Nanotechnology as an Enabler for Neuroscience, Neuroengineering, and Neural Prosthetic Systems

December 11-12, 2008, Stanford University

Yoshio Nishi, NNIN/SNF Director, Stanford University - Welcome to Stanford, overview of NNIN

Krishna Shenoy, Stanford University - Workshop goals: identifying “NeuroNano Needs and Opportunities”

William Newsome, Director of BioX NeuroVentures, Stanford & HHMI - Barriers to understanding the brain: can nanotechnology help?

Jose Carmena, UC Berkeley - Technology constraints for bidirectional brainmachine interfaces

Daryl Kipke, U. Michigan - Micro and nanoscaled implantable devices for highfidelity, chronic neural interfaces in neuroprosthetic and scientific applications

Florian Solzbacher, U. Utah - Next Generation Neural Interfaces Bridging the Gap Between Engineering and Healthcare

Wentai Liu, UC Santa Cruz - Integration and Miniaturization of Neural Implants

Mark Wightman, UNC - Monitoring Chemical Neurotransmission and Single Unit Activity Simultaneously

Paul Garris, Illinois State U.- Toward a Smart Deep Brain Stimulator with Chemical Sensing Feedback for Control

Daniel Palankar, Stanford - Optoelectronic Retinal Prosthesis for Restoring Sight to the Blind

Nick Melosh, Stanford - Integrating nanoelectrodes into cell membranes

Edward Keefer, UT Southwestern - Characteristics of carbon nanotube neural interfaces

Bruce Wheeler, U. Illinois, Urbana Champaign - Brain on a Chip: Progress in its Design and Construction

Ellis Meng, USC - Hybrid Neural Interfaces and Implantable Drug Delivery Systems Enabled by BioMEMS

Mark Schnitzer, Stanford - Of Mice, Men, and Microscopes: Imaging cellular dyamics of motor control in behaving subjects

Karl Deisseroth, Stanford - Optogenetics: Development and Application

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