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2019-2020
Jan 16, 2020
Thursday
10:00 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Siyuan Rao, PhD
10:00 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Biomedical Engineering Platform for Neural Circuits Interrogation
Host: Quing Zhu
Jan 21, 2020
Tuesday
10:00 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Tim Otchy, PhD
10:00 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
3D-printing at the micro- and nano-scale: a new approach to chronic neural-machine interfaces
Host: Barani Raman
Jan 28, 2020
Tuesday
10:00 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Helen Schwerdt, PhD
10:00 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Multi-Modal Interfaces for Probing Chemical and Electrical Neural Activity Long-Term
Host: Barani Raman
Jan 30, 2020
Thursday
10:00 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Alexandra Rutz, PhD
10:00 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Materials and additive manufacturing for seamless bioelectronic-tissue interfaces
Host: Lori Setton
Feb 3, 2020
Monday
1:30 PM, Room 012, Brauer Hall
Naren Vyavahare, PhD
1:30 PM, Room 012, Brauer Hall
You Are Old as Your Elastin: Therapies to Extend Human Life
Host: Co-hosted with IMSE
Feb 20, 2020
Thursday
10:00 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Ismael Seáñez, PhD
10:00 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Body and brain-machine interfaces for personalized assistance and neurorehabilitation
Host: Jacob McPherson
Feb 27, 2020
Thursday
2:30 PM, Room 012, Brauer Hall
Chelsey Simmons, PhD
2:30 PM, Room 012, Brauer Hall
Cellular Contributions to Tissue Mechanics: Case Studies in Cancer and Regeneration
Host: Co-hosted with MEMS
Mar 5, 2020
Thursday
10:00 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Brenda Ogle, PhD
10:00 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Strategies for 3D Printing Complex Cardiac Tissue Mimics
Host: Lori Setton
Aug 29, 2019
Thursday
10:00 AM, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Christine Schmidt, PhD
10:00 AM, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Engineering Natural-Based Materials for Functional Nerve Regeneration
Host: Lori Setton
Sep 12, 2019
Thursday
10:00 AM, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Vivek Jayaraman, PhD
10:00 AM, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
The Generation and Use of an Internal Representation of Heading That is Flexible Yet Stable
Host: Barani Raman
Sep 19, 2019
Thursday
10:00 AM, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Jianjie Ma, PhD
10:00 AM, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Finding a Pixie Dust for Cell Membrane Repair and Regenerative Medicine
Host: Jianmin Cui
Sep 26, 2019
Thursday
10:00 AM, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Christine Hendon, PhD
10:00 AM, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Monitoring and Guidance of Ablation Therapy with Optics
Host: Jon Silva
Oct 10, 2019
Thursday
10:00 AM, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Thi Nguyen, PhD and Michelle DeLaire, PhD
10:00 AM, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Navigating Your PhD
Host: BME DC
Oct 24, 2019
Thursday
10:00 AM, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Gretchen Meyer, PhD
10:00 AM, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Fat-muscle Signaling: The Good, The Bad and The Beige
Host: Lori Setton
Oct 31, 2019
Thursday
10:00 AM, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Qi Wang, PhD
10:00 AM, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Reading and Writing the Neural Code: Initial Steps Towards Restoring and Enhancing Sensory Functions Using Brain-Machine Interfaces
Host: Barani Raman
Nov 14, 2019
Thursday
10:00 AM, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Yong Wang, PhD
10:00 AM, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Electromyometrial Imaging (EMMI) of Uterine Contractions
Host: Jon Silva
Nov 18, 2019
Monday
11:00 AM, Room 0120, Green Hall
Victor H. Barocas
11:00 AM, Room 0120, Green Hall
How Can We Use the Ever-Increasing Supply of Information To Do Better Computational Biomechanics?
