NSERC CREATE - Biomedical Engineers for the 21st Century

Just a friendly reminder that CREATE renewals are due on Wednesday the 15th! Remember to leave them on Amanda's desk or under her door, as she's away until after that date.

http://nserccreate.kin.ucalgary.ca/apply

Apply to the CREATE Programme | Training program for 21st century biomedical engineers | University. Applications will be accepted for the following competitions by the listed annual deadline. Click on the links for more information about the individual awards and competitions. Application forms can be found at the bottom of this page or on the

Just a reminder to everyone that we do have a Student Experience section, so if you've been to a conference, or on an exchange, or a field assignment, or anything of that nature, write it up and send it in to Ryan, Jan, or Jason for posting on the website. It doesn't need to be as long as Jason's dispatch from the NeuroScience conference last year, but don't be shy about telling us what you've learned and what you've seen.

http://nserccreate.kin.ucalgary.ca/experience/conf/sfn2012

Society for Neuroscience 2012 | Training program for 21st century biomedical engineers | University. CREATE Academic Leader trainee Jason Robertson recently attended the Society for Neuroscience 2012 conference in New Orleans, LA from October 13 - 17, 2012.

We've recently created a new area of the website where students can write about their various experiences as CREATE trainees: what they've done on internships or exchanges, what they learned at conferences, what community events they've participated in, and so forth.

The first article written for this section was Jason Robertson's article on his experience at the Alberta Motor Control NeuroHike conference at the end of September.

http://nserccreate.kin.ucalgary.ca/experience/conf/neurohike2012

NeuroHike 2012 | Training program for 21st century biomedical engineers | University of Calgary CREATE Academic Leader trainee Jason Robertson recently attended the Alberta Motor Control ("NeuroHike") meeting in Kananaskis, AB from Sept. 28-30, 2012.

Congratulations to Academic Leaders M.Sc. trainee Ryan Madden for recently having a paper published in J. Biomech.!

R. Madden, S.-K. Han, and W. Herzog. Chondrocyte deformation under extreme tissue strain in two regions of the rabbit knee joint. Journal of Biomechanics (2012), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2012.09.021.

Chondrocyte deformation under extreme tissue strain in two regions of the rabbit knee joint Journal of Biomechanics, Volume null, Issue null, Pages null, null, Authors:Ryan Madden; Sang-Kuy Han; Walter Herzog

Meet our newest Featured Trainee, Jason Robertson. Jason, a MSc student in the Movement Neurophysiology Laboratory, has contributed a couple of articles about his recent conference experiences, which we'll be featuring in the near future.

http://nserccreate.kin.ucalgary.ca/trainees

Featured Trainees | Training program for 21st century biomedical engineers | University of Calgary November 2012 - Jason Robertson

Congrats to Britta Jorgensen, Terri Semler, and Steven Burgoyne for winning presentation awards at the 2012 Alberta Biomedical Engineering Conference last weekend in Banff!

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CREATE Trainees represent at the AB-BME conference | Training program for 21st century biomedical en CREATE trainees took home prizes at the at the 13th Annual Alberta Biomedical Engineering Conference held in Banff, AB from Oct. 19-21, 2012.

CREATE student Jason Robertson recently attended the NeuroHike meeting in Kananaskis, and saw an engaging keynote speech from Dr. Hugh Herr, an Assistant Professor at MIT. Dr. Herr, a double below-knee amputee, has devoted his career to researching active prosthetics that produce human-like gait patterns at a metabolic cost comparable to that of biological walking. In addition to showing a number of videos and graphs showing the striking difference between his ankles and traditional passive models, he gave a live demonstration: walking, jogging, and stomping around with ease on the very ankles he designed himself.

Learn more about Prof. Herr's research - which also includes active knees, drop-foot orthoses, EMG-triggered prosthetics, and an in-development running exoskeleton - at his lab website: http://biomech.media.mit.edu/people/herr.htm

Biomechatronics - People: Hugh Herr

Presenting our soon-to-be monthly feature, highlighting the work of our diverse group of students. Three profiles have been posted so far:
- Steven Burgoyne is working with a biomedical device company on an implant that lowers blood pressure through nerve stimulation.
- Terri Semler is developing a biological plug to repair damaged fibrocartilage, particularly in intervertebral discs.
- John Schipilow is examining how different loading modalities affect the microarchitecture of bone in elite athletes.

http://nserccreate.kin.ucalgary.ca/trainees

Featured Trainees | Training program for 21st century biomedical engineers | University of Calgary July 2012 - John Schipilow