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2023-2024
Date Speaker Title Seminar Series Speaker Information
7/12/2023 Aitor Aguirre Reverse engineering human heart development with pluripotent stem cells CardS Seminar Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering and Chief of the Division of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology at Michigan State University
8/4/2023 Woonggyu Jung Staining-free optical imaging techniques toward digital histopathology Imagine Seminar Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
8/31/2023 Steve Abramowitch From Voxels to Valsalva: Understanding the Function of the Female Pelvic Floor through Imaging and Computational Methods BME Seminar W.K. Whiteford Professor of Bioengineering at University of Pittsburgh
9/7/2023 Zoran Nenadic Brain-Computer Interfaces for Human Gait Restoration BME Seminar William J. Link Chair and Professor of biomedical engineering at University of California, Irvine
9/21/2023 Juergen Hahn Towards the Development of a Diagnostic Test for Autism Spectrum Disorder: Data Science Meets Metabolomics BME Seminar Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Chemical & Biological Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
9/28/2023 Gregg A. Duncan Engineering mucus and innate lung defense BME Seminar Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park
10/5/2023 Yingxiao Wang Remote Control of Genetics and Cellular Functions for Cancer Immunotherapy BME Seminar Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering at University of Southern California
10/16/2023 Kevin J. Mitchell Defense against the Dark Arts - or how not to fool yourself with stats CCSN Seminar Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin
10/19/2023 Maryellen L. Giger AI & Data Science in Medical Imaging of Cancer and COVID-19 BME Seminar A.N. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor of Radiology at the University of Chicago
10/26/2023 Brian Schmit Novel treadmill environments for rehabilitation of gait BME Seminar Professor, Hammes Family Chair, and Associate Dean of Research at Marquette University
11/2/2033 David Bundy Towards Neuroprosthetic Applications for Stroke: Understanding Neurophysiological Correlates of Post-stroke Motor Recovery BME Seminar Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery (PEFA) at Washington University School of Medicine
11/16/2023 David T. Curiel Targeted In Vivo Gene Delivery via Tropism Modified Adenoviral Vectors  - A Thirty Year Quest for the Holy Grail BME Seminar Professor of Radiation Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine
11/30/2023 Nathaniel Huebsch Mechanics influence disease manifestation in human iPSC-based models of inherited heart disease BME Seminar Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
12/4/2023 Berna Devezer and Erkan Buzbas A systematic approach to analyze and improve experiments before embarking on replication CCSN Seminar
12/7/2023 Felipe Quiroz Programming and probing the self-assembly of intrinsically-disordered proteins BME Seminar Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech
1/25/2024 Farners Amargant i Riera Age-associated changes in the ovarian environment: How ovarian biomechanics regulate oocyte quality BME Seminar Assistant Professor of Ob & Gyn at Washington University School of Medicine 
2/15/2024 Isabel Vanegas Using electrophysiology to unravel circuits of visuomotor behavior for the study, diagnosis, and treatment of neurodegenerative disorders BME Seminar Postdoctoral Research Associate in the department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Utah School of Medicine
2/22/2024 Jenny Jiang High-throughput and hi-dimensional profiling of single antigen-specific T cells BME Seminar Peter & Geri Skirkanich Associate Professor of Innovation in the department of bioengineering at University of Pennsylvania
2/29/2024 Sarah Veatch Biological tuning of the membrane phase transition facilitates plasma membrane organization and function BME Seminar Professor of Biophysics and Physics at the University of Michigan
3/7/2024 Michael Vahey Mechanisms of antibody-mediated protection against respiratory viral infection BME Seminar Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering at WashU
3/12/2024 Ileana Hancu Demystifying ARPA-H Public Lecture Program Manager of Health Science Futures with Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
3/20/2024 Russell Poldrack The importance of measurement andmodeling for rigorous science CCSN Research Methodology Workshop Albert Ray Lang, Professor Department of Psychology at Stanford University 
