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SUMMARY:Graduate Seminar Series: Clinical Stream - Taseen Jawad
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: Selective recording in human median nerve using CNNs – A simulation study\nAbstract: Limb loss\, specifically hand amputations can result in significant reduction in the quality of life of people. While modern prosthetics exist that are capable of performing the operations of the human hand\, controlling the limb is often cumbersome and a primary factor in prosthetic abandonment. This study attempts to expand on selective recording methods that have been applied to rat sciatic nerves. These methods are used on data derived from extraneural implants which is a type of neural interface for peripheral nerves. Previous works are expanded by applying the methodologies to more complex human median nerves in contrast to rat sciatic nerves. Due to the application of convolutional neural networks as part of the pipeline\, a simulation of the median nerve is be the method of investigation and simulated action potentials are used to train the algorithm. The aim of this study is to use modelled extraneural electrode data of simulated action potentials to isolate the source fascicles within the nerve responsible for the action potential.\nSupervisor Name: Jose Zariffa\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: MASc\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 - Adam Gravitis
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: Ictal ECG-based assessment of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy\nAbstract: We discuss a metric for assessing SUDEP risk from ECG recordings using SSA-ICA and phase-phase cross frequency coupling (PPC). This metric expands traditional ECG features (heart rate\, heart rate variability\, QT interval) for cardiac investigations. The metric reveals significant differences between SUDEP and non-SUDEP for generalized seizures\, but not focal seizures.\nSupervisor Name: Berj Bardakjian\nYear of Study: 3\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-adam-gravitis/
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SUMMARY:Graduate Seminar Series: Cell and Tissue Stream - Erik Jacques
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Seminar Series: Cell and Tissue Stream\nGraduate Seminar Series for the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME). This day is for cell and tissue 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: A 3D biomimetic culture assay models MuSC quiescence\nAbstract: Adult skeletal muscle harbors a population of muscle stem cells (MuSCs) that are required to repair or reform multinucleated myofibers after tissue injury. In youth\, MuSCs return to a reversible state of cell cycle arrest termed ‘quiescence’ after injury resolution. By contrast\, a proportion of MuSCs in aged muscle remain in a semi-activated state\, causing a premature response to subsequent injury cues that results in incomplete tissue repair and eventual stem cell depletion. Regulation of the balance between MuSC quiescence and activation in youth and in age may hold the key to restoring tissue homeostasis with age\, but is incompletely understood. To fill this gap\, we developed a simple and tractable in vitro method\, with a 96-well footprint\, to rapidly inactivate MuSCs freshly isolated from young skeletal muscle tissue\, and return them to a quiescent-like state for at least one-week. This was achieved by introducing MuSCs into a three-dimensional (3D) bioartificial niche comprised of a thin sheet of multinucleated myotubes\, which we iterate\, and analyze temporally\, to show that these in vivo niche features provide the minimal cues necessary to inactivate MuSCs and induce quiescence.\nSupervisor Name: Dr. Penney Gilbert\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
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-seminar-series-cell-and-tissue-stream-erik-jacques/
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SUMMARY:OncoSim – A Free Cancer Simulation Tool to Advance Cancer Control
DESCRIPTION:CARTE Industry Speaker Seminar Series welcome Jean Yong and Dr. Rochelle Garner\, for an in-person industry speaker seminar. \nTopic: OncoSim – A Free Cancer Simulation Tool to Advance Cancer Control \nDate and Time: Friday Feb 3\, 2023 (12:00 – 1:00 PM EST) \nSpeakers: Jean Yong (Canadian Partnership Against Cancer) and Dr. Rochelle Garner (Statistics Canada) \nRegistration: Please register by filling out this form. Capacity is limited. Please register early to avoid disappointment. \nVenue: Sandford Fleming Building (10 King’s College Rd\, Toronto\, ON M5S 3G4)\, Room 3201 \nAbstract: Simulation models are essential tools for evaluating healthcare interventions; however\, developing these complex models is resource-intensive\, and the results may not be timely for informing policy decisions. OncoSim is the only cancer simulation tool that is available for free to users; they can modify the model inputs to answer their policy questions. Combining Canadian data from the real world\, expert opinion and clinical trials\, OncoSim projects health and economic outcomes and attributes them to 19 risk factors\, such as smoking and physical inactivity. OncoSim currently models four cancer sites and related screening programs in detail (breast\, colorectal\, lung and cervical cancers) and provides high-level projections for 25 other cancer sites. OncoSim’s projections have helped inform cancer control planning decisions across Canada. In this presentation\, we will introduce OncoSim and share our experience in developing and maintaining a cancer simulation tool aimed at informing policy decisions. \nLearning Objectives: \n\nTo learn about OncoSim – a microsimulation model built with Canadian data to inform cancer control policy decisions\nTo learn about the experience of developing and maintaining disease-based simulation models (how are they different than the conventional models built to answer one specific question?)\n To learn about the successes and challenges in keeping disease-based models useful for policymakers\n\n  \nSpeakers Bios: \nJean Yong: Jean completed her training in Operations Research and Health Economics at the University of Toronto. She has more than 15 years’ experience in generating evidence to inform healthcare resource allocation decisions. In addition to developing Markov models for health technology assessments\, she has worked on a discrete event simulation model to manage surgical resources\, a data portal and a spatial web application for infectious disease planning\, and disease-based simulation models built to answer different policy questions. \nRochelle Garner: Rochelle received her doctorate in epidemiology from McMaster University in 2007. She started her post-doctoral career conducting population health research in the Health Analysis Division at Statistics Canada\, with a particular focus on statistical methods and novel analytic approaches. She is presently the manager of the Microsimulation and Modelling Section in the Heath Analysis Division at StatCan\, where her team develops and maintains microsimulation models\, including OncoSim and POHEM\, and other epidemiological and predictive models.
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/oncosim-a-free-cancer-simulation-tool-to-advance-cancer-control/
LOCATION:Sandford Fleming Building\, 10 King's College Rd\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 3G4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:"Radiance" - TEDxUofT 2023 Conference
DESCRIPTION:Bringing the very best of UofT together.\n\n\nLike a radiant light\, ideas originate from an individual to a community\, providing a presence felt by the ears\, the eyes\, and the mind. TEDxUofT is proud to bring back our first in-person conference since 2019 in an entirely new context of a post-COVID world. From decrypting the art of networking to learning how to think positively in the face of adversity\, to student leaders breaking stories through journalism\, our expertly curated masters of their craft are bringing their radiance to the University of Toronto. \nDoors Open: 9:30am \nThere will be intermissions during the show. \nTEDxUofT is committed to creating an accessible space; for special accessibility needs\, please email chiefofstaff@tedxuoft.com \nUse code earlybird through the end of December for 10% off your tickets!
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/radiance-tedxuoft-2023-conference/
LOCATION:Isabel Bader Theatre\, 93 Charles Street West\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 2C7\, Canada
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