Shy Shoham's schedule

[Leenoy Meshulam]

Hi everybody,

 

Next week’s journal club will be on Tuesday, May 2^nd at 12:30, in Icahn 200 (our usual room), accompanied by Chinese food.

 

We are delighted to have Shy Shoham as our guest speaker.  Shy is a Professor of Biomedial Engineering at the Technion, Israel, who is currently visiting faculty in NYU. He will talk about “Advances in the technological and biophysical foundations of Excitography” (see abstract). Shy has also pioneered some interesting computational optimization methods that might be of additional interest.

 

Please reply with your preferred time slot (both faculty and students are welcome) :

 

10:45 – 11:30

11:30 – 12:15 Carlos Brody (PNI)

12:30 – 1:30 Journal club (Icahn 200)

1:30 – 1:45 break

1:45 – 2:30

2:30 – 3:15

3:15 – 4:30

4:30 – 5:15

 

Thanks,

Leenoy

 

 

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Advances in the technological and biophysical foundations of Excitography/ Shy Shoham

In this talk I will describe a suite of recently developed enabling solutions for interfacing with distributed neuron populations in CNS networks, and how we systematically approach the related engineering challenges.

I will begin with an overview of technological advances in systems for distributed excitation and functional imaging at two different scales: wavefront-engineering optical systems for cellular-resolution optogenetic interfacing and complementary scalable mesoscopic solutions for large-scale activity imaging and manipulation across entire scattering brains using functional optoacoustic neuro-tomography (FONT) and acoustic neuromodulation. I will then describe a rational approach to quantitative understanding and design of next-generation neural interfaces using novel biophysical models of neuro-physical excitation and advanced simulation tools.

These developments are collectively opening important new windows into CNS function by advancing Excitography, an emerging paradigm for studying CNS function in its natural setting and spatiotemporal scales by ‘writing in’ activity patterns.

 

 

[Leenoy Meshulam]

Dear all,

 

Next week we will have two special lunch seminars:

 

Monday, May 8^th, 12 pm - Elad Schneidman (Weizmann Institute of science)

Tuesday, may 9^th, 12 pm – Justin Kinney (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

 

Other than being top notch scientists, they are also our group’s alumni and wonderful people, so it is a special pleasure to have them around. Luckily, they have time to stick around and will be available for one on one meetings.

 

If you would like to get on the schedule of  either/both, please let me know (and mention what times are best for you) .

 

 

Thanks,

Leenoy