Nikki Pelot, PhD

Kudos to the team!! Boshuo Wang, Daniel Marshall, Minhaj Hussain, Eric Musselman, PhD, Gene Yu, Jahrane Dale, Ian Baumgart, Daniel Dardani, Princess Tara Zamani, David Chang Villacreses, Joost Wagenaar, Warren Grill

3. Contents of shared models >> Table 3 (& editable in Supp 2) 4. Online repositories (types & characteristics) >> Table 4 5. IP >> Fig 1, Fig 2 ...all exemplified in a use-case -- our ASCENT platform for modeling peripheral nerve stimulation.

📣 Check out our latest paper! A big collaborative effort titled "Guidance for sharing computational models of neural stimulation: from project planning to publication". iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

*** Tuesday, 1-5pm, Y31-Y32, Z1-Z8, Z10 - 9 posters on our NIH SPARC project to map the anatomy of 100 human vagus nerves from brainstem to abdomen + computational modeling of VNS. - 2 posters on our project to improve carotid sinus nerve stimulation to treat hypertension.

Come check out our posters at SfN! *** Monday, 1-5pm, B14 - Intraoperative laryngeal muscle and heart rate responses across vagus nerve stimulation parameters

>> Application: Optimization of stimulation parameters for selective vagus nerve stimulation (Fig 4-5). >> Impact: The new fiber model & optimization approach achieved 2,000 to 130,000× speedup over single-core simulations in NEURON.

2. New tool #2: The design of tool #1 enables global optimization using gradient descent, which is much faster than stochastic methods that are typically used.

Have you ever wished that modeling fiber responses to extracellular stimulation would run faster? Check out our latest paper -- published in Nature Communications! doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

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@stappan1 @NANS_ION @sparc_science Thank you Sue!!! 🥳

Congratulations @NikkiPelot on being recognized as a @NANS_ION Rising Star! Your @sparc_science research on the #vagus is gorgeous!

Come see our work at NANS this week! Poster: 1/19, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm, How Does Vagus Nerve Anatomy Affect Responses to Stimulation? Talk: 1/20, 11:27 am - 11:37 am, 100 Human Vagus Nerves from Brainstem to Abdomen: Gross Anatomy, Morphology, Ultrastructure, and Fiber Types

Find me at SfN on Tuesday morning, posters WW61-66. @SfNtweets

We'll also be recruiting PhD students for the fall, applications due Dec 10: bme.duke.edu/phd Durham is a great place to live, Duke is the tops in BME, we have a great group, lots of exciting projects.

Exciting news! Very grateful and honored to be have been awarded the 2024 Rising Star Early Career award from the North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS). 🥳 Taking the opportunity for a shameless plug...