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
Strong Center Representation at 2023 Bioelectrics Symposium
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Participants from the Center for Bioelecetrics
Vitalii Kim receiving the award for best Post-Doc presentation
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NIH Grant Award for Neuromodulation Research see more...
4th World Congress on Electroporation see more
Schoenbach Fellowship Award 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 4/4/2023 | Keerthi Nawarathna, Old Dominion University, USA |
Miniaturized Electromagnetic Sensors and Cellular Biomanufacturing Strategies for Combating Cancer and Obesity | |
| 3/28/2023 | Gintautas Saulis, Semiconductor Physics Institute, Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Vilnius, Lithuania ZOOM |
Cell Electroporation: Transmembrane Potential and the Factors Affecting It | |
| 3/21/2023 | Loree Heller, University of South Florida, USA |
Intrinsic effects of nucleic acid electroporation | |
| 3/14/2023 | Yihong Ye, NIH, USA |
Role of the cell surface heparan sulfate in SARS-CoV-2 infection | |
| 3/7/2023 | Spring Holiday | ||
| 2/28/2023 | John Semmes, Eastern Virginia Medical School, USA |
Cancer Proteogenomics: Translating Science into Medicine | |
| 2/21/2023 | MinLei Guo, Eastern Virginia Medical School, USA |
The roles of neuroimmune signaling in drug addiction | |
| 2/14/2023 | David Graves, Princeton University, USA |
The Physics, Chemistry and Biology of Reactive Species in Plasma Biomedicine | |
| 2/6/2023 | Richard Nuccitelli, Pulse Biosciences Inc. USA |
Type-specific thresholds for tumor clearance using high repetition rate nanosecond pulsed electric fields | |
| 1/31/2023 | Danilo Tagle, NIH, USA |
Bioengineered Microphysiological Systems as In Vitro Models for Drug Safety, Efficacy and Precision Medicine Studies | |
| 1/24/2023 | Xilin Zao, Rutgers University, USA & Xiamen University, China |
No life, no death; know life, know death? _Deciphering a universal bacterial death pathway by a "reverse engineering-like" approach |
Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics
IRP Building II, Suite 300/400
4211 Monarch Way
Norfolk, VA 23505
