Meeting Minutes, 6-27-2007

Meeting Minutes
Neuroengineering Training Grant
6/27/07

Attendance: Andrew Cassidy, Gabriel Colon, Natan Davidovics, Issel Lim, Misti Marr, Christopher Smith, Aaron Wong, Dr. Nitish Thakor

Training Grant
N. Thakor discussed things to be kept in mind with regards to the Neuroengineering Training Grant. The grant will need to be renewed next May. In particular, progress should be tracked in the following areas: records of individuals on or previously on the grant, things the group is doing that stand out, seminars or journal clubs that NETI members participate in, suggested curriculum tracks, passion-driven initiatives, and faculty participation. To that end, N. Thakor agreed to assist in obtaining funds for the Essay Contest awards.

Sumer Seminar Series
A. Cassidy presented his eye-opening work on “Color Single Opponent Vision Processing.”

Next Meeting
As next Wednesday, July 4th, is a holiday, the next meeting is scheduled for July 11th. G. Colon therefore has an extra week to come up with a presentation!

Meeting Minutes, 6-20-2007

Meeting Minutes
Neuroengineering Training Grant
6/20/07

Attendance: Nasir Bhanpuri, Andrew Cassidy, Luke Johnson, Issel Lim, Misti Marr, Christopher Smith, Aaron Wong

Clinical Neuroscience
M. Marr talked to her PI, Dr. John McDonald, who was ecstatic about the clinical neuroscience concept. He suggested shadowing a clinician for an hour watching surguries, conducting an interview, and also possibly taking a tour of his affiliated biotech company, RTI. RTI is engaged in cycling rehabilitation. Once the write-up is complete, suggestions are to submit it to the BME Instrumentation class as an idea for their design project, or to send it to a group of design engineers within Hopkins. N. Davidovics was volunteered to undertake the further organization and planning of this endeavor.

Essay Scholarship Contest
Funding is to be brought up at the Ph.D. council meeting regarding securing additional funds to support the essay contest. If additional funding cannot be secured, then we will consider utilizing the funds already allocated to NETI from the Ph.D. council for food and other expenses.

Summer Seminar Series
M. Marr gave a delightful presentation on her work: “Development of an ES cell line to measure neural activity following electrical stimulation in culture and in vivo.”

Next Meeting
The next meeting will take place Wednesday, June 27th, at 1pm in the Hearing Science Library unless otherwise notified. We look forward to a discussion by A. Cassidy at that time