The project shall put the MEA to work and start setting it up to be able to characterize cell cultures. In a first instance we shall work with just saline solutions, then with hydro-gels and water to experiment on a sample that has a non-uniform structure and should result in different measurements when pairing different electrodes. And finally if all of these are successful, measure some living cell cultures.
To that purpose the candidate shall program a FPGA or microcontroller development board (such as the Pynq-board) to control the MEA chip and PCB and assist in experiments where your supervisors expose the MEA to appropriate samples. He will also need to provide approriate AC signals to test impedance and record the result and complete the impedance analysis.