News & Events / BME Seminar Series / Past Seminar Speakers / 2019-20Mark Mimee, PhD
BME Seminar Series Fall 2019
Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 4-5 pm
Tech L361
Host: Professor Jonathan Rivnay
Assistant Professor of Microbiology, The University of Chicago
Genetic Technologies to Engineer and Understand the Microbiome
Our ability to move in the world, and even to stand upright depend on complex and flexible neuromechanical interactions. Our experimental and computational studies of balance in one-, two-, and four-legged standing have revealed many ways that the brain and body interact and influence each other in the control of movement. I will demonstrate how the neural and mechanical computations used for balance are shaped by evolutionary, learning, and disease processes as well as behavioral context. Despite our individual differences in balance control, the same neuromechanical principles can be used to understand and model balance in health and disease.
Learn more about Professor Mark Mimee and their research here.