(Full program, latest update: May 25th, 2016)
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 |
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) |