Host: BME/MEMS
Nov 21, 2019
Thursday
10:00 AM, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Jason Burdick, PhD
10:00 AM, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Engineering Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications
Host: Nathaniel Huebsch
Dec 5, 2019
Thursday
10:00 AM, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Lonnie Shea, PhD
10:00 AM, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Tissue Engineering for Early Disease Detection and Monitoring Response
Host: Lori Setton
2018-2019
Sep 6, 2018
Thursday
10:10 a.m., Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Aaron Seitz, PhD
10:10 a.m., Room 218, Whitaker Hall
The Promise of Brain Training Games
Host: Dennis Barbour
Sep 13, 2018
Thursday
10:10 am, Whitaker Hall Room 218
Sharona Gordon, PhD
10:10 am, Whitaker Hall Room 218
No Gain, No Pain: Phosphoinositide Regulation of TRPV1 Ion Channels
Host: Jiamin Cui
Sep 20, 2018
Thursday
1:00 PM, Moore Auditorium, North Building, School of Medicine
Paula Hammond, PhD
1:00 PM, Moore Auditorium, North Building, School of Medicine
David H. Koch Chair, Professor of Engineering
Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: Sponsored by: The Chancellor's Graduate Fellowship Program Initiative to Maximize Student Development with BME, EECE, SOM Office of Diversity Programs and the Center on Urban Research and Public Policy
Sep 21, 2018
Friday
3:30 PM, Room 100, Whitaker Hall
Milan Yager, PhD
3:30 PM, Room 100, Whitaker Hall
Falling Out of Love With Science
Host: Lori Setton, PhD
Sep 27, 2018
Thursday
10:10 AM, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Byron Yu, PhD
10:10 AM, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Host: Barani Raman, PhD
Oct 4, 2018
Thursday
10:10 AM, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Zhen Xu, PhD
10:10 AM, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Histrotripsy: Imaging Guided Ultrasound Therapy for Non-invasive Surgery
Host: Hong Chen, PhD
Nov 5, 2018
Monday
11:00 am, Room 012, Brauer Hall
Mansoor A. Haider
11:00 am, Room 012, Brauer Hall
Development and Calibration of Mathematical Models for Matrix Accumulation and Remodeling in Biological Soft Tissues
Host: Lori Setton/Kathy Flores
Nov 15, 2018
Thursday
10:10 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Craig J. Goergen, PhD
10:10 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Cardiovascular 4D Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Murine Imaging
Host: Lori Setton
Nov 29, 2018
Thursday
10:10 a.m., Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Kausik Si, PhD
10:10 a.m., Room 218, Whitaker Hall
What Memories are Made Of
Host: Rohit Pappu
Dec 6, 2018
Thursday
10:10 AM, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Steven Poelzing, PhD
10:10 AM, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Buffers and Biomedical Reproducibility: Lessons from the Heart
Host: Jon Silva, PhD
Dec 18, 2018
Tuesday
10:10 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Chao Zhou, PhD
10:10 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall
Ultrahigh-Speed Optical Coherence Tomography and its Biomedical Applications
Host: Lori Setton
Jan 10, 2019
Thursday
10:10 AM, Room 012, Brauer Hall
Ariel L. Furst, PhD
10:10 AM, Room 012, Brauer Hall
Electrochemistry for Sensors and Energy
Host: Lori Setton
Jan 17, 2019
Thursday
10:10 AM, Room 012, Brauer Hall
Song Hu, PhD
10:10 AM, Room 012, Brauer Hall
Multi-parametric Photoacoustic Microscopy: Auscultation of Hemodynamics and Energy Metabolism at the Microscopic Level
Host: Lori Setton
Jan 29, 2019
Tuesday
10:10 AM, Room 012, Brauer Hall
Ahmet F. Coskun, PhD
10:10 AM, Room 012, Brauer Hall
Multiplex Imaging of Spatial Biology in Single Cells
Host: Barani Raman
Jan 31, 2019
Thursday
10:00 AM* special start time, Room 012, Brauer Hall
Yonggang Shi, PhD
10:00 AM* special start time, Room 012, Brauer Hall
Neuro Image Computing Research for Translational Brain Mapping and Beyond
Host: Quing Zhu
Feb 5, 2019
Tuesday
10:10 AM, Room 012, Brauer Hall
Jonathan T. Reeder, PhD
10:10 AM, Room 012, Brauer Hall
Soft Biomedical Devices for Modulating, Measuring and Exploiting Thermal Physiology
Host: Lori Setton
Feb 7, 2019
Thursday
10:10 AM, Room 012, Brauer Hall
Laurel E. Hind, PhD
10:10 AM, Room 012, Brauer Hall
Elucidating the Role of the Microenvironment in Directing Innate Immune Cell Motility
Host: Jon Silva
Feb 12, 2019
Tuesday
10:10 AM, Room 012, Brauer Hall
Lingyan Shi, PhD
10:10 AM, Room 012, Brauer Hall
High Resolution Optical Imaging of Metabolic Dynamics in Animals
Host: Quing Zhu
Feb 21, 2019
Thursday
10:10 am, Room 012, Brauer Hall
Ashutosh Agarwal, PhD
10:10 am, Room 012, Brauer Hall
Organ on Chip Platforms for Modeling Human Disease
Host: Lori Setton
Feb 25, 2019
Monday
11 a.m., Brauer Hall, Room 012
