Timothy
C.
Marzullo
Neural
Engineering Lab
1101
Beal
Email:
tmarzull@umich.edu
Education:
2001-current Ph.D. Candidate, Neuroscience Program graduate student with Daryl Kipke at the University of Michigan
1997-2001
B.S.
in
Biochemistry from the University
of Texas at Austin
Publications:
Marzullo TC, Miller CR, Kipke DR. Suitability of the cingulate cortex for neural control. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. 2006 Dec;14(4):401-9.
Marzullo T, Rantze E, Gage G. Stock market behavior predicted by rat neurons. Annals of Improbable Research. 2006. Jul/Aug: 22-25.
Ehlmann BL, Chowdhury J, Marzullo TC et. al. Humans to Mars: a feasibility and cost-benefit analysis. Acta Astronautica. 2005 May-Jun;56(9-12):851-8.
Stavisky RC, Britt JM, Zuzek A, Pham T, Marzullo TC, Bittner GD. Degeneration of mammalian PNS and CNS axons is accelerated by incubation with protein synthesis inhibitors. Neuroscience Research. 2003 Dec; 47(4): 445-9.
Marzullo
TC, Britt JM, Stavisky RC, Bittner GD. Cooling
enhances in vitro
survival and fusion-repair of severed axons taken from the peripheral
and
central nervous systems in rats. Neuroscience Letters, 2002
Jul 12;
Vol. 327(1): pgs 9-12.
Conference
Proceedings:
Marzullo TC, Kim E, Lehmkuhle MJ, Kipke DR. A direct visual and motor interface in a rat. 2007. 3rd International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering. Kohala Coast, HI: 9-12.
Gage GJ, Kawahara C, Ross SE, Marzullo TC, Kipke DR. Laminar analysis of movement direction information in local field potentials of the rat motor cortex. 2006. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Washington, D.C: 2589 2592.
Marzullo TC, Dudley JR, Miller CR, Trejo L, Kipke DR. Spikes, local field potentials, and electrocorticogram characterization during motor learning in rats for brain machine interface tasks. 2005 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Shanghai, China: 429-431.
Parikh H, Gage G, Marzullo TC, Kipke DR. Real-time detection of unitary events for cortical control. 2005 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Shanghai, China: 2122-2125.
Vetter RJ, Otto KJ, Marzullo TC, Kipke DR. Brain-machine interfaces in rat motor cortex: neuronal operant conditioning to perform a sensory detection task. 2003. 1st International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering. Capri, Italy: 637-640.
Otto
KJ, Vetter
RJ, Marzullo TC, Kipke DR. Brain-machine
interfaces in rat motor cortex: implications of adaptive decoding
algorithms. 2003. 1st
International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering. Capri, Italy:
100-103.
Poster Presentations
Marzullo TC,
Parikh H, Kim E, Kipke DR. Analysis of field potentials during neuroprosthetic tasks using spikes as the
control signal. abstract 256.8, 2006
society for neuroscience meeting.
Marzullo TC, Gage
G, Parikh H. How many neurons must one man have, before you call him a
man? abstract 25.8, 2006 society for
neuroscience meeting.
Berke JD, Alraggi TK, Hetrick
VL, Gritton HJ, McDougal L, Eichenbaum
HB, Johnson MD, Marzullo TC, Greene RW. β
oscillations accompany the formation of hippocampal
"place cell" representations during exploration of novel
environments. abstract 68.1, 2005 society
for
neuroscience meeting.
Weiss KA, Brown
TC, Marzullo TC. The brain eaters: interactive neuroanatomy
lesson. abstract 26.11, 2004 society for
neuroscience
meeting.
Ludwig
KA, Marzullo TC, Miriani RM, Gage GJ, Kipke DR. Generating a two
dimensional
control signal from motor and cingulate
cortex using
a novel adaptive filter paradigm. abstract
884.14, 2004 society for neuroscience meeting.
