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)
Chris Rozell, Julian T. Hightower Chaired Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Member of the Executive Committee of the Neuro Next Initiative, Georgia Tech
Julia Kubanek, Vice President for Interdisciplinary Research and Professor of Biological Sciences, Georgia Tech
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)
- “Personalized Rehabilitation: The Importance of Understanding the ‘State’ of Things,” Michael Borich (Associate Professor of Rehabilitation, Emory University School of Medicine)
- “Circuit-Inspired Strategies to Improve Treatments for Parkinson’s Disease,” Aryn Gittis, (Professor of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University)
- “Dopamine and Cognitive Variability: Insights into Dementia in Parkinson’s Disease,” Kumar Narayanan, (Assistant Professor of Neurology, University of Iowa)
Session Chair: Lena Ting (Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech and Emory University and Co-Director, Emory/GT Neural Engineering Center)
This session is sponsored by the Georgia Tech/Emory McCamish Parkinson’s Disease Innovation Program
10:30 - 11:00 AM
Break
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
SESSION 2: Hindlimbs Across the Tree of Life: Comparative Biomechanics for Future Brain-Body Interfaces
Exhibition Hall – Midtown Ballroom (1st Floor)
- “Controlling Multi-segmented Limbs for Locomotion – from Studying Insects to General Concepts,” Ansgar Büschges, (Professor, Department of Animal Phyisology, University of Cologne)
- “Data-Driven Control Strategies for Wearable Lower-Limb Robotic Systems for Patients with Walking Disability,” Aaron Young, (Assistant Professor of Mechnical Engineering, Georgia Tech)
- “Sensorimotor Control of Jumping Behavior,” Ariel Levine, (Senior Investigator in the Spinal Circuits and Plasticity Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
Session Chair: Sam Sober (Associate Professor of Biology, Emory University and Director, Center for Advanced Motor Bioengineering and Research (CAMBER)
This session is sponsored by the Emory/Georgia Tech Center for Advanced Motor Bioengineering and Research (CAMBER)
May 7 - AFTERNOON / EVENING
12:30 - 2:00 PM
LUNCH AND POSTERS
Exhibition Hall – 2nd Floor
2:00 - 3:30 PM
SESSION 3: Neural Interfaces for Acquired Brain Injury and Neurorehabilitation
Exhibition Hall – Midtown Ballroom (1st Floor)
“Central Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation In Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, ” Nicholas Schiff, Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience in the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College- “A Wireless, 60-channel, AI-enabled Neurostimulation Platform,” Michael Kahana, (University of Pennslyania, Professor of Psychology)
- “Neuromodulation meets Neurorehabilitation: The role of PoNS in Brain Injury Functional Recovery,“ Deborah Backus, Vice President, Research and Innovation, Shepherd Center; Co-Director GT-Shepherd Collaborative
Session Chair: Michelle LaPlaca (Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech and Emory; Site PI, IUCRC BRAIN Center; Co-Director GT-Shepherd Collaborative)
This session is sponsored by the BRAIN Industry–University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) at Georgia Tech
3:30 - 4:10 PM
Industry and Partner Spotlights
Presentations from Blackrock Neurotech, Medtronic, Protocol Labs, and Cognito Therapeutics
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Reception
5:30 - 7:30 PM
Special Event: The Story Collider – Wired Lives
Live storytelling event featuring five true, personal stories of lived experiences with neurotechnology in partnership with The Story Collider
May 8 - MORNING
8:00 - 9:00 AM
BREAKFAST
Exhibition Hall – 2nd Floor
8:45 - 10:30 AM
SESSION 4: Redefining Brain Machine Interfaces
Exhibition Hall – Midtown Ballroom (1st Floor)
- Tay Netoff, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota
- “Investigating Memory Recall and Imagination with a Hippocampal Brain-Machine Interface,” Albert Lee, Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
- “Analyzing and shaping closed-loop interactions in neural interfaces,” Amy Orsborn, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Washington
- “Haptic Sensory Augmentation for Patient Care,” Matthew Flavin, (Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech)
Session Chair: Chethan Pandarinath (Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech and Emory University)
This session is sponsored by the GT/Emory Neural Engineering Center
10:30 - 11:00 AM
Break
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Keynote
Exhibition Hall – Midtown Ballroom (1st Floor)
“Lessons Learned from Moving Neuromodulation Therapies into Real People”
Adelaide Lackner Professor and Chair of Neurology, University of Florida
Director, Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases
May 8 - AFTERNOON
12:00 - 1:30 PM
Lunch and Posters
Exhibition Hall – 2nd Floor
1:30 - 3:00 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)
- “Sensitive genetically engineered light sensors for tracking a broad-spectrum of neurotransmitter signaling,” Lin Tian, Professor and Scientific Director, Max Planck Florida Institute
- “Platform Tecnology for Therapetuic Brain Computer Interfaces,” Jacob Robinson, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rice University
- “Non-invasive temporal interference electrical stimulation of the human hippocampus,” Nir Grossman (Assistant Professor of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London)
Session Chair: Annabelle Singer (Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech and Emory University)
This session is sponsored by the Georgia Tech/Emory McCamish Parkinson’s Disease Innovation Program
3:00 - 3:15 PM
Break
3:15 - 4:45 PM
SESSION 6: Beyond Regression: Joint Modeling of Brain and Behavior
Exhibition Hall – Midtown Ballroom (1st Floor)
- “Uncovering Intention: Effector-Invariant Neural Dynamics from 1024-ch Recordings,” Chethan Pandarinath, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech and Emory University
- “Neural Activity Shapes the Dynamics of Motivational States and Behavior,” Ann Kennedy (Associate Professor of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute)
- “Computational and Experimental Approaches for Studying the Latent States of Memory,” Caleb Kemere (Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rice University)
Session Chair: Jeff Markowitz, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech and Emory University
4:45 - 5:00 PM
Awards and Closing Remarks
Exhibition Hall – Midtown Ballroom (1st Floor)