Heather Powell, PhD
11 a.m., Brauer Hall, Room 012
Biomaterial Strategies for Developing Biomimetic Engineered Skin
Host: Co-sponsored with the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
Mar 18, 2019
Monday
11 a.m., Room 012, Brauer Hall
Silviya Zustaik, PhD
11 a.m., Room 012, Brauer Hall
Hydrogels for Drug Screening and Protein Delivery Applications
Host: Co-sponsored with the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
Mar 21, 2019
Thursday
10:10 am, Room 012, Brauer Hall
Michelle Repice, PhD
10:10 am, Room 012, Brauer Hall
Successful Networking: Making Meaningful Career Connections
Host: Lori Setton
Mar 22, 2019
Friday
12:00 pm, Room 309, Jolley Hall
David Elad, DSc
12:00 pm, Room 309, Jolley Hall
Biomechanics of the Female Reproductive Tract
Host: Co-sponsored with the Interdisciplinary Training in Mechanobiology from nm to cm
Apr 11, 2019
Thursday
10:10 am, Room 012, Brauer Hall
Thi Nguyen, Phd
10:10 am, Room 012, Brauer Hall
Leveraging LinkedIn
Host: Ali Ross
Apr 12, 2019
Friday
4:00 pm, Rodin Auditorium, Green Hall
Sumita Pennathur, PhD
4:00 pm, Rodin Auditorium, Green Hall
Development of Medical Devices Using MEMS and Electrokinetic Fluid Technology
Host: Co-Sponsored by: Sling Health, AGES, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, & Biomedical Engineering
Apr 18, 2019
Thursday
10:10 am, Room 012, Brauer Hall
Janice L. Robertson, PhD
10:10 am, Room 012, Brauer Hall
Driving Forces of Greasy Protein Association in Greasy Membranes
Host: Jon Silva
Apr 29, 2019
Monday
1 p.m., Whitaker Hall, Room 100
Kwabena Boahen
1 p.m., Whitaker Hall, Room 100
Spike-Based Neuromorphic Computing
Host: Karen Teasdale, teasdalek@wustl.edu
2017-2018
| September 7, 2017 Thursday 2:45 pm, Room 12, Brauer Hall Kristen Myers, PhD Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering Columbia University Co-sponsored with the Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science |
September 11, 2017 Monday 11:00 am, Room 206, Crow Hall Adam Engler, PhD Associate Professor of Bioengineering UC San Diego Co-sponsored with the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering |
September 21, 2017 Thursday 10:10 am, Room 100, Whitaker Hall Shawn Chen, PhD Senior Investigator Laboratory of Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering |
| September 28, 2017 Thursday 2:45 pm, Room 12, Brauer Hall David Odde, PhD Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Minnesota Co-sponsored with the Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science |
October 31, 2017 Tuesday 10:30 am, Erlanger Auditorium, McDonnell Science Building Manu Platt, PhD Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Diversity Director, STC on Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems, GRA Distinguished Scholar Georgia Tech Co-sponsored with Developmental Biology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics |
November 2, 2017 Thursday 10:10 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall James Fitzpatrick, PhD Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology, and Biomedical Engineering Scientific Director, Washington University Center for Cellular Imaging Washington University in St. Louis |
| November 6, 2017 Monday 11:00 am, Room 100, Whitaker Hall Elizabeth Wayne, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
November 16, 2017 Thursday 10:10 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall Princess U II Imoukhuede, PhD Assistant Professor of Bioengineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
December 4, 2017 Monday 11:00 am, Room 206, Crow Hall Julie C. Liu Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering Purdue University Co-sponsored with the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering |
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January 18, 2018
Thursday 10:10 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall Jai Rudra, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology University of Texas Medical Branch
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January 25, 2018
Thursday 10:10 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall Jiahe Li, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Department of Chemical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
February 1, 2018
Thursday 10:10 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall Blaine Christiansen, PhD Associate Professor Department of Orthopedic Surgery University of California, Davis
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February 8, 2018
Thursday 10:10 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall Meng Cui, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biology Purdue University |
February 15, 2018
Thursday
