Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Events for October
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BME 533 - Seminar in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Oct 04, 2010 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: GERALD LOEB, TERENCE SANGER, ELLIS MENG,
Talk Title: Faculty Research in Biomedical Engineering
Host: Department of Biomedical Engineering
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: BME graduate students, Faculty, contact department if interested (213-740-7237)
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
BME 533 - Seminar in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Oct 11, 2010 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Gert Cauwenberghs, Dept. of Bioengineering & Institute for Neural Computation, University of California, San Diego
Talk Title: Silicon and Biological Adaptive Neural Circuits
Abstract: Dialogues between neuroscience and neuroengineering are offering new avenues to advance the engineering of intelligent brain-machine interfaces, and to accelerate the pace of neuroscience research in mapping the organization and decoding the function of the central nervous system.Reverse engineering the brain in "neuromorphic" silicon provides a means to validate hypotheses on neural structure and function through "analysis by synthesis". I will present a scalable approach to realizing locally dense and globally sparse synaptic connectivity and plasticity in reconfigurable hybrid analog-digital neuromorphic systems, towards a real-time and low-power silicon model of neocortical vision with over a million neurons and billion synapses. I will also present our related work on a synapse array for adaptive template-based visual pattern recognition that operates at less than a femtojoule of energy per synaptic operation, exceeding the energy efficiency of synaptic transmission in the human brain.
Biography: Gert Cauwenberghs is Professor of Bioengineering and Co-director of the Institute for Neural Computation at UC San Diego. He received the Ph.D.in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 1994, and was previously Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, and Visiting Professor of Brain and Cognitive Science at MIT.
His research focuses on micropower biomedical instrumentation,
neuron-silicon and brain-machine interfaces, neuromorphic engineering, and adaptive intelligent systems. He received the National Science Foundation Career Award in 1997, the ONR Young Investigator Award in 1999, and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2000. He is Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, and a Senior Editor for the IEEE Sensors Journal.
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Gert Cauwenberghs
Professor of Bioengineering
Co-Director, Institute for Neural Computation
University of California, San Diego
Powell-Focht Bioengineering Hall, Rm. 304
9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0412
La Jolla, CA 92093-0412
Host: Department of Biomedical Engineering, USC
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: BME graduate students, Faculty, contact department if interested (213-740-7237)
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
BME 533 - Seminar in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Oct 18, 2010 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Andrew Mackay, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, USC
Talk Title: Drug delivery using environmentally responsive polypeptides
Host: Department of Biomedical Engineering, USC
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: BME graduate students, Faculty, contact department if interested (213-740-7237)
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
USC PSOC Monthly Seminar Series
Fri, Oct 22, 2010 @ 11:30 AM - 01:15 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Joel S. Brown, Ph.D.,, oel S. Brown, Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago
Talk Title: Game Theory and the Evolutionary Ecology of Cancer
Abstract: Cancer can be viewed as the evolution of a new life form. It is invasive, single-celled, and asexual. This new life formâs population grows, spreads, evolves, speciates and exhibits many of the characteristic of the history of life on our planet --- except for the devastating consequences for the patient. This life form has an ecology. Its habitats are organs and tissues. Cancer cells must forage for nutrients, avoid hazards. As ecological engineers they may shape and modify their environs. Cancer cells are subject to evolution by natural selection. They adapt to changing nutrient and habitat circumstances. They likely speciate into diverse forms and undergo adaptive radiations as they fill available ânichesâ. Finally, as we treat cancer, tumor cells evolve avoidance behaviors and resistance mechanisms, just like pest species.
I will discuss how game theory and the principles of population ecology may provide a useful framework for thinking about and modeling cancer. Life is a game. Cancer is no different. Evolutionary game theory may be the appropriate approach to understanding the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of cancer. A hallmark of game theory is the study of adaptations in the context of the heritable phenotypes of others, their population sizes, and habitat circumstances. The talk shall unfold with a little natural selection, discussion of cancer as an evolutionary game and then applications of this framework to models of cancer as an invasive species, and models of the evolution of treatment resistance.
Biography: Joel S. Brown, Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago
Host: Dr. Parag Mallick, Center for Applied Molecular Medicine
Location: May Ormerod Harris Hall, Quinn Wing & Fisher Gallery (HAR) - Harkness Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Yvonne Suarez
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
BME 533 - Seminar in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Oct 25, 2010 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Donald Arnold, Department of Biological Sciences, USC
Talk Title: An actin/myosin-based model for targeting of polarized proteins in neurons
Host: Department of Biomedical Engineering, USC
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: BME graduate students, Faculty, contact department if interested (213-740-7237)
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.
