3-9-2012: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: Peter Cooman
Advisor: Dr. Robert Kirsch

3-2-2012: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: Yazan Dweiri
Advisor: Dr. Dominique Durand

2-24-2012: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker:
Advisor:

2-17-2012: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: Aaron Hadley
Advisor: Dr. Dustin Tyler

1-20-2012: NP Series
8:30 am, BRB 105
Speaker: Dr. Feng Zhang, MIT
Title: Neuroengineeriing: Molecular and Optical Axis of Control

12-9-11: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: Kabilar Gunalan
Title: Elucidating the Fiber Paths Associated with Side Effects of Deep Brain Stimulation in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease
Advisor: Dr. Cameron McIntyre

12-2-11: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: Smruta Koppaka
Advisor: Dr. Dustin Tyler

11-18-11: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: James McCoin
Title: Sensory Stimulation Reduces Spastic EUS Reflexes After Chronic SCI
Advisor: Dr. Ken Gustafson

11-11-11: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: Jessica Nguyen
Title: Local Microglia Cell Ablation at the Cortical Tissue-Electrode Interface
Advisor: Dr. Jeff Capadona

11-4-2011: NP Series
8:30 am, NORD 310
Speaker: Dr. Marc Schieber, MD, PhD

11-1-2011: PhD Defense of Yuang (David) Tang
3:00 pm, Room 525, Wickenden
Title: "Methods for the Detection and Suppression of Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy" Abstract

10-28-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: Eric Peterston
Title: Peripheral Nerve Stimulation Using Focused Infrared Light
Advisor: Dr. Dustin Tyler

10-27-2011: Special Event
4:00 pm, Iris S. and Bert L. Wolstein Research Building, 2103 Cornell Road
Celebrate the appointment of
Dominique M. Durand, Ph.D.
Elmer Lincoln Lindseth Professor in Biomedical Engineering and Erin B. Lavik, Sc.D.
Elmer Lincoln Lindseth Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering

10-21-2011: NP Series
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: Susan Harkema, PhD

10-14-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
No Seminar this week.

10-7-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speakers: BMES Students Kelsey Potter, Madhu Ravikuman, Bharath Velagapudi, Smruta Koppaka

9-30-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: Kelsey Potter
Title: The Inflammatory Response to Intra-Cortical Electrodes: Systemic Anti-Oxidants Improve Neuronal Density
Advisor: Jeff Capadona

9-16-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: Ming Ming Zhang
Title: Detecting the Propagation of Seizure-Like Activity in Intact Hippocampus In-Vitro

9-2-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: Swarna Solanki
Advisor: Dr. Robert Kirsch

8-29-2011: PhD Defense of Christa W. Moss
3:00 pm, Room 525, Wickenden
Title: “Investigation of Below Lesion Musle Signals as a Command Source for a Neuroprosthesis”
Advisor: Dr. P. Hunter Peckham
Abstract

8-26-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Presenters: Students attending EMBS
Including: Tom Bulea, Lee Fisher, Yang Wang, David Tang, Nathan Makowski.
Posters by: Max Freeberg, Matt Schiefer

8-19-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: Nathan Makowski
Advisor: Dr. Patrick Crago

8-12-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: Natalie Brill
Title: "Optimization of Nerve Cuff Stimulation Using Genetic Algorithm Search Methods"
Advisor: Dr. Dustin Tyler

8-9-2011: PhD Defense of Andy Cornwell
12:00 Noon, Nord Hall, Room 400
Title: "Command of a Multiple Degree-of-Freedom Arm With Functional Electrical Stimulation Using a Simple Set of Commands"
Advisor: Dr. Robert Kirsch
Abstract

8-5-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: Harrison Kalodimos
Title: "Co-Adaptive Decoding of Muscle Activations From Motor Cortex"
Advisor: Dr. Dawn M. Taylor

7-29-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: James Liao
Title: "Towards a Simulation of a Brain-Computer-Interface for Control of an Arm Prosthesis in Individuals with High Tetraplegia"
Advisor: Dr. Robert Kirsch

7-22-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: Nemath Farhan Syed Shah
Title: "Flat Interface Nerve Electrode for Tracking of Breathing"
Advisor: Dr. Dustin Tyler

7-15-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: Yang Wang
Advisor: Dr. Dominque Durand

7-8-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: Daniel Tan
Title: "Nerve Stimulation for Sensory Feedback"
Advisor: Dr. Dustin Tyler

7-1-2011: NEC Friday Seminar has been cancelled.

