Aerospace &
Electronic Systems Society
“Neuroengineering:
New insights into the internal dynamics of small nerve cell networks and
potential applications”
Date: November 24, 2009, Full Buffet 6:30 PM /
Program 7:00 PM
Place: Holiday
Inn Select-Richardson, 1655 N.
Central Expressway, on the south‑bound service road of Central Expressway
(US‑75), south of Campbell
Road, and north of Collins Road.
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Speaker: Guenter W. Gross, Ph.D., University of North Texas
Program Summary:
Dr.
Gross
completed his undergraduate training in engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey
in 1962. After five years as a pilot
with the United States Air Force, which included one year in Vietnam as a
Forward Air Controller, he entered graduate training at Florida State
University and received the Ph.D. in biophysics and neurophysiology in 1973.
Postdoctoral training was obtained with the Experimental Neuropathology
Section of the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich. From 1978 to 1965 he was an
assistant, and then associate professor with the Department of Biology at the
Texas Woman's University. In August of 1985 he joined the Department of
Biological Sciences at University of
North Texas.
Dr. Gross was the founder of the UNT Center
for Network Neuroscience in January 1988 and has been the director of the CNNS
since that time. He was promoted to Professor of Biology with the
specialty in neuroscience in Sept. of 1988 and to Regents Professor in 1996.
Dr. Gross is interested in information processing in the brain with
emphasis on pattern processing in small networks and the self-organization and
internal dynamics of networks in cell culture derived from the mammalian
central nervous system. Dr. Gross has pioneered the development of
substrate integrated thin film microelectrode arrays for use in cell culture
and has systematically applied this technique to the simultaneous, long-term monitoring
of neuronal activity in cultured networks and to the design and fabrication of
new life-support systems for long-term maintenance of cultures during recording
and optical monitoring. He has shown that neuronal monolayers
in culture are pharmacologically histiotypic and
retain many characteristics of the parent tissue after months in culture. These efforts have led to new applications in
the areas of pharmacology, toxicology, and drug development and to the design
of rapid, high throughput multinetwork platforms.
Dr. Gross has published 121 research articles and presented a total of
108 invited seminars.
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