For our January session taking place on the 31st, we will be hosting IIkem Aysu Sahin and Aysegul Gunduz

Ilkem Aysu Sahin MD, is currently a PhD candidate at the Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin. Aysu will talk to us about her PhD project, which is a multi center collaborative effort on understanding how different DBS targets affect improvement in Tourette Syndrome. This project is significant not only for its objective but also because it analyzes the largest cohort of patients who have undergone DBS for Tourette syndrome, enhancing the generalizability of its findings.

Dr. Aysegul Gunduz is an full Professor at the J. Crayton Pruitt Dept of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, where she heads the Brain Mapping Laboratory. Along with the team, she studies precursors to behavior and aftereffects of stimulation in neural networks using electrophysiology and imaging methods with the ultimate goal of clinical translation, specifically in epilepsy and movement disorders (Tourette syndrome, PD, etc). She will present an interesting lecture on how (biomedical) engineering can play a role in neuroscience, specifically in studying the effects of stimulation.