Preliminary Program
The preliminary program can be found below. When the program is final a download link will also be available.
Day 1 – Thursday June, 24
8:30 – 8:50
Badge pickup and coffee
08:50 – 10:20
Michael Shadlen
Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University Medical Centre, New York NY, USA
10:20 – 10:40
Coffee break
10:40 – 12:10
José-Alain Sahel
McGowan Institute for regenerative medicine, University of Pittsburgh PA, USA
12:10 – 14:10
Lunch & Poster Session
14:10 - 15:40
Helen Mayberg – “In search of a depression switch: next generation strategies to optimize DBS treatment”
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York NY, USA
15:40 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30
Phil Troyk
Laboratory of Neural Prosthetic Research, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Day 2 – Friday June, 25
08:30 - 10:00
Stéphanie Lacour – Soft, implantable bioelectronic interfaces for translational research
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Swiss
10:00 - 10:20
Coffee break
10:20 - 11:50
Nick Ramsey – “Brain-Computer Interface implants to restore communication in Locked-In Syndrome”
Brain Center UMCV Utrecht, the Netherlands
11:50 – 13:50
Lunch & Poster Session
13:50 - 15:20
Andy Schwartz – “Useful signals from motor cortex”
Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh PA, USA
15:20 - 15:40
Coffee break
15:40 - 16:00
Ariëns Kappers Medal Ceremony
16:00 - 17:30
Ariëns Kappers Lecture
Karl Deisseroth – “The inner workings of brains and channelrhodopsins”
Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, California, USA
17:30 - 19:00
Reception
19:00
Dinner and Party
Day 3 – Saturday June, 26
08:30 - 10:00
Peter Brown – “Understanding and treating pathological oscillations in the human motor system”
Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
10:00 - 10:20
Coffee break
10:20 - 11:50
Mickael Tanter
Physics for Medicine, ESPCI Paris Tech, France
11:50 – 12:00
12:00 – 13:00
Poster award
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
Mikhail Shapiro – “Bimolecular ultrasound towards non-invasive molecular imaging and control of neural activity”
Molecular Engineering Imaging and Control, Caltech, Pasadena, California, USA