Shy Shoham 12:30 tomorrow

[Leenoy Meshulam]

 

We will gather tomorrow at 12:30, in Icahn 200 (our usual room), to listen to Shy Shoham and eat Chinese food.

 

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.

 

There are still 2 available slots on his schedule and we are looking for people to fill them (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 Leenoy Meshulam (Icahn 236)

3:15 – 4:30 Ahmed El -Hady (PNI)

4:30 – 5:15 Ben Machta (Icahn 232A)

 

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.