10:10 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall Katharina Maisel, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Molecular Engineering University of Chicago
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February 22, 2018
Thursday
10:10 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall Jia Liu, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Chemical Engineering Stanford University
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| February 26, 2018 Monday
2:00 pm, Room 100, Whitaker Hall Michele Marcolongo, PhD Department Head & Professor Materials Science and Engineering
Drexel University
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February 27, 2018
Tuesday
10:10 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall Audrey Fan, PhD Instructor Department of Radiology Stanford University
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March 8, 2018
Thursday
10:10 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall Samantha Santacruz, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California, Berkeley
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March 29, 2018
Thursday
10:10 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall Tamara Kinzer-Ursem, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering Purdue University
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April 26, 2018 Thursday
10:10 am, Room 218, Whitaker Hall Shulamit Levenberg, PhD Dean, Professor Stanley and Sylvia Shirvan Chair in Cancer and Life Sciences Technion University, Haifa, Israel
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May 1, 2018 Tuesday
1:00-2:00 pm, Emerson Auditorium, Knight Hall Scott Hollister, PhD Professor and Patsy and Alan Dorris Chair in Pediatric Technology Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering |
2016-2017
January 19, 2017BME Faculty Candidate
Nandan Nerurkar
Research Fellow
Genetics
Harvard Medical School
Title: Molecular Control of Physical Forces during Morphogenesis of the Vertebrate Gut
Focus Area: Regenerative Engineering in Medicine and/or Biomechanics
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January 24, 2017BME Faculty CandidateMarjan Rafat
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Radiation Physics
Stanford Medicine
Title: Deconstructing the Tumor and Tissue Microenvironment
Focus Area: Biomaterials; Tumor Microenvironment
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January 26, 2016BME Faculty CandidateMichael Vahey
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bioengineering
University California, Berkeley
Title: Catching the Flu in the Act: Quantifying Influenza A Virus Assembly and Organization using Multispectral Viral Strains
Focus Area: Molecular & Cellular Systems Engineering
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January 31, 2017BME Faculty CandidateErik Dreaden Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology Title: A Tale of Two Particles: Engineering Rational Combination Therapies against Metastatic Tumors Focus Area: Cancer Technologies |
February 2, 2017BME Faculty CandidateNathaniel Huebsch
Senior Scientist
Bioengineering
University of California, Berkeley
Title: Harnessing Mechanobiology to create better Disease Models and Therapies from Mesenchymal and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Focus Area: Stem Cells and Biomaterials
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February 9, 2017BME Faculty CandidateChristopher Nelson Postdoctoral Scholar Biomedical Engineering Duke University Title: Delivery of Genome Engineering Technologies for Precision Gene Therapy Focus Area: Genome Engineering |
February 14, 2017BME Faculty CandidateEduardo Reátegui Research Fellow Surgery Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School Title: Microfluidic Liquid Biopsy: seeking Particles Large and Small in Cancer Patient Blood Focus Area: Cancer Technologies |
February 16, 2017BME Faculty Candidate - Imaging
Raiyan Zaman
Instructor
Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
Stanford Medicine
Title: Novel Fiber-Based Optical Systems for Biomedical Applications Focus Area: Biomedical/Biological Quantitative Molecular Imaging |
February 21, 2017BME Faculty Candidate
Erica Jung
Postdoctoral Associate
Synthetic Neurobiology Lab at the Media Lab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: High-speed neural imaging with a genetically encoded voltage sensor Focus Area: Neural Engineering |
CANCELED - February 23, 2017BME Faculty CandidateThomas Gaj Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow Bioengineering University of California, Berkeley Title: Therapeutic Genome Editing using CRISPR-Cas9 Focus Area: Molecular & Cellular Systems Engineering |
February 28, 2017
BME Faculty Candidate Michael Mitchell
Burroughs Wellcome Fund CASI Fellow
Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow
Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Engineering Blood and Marrow for Cancer Therapy
Focus Area: Cancer Technologies |
March 2, 2016
BME Faculty Candidate
Kshitiz
Associate Research Scientist
Institute of Systems Biology
Yale University
Title: The Stag Hunt Game in Cancer: How Cells Cooperate Within Cancer Populations and Stroma to Divide and Conquer
Focus Area: Cancer Metastasis, Intercellular Communication, Integrative Biology
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March 9, 2016
BME Faculty Candidate - Imaging Search
Abhinav K. Jha
Instructor
RadiologyJohns Hopkins University
Title: Objective Assessment of Image Quality-based Techniques to Advance Technologies for Quantitative Medical Imaging
Focus Area: Computational imaging, imaging informatics
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March 23, 2017Yoram RudyThe Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor
Title: Noninvasive Imaging of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmias in the Intact Human Heart: Selected Examples
Focus Area: Cardiovascular Engineering
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March 28, 2017Paul Wiseman
Professor
Professor of Physics & Chemistry
Otto Maass Chair in Chemistry
McGill University
Title: Mesoscale Regulation of Podosome Turnover in Human Dendritic Cells Revealed with Image Correlation Methods
Focus Area: Biomedical and Biological Imaging
Host: Dr. Steve George
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March 30, 2017Leslie M. Loew
Professor
Cell Biology and Computer Science & Engineering
University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Engineering
Title: Signaling to the Actin Cytoskeleton
Virtual Cell (V-Cell) demonstration to follow in Whitaker 318.
Focus Area: Cell Biophysics
Host: Drs. Kristen Naegle and Jonathan Silva
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April 13, 2017 in Whitaker 100co-sponsored by The Institute for Informatics Andrea Califano
Chair, Systems Biology
Professor, Chemical & Systems Biology
Columbia University
Title: Addressing the Precision Deficit Disorder: leveraging Genomic Data and Models in the Post-mutational Era
Focus Area: Systems biology, cancer, neurodegeneration
Host: Drs. Kristen Naegle & Philip Payne
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April 20, 2017Michel M. Maharbiz
Professor
Electrical Engineering
University of California - Berkeley
Title: Recent Advances in Neural Dust, a Platform for Peripheral and Central Nervous System Recording
Focus Area: Biosystems & Computational Biology
Host: Dr. Barani Raman
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April 28, 2017BME Faculty Candidate
Karin Wang
Research Fellow
Department of Environmental Health
Harvard University School of Public Health
Title: Mechanobiology of Breast Tumorigenesis Host: Prof. Lori Setton
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April 27, 2017David Eliezer
Professor
Biochemistry
Weill Cornell Medical College
Title: Alpha-synuclein, Tau and Complexin: Disordered Proteins in Neurodegeneration and Neurotransmission
Focus Area: Disease-related proteins
Host: Prof. Jan Bieschke |
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2014-2015
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Seminar Date |
Speaker |
University/Organization |
Seminar Title |
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9/12/2014 |
Alaa Ahmed, PhD |
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado |
Metabolic cost in movement decision making: a neuroeconomic framework |
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9/19/2014 |
Steve George, MD, PhD |
Elvera and William Stuckenberg Professor and Chair, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, WUSTL |
InVitro Modeling of Vascularized Cardiac and Tumor Tissue |
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9/26/2014 |
Nenad Bursac, PhD |
Associate Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University |
Engineering of Functional Skeletal Muscle: from Rats to Humans |
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10/3/2014 |
Patrick Rousche, PhD |
Founding Director, Ensis Scientific Consulting |
Commercializing Academic Research: What students and faculty in Biomedical Engineering need to know about the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR). |
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10/10/2014 |
Neb Duric, PhD |
Kamanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State Univ. |
Ultrasound Tomography: from Laboratory Promise to Clinical Realization |
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11/7/2014 |
Johanna Temenoff, PhD |
Associate Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech/Emory |
Tunable GAG-based Biomaterials for Sequestration and Delivery of Therapeutic Proteins |
