Ian Malone 1st authored a review paper in the Journal of Neurophysiology titled Electrical epidural stimulation of the cervical spinal cord: implications for spinal respiratory neuroplasticity after spinal cord injury. Read all about it here: https://www.eneuro.org/content/9/1/ENEURO.0426-21.2021
Undergraduate students Renae and Ramya present their work at the SfN local chapter conference. They’ve been working with Ph.D. candidate Morgan Urdaneta.
Dr. Scott Thourson is presenting a teaching workshop open to faculty or people in charge of communication in COE, BME, MSE, MBI, (non-STEM just as important!). Please register and attend to learn more about working with these students!
Workshop title: Enabling Students With Learning Disabilities/ADHD to Outperform In Your Class
Date: Thursday, November 14th, 2:30-4:00pm
Location: 201 Bryant Space Science Center
Description: Individuals with learning disabilities (LD) and/or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) include some of the most talented thinkers in society. The opposite observation might be made when those individuals are undergraduate students in a classroom. In this workshop, participants will learn how their classroom environment might affect the performance of students gifted with LD/ADHD. As someone with ADHD, I will explain how LD/ADHD manifests in college and present examples from my own experience as a student and instructor. Activities: case studies, self-evaluations, and group discussions that revolve around teaching undergraduate students with LD/ADHD.
Registration: https://uf.tfaforms.net/337&tfa_30=true&tfa_27=a0Q4M00000Jlio1
No current students.
The NPR Lab is proud to have Janak Gaire and Matthew McDermott representing us at the 2016 BMES Annual Meeting in Minneapolis this week. Janak will be giving a talk on a novel mouse model expressing endogenous fluorophores while Matthew will be presenting a poster on drug release of coated neural devices.
Dr. Kevin Otto (center-left) and members of his lab attended the 8th International IEEE EMBS Neural Engineering Conference in Orlando, Florida to present research on neural prosthetic interfaces. Graduate student Matthew McDermott gave an oral presentation (center-right and bottom left) titled, “The Effect of Multiple Thin-Film Coatings of Protein Loaded Sol-Gel on Total Multi-Electrode Array Thickness.” Graduate student Heui Chang Lee (3rd from center on right) gave a poster presentation titled, “Quantitative Histological Assessment of Probe Flexibility.” Post-Doc Dr. James Graham (4th from center on right, and bottom right) presented a poster and oral presentation titled, “Histological Evaluation of Implanted Tissue-Engineered Electronic Nerve Interface (TEENI) Devices.”
Roy Lycke graduated with a B.S. and a M.S. in computer engineering from the Iowa State University in 2011 and 2012 respectively. At Iowa State he worked with Dr. Santosh Pandey in bioengineering and the analysis of C. elegans. He desires to bring his engineering perspective to the field of brain machine interfaces and neuroprostheses. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the NeuroProstheses Research Laboratory of Purdue University.
Alan Truong completed his B.S. in Bioengineering at the University of Utah in 2010. Currently he is pursuing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. He joined the Neuroprostheses Research Laboratory in the fall of 2010 and is currently involved in Parkinson’s disease research.
Ryan Verner completed his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis in December of 2012. During his undergraduate studies, he worked in the Electrical and Optical Neuroimaging Lab under Dr. Linda Larson-Prior and in Dr. Daniel Moran’s Brain-Computer Interfacing Lab. A majority of his research focused on ECoG data analysis in humans and primates. In January 2013, Ryan began working toward his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, immediately joining the Neuroprostheses Research Laboratory. While his research aims have yet to be solidified, Ryan is interested in the characterization and mitigation of the reactive tissue response for chronically implanted electrodes.
Education:
Publications:
Zempel, J., Politte, D., Kelsey, M., Verner, R., Nolan, T., Babajani-Feremi, A., Prior, F., Larson-Prior, L.J. Characterization of scale-free properties of human electrocorticography in awake and slow wave sleep states. Frontiers in Sleep and Chronobiology, 2012; 3:76. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2012.00076
Kelsey, M., Politte, D., Verner, R., Zempel, J.M., Nolan, T., Babajani-Feremi, A., Prior, F., Larson-Prior, L.J. Determination of neural state classification metrics from the power spectrum of human ECoG. IEEE/EMBS Conf. 2012. IEEE Xplore in press.
