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SUMMARY:Graduate Seminar Series: Clinical Stream - Stefanie Bradley
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Seminar Series: Clinical Stream\nGraduate Seminar Series for the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME). This day is for clinical stream presenters.\nIf you would like to invite your Principal Investigator\, please add their email via the ‘Add Guest’ button and they will also be notified of your presentation.\nPresentation Title: Quantifying the neural\, muscular\, and functional gait changes following exoskeleton-powered gait rehabilitation in children with CP and other mobility impairments\nAbstract: Non-ambulatory children with cerebral palsy (CP) and similar childhood-onset neuromotor conditions face many challenges to fulsome participation in everyday life. Recent initial phase research suggests that physiotherapy paired with use of robotic exoskeletons\, such as the Trexo robotic exoskeleton (“The Trexo”; Trexo Robotics\, Canada) provides a novel opportunity for children with severe mobility challenges to experience active walking that is individualized to their movement potential (guiding and powering leg movements) and upright support needs. This before-and-after study is assessing the first-time experience of 12 non-ambulatory children (ages 4-6) using the exoskeleton for 6 weeks of twice weekly physiotherapy sessions\, and evaluate associated brain\, muscle and functional outcomes including accomplishment of individualized goals. To study clinical feasibility\, we are simultaneously capturing physiotherapists’ (PTs) and PT assistants’ (PTAs) training/learning/user experiences with the exoskeleton’s first time use within our center’s out-patient program and on-site affiliated school.\nSupervisor Name: Dr. Tom Chau\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: PhD\nZoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89610372821?pwd=azd4SCtYVWtreVovaGNPV1c2NGY2Zz09\nMeeting ID: 896 1037 2821\nPassword: 483329\nPowered by Calendly.com
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SUMMARY:Graduate Seminar Series: Clinical Stream - Aisha Raji
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Seminar Series: Clinical Stream\nGraduate Seminar Series for the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME). This day is for clinical stream presenters.\nIf you would like to invite your Principal Investigator\, please add their email via the ‘Add Guest’ button and they will also be notified of your presentation.\nPresentation Title: Feasibility of a Collaborative Robot for Retraining Reaching and Grasping Functions in Stroke and Spinal Cord Injury\nAbstract:\nStroke and spinal cord injury (SCI) are causes of neurological disability that prominently affect the upper extremity. Across all ages\, these disabilities negatively impact an individual’s quality of life\, increase independence\, and has an enormous financial implication on both the individuals and the economy.\nRehabilitation is crucial in reducing morbidity and improving functional independence. Robot-assisted therapy (RT) is one of the strategies used to assist individuals within these populations in restoring their lost hand function. However\, there is presently no evidence that robot-assisted therapy alone is superior to existing conventional therapies. Our goal is to develop a new application for using robots to retrain reaching and grasping functions of the upper extremity among individuals with stroke and SCI. For this purpose\, the UR5e collaborative robot will be used alongside objects in the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute – Hand Function Test (TRI-HFT) to assist individuals perform various activities of daily living and to see if this approach will be efficient in making robot-assisted therapy more effective than other conventional therapies for upper extremity rehabilitation.\nSupervisor Name: Dr. Milos Popovic and Dr. Cesar Marquez-Chin\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: PhD\nZoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89610372821?pwd=azd4SCtYVWtreVovaGNPV1c2NGY2Zz09\nMeeting ID: 896 1037 2821\nPassword: 483329\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-seminar-series-clinical-stream-aisha-raji-3/
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SUMMARY:Graduate Seminar Series: Clinical Stream - Reza Basiri
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Seminar Series: Clinical Stream\nGraduate Seminar Series for the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME). This day is for clinical stream presenters.\nIf you would like to invite your Principal Investigator\, please add their email via the ‘Add Guest’ button and they will also be notified of your presentation.\nPresentation Title: Diabetic Foot Ulcer Detection and Classification\nAbstract: Diabetic Foot Ulcers (DFUs) are deliberating wounds that can result in amputation and lower the quality of life. Automatic detection and classification of these wounds are crucial for at-home therapy and expanding high-quality care. In this project\, we are developing an autonomous deep learning platform to detect and classify DFUs using multi-modal networks.\nSupervisor Name: Dr. Milos Popovic\nYear of Study: 4\nProgram of Study: PhD\nZoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89610372821?pwd=azd4SCtYVWtreVovaGNPV1c2NGY2Zz09\nMeeting ID: 896 1037 2821\nPassword: 483329\nPowered by Calendly.com
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SUMMARY:Graduate Seminar Series: Molecular Stream - Yufeng Wang
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Seminar Series: Molecular Stream\nGraduate Seminar Series for the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME). This day is for molecular stream presenters.\nIf you would like to invite your Principal Investigator\, please add their email via the ‘Add Guest’ button and they will also be notified of your presentation.\nPresentation Title: Design of an Islet-on-a-Chip Device to Dynamically Measure Insulin Secretion from Individual Islets\nAbstract: Glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) from pancreatic islets shows a biphasic pattern. Investigation of temporal dynamics and patterns of GSIS could give insights into mechanisms underlying β-cell function and dysfunction. Here\, we present a novel microfluidic device to detect insulin secretion from individual islets on-chip through miniaturizing a fluorescence anisotropy immunoassay (FAIA). Insulin is co-secreted with c-peptide within ~5-10 min of glucose stimulation. Here we designed a c-peptide sensor with a fluorophore tagged to a synthetic c-peptide fragment and optimized assay parameters to maximize the sensitivity of the FAIA. Subsequently\, a continuous-flow method was applied to monitor reaction kinetics to determine the equilibrium time of the assay. Using the maximum time required to reach equilibrium\, we designed an islet-on-a-chip that captures the islet effluent and sufficiently mixes it with the reagents within the ~100 s residence time. This assay is downstream of the islet and leaves an ideal optical window to simultaneously image islet responses (e.g.\, Ca2+ activity). Ultimately\, this device was used to measure c-peptide secretion from 4 individual mouse pancreatic islets simultaneously. The secretion detected on-chip shows the characteristic biphasic pattern and was further validated with pharmacological activators (ex. tolbutamide) for insulin secretion. In the future\, the islet-on-a-chip could be coupled with other sensors\, such as Ca2+ and oxygen consumption rate sensors to further probe β-cell metabolism.\nSupervisor Name: Dr. Jonathan Rocheleau\nYear of Study: 4\nProgram of Study: PhD\nZoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89610372821?pwd=azd4SCtYVWtreVovaGNPV1c2NGY2Zz09\nMeeting ID: 896 1037 2821\nPassword: 483329\nPowered by Calendly.com
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