6-24-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: Brian Murphy
Title: "How Many Commands Are Needed To Reach A Set Of Functional, Upper Extremity Task Postures?"
Advisor: Dr. Robert Kirsch

6-22-2011: Dissertation Defense
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: Tom Foutz
Title: "Energy Efficient Neural Stimulation"
Advisor: Dr. Cameron McIntyre

6-17-2011: NEC Friday Seminar has been cancelled.

6-10-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: Christa Wheeler Moss
Title: "Investigation of Below Injury Muscles Signals for Neuroprosthetic Control"
Advisor: Dr. P. Hunter Peckham

6-3-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: David Tang
Title: "Bilateral Epileptic Seizure Suppression With Deep Brain Electrical Stimulations"
Advisor: Dr. Dominique Durand

5-27-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: Matthew Iorio
Title: "An EMG and Model-Based Continuous Adaptive Controller for Upper Extremity Neuroprostheses"
Advisor: Robert Kirsch

5-13-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: Sheela Toprani Tang

5-6-2011: NEC Friday Seminar has been cancelled.

4-29-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: Hyun Joo Park
Title: "Motion Control of Neuromuscular Skeletal Systems with a Multiple Contact Nerve Electrode"
Advisor: Dr. Dominique Durand

4-22-2011: Seminar
2:00 PM, Wickenden 322
Speaker: Srikantan Nagarajan, PhD
Director, Biomagnetic Imaging Laboratory
Professor in Residence
UCSF School
Title: "Multiple time-scales of brain plasticity assessed by Electromagnetic Brain Imaging"

4-22-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: Donald Campbell
Title: "Improving Functional Outcomes After Blast Induced Traumatic Brain Injury"
Advisor: Dr. Erin Lavik

4-8-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: James Harris
Title: "The Brain, Material Stiffness, and Tissue Response: Implications for Intracortical Microelectrode Design and Performance"
Advisor: Dustin Tyler

4-1-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: Thomas Ladas
Title: "Investigating Mechanisms of Seizure Control using Spatially-Targeted Optogenetic Stimulation"
Advisor: Dominique Durand

3-25-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Speaker: Manfred Franke
Title: HFAC Block of the Pundenal Nerve Via Chronically Implanted Electrodes Can Improve Bladder Voiding in a Feline Sci Model"
Advisor: Ken Gustafson

3-18-2011: NEC Friday Seminar Cancelled

2-25 Friday AM Seminar is cancelled due to the BME Open House

2-18-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9:00 am, Room 525 Wickenden
Speaker: Peter Cooman
Title: "Nonlinear feedback control of an upper extremity neuroprosthesis"
Advisor: Dr. Kirsch

2-11-2011: Neural Prosthesis Seminar
8:30 AM, Biomedical Research Building (BRB)
Rm. 105
Speaker: Ranu Jung, PhD
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Collge of Engneering and Computing
Florida International University, Miami FL
Title: "Neuromorphic Design & Neural Prostheses for Restoring Sensorimotor Function" More...

2-04-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Presenter: Andy Cornwell
Advisors: Dr. Kirsch
Title: Control of a multidimensional arm using a simple set of commands

1-28-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Presenter: Donald Campbell
Advisors: Erin Lavik
Title: Controlling Hemorrhaging in the CNS

1-21-2011: Neural Prosthesis Seminar
8:30 AM, Biomedical Research Building (BRB)
Rm. 105
Speaker: Dominique Durand, PhD
E.L. Lindseth Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Neuroscience, Physiology and Biophysics
Director of Neural Engineering Center
Case Western Reserve University
Title: "Interfacing with the Peripheral Nervous System to Detect Movement Intent" More...

1-14-2011: NEC Friday Seminar
9 am, Room 105 Wickenden
Presenter: Bo Gui
Advisors: Dr. Jeff Capadona and Dr. James Basilion
Title: Real Time In Vivo Imaging of the Microelectrode-Brain Interface