2019 PROGRAM

June 4th (Tuesday) - Opening

Venue: Kirkland Auditorium, Koury Oral Health Sciences

4:00 - 5:00          Registration    
5:30 - 6:30          Public Lecture: Speaking the Language of the Brain     Flavio Frohlich, Ph.D (UNC at Chapel Hill)
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June 5th (Wednesday) - Day 1

Venue: Kirkland Auditorium, Koury Oral Health Sciences

8:00 - 9:00         Registration
9:00 - 10:00      Keynote Address     
​                                   ​Linda Carpenter, MD (Brown University)
10:00 - 10:30   Coffee Break ☕

Session 1 - State of the Art Clinical Applications of Brain Stimulation
10:30 - 11:10    Transcranial Alternating Current and Random Noise Stimulation: Ready for Clinical Practice?     
​                                   Andrea Antal, Ph.D (Gottingen University Medical School)
11:10 - 11:50    Optimizing TMS Targets for Depression Using the Human-Brain Connectome
​                                   Michael Fox, MD, Ph.D (Harvard Medical School)
11:50 - 1:00   Lunch (Provided) 🍴
1:00 - 1:40         Pathways and Terminal Fields Involved in the Therapeutic Effects of Deep Brain Stimulation ​                                                    (DBS)
​                                   Suzanne Haber, Ph.D (University of Rochester Medical Center)
1:40 - 2:20         Neural Decoding and Control of Mood to Treat Neuropsychiatric Disorders
​                                   Maryam Shanechi, Ph.D (University of Southern California) 
2:20 - 2:40         Coffee Break ☕

​Session 2 - Mechanisms Underlying Brain Stimulation
2:40 - 3:20         Biophysically Principled Neural Modeling of EEG Signals to Study the Circuit Level Impact of Non
​                                   Invasive Brain Stimulation
​                                   Stephanie Jones, Ph.D (Brown University)
3:20 - 4:00     Intracranial Electrochemistry - Real-time Monitoring of Dopamine, Serotonin, and Norepinephrine ​  ​                                   in Conscious Humans
​                                   Kenneth Tucker Kishida, Ph.D (Wake Forest University)
4:00 - 4:20         Coffee Break ☕
4:20 - 5:00         Preclinical Studies of Vagus Nerve Stimulation as a Potential Adjunct to Exposure-Based Therapies  
​                                   Christa McIntyre, Ph.D (The University of Texas at Dallas)
5:00 - 5:40         Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Monoaminergic Neurotransmission, and Neuroplasticity     
​                                   Georg Kranz, Ph.D (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
6:00 -                    Reception 🍴
                                   Poster Session with light refreshments
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June 6th (Thursday) - Day 2

Venue: Kirkland Auditorium, Koury Oral Health Sciences

​8:00 - 9:00         Registration
9:00 - 10:00      Public Lecture: Transformative Resilience
​                                   Ama Marston (Type R)
10:00 - 10:20   Coffee Break ☕

Session 3 - Causal Probing of Cognitive Function Using Neurostimulation
10:20 - 11:00    Using TMS to Identify Compensatory Networks in Aging     
​                                   Simon Davis, Ph.D (Duke University)
11:00 - 11:40    Vagus Nerve Stimulation as a Potential Adjuvant to Auditory Training in Rodent Models of Autism   
​                                   Crystal Engineer, Ph.D (The University of Texas at Dallas)
11:40 - 12:40    Lunch (Provided) 🍴
12:40 - 1:20       Probing and Manipulation of Brain Oscillations & Associated Functions by Combined Transcranial
​                                   Stimulation and EEG
​                                   Gregor Thut, Ph.D (University of Glasgow)
1:20 - 2:00         Optogenetic Stimulation of Interneurons to Modulate Decision Making and Emotional Behaviors
​                                   Vikaas Sohal, MD, Ph.D (University of California at San Francisco) 
2:00 - 2:20         Coffee Break ☕

​Session 4 - Novel Neurostimulation Technologies
2:20 - 3:00         Brain Stimulation With a Chronically Implanted Endovascular Stent-Based Electrode Array
​                                   David Grayden, Ph.D (The University of Melbourne)
3:00 - 3:40         Non-Invasive Deep Brain Stimulation via Temporally Interfering Electric Fields   
​                                   Nir Grossman, Ph.D (Imperial College London)
3:40 - 4:00         Coffee Break ☕
4:00 - 4:40         Stimulation on Demand: Developing Closed-Loop Deep Brain Stimulation Systems
​                                   Aysegul Gunduz, Ph.D (University of Florida)
4:40 - 5:20         Low-intensity Transcranial Focused Ultrasound with Neurotherapeutic and Diagnostic Potentials
​                                   Seung-Schik Yoo, Ph.D (Harvard Medical School)
5:20 - 5:30         Closing Ceremony and Poster Awards

*program is subject to change