SCHEDULE
May 7 - MORNING
8:00 - 8:45 AM
BREAKFAST
Exhibition Hall – 2nd Floor
8:45 - 9:00 AM
WELCOME
Exhibition Hall – Midtown Ballroom (1st Floor)
9:00 - 10:30 AM
SESSION 1: Act Local Think Global – The Role of Brain States in Health and Disease
Exhibition Hall – Midtown Ballroom (1st Floor)
- Michael Borich, Associate Professor of Rehabilitation, Emory University School of Medicine
- Aryn Gittis, Professor of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
- Kumar Narayanan, Assistant Professor of Neurology, University of Iowa
10:30 - 10:45 AM
Break
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
SESSION 2: Hindlimbs Across the Tree of Life: Comparative Biomechanics for Future Brain-Body Interfaces
Exhibition Hall – Midtown Ballroom (1st Floor)
- Ansgar Büschges, Professor, Department of Animal Phyisology, University of Cologne
- Aaron Young, Assistant Professor of Mechnical Engineering, Georgia Tech
- Ariel Levine, Senior Investigator in the Spinal Circuits and Plasticity Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
May 7 - AFTERNOON / EVENING
12:15 - 2:15 PM
LUNCH AND POSTERS
Exhibition Hall – 2nd Floor
2:15 - 4:00 PM
SESSION 3: Neural Interfaces for Acquired Brain Injury and Neurorehabilitation
Exhibition Hall – Midtown Ballroom (1st Floor)
- Nicholas Schiff, Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience in the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College
- Catherine Hassett, Neurocritical Care Fellow, Cleveland Clinic
- Michael Kahana, University of Pennslyania
- Deborah Backus, Vice President, Research and Innovation, Shepherd Center
4:00 - 4:30 PM
Break
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Reception
5:30 - 7:30 PM
Special Event: Featuring the stories of lived experience with neurotechnology
May 8 - MORNING
8:00 - 9:00 AM
BREAKFAST
Exhibition Hall – 2nd Floor
9:00 - 10:45 AM
SESSION 4: Redefining Brain Machine Interfaces
Exhibition Hall – Midtown Ballroom (1st Floor)
- Tay Netoff, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota
- Albert Lee, Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
- Amy Orsborn, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Washington
- Matthew Flavin, Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech
10:45 - 11:00 AM
Break
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Keynote
Exhibition Hall – Midtown Ballroom (1st Floor)
Adelaide Lackner Professor and Chair of Neurology, University of Florida
Director, Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases
May 8 - AFTERNOON
12:00 - 2:00 PM
Lunch and Posters
Exhibition Hall – 2nd Floor
2:00 - 3:30 PM
SESSION 5: State of the Art Measurements and Manipulations of Sensorimotor and Cognitive Behavior in Health and Disease
Exhibition Hall – Midtown Ballroom (1st Floor)
- Lin Tian, Professor and Scientific Director, Max Planck Florida Institute
- Nir Grossman, Assistant Professor of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London
- Jacob Robinson, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rice University
3:30 - 3:45 PM
Break
3:45 - 5:15 PM
SESSION 6: Beyond Regression: Joint Modeling of Brain and Behavior
Exhibition Hall – Midtown Ballroom (1st Floor)
- Chethan Pandarinath, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech and Emory University
- Ann Kennedy, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute
- Caleb Kemere, Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rice University
5:15 - 5:30 PM
Awards and Closing Remarks
Exhibition Hall – Midtown Ballroom (1st Floor)