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BSAC Seminar: Decomposition of µECoG Signals for Facilitating Wireless BMI Applications

December 4, 2012
Brian Pepin Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley BSAC Graduate Student Researcher December 4, 2012 | 12:30 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Michel Maharbiz

Fabricating micro-electrocorticography (µECoG) arrays with transparent oxide for the electrodes enables optical stimulation/readout of cortical neurons while simultaneously recording electro-physiological signals on the cortical surface via the µECoG array electrodes. The resulting hybrid optical/electrical system can be used to decompose and...

BSAC Seminar: Imaging Through Complex Media Using Digital Holography

December 11, 2012
Prof. Demetri Psaltis Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Dean of the Engineering Schools December 11, 2012 | 04:00 to 05:00 | 490 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Ming Wu

There has been significant progress in recent years in imaging through complex (e.g., scattering) media by operating in the digital domain. The optical fields are digitized through holography and complex optical wavefronts are reintroduced in the optical domain via spatial light modulators. This approach offers the flexibility of processing the fields while they...

BSAC Seminar: High-Tech Startups in Switzerland

January 15, 2013
Dr. Niels Quack Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley January 15, 2013 | 12:00 to 12:30 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Ming Wu

Switzerland has an amazingly dynamic and fruitful startup scene. During the past 5 years, about 100,000 (!) companies have been founded in Switzerland. Since 2011, a consortium of 100 experts selects every year the top 100 startups out of these 100,000. The 2012 selection was published at the end of October (www.startup.ch)....

BSAC Seminar: Ultra-Sensitive Micro- and Nanotechnologies for Low Cost Healthcare

January 22, 2013
Dr. Mehdi Javanmard Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University Stanford Genome Technology Center January 22, 2013 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Michel Maharbiz

The high cost of diagnostic exams in the clinical setting has resulted in a healthcare crisis both nationally and globally. The lack of sensitivity in current state-of-the-art biosensing platforms used in the clinical setting has resulted in slow and expensive diagnostic exams. This makes it economically unfeasible to regularly screen patients for a wide...

BSAC Seminar: Biointerfaced Nanodevices

January 29, 2013
Prof. Michael McAlpine Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pinceton University January 29, 2013 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Ali Javey

The development of a method for interfacing high performance devices with flexible, stretchable, and biocompatible materials could yield breakthroughs in implantable or wearable systems. Yet, most high quality materials are hard or rigid in nature, and the crystallization of these materials generally requires high temperatures for maximally efficient performance. These properties...

BSAC Seminar: Microtechnology for Interfacing with the Nervous System

February 26, 2013
Prof. Justin Williams Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison Neural Interface Technology Reserach and Optimization (NITRO) Lab February 26, 2013 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Michel Maharbiz

The brain has always been attractive to engineers. Neurons and their connections, like tiny circuit elements, process and transmit information in a dramatic way that is intimately curious to researchers in the computer science and engineering fields. Science has made great strides in the past few...

BSAC Seminar: Smart Microsystems Based on Piezoelectric and Thermoelectric Transduction

February 19, 2013
Dr. Erkan Aktakka Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan February 19, 2013 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Michel Maharbiz

The rapid advances in solid-state electronics have opened a new era on how we interact with our environment. Micro transducers play an important role in this development by functionalizing the electronic devices to sense, transfer or respond to environmental or user data inputs. Within this context, smart materials can enable unique energy transduction mechanisms...

BSAC Seminar: Gangnam Style in Biologically-Inspired Microscale Robotic Systems

March 19, 2013
Prof. MinJun Kim Department of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, Drexel University March 19, 2013 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Luke Lee

Bacterial chemotaxis is widely studied to understand cells’ response to a stress environment. A cell is controlled by more than 40 genes in over 14 operons that produce proteins for the structural components of the flagella, the flagellar motor, transmembrane receptors and signal transduction. The signal transduction...

BSAC Seminar: Smart Central Venous Port for Early Detection of Bacterial Biofilm-Related Infections

March 12, 2013
Dr. Jacobo Paredes Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley BSAC Postdoctoral Researcher March 12, 2013 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Dorian Liepmann

Central venous catheters (CVC) are commonly used in clinical practice to improve a patient's quality of life. Unfortunately, there is an intrinsic risk of acquiring an infection related to microbial biofilm formation inside the catheter lumen. It has been estimated that 80% of all human bacterial infections are biofilm-associated. Additionally, 50% of all nosocomial...

BSAC Seminar: Solar Energy Conversion by Overall Water Splitting Using Powder-Form Heterogeneous Photocatalysts

April 2, 2013
Prof. Kazuhiro Takanabe King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Division of Physical Sciences & Engineering, KAUST Catalysis Center, Saudi Arabia April 2, 2013 | 12:30 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Liwei Lin

Extensive energy conversion of solar energy can only be achieved by large-scale collection of solar flux. The technology that satisfies this requirement must be as simple as possible to reduce capital cost. Overall water splitting by powder-form photocatalysts directly produces a mixture of H2 and O2 (...