A talk you may be interested: "It Takes a Lot of Nerve: Restoring Sensorimotor Hand Function in Humans After Long-Term Amputation of the Hand.”

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Qing

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Begin forwarded message:

From: Stephen Wilson <wil...@itee.uq.edu.au>

Subject: Possible EMBS event

Date: 17 November 2016 at 3:40:39 pm AEST

To: "Qing....@csiro.au" <Qing....@csiro.au>, "mohan.ka...@csiro.au" <mohan.ka...@csiro.au>

Hi Qing and Mohan,

With Medical Bionics here next week, we have arranged for a prominent speaker to give an address for students outside of the conference schedule so it is free from registration costs.
Prof. Gregory Clark will speak on:
“It Takes a Lot of Nerve: Restoring Sensorimotor Hand Function in Humans After Long-Term Amputation of the Hand.”
Location: University of Qld, GPS Building 78-217
Time: Thursday 24 November 10AM
I’ll broadcast to our UQ students and staff, but I am happy to call it an IEEE event.

A brief bio and background is below:
Gregory A. Clark, Ph.D.

Gregory A. Clark, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. He is also Director of the Center for Neural Interfaces, Chair of the Neural Interfaces Track, and Chair of Curriculum Committee of the University's Interdepartmental Program in Neuroscience.

Dr. Clark received his Ph.D. in Psychobiology from the University of California, Irvine in 1982 under the direction of Richard F. Thompson, where he helped identify cerebellum as an essential part of neural circuitry for eyeblink conditioning. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons with Eric R. Kandel, where he helped identify key cellular mechanisms for synapse-specific and temporally-specific aspects of conditioning. He accepted his first faculty position at Princeton University in 1988, and moved to Utah in 1996.

Dr. Clark’s current research focuses primarily on using high-electrode count interfaces (e.g., the Utah Slanted Electrode Array, USEA) to the peripheral nervous system to restore sensorimotor function after hand amputation or spinal cord injury, using both animal models and humans. After long-term hand amputation, his research team can successfully instantiate 8 degrees of freedom and 13 different types of movements of a virtual prosthetic hand, using neuromyolectric signals recorded from residual nerves or muscles. Stimulation of sensory nerve fibers via individual USEA electrodes can evoke well over 100 different cutaneous or proprioceptive percepts, which can be used to guide movements of the hand.

Dr. Clark is the recipient of a Pew Biomedical Scholar Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and numerous commendations for teaching.



Cheers,

Steve


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