Summit Meeting on Chronic Microscale Neural Interfaces: Towards Standards and Benchmarks for an R&D Roadmap
Cleveland InterContinental Hotel and Conference Center
Sunday, June 15, 2008
12:30 – 5:00pm
Organizers:
Center for Neural Communication Technology
Daryl Kipke, Director & William Shain, Associate Director
http://cnct.engin.umich.edu
Recent scientific, clinical and technological advances in chronic neural interfaces are enabling previously unobtainable access to neural signals, leading to new insights into brain function and repair. While each new advance opens up more technology and application areas, the underlying knowledge base becomes even more complex: what works or doesn’t work; what has been tried or not tried; what has been answered or not yet asked? There is both a need and an opportunity for the neural interface community to initiate a broad-based, ‘open-source’ knowledge base involving design guidelines, performance metrics, and common standards to accelerate the development of increasingly more advanced neural interfaces.
The inaugural 2007 CNCT Summit Meeting provided a forum for identifying some of the needs and opportunities for neural interface technologies. Building on the energy and ideas of that meeting, the 2008 CNCT Summit Meeting will center on broad-based, directed discussions of the design and analysis of chronic microscale neural interface technologies for recording and stimulation and neurochemical sensing and delivery. The goals of this meeting are to build an organizational framework for the open-source, collaborative process and begin directed discussions towards design and performance guidelines of various types of neural interface technologies. These activities may be considered the launch of a “Neural Interface Technologies Initiative” that would provide an ongoing community forum.
- Identify & refine initial goals for the Neural Interface Technologies Initiative
- Create charter Working Groups for “Device/Technology Design” and “Performance Analysis”
- Introduce a collaborative, open-source framework for the neural interface community, including a dedicated Wiki
Everyone is invited to participate in the working groups and provide input on goals and topics.
Meeting Details:
Date: Sunday, June 15, 2008 – Satellite meeting to the Neural Interfaces Conference
Time: 12:30pm - 5 pm
Location: Cleveland InterContinental Hotel and Conference Center, Room 204
Cost: Free, but registration required.
Please register at: http://www.cnct.engin.umich.edu/SeminarReg.aspx by June 1, 2008. Registration is free.
The Center for Neural Communication Technology (CNCT) at the University of Michigan develops increasingly more sophisticated implantable devices to interface with the brain. As the premier resource for neural communication technology, CNCT offers a systematic, sequenced research and development program that integrates cutting-edge neurotechnologies with pioneering neuroscience applications to further understanding of brain function and repair to injury and disease.
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