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)

Dr. Michael Okun

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)