Friday, May 7th |
08:00 - 08:30 |
Opening Ceremony (Salon A-E)
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Dr. William J. Heetderks |
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Director, Extramural Science Programs |
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National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering |
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National Institutes of Health |
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- NIBIB and the engineering side of neuroengineering grand challenges |
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Dr. Semahat Demir |
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Program Director, Biomedical Engineering |
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National Science Foundation |
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- NSF and neuroengineering |
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08:30 - 10:15 |
Grand Challenges on Interfacing Brain to Machine |
Moderator: Bin He, University of Minnesota |
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08:30 - 09:00 |
• Miguel Nicolelis, Duke University |
- Towards a Whole-Body Neuroprostetic |
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09:00 - 09:15 |
• Jonathan Wolpaw, Wadsworth Center, New York State Dept. of Health |
- Brain-Computer Interfaces: Assumptions and Realities (Slides) |
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09:15 - 09:30 |
• Krishna Shenoy, Stanford University |
- Cortical neural prosthesis (Slides) |
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09:30 - 09:45 |
• Daryl Kipke, University of Michigan |
- Interfacing device with neural tissue (Slides) |
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09:45 - 10:15 |
• Panel Discussion |
10:15 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
10:30 - 12:15 |
Grand Challenges on Functional Neuroimaging |
Moderator: Mingzhou Ding, University of Florida |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
• Bin He, University of Minnesota |
- Toward high-resolution spatio-temporal functional brain imaging (Slides) |
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11:00 - 11:15 |
• Jeff Lichtman, Harvard University |
- Connectomics (Slides) |
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11:15 - 11:30 |
• Van Wedeen, Massachusetts General Hospital |
- Mapping Brain Connectivity using Diffusion Spectrum Imaging |
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11:30 - 11:45 |
• Peter Saggau, Baylor College of Medicine |
- Structural and Functional Optical Imaging of Living Brain Tissue (Slides) |
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11:45 - 12:15 |
• Panel Discussion |
12:15 - 12:55 |
Lunch Break |
12:55 - 01:25 |
Panel Discussion: Education and Training in Neuroengineering |
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Panelists: |
Don Deyo, Medtronic Neuromodulation |
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Dominique Durand, Case Western Reserve University |
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Bin He, University of Minnesota |
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M. K. Ramasubramanian, NSF |
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Nitish Thakor, Johns Hopkins University |
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01:40 - 03:10 |
Grand Challenges on Decoding Brain Activity |
Moderator: Nitish Thakor, Johns Hopkins University |
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01:40 - 02:10 |
• Emery Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
- Deciphering How the Brain Represents Information In Health and Disease (Slides) |
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02:10 - 02:25 |
• Nitish Thakor, Johns Hopkins University |
- Decoding Neural Information for Brain Machine Interface (Slides) |
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02:25 - 02:40 |
• Walter Freeman, University of California-Berkeley |
- The Use of 'Codes' in Nonlinear Neurodynamics (Slides) |
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02:40 - 03:10 |
• Panel Discussion |
03:10 - 03:25 |
Coffee Break |
03:25 - 05:10 |
Grand Challenges on Repairing or Reversing Damage to the Nervous System |
Moderator: Dominique Durand, Case Western Reserve University |
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03:25 - 03:55 |
• Todd Kuiken, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago |
- Restoring voluntary function in artificial limbs (Slides) |
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03:55 - 04:10 |
• Dominique Durand, Case Western Reserve University |
- Engineering prosthetics systems to repair the nervous system (Slides) |
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04:10 - 04:25 |
• Ravi Bellamkonda, Georgia Tech - Emory University |
- Endogenous limitations to regeneration and overcoming them (Slides) |
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04:25 - 04:40 |
• Ali Rezai, Ohio State University |
- Addressing neurological disorders with neuromodulation (Slides) |
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04:40 - 05:10 |
• Panel Discussion |
07:00 - 09:00 |
Dinner Reception (Rockville/ChevyChase/Bethesda/Potomac) |
Saturday, May 8th |
08:15 - 09:45 |
Grand Challenges on Reverse Engineering the Brain
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Moderator: Bruce Wheeler, University of Florida |
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08:15 - 08:45 |
• Ted Berger, University of Southern California |
- Cognitive Neural Prosthteses: Reverse Engineering the Brain Function of Memory (Slides) |
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08:45 - 09:00 |
• Bruce Wheeler, University of Florida |
- Can We Forward Engineer a Living Brain? (Slides) |
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09:00 - 09:15 |
• Kwabena Boahen, Stanford University |
- Smart Chips for Modeling Smart Brains (Slides) |
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09:15 - 09:45 |
• Panel Discussion |
09:45 - 10:00 |
Coffee Break |
10:00 - 11:30 |
Grand Challenges on Brain as Computer/Information Processor |
Moderator: Jose Principe, University of Florida |
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10:00 - 10:30 |
• Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology |
- The brain is not a computer (Slides) |
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10:30 - 10:45 |
• Jose Principe, University of Florida |
- How to capture structure in spike trains (Slides) |
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10:45 - 11:00 |
• Jim Bower, University of Texas at San Antonio |
- What kind of device is the brain and how will we ever know? (Slides) |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
• Panel Discussion |
11:30 - 01:00 |
Breakout Sessions - Discussions |
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Interfacing Brain to Machine (Montgomery Room) |
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Moderators: |
Jack Judy, DARPA |
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Karen Moxon, Drexel University |
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Functional Neuroimaging (Chesapeake Room) |
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Moderators: |
Mingzhou Ding, University of Florida |
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Gabriel Silva, University of California, San Diego |
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Decoding Brain Activity (Democracy Room) |
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Moderators: |
Mark Humayun, University of Southern California |
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Paul Sajda, Columbia University |
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Repairing or Reversing Damage to the Nervous System (Senate Room 4) |
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Moderators: |
Hunter Peckham, Case Western Reserve University |
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Ali Rezai, Ohio State University |
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Reverse Engineering the Brain (Senate Room 5) |
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Moderators: |
Gert Cauwenberghs, University of California, San Diego |
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Grace Peng, NIBIB |
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Brain as Computer/Information Processor (Senate Room 6) |
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Moderators: |
Kenneth Whang, NSF |
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John White, University of Utah |
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Education and Training in Neuroengineering (Annapolis Room) |
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Moderator: |
Richard Baird, NIBIB |
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01:00 - 02:00 |
Plenary Session Summarizing Discussions (Salon A-E) |
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