Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics
Conventional pulsed power applications in biology and medicine have a long history, going back three centuries to Galvani, Volta, and Franklin (Benjamin), and even much earlier. Karl Schoenbach, working here at ODU, drawing on his experience in plasma physics and engineering, began in the 1990s with Stephen Beebe and colleagues at Eastern Virginia Medical School applying to biomedical targets a different kind of pulsed power: very high electric fields — megavolts per meter — for very short times — nanoseconds (billionths of a second). In doing so, he brought together the people and resources required to create a new multi-disciplinary field that includes physicists, engineers, cell and molecular biologists, and physicians. Explore Our Research
Faculty Spotlight
Prof. Pakhomov with Luis Redondo and Richard Heller
Prof. Pakhomov's team at Bioelectrics 2023 award ceremony
Student Spotlight
Celebrating Excellence in Research: Edwin Oshin Receives Top Honor at GSGA Research Conference
Edwin Oshin
Edwin Oshin is pictured first from the left, with Professor Chunqi Jiang in the center.
News
NIH Grant Award for Neuromodulation Research see more...
Ruben Colunga Biancatelli is featured as a member spotlight by the American Thoracic Society. see more ...
Schoenbach Fellowship Award see more...
Faculty project awarded R43 Phase 1 NIH SBIR funding see more...
16th International Bioelectrics Symposium see more ...
AFOSR grant awarded for research on palsma sources see more ....
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Center for Bioelectrics Seminar Series
seminars are held on Tuesdays from 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. (EST)
To join our seminars contact Dr. Ruben Colunga Biancatelli
| Date | Speaker | Topic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUMMER BREAK | |||
| 4/30/2024 | Esin Sozer, Northeasten University, USA |
Are STEM classrooms places to discuss society? One professor's journey of discovery and unlearning after over a decade of training in STEM. | |
| 4/23/2024 | Josette el Zaklit, University of Nevada Reno, USA |
Nanoelectropulse-induced changes in cell excitability: what did we learn from adrenal chromaffin cells | |
| 4/16/2024 | Maura Casciola, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, USA | General FDA regulatory mechanisms, and research for cardiovascular treatments by pulsed electric fields | |
| 4/9/2024 | Zobia Minhas, Old Dominion University, USA |
Synergistic effects and mechanisms of combined treatment with nanosecond electric pulses and cold atmospheric plasma for pancreatic cancer | |
| 4/2/2024 | Robert Reinhart, Boston University, USA |
Noninvasive neuromodulation for impaired cognition | |
| 3/26/2024 | Sun Jiangwen, Old Dominion University, USA |
Training deep neural networks to predict functional genomic events | |
| 3/19/2024 | Ruben Colunga Biancatelli, Old Dominion University, USA | Targenting extracellullar vesicles endocytosis in ARDS | |
| 3/12/2024 | Yali Kong, Eastern Virginia Medical School, USA |
Theranostic Agents in Drug Discovery | |
| 3/5/2024 | Spring Break | ||
| 2/27/2024 | William McPheat |
Wonderful ... You got a patent! Now what? ICAP can help! | |
| 2/20/2024 | Khan M. Iftekharuddin, Old Dominion University, USA |
Prediction of Rapid Early Progression and Survival Risk with Pre-Radiation MRI in WHO Grade 4 Glioma Patients | |
| 2/13/2024 | Alexandra Chittams-Miles, Old Dominion University, USA |
Pulsed Electric Fields Sensitize Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus to Antibacterial Therapies and Stimulate Host Immune Responses | |
| 2/6/2024 | Aurora Kerscher, Eastern Virginia Medical School , USA | Noncoding is No-nonsense: Antimir Therapeutics & Modified RNA | |
| 1/30/2024 | Yutao Liu, Augusta University, USA | Estrogen, Biomechanics, and Glaucoma | |
| 1/23/2024 | Stephen Beebe, Old Dominion University, USA | Missing Pieces of nsPEFs Impact on Cell Death and Immunity | |
| 1/16/2024 | Katharina Stapelmann, North Carolina State University, USA CANCELED | Generation and transport of reactive species in cold atmospheric plasmas - from the gas phase into the liquid phase | |
| 12/12/2023 | Vitold Galkin, Eastern Virginia Medical School, USA | The cryo-EM revolution: a novel era in exploring the mechanisms of a heartbeat | |
| 12/05/2023 | Mike Stacey, Old Dominion University, USA | Pulsed Electric Fields and the Inner Nuclear Membrane | |
| 11/21/2023 | Thanksgiving Holiday- No Seminar | ||
| 11/14/2023 | Allen Garner, Purdue University, USA | Biophysics and Applications of Electric Waveforms from Pulsed to AC | |
| 11/07/2023 | Election Day- No Seminar | ||
| 10/31/2023 | Andrei Pakhomov and Mantas Silkunas, Old Dominion University, USA | "Discrete membrane lesions and pore currents in electropermeabilized cells" & "Illuminating electroporation: Ca2+ puffs patterns in nanosecond vs. microsecond PEF's regimes" | |
| 10/24/2023 | Iurii Semenov, Old Dominion University, USA | Real-time imaging of membrane charging and relaxation in cells subjected to brief electric field pulses | |
| 10/17/2023 | Jian Huang, Coriell Institute, USA |
Unveiling new targets for overcoming drug resistance in Cancer Therapy | |
| 10/10/2023 | Fall Holiday- No Seminar | ||
| 10/3/2023 | Yan Senders, Eastern Virginia Medical School, USA |
Epigenetic Regulation in Aging and Lung Fibrosis | |
| 9/26/2023 | Ekaterina Nesterovic, Catholic University of America, USA |
Hydrophobic Gating and 1/f Noise of the Antrax Toxin Channel | |
| 9/09/2023 | Erkin Seker, University of California Davis, USA |
Gold Sponges, Microfluidics, Neural Tissue Chips | |
| 9/05/2023 | Piotr Kraj, Old Dominion University, USA |
Bone Morphogenic Proteins are immunoregulatory cytokines controlling helper and Treg cells | |
| 4/18/2023 | Manfred Lindau, University of Miami, USA |
The mechanisms of docking, fusion and transmitter release in chromaffin cells | |
| 4/11/2023 | Christian Zemlin, Washington University, USA |
Surgical Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias |
Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics
IRP Building II, Suite 300/400
4211 Monarch Way
Norfolk, VA 23505
