2018 UCLA Symposium on Neurotechnology

2018 UCLA Symposium on Neurotechnology
8:30 ? 8:45 BREAKFAST
8:45 ? 9:00 CENT Updates and Training Program Plans
Nader Pouratian, Dejan Markovic, Nanthia Suthana
9:00 ? 9:40 Spinal modulation for rehabilitation
Daniel Lu, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Reggie Edgerton,Professor of Integrative Biology and Physiology, Neurobiology, and Neurosurgery
9:40 ? 10:20 Visual prostheses
Wentai Liu, Professor of Bioengineering and Nader Pouratian, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
10:20 ?10:30 BREAK
10:30 ? 11:30 Non-invasive neuromodulation
Martin Monti, Associate Professor of Psychology and Marco Iacoboni, Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences and Andrew Leuchter, Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
11:30 ? 11:50 Discussion
11:50 ? 1:10 LUNCH & emerging projects (10 total, 5min each)
1:10 ? 1:40 Neurochemical sensing
Melissa Malvaez, Postdoctoral scholar of Psychology and Harold Monbouquette, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
1:40 ? 2:20 Calciumimaging and neural implants
Daniel Aharoni, Assistant Professor of Neurology and Dejan Markovic, Professor of Electrical Engineering
2:20 ? 2:30BREAK
2:30 ? 3:10 Signal Processing and Algorithms
Jonathan Kao, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Sotiris Masmanidis, Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Bioengineering
3:10 ? 3:50 Neural Implants in clinical populations
Itzhak Fried, Professor of Neurosurgery and Nanthia Suthana, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences,and Neurosurgery
3:50 ? 4:30 Discussion and closing remarks