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FORTHCOMING:
2009
September 15th,
4pm, Dunham Labs 514, DL 514,
Michael
A. Choma, MD, PhD,
Yale University, "Optical
imaging of Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) cardiovascular
physiology",
host: Eugenio Culurciello
Abstract:
Successive
generations of physicians and scientists have leveraged past
discoveries in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster along with
advances in technology to gain new insights into fundamental
cardiovascular mechanisms. Recent insights into
comparative genomics and embryology are highlighting important
similarities between the D. melanogaster and vertebrate
cardiovascular systems. In addition, advances in high-speed
optical imaging technologies are greatly expanding our ability
to measure wild-type and abnormal anatomic and physiologic
phenotypes in the D. melanogaster cardiovascular system. This is
spurring new experimental work using D. melanogaster as a model
for adult and congenital heart disease.
In
this talk I will cover three topics. First, I will discuss
the use of structural and Doppler optical coherence tomography
(OCT) in assessing in vivo adult and pre-pupal D. melanogaster
cardiovascular structure and function. Second, I will
discuss new contrast microangiography techniques that allow for
the real-time, in vivo visualization of otherwise-transparent
cardiovascular fluid flow in D. melanogaster. These
techniques are used in the setting of both traditional
stereomicroscopy as well as in OCT. Finally, I will
discuss how these advanced imaging and biological techniques are
enabling new types of experiments in D. melanogaster
cardiovascular physiology and circulation-based mass transport.
Bio:
Michael
Choma, MD, PhD is a physician as well as a biomedical engineer.
His area of engineering expertise is in optics and biomedical
optics. Michael received his BS in Biomedical Engineering from
Case Western Reserve University, his PhD in Biomedical
Engineering at Duke University (thesis advisor: Joseph Izatt,
PhD), and his MD from Duke University. His PhD thesis research
into optical coherence tomography (OCT), a non-contact optical
imaging method that is the optical analogue of ultrasound
imaging, contributed to next-generation OCT technologies that
enabled a 100 to 1000-fold increase in clinical imaging speeds
without compromising image quality or sensitivity. While a
graduate student he also developed an interest in the dynamic
morphology and microfluidics of small biological circulations
such as the chick embryo heart and the fruit fly heart. While
Michael was a resident in pediatrics at Children's Hospital
Boston, he pursued this interest in small biological
circulations as a Visiting Clinical Fellow at the Wellman Center
for Photomedicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital
(research advisors: Guillermo Tearney, MD, PhD and Brett Bouma,
PhD). After training in Boston, he came to the Yale School of
Medicine in July of 2009 to start a biomedical optics lab in the
Department of Diagnostic Radiology. His research focuses on
leveraging technological innovations in optics and photonics to
advance the study of developmental cardiology as well as the
role of biofluidic forces in developmental biology. In
addition, he also has a general interest in helping clinicians
translate technological ideas into devices and software.
PAST
VISITORS:
2009
August 10th,
2pm, Dunham Labs 514, DL 514,
Thomas
Serre,
McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT, "
biologically-motivated approach to computer vision", host:
Eugenio Culurciello
2009
July 28th,
11am, Pierce Institute Library, 290 Congress Ave., Dejan
Vucinic,
Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA, "Three part inventions in
biophotonics", host: Eugenio Culurciello
2009
June 12th,
1.30pm, DL514, Marshall
D. Porterfield,
Purdue University, Agricultural & Biological Engineering,
“New Tools for Cell Science Based on Integrated
BioMEMS/Nanomaterial Biosensing Platforms”, host: Eugenio
Culurciello
2009
February 13th,
1.30pm, DL514, Ioannis
(John) Kymissis,
Columbia University, Electrical Engineering, "Optical and
electrical probes for organic field effect transistor
performance", host: Eugenio Culurciello
2008
November 24th,
1.30pm, DL514, Yann
LeCun,
Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Courant Institute of
Mathematical Sciences, New York University, "Toward Fully
Trainable Perception Systems", host: Eugenio Culurciello
2008
October 13th,
4pm, DL514, Paul Hasler,
Georgia Institute of Technology, "History of Analog VLSI
and Practical Aspects of Configurable Analog Processing",
host: Eugenio Culurciello
2008
April 23rd,
10.30am, Dl514, Prabhakar Kudva,
IBM TJ Watson, "Soft Error Challenges in VLSI Design”,
host: Yiorgos Makris
2008
April 14th,
4pm, Dunham Laboratories DL514, Sheila
S. Hemami, Cornell university,
Electrical and Computer Engineering, "Incorporating
Perception and Cognition into Image and Video Coding: A
Task-based Approach”, host: Eugenio Culurciello.
