6/14/06: Meeting Minutes

NETI : NeuroEngineering Training Initiative
Meeting Minutes : June 14, 2006

Important Notes / Assignments

1. Curriculum meeting with Dr. Xiaoqin Wang on 6/28: type up a list of classes you've taken, noting the books you needed and the content gleaned and email to Debbie Castillo and Issel Lim by 9p on 6/27. Debbie will send out a reminder / confirmation email for the meeting time next week.

2. Send progress reports to Christina Randall (rchris10@jhu.edu); see specific fields under the meeting minutes.

3. Summer seminar: current students will present current projects for one hour; lunch provided. Misti Marr will send out a schedule this week.

4. Send links for journals, websites, conferences, websites for classes taken to Issel.

5. Officer positions. (If you would like to help out and/or organize a specific event, please let Debbie, Issel, or Misti know.)

Officers
Weekly Meetings: Wednesdays at 1:00p
Seminar Series
Summer: Student Presentations on Rotations/Papers: Misti Marr
Fall: Student/Faculty Presentations on Neuroengineering Opportunities: Issel Lim
Curriculum Meeting with Dr. Xiaoqin Wang on 6/28 at 1p
Type up your curriculum by 6/27
Website: Suggestions
Send content suggestions/links: conferences, seminars, journals, abstracts
Send progress reports to Christina Randall and Issel Lim
Other Updates
NETI: NeuroEngineering Training Initiative
NIH/NIBIB
Lounge
T-Shirts
People Currently on the NETI Grant

NETI : NeuroEngineering Training Initiative
Meeting Minutes : June 14, 2006

Attendees:
Andrew Cassidy, Deborah Castillo, Issel Lim, Misti Marr, Christina Randall, Minnan Xu

Officers
President: Deborah Castillo
Responsibilities:
- Older member who has been on the training grant and can guide/direct/advise new members
- Organizes meeting times

Vice Presidents: Issel Lim (organizational) and Misti Marr (financial)
Responsibilities: Organizational
- Current member who sends out e-mail reminders, takes care of any paperwork, etc.
- PhD Council Representative for BME

Responsibilities: Financial
- Current member who organizes financial aspects, bookkeeping, food, reimbursements.

Secretary: Issel Lim
(In the fall, this position will be held by an incoming first year.)
Responsibilities
- Notes / meeting minutes and sends them out to the club, publicity.

Treasurer: Misti Marr
(In the fall, this position will be passed to an incoming first year.)
Responsibilities
- Handles receipts and reimbursements.

Web Editors: Andrew Cassidy (HTML) and Issel Lim (content/categorization)

Weekly Meetings: Wednesdays at 1:00p
Alternating between the Hopkins campuses.
Misti will send out a sign-up schedule soon.
One of the officers will send out email reminders a day in advance.
JHMI
Talbot 709 / Talbot Library
Ross 529 / Hearing Science Center
Homewood
Clark 110
Maryland 221

Seminar Series
Summer: Student Presentations on Rotations/Papers: Misti Marr
One student per week, presenting work in a seminar format for an hour.
Explain what you’re doing in lab, with pictures/posters/presentations.
Send out a background paper the week before you present.
Misti will email out the schedule; email her with any questions.

1. Misti: scheduling rooms
2. Christina: orders food for Homewood
3. Debbie: orders foods for Med School
4. Lunch will be provided at these seminars.

Fall: Student/Faculty Presentations on Neuroengineering Opportunities: Issel Lim
September:
1. Welcoming new students: group dinner/lunch or picnic.
2. Introductory lectures: three speakers per one hour seminar
a. BME faculty will give an overview of their research, rotation projects, etc.
b. NETI students will give an overview of their research, class advice, etc.
3. Informal journal club, run by the students for the students.


Curriculum Meeting with Dr. Xiaoqin Wang on 6/28 at 1p
Curriculum meeting with Dr. Xiaoqin Wang on 6/28: type up a list of classes you've taken, noting the books you needed and the content gleaned and email to Debbie Castillo and Issel Lim by 9p on 6/27. Debbie will send out a reminder / confirmation email for the meeting time next week.

Type up your curriculum by 6/27.
Include: the classes you've taken, books you've needed or not needed, and a summary of the important points you've gleaned from the class.
These suggestions and notes will be placed on the NETI website after the meeting on 6/28.


Website: Suggestions
Send content suggestions/links to Andrew Cassidy and Issel Lim: conferences, seminars, journals, abstracts
- Thank you to Andrew and Francesco for posting updated information and biosketches.
- Group content by categories: faculty, conferences, etc.
- Include minutes from meetings.
- Change "six classes per semester" to "three to four classes per semester," and list link for BME PhD Handbook (http://www.bme.jhu.edu/academics/phd/phdstudhandbook/coursework.htm) and/or EECS handbook.
- Seminars (a list of seminars on Homewood and JHMI)
- Conferences: group by local or international, and by category
(Christina will send her spreadsheet to Issel and Andrew, who will put it on the site.)
- Curriculum: will list class websites and summaries from the meeting with Dr. Wang
- Journals (email relevant journals/resources/useful links to Issel)
- People:
Each person has his/her own page/profile.
Differentiate between the lab webpage versus the personal webpage.
List abstracts, progress reports.
Send progress reports to Christina Randall and Issel Lim
(Christina will organize these for Dr. Thakor. Issel will edit these and send to Andrew to place on the NETI website.)
Name:
Email:
Position/Title:
Incoming Year:
Years on Training Grant Funding:
Websites (lab, personal):
Research Interests:
Classes (taken, planning to take next year):
Training (microscopes, animal research, etc):
Methods/Techniques (that you use and could teach someone via collaboration; e.g., "spinal cord coculture" or "microfabrication"):
Conferences (attended, planning to attend):
Meetings and Workshops (NIBIB, etc):
Educational Background (alumni from where, major, minor, concentration):
Lab Experience at JHU (rotations, current lab):
Awards:
Publications at JHU w/ NETI Funding (title/abstracts, links to papers online):
Publications w/o NETI Funding (title/abstracts, links to papers online):

Other Updates

NETI: NeuroEngineering Training Initiative
From the "Neuroengineering Training Grant" to the "NeuroEngineering Training Initiative," we are now "NETI." Kudos to Christina for thinking up the title! Now, it's time to go national...

NIH/NIBIB
Misti, Andrew, Christina, and Debbie were planning to go to this meeting, which was last Friday. They can include results from this on their progress reports.

Lounge
We would like to create a space for NETI members to gather and meet, either at JHMI or Homewood, and where we can also store notes or tests from previous classes. If you've got an idea for the lounge (where to put it, what to put in it), send an email to Debbie Castillo, Issel Lim, and Misti Marr.

T-Shirts
If you've got a logo idea for the T-shirt, email Issel. Issel will create a T-shirt this summer, and hopefully have it to the rest of the trainees in September, in time for the BME retreat. Ideas, as well as company information for T-shirt makers, would be quite appreciated.