BioElectronics at the University of Bordeaux: Research and Applications

Tuesday, 6 September 2016 at 12:00 in room INF 328

 

Abstract:

The BioElectronics group in IMS at University of Bordeaux, France, has been conducting interdisciplinary research at the interface of physics, electronics, biology and medicine since 1994.

Representatives of the group (Prof. Sylvie Renaud and Prof. Noëlle Lewis) and collaborators (Prof. Jochen Lang and Dr. Matthieu Raoux) will present during this seminar an overview of the BioElectronics group projects, with the following focus:

1. Electronics for closed-loop applications in biology or medicine: smart stimulation to and bio-inspired processing
2. Electro-sensing pancreatic cells: towards a bio-electronic artificial pancreas  

 
Sylvie Renaud and Noëlle Lewis are with IMS, Institute for Integration: from Material to System (CNRS and University of Bordeaux, France)

Jochen Lang and Matthieu Raoux are with CBMN, Institute of Chemistry and Biology of Membranes and Nano-objects (CNRS and University of Bordeaux, France)

 

About the speaker:

Sylvie Renaud is a Professor at Bordeaux Institute of Technology and IMS research unit, CNRS UMR5218, University of Bordeaux (France). In the IMS institute, she created in 1994 the Engineering of Neuromorphic Systems team, then the BioElectronics group in 2009.  She was appointed as Co-Director of the IMS Institute (400 personnel) in January 2016.

Her research interests are: analog and mixed neuromorphic VLSI; real-time hardware simulation platforms of spiking neural networks; hybrid systems interfacing living and artificial neurons; analog ASICs for biological signal conditioning and events detection; active VLSI implants for neurodegenerative diseases and diabetes; closed-loop living-artificial systems. She participated or coordinated 12 international and national research projects and authored more than 50 reviewed international articles and communications. She is an Associate Editor for IEEE TBCAS journal. Sylvie Renaud is an expert for the EU commission on FET and ICT calls, and for NSF-NIH calls. She coordinated a EU intensive doctoral program on biomedical engineering, and participated in the European Flagship program Human Brain Project.