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SUMMARY:IMT Talk : Biomimetic electronics
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Francesca Santoro\nAbstract :\n\nThe interface between biol
 ogical cells and non-biological materials has profound influences on cellu
 lar activities\, chronic tissue responses\, and ultimately the success of 
 medical implants and bioelectronic devices. The optimal coupling between c
 ells\, i.e. neurons\, and materials is mainly based on surface interaction
 \, electrical communication and sensing.\n\nIn the last years\, many effor
 ts have been devoted to the engineering of materials to recapitulate both 
 the environment (i.e. dimensionality\, curvature\, dynamicity) and the fun
 ctionalities (i.e. long and short term plasticity) of the neuronal tissue 
 to ensure a better integration of the bioelectronic platform and cells.\n\
 nOn the one hand\, here we explore how the transition from planar to pseud
 o-3D nanopatterned inorganic and organic materials have introduced a new s
 trategy of integrating bioelectronic platforms with biological cells under
  static and dynamic conditions.. On the other hand\, we investigate how or
 ganic semiconductors can be exploited for recapitulating electrical neuron
 al functions such as long term and short term potentiation. In this way\, 
 both the topology and the material functionalities can be exploited for ac
 hieving in vitro biohybrid platforms for neuronal network interfacing.\n\n
 Short bio :      \n                    \nFrances
 ca Santoro received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Biomedical 
 Engineering at the ‘Federico II’ University of Naples (Italy) with spe
 cialization in biomaterials. She received a PhD in 2014 in Electrical Engi
 neering and Information Technology in a joint partnership between the RWTH
  Aachen and the Forschungszentrum Juelich (Germany) with a scholarship by 
 the International Helmholtz Research School in Biophysics and Soft Matter 
 (IHRS BioSoft). In October 2014\, she joined the Chemistry Department at S
 tanford University (USA) and received a research fellowship in 2016 by the
  Heart Rhythm Society. She joined IIT in July 2017 and is leading the 'Tis
 sue Electronics' lab at CABHC-Naples. In 2018 she has been awarded the MIT
  Technology Review Under 35 Innovator ITALIA and EUROPE and the 'Premio It
 alia Giovane'. In 2019 she has been nominated MIT Technology Review Ambass
 ador\, has been included in the list of '100 women who are changing the wo
 rld' and among the 50 italian women running as women of the year by the na
 tional newspaper 'La Repubblica'. She has been awarded an ERC Starting Gra
 nt in 2020.
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