Timothy C. Marzullo, Ph.D.
Ann Arbor, MI
cell:
734-223-8133
Email: tmarzull@umich.edu
Objective:
To build
tools to understand and manipulate the natural world
Specific
Skills and Knowledge:
Awake,
Behaving Electrophysiology (spikes, field potentials, EEGs, ECoGs)
Multichannel
chronic brain stimulation and recording
Neural
Engineering
Education:
2008 Ph.D.,
Neuroscience Program, in Neural Engineering Lab of Daryl Kipke at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor –
Accessibility and Manipulation
of Brain Signals for Neuroprosthetic Applications
2001 B.S.
in Biochemistry from the University of Texas at Austin
Publications:
Abidian MR, Ludwig KA, Marzullo TC,
Martin DC, Kipke DR. Interfacing conducting polymer
nanotubes with the central nervous system: chronic neural recording using
poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) nanotubes. Advanced Materials. 2009
July.
Parikh H, Marzullo TC, Kipke D. Lower layers in the motor
cortex are more effective targets for penetrating microelectrodes in cortical
prostheses. Journal of Neural Engineering. 2009 April; 6(2): 026004.
Gage G. Marzullo T. Parikh H. "Die
Cingulare Theorie der Vereinigung: Der Gyrus Cinguli ist Fur Alle Geistigen
Leistungen Zustandig." in the book "Braintertainment 2.0" in
press late 2009.
Marzullo TC, Parikh H. How neurons must one man have,
before you call him a man? IEEE Potentials. 2008
Nov/Dec;27(6):26-33. correction
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 (selected):
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.
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 (selected)
Marzullo TC, Parikh H, Gage G. The cingular theory of
unification: the cingulate cortex does everything. abstract 28.7,
2007 society for neuroscience meeting. San Diego, CA.
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. Atlanta,
GA.
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. Washington, DC.
Weiss KA, Brown TC, Marzullo TC.
The brain eaters: interactive
neuroanatomy lesson. abstract 26.11, 2004 society for neuroscience
meeting. San Diego, CA.
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. Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Marzullo TC, Buonanno A, Boyle R.
Neuroanatomical localization of glutamate subunit receptors in the vestibular
system of the mouse. 2002 NASA Ames Research Center summer poster session.
Honors:
2009 Kauffman
Foundation Entrepreneur Postdoctoral
Fellow
2009 The
$100 Spike Project, inventing lost-cost neurophysiology, is Recipient of a Dare
to Dream Seed Grant from the Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of
Michigan
2008 The
$100 Spike Project is 1 of 4 presentations highlighted out of 10,000 for the Nature Magazine Neuroscience
Podcast
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 NASA
Ames Astrobiology Academy Internship
2002 $5000
grant from Michigan Space Grant Consortium
2001 University
of Michigan Rackham Regents Fellowship
2001 $1000
Research Grant for nerve protein synthesis inhibition project from University
of Texas Vice President of Research
2000 $1000
University of Texas College of Natural Sciences Foundation Scholarship
Selected
Work Experience:
2009-current Co-founder, Backyard Brains, Inc, commercializing The $100
Spike Project
2008-current Research Engineer, NeuroNexus Technologies, Ann Arbor
2008-2009 Post-Doctoral
Fellow, Neural Engineering Lab, U-Michigan
2002-2008 Ph.D.
Research in lab of Dr. Daryl Kipke, Neural Engineering Lab, U-Michigan
2003 Graduate
Student Instructor for Cell Biology Lab Course, U-Michigan
2002 Research
Assistant for Dr. Richard Boyle, BIOVis Center, NASA Ames Research Center
2000-2001 Research
assistant for George D. Bittner, Professor in Biological Sciences, Section of
Neurobiology, UT-Austin
Extra-Curricular
and Community Activities:
Current Periodically
(every three months) giving interactive lessons on Neuroscience to area junior
high school and elementary school students
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 Organized
and taught Neuroscience Enrichment sessions at Summer Science Camp for
disadvantaged students at West Middle School, Ypsilanti, MI
2003-2004 President,
UM Neuroscience Graduate Student Organization
2003 & 2004 First
prize, two years in a row, at Ann Arbor Hands On Museum Brainsrule science fair
for designing an Interactive Neuroanatomy
Exhibit for Elementary School Students. Exhibit now constantly wins
first prize with other presenters year after year.
2002 Invited
speaker to 300 high school students on -The Brain, Graduate School, and Mars-
at Springlake High School, Springlake, Michigan
2002-2004 Taught
elementary school students basic neuroanatomy at Angell Hall Elementary School
2001-2002 Member of
University of Michigan Manned Mars Rover Engineering Team
1997 Varsity
rower for University of Texas Men's Crew Team
Hobbies:
Amateur rocketry, Restoring my 1973 Chevrolet El Camino and 1981 Toyota
Tercel
References:
Daryl R. Kipke, Ph.D. – Thesis Project
Advisor, Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan,
phone: (734) 764-3716, email: dkipke@umich.edu
Aileen Y. Huang-Saad, Ph.D. Entrepreneurship
Advisor, Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan, phone:
734-647-9737, e-mail: aileenhs@umich.edu
Leonard J. Trejo, Ph.D. – NASA GSRP
project Advisor, computer scientist, NASA Ames Research Center, Mail Stop
269-3, office: (650) 604-2187, email: ltrejo@mail.arc.nasa.gov
Douglas A. O'Handley, Ph.D. – Director,
Ames Astrobiology Academy, 1997-2003, NASA Ames Research Center, retired. home:
(408) 872-1619 cell: (408) 666-4319, e-mail: dohphd@earthlink.net
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