{"id":1029,"date":"2018-07-19T11:20:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T14:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.ufpel.edu.br\/chipinthepampa2018\/?page_id=1029"},"modified":"2018-08-20T11:47:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T14:47:19","slug":"inscit-invited-talk-andrew-taberner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.ufpel.edu.br\/chipinthepampa2018\/inscit-invited-talk-andrew-taberner\/","title":{"rendered":"INSCIT INVITED TALK: Andrew Taberner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Taberner<\/span>
\nUniversity of Auckland – New Zealand<\/span>
\n<\/strong>Thursday, Aug. 30 – 10:40h – Pinot A<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Andrew Taberner<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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INVITED TALK:
\nMeasurement and Instrumentation at the Tissue: Machine interface<\/b><\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Biomedical Instrumentation is designed to provide clinicians, scientists and consumers with useful information about the performance and properties of the human body in health and disease. In many applications in medicine and biology, scientific instruments and medical devices operate at the interface between the \u201csoft\u201d world of living organisms and biological substances and the \u201chard\u201d world of measurement and actuation systems. The development of such instruments and devices requires the designer to draw from and master a wide range of techniques and tools that span biology, chemistry, materials science, optics, mechanics, mathematics, electronics, and computing.<\/div>\n
Moreover, the characteristics of biological specimens can be very challenging to measure. Many of the properties of living organisms, and their tissues, are highly non-linear, and can vary throughout time and space. The measurement techniques required to quantify these properties usually span physical domains \u2013 electrical, chemical, mechanical, and optical \u2013 and may need to account for changes that occur temporally and spatially within the specimen under study. The complexity of the interactions between measured variables often demands that measurements be separated and interpreted with the aid of multi-scale computational models.<\/div>\n
In this talk, I provide a brief example of the challenges and opportunities in bioinstrumentation and measurement, by overviewing the development of a unique scientific and medical instrument for studying heart muscle in health and disease.<\/div>\n
The heart is a complex organic engine that converts chemical energy into work. Each heartbeat begins with an electrically-released pulse of calcium, which triggers force-development and cell shortening, at the cost of energy and oxygen, and the dissipation of heat. My group have developed new instrumentation systems to measure all of these processes simultaneously, while subjecting isolated samples of heart tissue to realistic contraction patterns that mimic the pressure-volume-time loops experienced by the heart with each beat. This demanding undertaking has required us to develop our own actuators, force transducers, heat sensors, and optical measurement systems. Our instruments make use of several different measurement modalities which are integrated in a robotic hardware-based real-time acquisition and control environment and interpreted with the aid of a computational model.<\/div>\n
In this way, we can now resolve (to within a few nanoWatts) the heat released by living cardiac muscle fibers as they perform work at 37 \u00b0C. Muscle force and length are controlled and measured to microNewton and nanometer precision by a laser interferometer, while the muscle is scanned in the view of an optical microscope equipped with a fluorescent calcium imaging system. Concurrently, the changing muscle geometry is monitored in 4D by a custom-built optical coherence tomograph, and the spacing of muscle-proteins is imaged in real-time by transmission-microscopy and laser diffraction systems. Oxygen consumption is measured using fluorescence-quenching techniques.<\/div>\n
Equipped with these unique capabilities, we have probed the mechano-energetics of failing hearts from rats with diabetes. We have found that the peak stress and peak mechanical efficiency of tissues from these hearts was normal, despite prolonged twitch duration. We have thus shown that the compromised mechanical performance of the diabetic heart arises from a reduced period of diastolic filling and does not reflect either diminished mechanical performance or diminished efficiency of its tissues. In another program of research, we have demonstrated that despite claims to the contrary, dietary supplementation by fish-oils has no effect on heart muscle efficiency. Neither of these insights were fully revealed until the development of this instrument.<\/div>\n
In this talk I demonstrate that in the field of bioinstrumentation and measurement, there is a need for greater use of measurement techniques and experimental protocols that can allow researchers to gather functional multi-scale, multiphysics data from the same tissue or material source. In many cases, these data can be best interpreted holistically, with the aid of multi-physics sample-specific computational models.<\/div>\n
Other measurement tools our lab has developed that also highlight the advantages of this approach include programmable multi-axis soft-tissue robots for measuring the mechanical\/optical properties of skin, pericardium, the pelvic floor, and other biological tissues. We have also invented and developed a new class of devices for automated, controlled needle-free injection and extraction of fluids through skin and other biological tissues. These devices are being applied to monitoring change and managing disease in a range of human, animal and agricultural applications.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Speaker’s Biography:<\/h2>\n
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Andrew Taberner (MSc(Tech), PhD 1999) is a physicist and bioengineer, and Associate Professor with the Auckland Bioengineering Institute at University of Auckland, New Zealand. From 2002-2008 he was a Post-Doctoral Associate, Research Scientist, and co-manager of the Bioinstrumentation Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/div>\n
Andrew\u2019s teaching is centered on the principles and methods of bioinstrumentation and measurement, and forms part of his University\u2019s BE(Hons) in Biomedical Engineering degree program. The quality of his teaching has been recognized by three Faculty \u201cTop-teacher\u201d awards. He leads a team of researchers in his Bioinstrumentation Laboratory in novel instrumentation design, construction and development. He has supervised 20 PhD, 12 ME and 45 honours students.<\/div>\n
His research interests include the development of scientific and medical instruments for measuring tissue structure and function, and for needle-free drug delivery. He has developed instruments for studying the mechanical, energetic, optical and geometric properties of living working heart muscle, in health and disease, at whole-heart, single muscle-fibre and muscle-cell levels.<\/div>\n
Other measurement tools he has developed include programmable multi-axis soft-tissue robots for measuring the mechanical properties of skin, pericardium, and the pelvic floor. Results from his instruments are often integrated and interpreted with the aid of multi-scale computational models. He has also invented and developed a new class of devices for needle-free injection and extraction of fluids through skin and other biological tissues. These devices are being applied to monitoring and managing change and disease in a range of human, animal and agricultural applications.<\/div>\n
Andrew is the author of more than 100 refereed scientific articles in journals and published conference proceedings, 75 conference abstracts, and inventor of 16 issued US, European and other patents. He received the \u201cInnovation Excellence in Research\u201d award at the 2014 New Zealand Innovators awards. He is a co-founder of Boston-based medical device company Portal Instruments, which has an exclusive world-wide license to commercialize his jet-injection intellectual property portfolio. He is the secretary and vice-chair of the New Zealand Chapter of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, an editor for IEEE Pulse Magazine, and a member of and reviewer for the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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