Publications
2020 Quantified Morphology of the Cervical and Subdiaphragmatic Vagus Nerve (N.A. Pelot, G.B. Goldhagen, J.E. Cariello, E.D. Musselman, K.A. Clissold, J.A. Ezzell, W.M. Grill). Frontiers in Neuroscience (Autonomic section) XX. doi:10.3389/fnins.2020.601479
2020 Excitation Properties of Computational Models of Unmyelinated Peripheral Axons (N.A. Pelot, D.C. Catherall, B.J. Thio, N.D. Titus, E.D. Liang, C.S. Henriquez, W.M. Grill). Journal of Neurophysiology XX. doi:XX
2020 Quantitative comparisons of charge-balanced waveforms for kilohertz frequency block (E. Peña, N.A. Pelot, W.M. Grill). Journal of Neural Engineering 17 043048. doi:10.1088/1741-2552/abadb5
2020 Sources of off-target effects of vagus nerve stimulation using the helical clinical lead in domestic pigs (E.N. Nicolai, M.L. Settell, B.E. Knudsen, A.L. McConico, B.A. Gosink, J.K. Trevathan, I.W. Baumgart, E.K. Ross, N.A. Pelot, W.M. Grill, K.J. Gustafson, A.J. Shoffstall, J.C. Williams, K.A. Ludwig). Journal of Neural Engineering 17 046017. doi:10.1088/1741-2552/ab9db8
2020 Functional vagotopy in the cervical vagus nerve of the domestic pig: Implications for the study of vagus nerve stimulation (M.L Settell, N.A. Pelot, B.E. Knudsen, A.M. Dingle, A.L. McConico, E.N. Nicolai, J.K. Trevathan, J.A. Ezzell, E.K. Ross, K.J. Gustafson, A.J. Shoffstall, J.C. Williams, W. Zeng, S.O. Poore, L.C. Populin, A.J. Suminski, W.M. Grill, K.A. Ludwig). Journal of Neural Engineering 17 026002. doi:10.1088/1741-2552/ab7ad4
2020 In vivo quantification of excitation and kilohertz frequency block of the rat vagus nerve (N.A. Pelot and W.M. Grill). Journal of Neural Engineering 17 026005. doi:10.1088/1741-2552/ab6cb6
2019 On the parameters used in finite element modeling of compound peripheral nerves (N.A. Pelot, C.E. Behrend, W.M. Grill). Journal of Neural Engineering 16(1). doi:10.1088/1741-2552/aaeb0c. Featured on cover of JNE.
2019 Invited review: Empirically-based guidelines for selecting vagus nerve stimulation parameters in epilepsy and heart failure (E.D. Musselman, N.A. Pelot, W.M. Grill). Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine. doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a034264
2018 Modeling current sources for neural stimulation in COMSOL (N.A. Pelot, B.J. Thio, W.M. Grill). Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 12(40). doi:10.3389/fncom.2018.00040
2018 Invited review: Effects of vagal neuromodulation on feeding behavior (N.A. Pelot, W.M. Grill). Brain Research 1693:180-187. doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2018.02.003
2017 Modeling the response of small myelinated axons in a compound nerve to kilohertz frequency signals (N.A. Pelot, C.E. Behrend, W.M. Grill). Journal of Neural Engineering 14(4). doi:10.1088/1741-2552/aa6a5f
2015 Modeling the response of small myelinated and unmyelinated axons to kilohertz frequency signals (N.A. Pelot, C. Behrend, W. Grill) IEEE EMBS Neural Engineering Conference; Montpellier, France; Submission #19 (Student Travel Award & Student Finalist). pp. 406-409. doi:10.1109/NER.2015.7146645
2014 Clearance of depot vaccine SPIO-labeled antigen and substrate visualized using MRI (K.D. Brewer, K. Lake, N. Pelot, M.M. Stanford, D.R. DeBay, A. Penwell, G.M. Weir, M. Karkada, M. Mansour, C.V. Bowen). Vaccine 32:6956–6962. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.10.058
2013 Quantification of superparamagnetic iron oxide using inversion recovery balanced steady-state free precession (N.A. Pelot, C.V. Bowen). Magnetic Resonance Imaging 31:953–960. doi:10.1016/j.mri.2013.03.010
2020 Excitation Properties of Computational Models of Unmyelinated Peripheral Axons (N.A. Pelot, D.C. Catherall, B.J. Thio, N.D. Titus, E.D. Liang, C.S. Henriquez, W.M. Grill). Journal of Neurophysiology XX. doi:XX
