NEWS RELEASE

10/1/02

CONTACT: Mark Shwartz, News Service: (650) 723-9296, mshwartz@stanford.edu

COMMENT: Fiona Sincock, Bio-X: (650) 724-3616, fsincock@Stanford.EDU

Bio-X launches biosciences seminar series on Oct. 10

The Bio-X program will hold the first in its monthly seminar series, "Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences," at 4:15 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, in Room 201 of the Teaching Center, Science and Engineering Quad.

The seminar ­ which is free and open to the public ­ will be led by Krishna Shenoy, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford. His topic is "Toward Neural Control of Prosthetic Devices."

A pre-seminar will be held at 3:15 p.m. in Room 101 of the Teaching Center to provide general background on the subject.

Shenoy's seminar is one of 10 that will be offered between October and May on cutting-edge research in the biosciences. Among the guest speakers will be scientists from Harvard, Caltech, Rice and other institutions. A schedule is available at the Bio-X website: http://biox.stanford.edu.

The seminar series also is offered as a course for registered students with an interest in science. For enrollment information, contact Professor Channing Robertson at (650) 723-4986 or chanbo@stanford.edu.

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