrid robot with muscle-driven tail motion to study swimming dynamics and muscle adaptation, achieving speeds surpassing low-Reynolds number predictions.

`Mind in Vitro' platforms: Versatile, scalable, robust and open solutions to interfacing with living neurons

The paper introduces a modular, open-source platform for interfacing with living neurons, enabling scalable and versatile recording and stimulation across various neural cultures and applications.

Development of an objective index, neural activity score (NAS), reveals neural network ontogeny and treatment effects on microelectrode arrays

The paper develops a neural activity score (NAS) using PCA to quantify neural network development and treatment effects on MEAs, showing it accurately reflects expected results.