Dear Colleagues

Today, Professor Shoogo Ueno from Japan will be giving the IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturers seminar in York. The title is

"Biomagnetics: An Interdisciplinary Field Where Magnetics, Biology, and Medicine Overlap"

Professor Ueno writes.. This lecture focuses on the advances in biomagnetics and bioimaging obtained mostly in our laboratory in recent years. The lecture describes: (1) a method of localized magnetic stimulation of the human brain by TMS with a figure-eight coil; (2) magneto- encephalography (MEG) to measure extremely weak magnetic fields produced from brain electrical activity using superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) systems; (3) impedance MRI and current MRI; (4) cancer therapy and control of iron-ion release from, and uptake into, ferritin, an iron-storage protein, by using both high frequency and pulsed magnetic fields and magnetic nanoparticles; and (5) magnetic control of biological cell orientation and cell growth by strong static magnetic fields. These new biomagnetic approaches will open new horizons in brain research, brain treatment, and regenerative medicine.

The seminar will be in PX001 in the Exhibition Centre of the University, at 14:00 on the 2nd of September.

All welcome