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Neuroengineering Now
June 25-28, 2006

 

 

Sunday, June 25

TIME EVENT SPEAKER(S) TOPIC PLACE
         
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Reception for Presenters   Meet & Greet Renaissance Dallas-Richardson Hotel, Lower Lobby Reception Area
8:30 pm - 9 pm Reception for Presenters Associate Dean Duncan MacFarlane & Dr. Joseph Pancrazio Welcome & Intro to Conference Renaissance Dallas-Richardson Hotel, Lobby Level Conference Room

 

 

Monday, June 26, TI Auditorium, UTD Campus

TIME EVENT PRESENTERS TITLE
       
8:30 am - 8:45 am ANNOUNCEMENTS & WELCOME Dean Bert Moore  
8:45 am - 9:10 am TECHNICAL SESSION M1 Chi-Sang Poon Chaotic brain rhythms: From neuronal bursting to cardiorespiratory variability
9:10 am - 9:35 am   Bruce Wheeler Brain on a chip: Engineering form and function in cultured neuronal networks
9:35 am - 10:00 am   Richard Rabbit Electrophysiology on a chip: Micro-domain voltage clamp, dielectric cytometry and micro-electric impedance tomographpy
10:00 am - 10:20 am BREAK   Refreshments served in room adjacent to TI Auditorium
10:20 am - 10:45 am   Lee Miller EMG prediction and the development of a primate model of cortically controlled FES for grasp
10:45 am - 11:10 am   Dawn Taylor Making the most of cortical signals for command of high-degree-of-freedom devices
11:10 am - 11:35 am   Daryl Kipke Advanced implantable microscale neural interface devices
11:35 pm - 12:00 noon   Krishna Shenoy A high performance brain computer interface
12:00 noon - 1:30 noon LUNCH   Served in room adjacent to TI Auditorium
12:00 noon - 2:00 pm POSTER SESSION   Poster Session Room adjacent to TI Auditorium
2:00 pm - 2:25 pm TECHNICAL SESSION M2 David Martin Direct integration of electronic biomedical devices with neurons using conducting polymers
2:25 pm - 2:50 pm   Dustin Tyler Clinical implementation of peripheral nerve electrodes
2:50 pm - 3:10 pm   Pedram Mohseni Single-chip wireless Microsystems for multichannel neural biopotential recording
3:10 pm - 3:35 pm   Phillip Troyk Techniques for neural stimulation
3:35 pm - 3:55 pm BREAK   Refreshments served in room adjacent to TI Auditorium
3:55 pm - 4:20 pm   Byron Olson Decoding of high level states for asynchronous brain machine interfaces
4:20 pm - 4:45 pm   Kevin Otto Rejuvenation and neural interface improvement in bidirectional neural prostheses
4:45 pm - 5:10 pm   Larry Cauller Neuro-Micro-Transponders Can Solve a DARPA-Hard Problem: UTD is a Catalyst for NeuroEngineering Synergy with Industry and Medicine
5:10 pm - 5:25 pm   Maysam Ghovanloo Development of a switched-capacitor based neurostimulating system for low-power head-mounted deep brain stimulators

 

Monday Evening, June 26: Reception and Tour of Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc.

Bus transportation will be provided. Those planning to attend will sign up during registration.
http://www.ans-medical.com/aboutans/

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, June 27, TI Auditorium, UTD Campus

TIME EVENT PRESENTERS TITLE
       
8:30 am - 8:35 am ANNOUNCEMENTS    
8:35 am - 9:00 am Special Presentation Ovidiu Daescu Optimal Path Problems with Medical Applications
9:00 am - 9:30 am TECHNICAL SESSION TI Donald Eddington Changes in brain function driven by changes in electrically-elicited patterns of spike activity
9:30 am - 9:55 am   Charles Finley Peripheral physio-anatomical factors influence cochlear implant outcomes
9:55 am - 10:20 am   Jay Rubenstein Translational biophysics and cochlear implant speech processing
10:20 am - 10:40 am BREAK   Refreshments served in room adjacent to TI Auditorium
10:40 am - 11:05 am TECHNICAL SESSION TI CONT. Mario Svirsky A new tool to select frequency maps in an acoustic acoustic simulation of a cochlear implant
11:05 am - 11:30 am   Phillip Loizou Development of a PDA research platform for cochlear implants
11:30 am - 11:55 am   Gregory Gerling Fingertip skin microstructures impact the neural encoding of touch
12:00 noon - 1:30 pm LUNCH   Served in room adjacent to TI Auditorium
12:00 noon - 2:00 pm POSTER SESSION   Poster Session Room adjacent to TI Auditorium
2:00 pm - 2:25 pm TECHNICAL SESSION T2 Geoffrey Ling Giving Back: DARPA Prosthetics and Neuro-engineering
2:25 pm - 2:50 pm   Joseph Pancrazio Connecting to the Nervous System to Restore Function – NINDS Support
2:50 pm - 3:15 pm   Niish Thakor Sensors, circuits, signals and systems for neural control of dexterous hand prosthesis
3:15 pm - 3:40 pm   Karen Moxon From neuron to electrode: Brain level implants for Neuroprosthetics
3:40 pm - 4:00 pm BREAK   Refreshments served in room adjacent to TI Auditorium
4:00 pm - 4:25 pm TECHNICAL SESSION T2 CONT. Pedro Irazoqui Clinical neural prosthetic devices for epilepsy and spinal-cord repair
4:25 pm - 4:50 pm   Justin Sanchez Selecting state variables for ECoG Neuroprosthetics
4:50 pm - 5:15 pm   Danielle Kerkovich Current trends in Neuroengineering in the Department of Veterans Affairs

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, June 28, TI Auditorium, UTD Campus

TIME EVENT PRESENTERS TITLE
8:30 am - 8:35 am ANNOUNCEMENTS    
8:35 am - 9:10 am TECHNICAL SESSION W1 Curtis Ponton Simultaneous EEG/fMRI Acquisition – Imaging electrical brain activity in hostile environments
9:10 am - 9:35 am   Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou  
9:35 am - 10:00 am   Walter Besio Feasibility Of Extending Life Of Rats With Pilocarpine Induced Status Epilepticus Via Non-invasive Transcutaneous Electrical Stimulation
10:00 am - 10:15 am BREAK   Served in room adjacent to TI Auditorium
10:00 am - 10:30 am MINI POSTER SESSION   In space adjacent to TI Auditorium
10:30 am - 11:00 am CONFERENCE WRAP-UP Yale Cohen Summary and Comments
11:00 am - 11:25 am   Emily Tobey Concluding Remarks
11:30 am - 12:00pm SHUTTLE SERVICE    

 

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