ABS 2018 - Program
Tuesday, September 11
16:00 | Registration and Check In
18:00 | Dinner
Keynote Session
19:00 | John Rogers, Northwestern University,
"Soft, Biocompatible Optoelectronic Neural Interfaces"
20:00 | Welcome Reception
Wednesday, September 12
Microelectrode Arrays
08:30 | Douglas Weber, University of Pittsburgh
“A wearable sleeve electrode array for high-definition electromyography”,
09:10 | Dustin Tyler, Case Western Reserve
“System and Technology for Interface to the Peripheral Nervous System“
09:50 | Krishnan Thyagarajan, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
“Intracortical magnetic stimulation of the brain”
10:30 | Coffee Break
Novel Materials and Form factors
11:00 | Tzahi Cohen-Karni, Carnegie Mellon University
“Bioelectronics with graphene and graphene-based hybrid-nanomaterials
– from transparent to fuzzy interfaces"
11:40 | Eleni Stavrinidou, Linkoping University,
“Electronic Plants”
12:20 | Lunch and Free Time (Box Lunch if Desired)
18:00 | Dinner
Wearable Bioelectronics
19:20 | Martin Kaltenbrunner, Linz Institute of Technology,
“Soft Electronic and Robotic Systems from Biocompatible and Degradable Materials“
20:00 | Benjamin C.K. Tee, National University of Singapore
“Bio-mimetic Tactile Electronic Skins “
20:40 | Poster Session
Thursday September 13
Tissue Engineering and Synthetic Biology
09:10 | Laura Poole-Warren, University of New South Wales
“Tissue-engineered bioelectronics“
09:50 | Sara Abrahamsson, UC Santa Cruz
“Multifocus Microcopy Optical Development for Bioelectronics Imaging”
10:30 | Coffee Break
Bioelectronics and Sensing
11 00 | Nader Pourmand, UC Santa Cruz
“Nanopipette Technology for Single Cell Applications“
11:40 | William Bentley, University of Maryland,
“Communicating with and controlling biology via biofabrication,
synthetic biology, and microelectronics”
12:20 | Lunch and Free Time (Box Lunch if Desired)
18:00 | Dinner
Organic Bioelectronics
19:20 | Sahika Inal, KAUST
“Engineering Conjugated Polymers for Bioelectronics”
20:00 | Alberto Salleo, Stanford University
“Polymer-based artificial synapses: device physics and array operation”
21:00 | Poster Session
Friday, September 14
Future Bioelectronics for Optical Stimulation and Sensing
09:20 | Diego Ghezzi, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
“Organic technology for neuroprosthetic vision”
10:00 | Guglielmo Lanzani, IIT Milan,
“Non Genetic Opto Cell Stimulation”
10:40 | Markita Landry, UC Berkeley
“Imaging Striatal Dopamine Release Using a Non-Genetically Encoded
Near-Infrared Fluorescent Catecholamine Nanosensor”
11:20 | Selection of chair and organizing committee for 2018
12:10 | Free Time (Box Lunch if Desired)
18:00 | Dinner
19:00 | Talks from Poster Award Winners
21:00 | Farewell Reception
Saturday, September 15
08:00 | Breakfast
All meals will be at CROCKER dining Hall
All lectures and Poster sessions are in NAUTILUS
All meals, including lunch on Saturday Sept 15th (Box Lunch Available) are included in the conference fee