2020 Quantitative comparisons of charge-balanced waveforms for kilohertz frequency block (E. Peña, N.A. Pelot, W.M. Grill). Journal of Neural Engineering 17 043048. doi:10.1088/1741-2552/abadb5
2020 Sources of off-target effects of vagus nerve stimulation using the helical clinical lead in domestic pigs (E.N. Nicolai, M.L. Settell, B.E. Knudsen, A.L. McConico, B.A. Gosink, J.K. Trevathan, I.W. Baumgart, E.K. Ross, N.A. Pelot, W.M. Grill, K.J. Gustafson, A.J. Shoffstall, J.C. Williams, K.A. Ludwig). Journal of Neural Engineering 17 046017. doi:10.1088/1741-2552/ab9db8
2020 Functional vagotopy in the cervical vagus nerve of the domestic pig: Implications for the study of vagus nerve stimulation (M.L Settell, N.A. Pelot, B.E. Knudsen, A.M. Dingle, A.L. McConico, E.N. Nicolai, J.K. Trevathan, J.A. Ezzell, E.K. Ross, K.J. Gustafson, A.J. Shoffstall, J.C. Williams, W. Zeng, S.O. Poore, L.C. Populin, A.J. Suminski, W.M. Grill, K.A. Ludwig). Journal of Neural Engineering 17 026002. doi:10.1088/1741-2552/ab7ad4
2020 In vivo quantification of excitation and kilohertz frequency block of the rat vagus nerve (N.A. Pelot and W.M. Grill). Journal of Neural Engineering 17 026005. doi:10.1088/1741-2552/ab6cb6
2019 On the parameters used in finite element modeling of compound peripheral nerves (N.A. Pelot, C.E. Behrend, W.M. Grill). Journal of Neural Engineering 16(1). doi:10.1088/1741-2552/aaeb0c. Featured on cover of JNE.
2019 Invited review: Empirically-based guidelines for selecting vagus nerve stimulation parameters in epilepsy and heart failure (E.D. Musselman, N.A. Pelot, W.M. Grill). Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine. doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a034264
2018 Modeling current sources for neural stimulation in COMSOL (N.A. Pelot, B.J. Thio, W.M. Grill). Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 12(40). doi:10.3389/fncom.2018.00040
2018 Invited review: Effects of vagal neuromodulation on feeding behavior (N.A. Pelot, W.M. Grill). Brain Research 1693:180-187. doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2018.02.003
2017 Modeling the response of small myelinated axons in a compound nerve to kilohertz frequency signals (N.A. Pelot, C.E. Behrend, W.M. Grill). Journal of Neural Engineering 14(4). doi:10.1088/1741-2552/aa6a5f
2015 Modeling the response of small myelinated and unmyelinated axons to kilohertz frequency signals (N.A. Pelot, C. Behrend, W. Grill) IEEE EMBS Neural Engineering Conference; Montpellier, France; Submission #19 (Student Travel Award & Student Finalist). pp. 406-409. doi:10.1109/NER.2015.7146645
2014 Clearance of depot vaccine SPIO-labeled antigen and substrate visualized using MRI (K.D. Brewer, K. Lake, N. Pelot, M.M. Stanford, D.R. DeBay, A. Penwell, G.M. Weir, M. Karkada, M. Mansour, C.V. Bowen). Vaccine 32:6956–6962. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.10.058
2013 Quantification of superparamagnetic iron oxide using inversion recovery balanced steady-state free precession (N.A. Pelot, C.V. Bowen). Magnetic Resonance Imaging 31:953–960. doi:10.1016/j.mri.2013.03.010
Why Biomedical Engineering?
I was awarded summer research funding from NSERC after my first year of undergrad to work in physics. I didn't know what area of research I wanted to pursue, so I perused the faculty webpages and interviewed with different labs, one of which was an MRI lab. I had such a great time doing MR research with the NRC group that I stayed in the lab for my entire undergraduate degree.
I love variety, in most things. In my research, not only do I love the variety of daily tasks that my job requires, but I love being able to study both engineering and math, as well as anatomy, physiology, health and disease.
I love variety, in most things. In my research, not only do I love the variety of daily tasks that my job requires, but I love being able to study both engineering and math, as well as anatomy, physiology, health and disease.