3/21/2024 Yali Jia OCT Angiography and Oximetry: Prospects & Challenges BME Seminar Jennie P. Weeks Professor of Ophthalmology and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Oregon Health & Science University
4/4/2024 Sarah England Translational Studies on the Oxytocin Receptor; Considerations for a Personalized Medicine Approach BME Seminar Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Medicine, Director, Center for Reproductive Health Sciences and Vice Chair of Research at Washington University School of Medicine
4/18/2024 Jeremy Dahl Sound Speed Estimation in Pulse-Echo Ultrasound with Application to Image Correction and Disease Identification BME Seminar Associate Professor of Radiology at Stanford University
4/29/2024 Kathryn Nightingale Ultrasonic Elasticity Imaging with Acoustic Radiation Force BME Day Theo Pilkington Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University
2022-2023
Date Speaker Title Seminar Series Speaker Information
07/19/2022 George Inglis Navigating the Scientific Publishing Process and the Nature Portfolio Associate Editor at Communications Biology
09/01/2022 Randolph S. Ashton Bioengineering CNS Morphogenesis for Scalable Application in Regulatory Science and Precision Medicine BME Seminar Series Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering & Wisconsin Institute of Discovery; Associate Director, Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center
09/15/2022 Young L. Kim Hyperspectral learning and cyberphysical biophotonics for mHealth BME Seminar Series Professor and Associate Head for Research in Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University
09/22/2022 Michael House The Cervix as a Biomechanical Structure BME Seminar Series Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Tufts University School of Medicine and a specialist in maternal-fetal medicine at Tufts Medical Center
09/26/2022 Alexandra Rutz 3D Printed Conducting Polymers as Bioelectronic Scaffolds IMSE Seminar Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
09/29/2022 Dennis Barbour Predicting the Present to Forecast the Future: An Updated Modeling Framework for Perception, Cognition and Medicine BME Seminar Series Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Washington University
10/20/2022 Peter Kasson Physical mechanism in the entry and inhibition of emerging enveloped viruses BME Seminar Series Associate Professor in Molecular Physiology and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia
10/27/2022 Michael King AdaptiSPECT-C: A Multi-Module Multi-Pinhole Adaptable SPECT System Dedicated to Brain Imaging BME Seminar Series Professor of Radiology at UMass Chan Medical School
11/03/2022 Melissa Skala Label-free optical microscopy of T cell and stem cell metabolism BME Seminar Series Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Investigator, Morgridge Institute for Research
11/17/2022 Pinar Zorlutuna Tissue Engineered Disease Models to Study the Effect of Age on Disease Progression BME Seminar Series Sheehan Family Collegiate Professor of Engineering and Acting Associate Dean for Diversity and Faculty Development at University of Notre Dame
01/19/2023 Jai Rudra Immunoengineering with Supramolecular Peptide Biomaterials BME Seminar Series Associate Professor of biomedical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
01/26/2023 Taekjip Ha Light, CRISPR and DNA Repair BME Seminar Series Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Biophysics, and Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
02/02/2023 Jessica Oakes Particles in the Lung: from Dysfunction to Treatment BME Seminar Series Assistant Professor of bioengineering at Northeastern University
02/22/2023 Carlotta Berry My STEM is for the streets: Strategies to normalize and diversify STEM by bringing it to the masses Education, Engineering & Race Seminar Series Lawrence J. Giacoletto Endowed Chair and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
02/23/2023 Yifan Dai A New Phase of Biological Controls- A design framework for programmable synthetic biomolecular condensates and the mechanisms of a functional liquid-liquid interface BME Seminar Series Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
03/02/2023 Thomas Boland Cells in Machines and Things we Discovered Along the Way BME Seminar Series Professor of metallurgical, materials and biomedical engineering and director of biomedical engineering program at The University of Texas at El Paso
03/23/2023 Nanyin Zhang From neuron to behavior: investigating brain network function using multi-modal approach BME Seminar Series Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Brain Imaging at Pennsylvania State University
