BME Seminar: Philipp Gutruf
Monday, September 27th, 2021, 12:00 pm
Philipp Gutruf
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, the BIO5 Institute and Craig M. Berge Faculty Fellow
"Soft, Wireless, Battery-Free Sensors and Stimulators For Advanced Mechanistic Insight, Diagnostics and Therapeutics"
Keating 103
Live Zoom, passcode: BearDown
(Instructor permission required for enrolled students to attend via Zoom)
ABSTRACT:
Recent advances in materials and fabrication concepts for soft electronics coupled with the miniaturization of wireless energy transfer schemes enable the creation of high-performance electronic and optoelectronic systems with sizes, shapes and physical properties matched to biological systems. Applications range from continuous monitors for health diagnosis to minimally invasive exploratory tools for neuroscience. This seminar explores the creation of such systems and discusses applications in the context of imperceptible body-worn devices for the assessment of health. The seminar will also explore highly miniaturized embodiments featuring advanced capabilities in energy harvesting and photonics to enable deployment as multifunctional sub-dermally implantable neuroscience tools with neuromodulation capabilities in a broad range of freely behaving animal subjects. Specifically, the seminar will explore the use of such tools to record and stimulate cell type-specific neuronal population in the central and peripheral nervous system and explore the health of the musculoskeletal system.
BIO:
Philipp Gutruf is an assistant professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department and Craig M. Berge Faculty Fellow at the University of Arizona. He received his postdoctoral training in the John A. Rogers Research Group at Northwestern University and received his Ph.D. in 2016 at RMIT University (Australia). His research group focuses on creating devices that intimately integrate with biological systems by combining innovations in soft materials, photonics and electronics to create systems with a broad impact on health diagnostics, therapeutics and exploratory neuroscience. In the last 5 years, he has authored over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, received four patents and his work has been highlighted on eight journal covers. More recently his group's work is featured in journals such as Nature Communications, Science Advances, PNAS and Nature Biomedical engineering.
Hosts: Dr. Beth Hutchinson and Dr. Russ Witte, hutchinsone@arizona.edu and rwitte@email.arizona.edu
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