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11/14/2014 |
Henry Colecraft, PhD |
Associate Professor of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics, Columbia Univ. |
Calcium Channel Engineering |
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11/21/2014 |
Roland Kaunas, PhD |
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M |
Mechanobiology of Cell-Matrix Interactions in Blood Vessels and Bone |
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12/5/2014 |
Chris Xu, PhD |
Professor, School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell |
In VivoMultiphoton Imaging of Mouse Brain |
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1/7/2015 |
Elizabeth Nance, PhD |
PD Fellow, Johns Hopkins University |
Nanotherapeutics for Neurological Disorders |
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1/14/2015 |
Samuel Senyo, PhD |
PD Fellow, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School |
Direct Evidence for Cardiac Proliferation in the Mammalian Heart |
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1/21/2015 |
Ashley Brown, PhD |
Research Scientist, Georgia Institute of Technology |
Development of Microgel Systems for Evaluation and Modulation of Biological Responses |
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1/23/2015 |
Heather Duffy, PhD |
Student Attorney, Suffolk Law School Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinic |
Science and the Law: Protecting and Commercializing Scientific Discoveries |
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2/10/2015 |
Lori Setton, PhD |
Professor, Duke University |
Advancing Regenerative Medicine Approaches to Treat Intervertebral Disc Disorders |
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2/12/2015 |
Eun Ji Chung, PhD |
Research Associate, Tirrell Research Group, The University of Chicago |
Molecular Engineering for Regenerative Medicine and Theranostic Applications |
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2/13/2015 |
Mounir Tarek, PhD |
Research Director, CNRS Nancy University, Cedex, France |
Synergic use of Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Experiments Reveal Key Aspects of Lipid Membranes Electroporation |
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2/18/2015 |
Corin Williams, PhD |
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University |
Cardiac Extracellular Matrix as a 'Regenerative Biomaterial for the Young Heart |
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2/20/2015 |
Crystal Ripplinger, PhD |
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology, UC, Davis |
Novel Approaches for Calcium Imaging in the Intact Heart |
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3/3/2015 |
Muyinatu Bell, PhD |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Engineering Research Center for Computer - Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology, Johns Hopkins University |
Toward Clinical Implementation of Photoacoustic Imaging Systems with Short-lag Spatial Coherence Beamforming |
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3/5/2015 |
Ying Hu, PhD |
CIRM Postdoctoral Fellow, Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center, Salk Institute |
Seeing through Light: unveilling new biological structures by Manipulating and Resolving Light in the Sub-diffraction Regime |
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3/16/2015 |
Hong Chen, PhD |
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University |
Ultrasound Therapy and Imaging: applications in Brain Drug Delivery and Pancreatic Cancer Treatment |
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3/18/2015 |
Kai Wang, PhD |
Postdoctoral Associate, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
Hi Resolution Subcellular Imaging throughout Whole Living Organisms |
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3/23/2015 |
Liang Gao, PhD |
Advisory Research Scientist Computational Optical Imaging Group, RIC |
Developing Next Generation Multidimensional Optical Imaging Devices |
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4/3/2015 |
Garrett Stanley, PhD |
Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology/Emory University |
Reading and Writing the Neural Code: Challenges in Neuroengineering |
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4/10/2015 |
Shu Chien, MD, PhD |
Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine; Director, Institute of Engineering in Medicine, UC-San Diego |
Role of microRNA in Endothelial Mechanotransduction in Health and Disease |
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4/24/2015 |
Pamela Kreeger, PhD |
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
The Impact of Cellular Network and Microenvironmental Variations in Disease |
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5/20/2015 |
