Restoration of Sensory and Motor Function Symposium 2016

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Final Program

(pdfFull program, latest update: May 25th, 2016)

Day 1, Thursday, May 26th, 2016, Sensory Restoration

08:30 – 09:00 Reception
09:00 – 09:10 Opening remarks: Ulf Diederichsen, University of Göttingen, Sebastian Freytag , University Medical Center Göttingen, Tobias Moser, Physics to Medicine
09:15 – 11:15 Session 1: Restoration of Hearing (Chair: Tobias Moser, Göttingen)
09:15 - 10:00 Ingeborg Hochmair
“Hearing Restoration via Cochlear Implants: State of the Art, Current Challenges and Limitations”
10:00 – 10:30 Marcus Jeschke
“Developing cochlear optogenetics for auditory research and future prosthetics”
10:30 – 11:15 Hinrich Staecker
“Initial experiences in gene delivery to the human inner ear.”
11:15 – 11:45 Posters and Coffee
11:45 – 13:15 Session 2: Restoration of Vision (Chair: Tim Gollisch, Göttingen)
11:45– 12:30 Ernst Bamberg
“Optogenetics: Basics, Applications, Chances.”
12:30 – 13:15 Sonja Kleinlogel
“Light in Sight: Optogenetic gene therapy to recover vision.”
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch break
14:15 – 14:45 Posters and Coffee
14:45 – 16:45 Session 3: Maintenance and Restoration of Sensory Perception (Chair: Sebastian Kügler, Göttingen)
14:45 – 15:30 José Sahel
“Extending cone photoreceptors functional life in retinal degenerations, from neuroprotection to restoration.”
15:30 – 16:00 Christian Wrobel
"Cochlear optogenetics in postnatally AAV transduced Mongolian gerbils"
16:00 – 16:45 Volker Busskamp
"miRNAs 182 and 183 Are Necessary to Maintain Adult Cone Photoreceptor Outer Segments and Visual Function."
16:45 – 17:15 Posters and Coffee
17:15 – 19:15 Session 4: Neural stimulation in Sensory Protheses (Chair: Manuela Schmidt, Göttingen)
17:15 – 18:00 Malte Tiburcy

“Individualized Heart Muscle Repair”

18:00 – 18:30 Daniel Keppeler
“Characterizing cochlear morphology and preliminary insertion studies with multichannel optical CIs”
18:30 – 19:15 Patrick Ruther
“MEMS-based technologies for optogenetic applications.”
Speakers' Dinner


Day 2, Friday, May 27th, 2016, Motor Restoration

09:00 – 09:15 Opening remarks by Dario Farina
09:15– 10:45 Session 5: Brain Computer Interfaces (Chair: Dario Farina, Göttingen)
09:15 – 10:00 Hansjörg Scherberger
“Cortical interfaces for grasping”
10:00 – 10:45 Klaus-Robert Müller

“Machine Learning and Brain Computer Interfacing”

10:45 – 11:15 Posters and Coffee
11:15 – 13:15

Session 6: Limb Prosthetics (Chair: David Liebetanz, Göttingen)

11:15 – 12:00 Oskar Aszmann
“Bionic Reconstruction of the Upper Extremity”
12:00 – 12:45 Max Ortiz Catalan

“Prosthetic control and sensory feedback using implanted neuromuscular interfaces and osseointegration”

12:45 – 13:15 Lucia Seminara

“Sensitive Electronic Skin for Prosthetics”

13:15 – 14:15 Lunch break
14:15 – 14:45 Posters and Coffee
14:45 – 16:45 Session 7: Regeneration and Restoration (Chair: Walter Paulus, Göttingen)
14:45 – 15:30 Dejan Popovic
“Motor neuroprosthesis: a tool for neurorehabilitation”
15:30 – 16:00 Dirk Czesnik

“Increased HCN channel driven inward rectification in benign cramp fasciculation syndrome”

16:00 – 16:45 Stanisa Raspopovic
“Speaking the language of nerves by intraneural stimulation restores force, shape, compliance and roughness recognition to amputees”
16:45 – 17:15 Posters and Coffee

17:15 – 17:40

Closing remarks by Tobias Moser
19:15 – 21:30 Public Forum / Pauliner Kirche (Chair: Meike Schweisfurth)

(pdfFull program, latest update: May 25th, 2016