2008
February 22nd,
Sameer
Sonkusale,
Tufts University, Electrical & Computer Engineering,
Nanoscale Integrated Sensors and Circuits Laboratory,
"Circuits and Systems for Sensing and Communication in
Biological Implants”, host: Eugenio Culurciello.
2008
January 29th,
Mani Soma,
University of Washington, "On-chip Analog and Mixed-Signal
Measurements: Frequency Domain or Time Domain”, host: Yiorgos
Makris.
2008
January 23rd,
John Harris, Electrical and
Computer Engineering, University of Florida, "Biologically
Inspired Sensing and Coding of Signals”, host: Eugenio
Culurciello.
2007
December 7th,
Adit
Singh, ECE
Deprtment, Aubusrn University, "Statistical
Screening Methods for "Zero Defect",
Quality in Nanometer Integrated Circuits", host:
Yiorgos Makris.
2007
November 14th,
Matthias Schneider, Institute for
Physics, Augsburg University, "Acoustic
Driven Microfluidics --- Self Organized Blood Clotting”,
host: Eugenio Culurciello.
2007
November 2nd, Viktor
Gruev,
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Pennsylvania,
"Camera-on-Chip:
Low
Power Sensors for Visual Information Extraction”, host:
Eugenio Culurciello.
2007
September 20th, Rajit Manohar,
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University,
"Reconfigurable Asynchronous Logic”,
host: Eugenio Culurciello.
2007
September 21st, Euripides
Sotiriades, Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Technincal university of Crete, “A General
Reconfigurable Architecture for the BLAST Algorithm”,
host: Yiorgos Makris.
2007
May 4th - Arto V. Nurmikko,
Division of Engineering and Department of Physics, Brown
University, “Interconnecting the Brain by Implantable
Microelectronics: A Different Interface Challenge”, host:
Eugenio Culurciello and Jung Han
2007
April 24th - Yannis Tsividis,
Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New
York, "Continuous-time DSPs, Analog/Digital Computers and
other Mixed-Domain Systems”, host: Eugenio Culurciello.
2006
October 3rd, - Dr.
Ilia Polian,
Senior Researcher, Institute of Computer Science, Albert Ludwigs
Universitty of Freiburg, Germany, "Transient Error
Tolerance" Host prof. Yiorgos Makris.
2006
March 22nd - Prof. Paul Hasler,
Georgia Institute of technology, "Analog signal processing
for low-power sensor systems" Host prof. Eugenio
Culurciello.
2006
Thursday February 23rd - Teresa Ko,
Sandia National Laboratories, Hosts: Andreas Savvides and
Eugenio Culurciello.
2006
Wednesday February 22nd, "Neuromorphic Vision Systems",
Prof. Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Johns
Hopkins University. Host prof. Eugenio Culurciello.
2006
Thu. February 16th, "ICs at Light Speed: Merging VLSI with
Photonics", Prof. Alyssa Apsel,
Cornell University. Host prof. Eugenio Culurciello.
2006
Wed., January 18th - Prof. Iris Bahar,
Brown University. Host prof. Yiorgos Makris "Designing
Noise-Tolerant Circuits using Principles of Markov
Random
Fields".
2005
Wed., Nov. 30 "Aristotle's Dream: A language for actions -
the Behaviorome project" Prof.
Yiannis Aloimonos, Computer Vision Laboratory, University
of Maryland. Host. Prof. Andreas Savvides and Eugenio
Culurciello.
2004
Fri., Sept. 24, Prof. Sudhakar
Reddy,Electrical and Computer Engineering Department,
University of Iowa, "Post
Layout Scan Chain Ordering to Increase Fault Coverage by
Two-Pattern Tests," Host. Prof.
Yiorgos Makris.
2004
Thurs., Nov. 4, "Development of a MEMS Testing
Methodology," Prof. Ronald (Shawn)
Blanton, Electrical andComputer Engineering Department,
Carnegie Mellon University. Host: Prof. Yiorgos Makris.
2004
Thurs., Dec. 2, "Low Cost Alternate Testing of
Analog/Mixed-Signal/RF Circuits and Systems: Fault Models and
Test Strategies," Prof. Abhijit
Chatterjee, School of Electrical and ComputerEngineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology. Host: Prof. Yiorgos
Makris.
2004 Friday, Dec. 10, "Taming Complexity
Through Abstraction and Hierarchy Applications to Test and
Verification," Prof. Jacob A.
Abraham, Computer Engineering Research Center, The
University of Texas at Austin. Host Prof. Yiorgos Makris
2003
Tues., April 15, "Design for Reliability in Sub-100nm
Technologies," Prof. Martin Margala,
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester.
Host: Prof. Yiorgos Makris.
2002
Wed., Dec. 4, "Minimum Dynamic Power CMOS Circuits,"
Dr.
Vishwani D. Agrawal,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, NJ. Host: Prof. Yiorgos Makris.
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