Quing Zhu, PhD |
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut |
Ultrasound-guided Difuse Light Imaging/Co-registered Ultrasound & Photoacoustic Imaging: Matching the tool to the Cancer Site |
2013-2014
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Seminar Date |
Speaker |
University/Organization |
Seminar Title |
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9/6/2013 |
Jessica Wagenseil, DSc |
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, WUSTL |
Elastin in arterial growth and remodeling |
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9/13/2013 |
Frederic Theunissen, PhD |
Director, Auditory Science Lab, Psychology & Neuroscience, UC, Berkley |
Neural representation of a complete vocal repertoire in a songbird: from sound to meaning |
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9/20/2013 |
Ira Cohen, MD, PhD |
Leading Professor, Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics, Stony Brook University |
Acquired Long Q-T Syndrome: Block of IKr or Inhibition of PI3- Kinase? |
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10/4/2013 |
Sandor Kovacs, PhD |
Professor, IM-Cardiovascular Division, WUSTL |
How the Heart Works when it Fills: an Engineering Perspective |
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10/11/2013 |
Spencer Lake, PhD |
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, WUSTL |
Structure-Function Relationships of Orthopaedic Soft Tissues |
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10/25/2013 |
Jeffrey Jacot, PhD |
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Director of the Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering Lab TX Childrens Hosp., Rice University |
Engineering Heart Tissue for Pediatric Applications |
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11/1/2013 |
Shuming Nie, PhD |
Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Chair Professor, Georgia Tech / Emory |
Nanomedicine: New Opportunities in Targeted Cancer Therapy and Image-guided Surgery |
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11/8/2013 |
Johannes Reisert, PhD |
Associate Member, Monell Chemical Senses Center |
Dynamics and basal activity of olfactory receptor neurons |
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11/22/2013 |
Bastiaan Boukens, PhD |
Research Scientist, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, WUSTL |
The Origin of Electrophysiological Heterogeneities in the Heart: a developmental and evolutionary view |
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12/6/2013 |
Stacey Rentschler, MD, PhD |
Assistant Professor, IM-Cardiovascular Division, WUSTL |
Developmental Paradigms in Cardiovascular Regeneration |
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1/17/2014 |
Andrew McCulloch, PhD |
Distinguished Professor, Jacobs Distinguished Scholar, Department of Bioengineering, UC, San Diego |
Multi-Scale Modeling of the Failing Heart |
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1/24/2014 |
Emilia Entcheva, PhD |
Professor of BME, Physiology and Biophysics, SUNY at Stony Brook |
Towards All-optical Cardiac Electrophysiology via Optogenetics |
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1/31/2014 |
Zachary Pincus, PhD |
Assistant Professor, Developmental Biology and Genetics, WUSTL |
Variability in Longevity and the Origins of Individuality |
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2/7/2014 |
Gerald Dorn, MD |
Philip & Sima K Needleman Professor of Medicine, IM-Pharmacogenomics, WUSTL |
Mitochondrial Fission/Fusion and Qualilty Control in Development and Disease |
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2/28/2014 |
Venkatesh Murthy, PhD |
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University |
Algorithms and neural circuits in odor-guided behaviors in mice |
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4/4/2014 |
Vincent Christoffels, PhD |
Professor of Developmental Biology, University of Amsterdam |
Transcriptional regulation of cardiac conduction system development |
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4/25/2014 |
H. Peter Larsson, PhD |
Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at the Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami |
KCNE1 divides the voltage sensor movement in cardiac Iks channels into two steps |
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5/2/2014 |
Chris Gemmiti, PhD |
Founder & Managing Director, Ridgewood Consulting LLC, Organogenesis, Inc. |
Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine: Failure and Success |
2012-2013
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Seminar Date |
Speaker |
University/Organization |
Seminar Title |
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9/14/2012 |
Mark Stopfer, PhD |
