{"id":2961,"date":"2022-03-17T10:27:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T14:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csn\/?page_id=2961"},"modified":"2023-01-03T13:39:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T18:39:52","slug":"fall2022symposium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csn\/news\/csn-event-archive\/fall2022symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2022 Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Engineering the Brain for Discovery and Clinical Applications<\/b><\/h2>\n

Organizers<\/b>: Mo Khalil, Steve Ramirez, and Ben Wolozin<\/span><\/h3>\n

Genetic, optical, and engineering technologies increasingly allow us to observe and control the function of nerve cells. These approaches are being used to explore the brain mechanisms underlying behavior, neuroglial function, and disease. Optogenetics, synthetic biology, stem cell technology, and antisense nucleotides have enabled the creation of new bio-engineered tools to explore brain function and treat neurologic disease, while engineered systems\u2013such as transcranial current stimulation, high speed MRI, and neural machine interfaces\u2013provide increasingly powerful scientific tools. These approaches are being used to regulate behavior, test for and treat psychiatric and neurological disorders, and overcome nerve injury.\u00a0 Join us for a symposium in which we showcase the state-of-the-art research being conducted at BU and around the world. Join your colleagues in brainstorming for the next 10 years of brain engineering research.<\/em><\/p>\n

Engineering the Brain for Discovery and Clinical Applications<\/strong><\/em> will be held in the Eichenbaum Colloquium Room at the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering, located at 610 Commonwealth Avenue<\/a> in Boston. Talks will be broadcast online; a link will be made available closer to the event.<\/p>\n

Join us in-person or online!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Registered for in-person attendance but can’t make it? Join us online:\u00a0<\/strong>http:\/\/bu.edu\/csn\/symposium_live<\/strong><\/p>\n

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COVID-19<\/h3>
To minimize the spread of COVID-19 at this event, we ask that all attendees, speakers, and volunteers refer to current masking, vaccination, isolation, and quarantine guidelines established by the Centers for Disease Control<\/a> and the MA Department of Public Health<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Parking & Transportation<\/h3>
Consult BU’s Parking & Transportation Services<\/a> for information on your options for getting to the symposium. Guest speakers with questions regarding event parking should contact the CSN directly<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

Symposium Schedule<\/h3>
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 3<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00 AM<\/td>\nBreakfast<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:45 AM<\/td>\nWelcome: Michael Hasselmo | Boston University<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:55 AM<\/td>\nOpening remarks: Ben Wolozin and Mo Khalil | Boston University<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:10 AM<\/td>\nAnna Devor<\/strong><\/a> | Boston University<\/strong>
\n“Understanding the brain’s spontaneous activity with neurophotonics”<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:50 AM<\/td>\nCoffee<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:10 AM<\/td>\nChandramouli Chandrasekaran<\/strong><\/a> | Boston University<\/strong>
\n“Leveraging nonlinear dimensionality reduction, graph clustering, and weighted nearest neighbors to identify candidate cell types in neural circuits”<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:50 AM<\/td>\nChristina Kim<\/strong><\/a> | University of California, Davis<\/strong>
\n“Linking function to molecules: New approaches for labeling activated circuits”<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:30 PM<\/td>\nLunch<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1:30 PM<\/td>\nJason Shepherd<\/strong><\/a> | University of Utah<\/strong>
\n“Intercellular signaling by endogenous capsid-forming proteins\u00a0 – a new paradigm\u00a0for gene delivery”<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2:10 PM<\/td>\nMo Khalil<\/strong><\/a> | Boston University<\/strong>
\n“Learning to program new cellular functions”<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2:50 PM<\/td>\nCoffee<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3:10 PM<\/td>\nCanan Da\u011fdeviren<\/strong><\/a> | MIT<\/strong>
\n“Minimally-invasive Neural Drug Delivery System (MiNDS)”<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3:50 PM<\/td>\nRobert Reinhart<\/strong><\/a> | Boston University<\/strong>
\n“Personalized neuromodulation: Aligning neural rhythms to\u00a0improve human cognition”<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4:30 PM<\/td>\nReception<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8:45 AM<\/td>\nBreakfast<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:30 AM<\/td>\nAleena Garner<\/strong><\/a> | Harvard University<\/strong>
\n“A cortical circuit for audio-visual predictions”<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:10 AM<\/td>\nLaura Lewis<\/strong><\/a> | Boston University<\/strong>
\n“Imaging the sleeping human brain”<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:50 AM<\/td>\nCoffee<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:10 AM<\/td>\nMarom Bikson<\/strong><\/a> | City University of New York<\/strong>
\n“Neurovascular-modulation and how a wearable brain stimulation might treat brain disorders from age-related cognitive decline to long-COVID”<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:50 AM<\/td>\nBen Wolozin<\/strong><\/a> | Boston University<\/strong>
\n“Engineering iPSCs to model brain disease and develop therapies”<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:30 PM<\/td>\nLunch<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1:30 PM<\/td>\nKevin Guckian<\/strong><\/a> | Biogen<\/strong>
\n\u201cOligonucleotide drug discovery in the CNS\u201d<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2:10 PM<\/td>\nClosing remarks: Michael Hasselmo, Ben Wolozin,<\/strong>
\nand Mo Khalil<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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