Marzullo TC, Daryl
DR. Neuronal operant conditioning in the cingulate
cortex of rats. abstract 279.18, 2003
society for
neuroscience meeting.
Marzullo TC, Chowdhury J. Humans to Mars: the political
initiative and
technical expertise required for human exploration of the red planet. presentation given at 2003 14th international
academy of
astronautics humans in space symposium.
Stavisky RC, Britt JM, Zuzek A, Marzullo T, Pham T, Bittner GD.
Temperature and protein
synthesis manipulation can affect wallerian
degeneration of severed mammalian axons. abstract
734.15, 2002 society for neuroscience meeting.
Marzullo TC, Buonanno A, Boyle R. Neuroanatomical
localization of glutamate subunit receptors in the vestibular system of
the
mouse. 2002
Honors:
2005, 2006
NASA Graduate Student Researchers
Program fellowship renewed
2004
Marine Biological Laboratory NeuroInformatics
summer course, Woods Hole, MA
2004
NASA Graduate Student
Researchers Program fellowship
2003
Rackham International Travel
Grant
2002
National Institutes of Health
(NIH) training grant
2002
2002
$5000 grant from Michigan Space
Grant Consortium
2001
University of
2001
$1000 Research Grant for nerve
protein synthesis inhibition project from University of Texas Vice
President of
Research
2000
$1000 University of
Selected Work
Experience:
2003
Graduate Student Instructor for
Cell Biology Lab Course, U-Michigan
2002-current
Ph.D. Research in lab of Dr. Daryl Kipke,
Neural Engineering Lab, U-Michigan
2002
Research Assistant for Dr.
Richard Boyle,
2000-2001
Research assistant for George D.
Bittner, Professor in Biological Sciences, Section of Neurobiology,
UT-Austin
Extra-Curricular
and Community Activities:
2004
Invited
and hosted Dr. Dave Williams, Neurolab
Astronaut, for
seminar to UM Biomedical Research Community on experiments done on
STS-90
2004
Mentored NASA Summer High School
Apprenticeship Research Program
(SHARP) student for project on neural data analysis; Student proceeded
to win
Intel International Science Fair on project
2004
Invited and hosted Dr. John Donoghue,
Cyberkinetics CSO, for
seminar at UM Neuroscience Annual Spring Symposium
2004
Organized and taught
Neuroscience Enrichment sessions at Summer Science Camp for
disadvantaged
students at
2003-2004
President, UM Neuroscience Graduate
Student Organization
2003
Invited Speaker to UM
Undergraduate Researchers Group
2003 & 2004 First prize, two years in a
row, at Ann
Arbor Hands On Museum Brainsrule
science fair for Interactive Neuroanatomy
Exhibit for
Elementary School Students.
2002
Invited speaker to 300 high
school students on The Brain,
2002-2004
Taught elementary school students basic
neuroanatomy at
2001-2002
Member of
1997
Varsity rower for
Hobbies:
playing guitar, restoring
my 1973 Chevrolet El Camino
References:
Daryl R. Kipke,
Ph.D. Thesis Project Advisor, Associate Professor in Biomedical
Engineering
at the University of Michigan, phone: (734) 764-3716, email: dkipke@umich.edu
Leonard J. Trejo, Ph.D.
NASA GSRP project Advisor,
computer scientist,
Douglas A. O'Handley,
Ph.D. Director, Ames Astrobiology
Academy, 1997-2003,
Wayne Aldridge, Ph.D. Associate Professor in Neuroscience, University of Michigan, phone: (734) 763-3706, email: jwaynea@umich.edu
Richard Boyle, Ph.D. Director, BioVIS Technology Center, Mail Stop 239-11, NASA Ames Research Center, office: (650) 604-1099, e-mail: richard.boyle@nasa.gov
George
D. Bittner, Ph.D. Professor in Biological Sciences,
Section of Neurobiology, University of Texas at Austin, phone: (512)
471-5454,
e-mail: bittner@mail.utexas.edu