Investigator, NIH |
Neural codes for odor and taste |
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9/20/2012 |
Kathy Miller, PhD Gina Frey, PhD |
Professor & Chair, Dept. of Biology |
Washington University’s CIRTL Program for Future Faculty in STEM |
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9/27/2012 |
Roger Markwald, PhD |
Professor & Chair, Medical University of South Carolina |
Veni, vidi, vici: from fibroblast origin, through visualization to defeating pathological valve and myocardial remodeling |
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10/5/2012 |
Simon Tang, PhD |
Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, BME, MEMS, WUSTL |
The Biological Regulation of Matrix Quality in Skeletal Tissues |
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10/12/2012 |
John Cunningham, PhD |
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, WUSTL |
Understanding Computation in Neural Populations |
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10/19/2012 |
Yongping Zheng, PhD |
Acting Head & Professor, Interdisciplinary Division of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Biomedical and Engineering, Department of Health Technology & Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
Techniques for Measurement of Soft Tissue Elasticity: From Innovation to Application |
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11/2/2012 |
Brenda Schulman, PhD |
Member , HHMI/St. Judes Research Hospital |
Twists and Turns in Ubiquitin Conjugation Cascades |
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11/16/2012 |
Kevin Janes, PhD |
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia |
A systems perspective on signaling networks perturbed by viruses, small molecules, and RNAi |
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11/30/2012 |
Lori Setton, PhD |
Professor , Duke University |
Engineering Injectable Depots for Intra-Articular and Peri-Neural Drug Delivery |
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1/18/2013 |
Megan McCain, PhD |
Disease Biophysics Group, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University |
From Womb to Doom: Mechanical Regulation of Cardiac Tissue Assembly in Morphogenesis and Pathogenesis |
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1/25/2013 |
Jan Bieschke, PhD |
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, WUSTL |
Protein Misfolding: Mechanisms and Intervention Strategies |
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2/1/2013 |
Kristen Naegle, PhD |
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, WUSTL |
Predicting novel protein interactions and the case for ensemble clustering |
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2/8/2013 |
Robin Dowell-Deen, PhD |
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology , University of Colorado, Boulder |
Coping Strategies: Adaptation and Aneuploidy |
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2/15/2013 |
Craig Goergen, PhD |
Assistant Professor, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering , Purdue University |
Cardiac and Vascular In Vivo Imaging in Health and Disease |
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3/1/2013 |
Pat Alford, PhD |
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota |
Engineered Tissues for Studying Vascular Mechano-Adaptation |
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3/22/2013 |
Jim Havranek, PhD |
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Genetics, WUSTL |
Computational Protein Design: Algorithms and Applications |
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3/29/2013 |
Stephanie Willerth, PhD |
Assistant Professor, University of Victoria |
Engineering reproducible neural tissue from pluripotent stem cells |
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4/5/2013 |
Karen Troy, PhD |
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago |
Quantifying the input/output relationship between in vivo mechanical loads and bone adaptation in women |
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4/12/2013 |
Matt Kupinski, PhD |
Associate Professor, University of Arizona |
Image Science and Adaptive Imaging |
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4/19/2013 |
Robi Mitra, PhD |
Professor, Dept. of Genetics, WUSTL |
Recording transcription factor binding using transposon 'Calling Cards' |
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4/26/2013 |
Regina Murphy, PhD |
Smith-Bascom Professor, Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering , University of Wisconsin, Madison |
Transthyretin: A natural anti-Alzheimer’s agent? |
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5/3/2013 |
Jordan Taylor, PhD |
Assistant Professor, Princeton University |
The Role of Cognitive Strategies in Motor Learning |