Monday, June 16th
8:30 am | Breakfast
9 am | Welcome – Norm Beauchamp, EVP Georgetown University Medical Center; Josef Rauschecker & Max Riesenhuber, CNE Co-Directors; Gordon Cheng, TUM
9:30 am | Max Riesenhuber – summer school overview
10 am | Gordon Cheng – “Fusion of Neuroscience and Humanoid Robotics for better health”
11 am | Coffee Break
11:30 am | Josef Rauschecker – “Crossmodal plasticity and sensory substitution
12:30 pm | Lunch
1:30 pm | Tina Liu – “Transcranial Electrical Stimulation for Enhancing Visual Perception and Plasticity in Humans”
2:30 pm | Mark Burns – “Transcranial Electrical Stimulation for Enhancing Learning and Memory in Rodent Models”
3:30 pm | Coffee Break
4 pm | Joan Orpella – “Inner speaking: representations and mechanisms”
Evening | Welcome Reception
Tuesday, June 17th
8:30 am | Breakfast
9 am | Matt Leonard – “Speech and language computation in the human superior temporal gyrus: Implications for neuroprostheses”
10 am | Peter Turkeltaub – “Understanding mechanisms of aphasia recovery to improve neuromodulatory treatments”
11 am | Coffee Break
11:30 am | Nick Theodore – Talk: “Engineering the Future of Spine Surgery”
12:30 pm | Lunch and Discussion Panel, chaired by Carlo Tornatore, Regional Chief of Neurology for MedStar Health – “The future of neuroengineering in the clinic”
1:30 pm | Simon Jacob – “Right-hemispheric language processing in aphasia at single-neuron resolution”
2:30 pm | Mak Paranjape – Talk/Workshop Intro
3:30 pm | Coffee Break
4 pm | Workshop Kickoff
Evening | Evening Social Activity
Wednesday, June 18th
8:30 am | Breakfast
9 am | Bernhard Wolfrum – “Self-folding small peripheral nerve interface”
10 am | Razi Haque – “Flexible Microfabricated Neural Interface Systems”
11 am | Coffee Break
11:30 am | Cristina Piazza – “Motor Synergies for Bionic Limb Integration”
12:30 pm | Student poster session and lunch
2:30 pm | Dan Sulmasy – “From bioethics to neuroethics”
3:10 pm | Marcello Ienca – “From Ethics of Neuroengineering to Ethics in Neuroengineering”
3:50 pm | Neuroethics panel & discussion
4:30 pm | Workshops
Evening | Reception
Friday, June 20th
8:30 am | Breakfast
9 am | Can Dincer – “CRISPR-powered biosensors for point-of-care testing of neurologic disorders”
10 am | Rebekah Evans – “Boosting the effects of exercise to restore brain function”
11am | Coffee Break
11:30 | Tatiana Litvin-Vechnyak – “Intellectual Property 101 – why it matters”
12:30 | Lunch – Workshop presentations
1:30 | Workshop presentations
2:30 | Wrap-up