8:30 – 9:15 AM

Plenary Talk:
Advanced Technologies for Neuro Rehabilitation

Zev Rymer

9:15 - 10:00

Plenary Talk:
Engineering Memories: A Neural Prosthesis for Memory

Ted Berger

10:00 – 10:30

BREAK

10:30 – 11:15

Plenary Talk:
How can robots outperform conventional therapy?

Robert Riener

11:15 - 12:00

Plenary Talk:
Fast Prediction of Movement Intention: An MRCP based Brain Computer Interface

Natalie Mrachacz-Kersting

12:00 -13:30

LUNCH

13:30 – 14:15

Plenary Talk:
Neuro-Mechanical Constraints for the Understanding of the Pathological Gait

Yasin Dhaher

14:15 - 15:00

Plenary Talk:
Reading and Writing the Neural Code: Initial Steps toward Reverse-engineering the Brain

Qi Wang

15:00 – 15:30

BREAK

15:30 – 16:15

Plenary Talk: Bionic Reconstruction for Restoring High Functionality of Upper Limb Control

Dario Farina

16:15 – 17:15

PANEL DISCUSSION

8:30 - 9:15

Plenary Talk:
Synthesizing Thought - The European Human Brain Project

Karlheinz Meier

9:15 - 10:00

Plenary Talk:
Quantitative Cell Dynamics

Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin

10:00 – 10:30

BREAK

10:30 – 11:15

Plenary Talk:
Photonic Healthcare Monitoring

Zeev Zalevsky

11:15 - 12:00

Plenary Talk:
Pancreatic Tissue Engineering

Kaiming Ye

12:00 – 13:30

LUNCH

13:30 – 14:15

Plenary Talk:
Electro-Microfluidic Platform for Lab-on-a-Chip Applications

Shih-Kang Fan

14:15 – 15:00

Plenary Talk:
Implantable Micro-Photonics Technologies for Biomedical Applications

Jun Ohta

15:00 – 15:30

BREAK

15:30 – 16:30

PANEL DISCUSSION

8:00 - 8:30

Invited Talk:
Biophysical Regulation of Epigenetic State and Cell Reprogramming

Tim Downing

8:30 - 9:00

Invited Talk:
Pathogen Discovery in Human Tissue: A Study of Conjunctival Squamous Cell Carcinoma Specimens from Malawi

Diana Cai

9:00 – 9:30

Invited Talk:
Environmentally Triggered Nanoparticles for Efficient and Cancer-Specific siRNA Delivery to Primary Human Glioblastoma

Kristen Kozielski 

9:30 – 10:00

Invited Talk:
Robust Detection of Nucleic Acids

Luvena Ong

10:00 – 10:30

BREAK

10:30 – 11:00

Invited Talk:
Early Tumor-Associated Fibronectin Matrices Promote the Development of a Tumor Microenvironment

Karin Wang

11:00 – 11:30

Invited Talk:
Biomanufacture of Embryonic Stem Cell Phenotype and Trophic Factor Secretion via Alginate Microencapsulation

Mohamed Ali Najia

11:30 – 12:00

Invited Talk:
Nanomaterials for Circulating Tumor Cell Isolation and Therapeutic Targeting in the Bloodstream

Michael Mitchell

12:00 – 12:30

Invited Talk:
Rewiring Bacterial Communication for Medicine

Hoang “Jack” Lu

12:30 – 13:30

LUNCH

13:45

AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY CAMPUS VISIT/SIGHTSEEING

8:30 - 9:15

Plenary Talk:
When Will We Understand the Human Genome? The Sequencing Hype and the Real Impact for Life Science Research, Clinical Medicine and Biomedical Industry

Frank Eisenhaber

9:15 - 10:00

Plenary Talk:
Making Sense of Biomedical Big Data:
New Frontiers in Patient-Centric and Personalized Health Care

May Wang

10:00 – 10:30

BREAK

10:30 – 11:15

Plenary Talk:
How to Relate Biomolecular Sequences with Phenotypes via Biological Mechanisms?

Birgit Eisenhaber

11:15 – 12:00

Plenary Talk:
 Structured Illumination and
the Analysis of Single Molecules in Cells

Rainer Heintzmann

12:00 – 13:30

LUNCH

13:30 - 14:15

Plenary Talk:
Medical Mobile Robots From Pill-size Down to Micron Scale

Metin Sitti

14:15 – 15:00

Plenary Talk:
Exploratory Visual Analytics of Clinico-Genomic Trial Data for Personalized Medicine

Yuzuru Tanaka

15:00 - 15:30

BREAK

15:30 – 16:30

PANEL DISCUSSION

8:30 - 9:15

Plenary Talk:

Andrew Schwartz

9:15 – 10:00

Plenary Talk:
Learning and Exploiting Recurrent Patterns in Neural Data

Jose Principe

10:00 - 10:30

BREAK

10:30 – 11:15

Plenary Talk:
Flexible Sensors and Efficient Dynamic Signal Processing Methods to Advance the Interplay between Neuroscience and Engineering

Todd Coleman

11:15 - 12:00

Plenary Talk:
Optical Tools for Decoding Neural Population Activity

Simon Schultz

12:00 – 13:30

LUNCH

13:30 – 14:15

Plenary Talk:
The Quest for a Bionic Hand: Recent Achievements and Future Perspectives

Silvestro Micera

14:15 – 15:00

Plenary Talk:
Coherent 3D Microscopy as an Advanced Imaging Tool for Bio-microfluidics Lab-on-Chip Platforms

Pietro Ferraro

15:00 - 15:30

BREAK

15:30 – 16:30

PANEL DISCUSSION