04/06/2023 Sarah Keller Vacuole membranes of hungry yeast are tiny, living, phase-separating thermostats BME Seminar Series Duane and Barbara LaViolette Endowed Professor of Chemistry at University of Washington
04/07/2023 Michael I. Miller Molecular Computational Anatomy: From Euler to Dirac BME & ESE Seminar Bessie Darling Massey Professor and Director of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Co-Director, Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Whiting School of Engineering
04/10/2023 Akhilesh K. Gaharwar Engineered Biomaterials for In situ Tissue Regeneration" BME Seminar Series Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University
04/10/2023 Carl T. Bergstrom Dealing with Selection Bias CCSN Research Methodology Workshop Professor of biology at the University of Washington
05/01/2023 Alexandra Rutz

Soft, Hydrated, and 3D Bioelectronic Interfaces

BME Day Assistant Professor in biomedical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
05/01/2023 Barbara Shinn-Cunningham Why hearing loss can sabotage communication in lively social settings BME Day

George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor of Auditory Neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon University

2021-2022
Date Speaker Title Seminar Series Speaker Information
09/14/2021 Ana Maria Gomez New Mechanism in Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia (CPVT1) CBAC Director of Research Inserm, France and Associate Editor of the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology (JMCC)
09/16/2021 Michelle L.Oyen Biomechanical Functions of the Extra-Embryonic Tissues Throughout Pregnancy BME Seminar Series Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Engineering, East Carolina University
09/23/2021 Barani Raman What the insect’s nose tells the insect’s brain? Testing a new theory for olfaction BME Seminar Series Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University
09/28/2021 Antonio Zaza Therapeutic SERCA Enhancement – why and how CBAC Professor of Physiology and Director, School of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
09/30/2021 Ariella Shikanov Functional Tunable Biomimetics for Engineering of Ovarian Tissue BME Seminar Series Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Associate Professor, Macromolecular Science and Engineering at University of Michigan
10/5/2021 Ulrich Schotten From translation to integration: What is the next step in addressing the complexity of atrial fibrillation mechanisms? CBAC Professor and Chair Department of Physiology, University Maastricht, The Netherlands
10/7/2021 Ramille Shah Biofabrication of Artificial Ovary Microenvironments Women's Health Technologies Associate Professor in Richard and Loan Hill Department of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois-Chicago
10/21/2021 Raffaella De Vita From monologues to dialogues:  An engineering analysis of the vagina BME Seminar Series Professor and Associate Department Head in the Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics Department at Virginia Tech
10/28/2021 Jon Silva Precision Antiarrhythmic Medicine BME Seminar Series Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Washington University
11/4/2021 Brendan Harley Building tissues engineering complexity through biomaterial design BME Seminar Series Sc.D., Robert W. Schaefer Professor in the Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
11/9/2021 Toon van Veen Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy: from bedside to bench and back to the patient CBAC Associate Professor, Department of Medical Physiology at the University Medical Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands.
11/11/2021 Christian Weber Beyond My Experience Data Analyst III at Centene Corporation in St. Louis
11/18/2021 Katharina Ribbeck Partners in Slime: How Mucus Regulates Microbial Virulence BME Seminar Series Associate Professor, Biological Engineering and Hyman Career Development Professor at MIT
12/2/2021 Ravi Radhakrishnan Can Soft Signals Turn Oncogenic? A soft-matter and multiscale modeling approach to engineering cancer cells and inform therapies BME Seminar Series Professor and Chair of Bioengineering; Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Founding Member and Former Director of Penn Institute for Computational Science
12/7/2021 Julia Gorelik Functional Imagining of Nanodomains in Cardiomyocytes CBAC Professor of Cellular Biophysics, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
12/9/2021 Research Forum Women's Health Technologies
01/20/2022 John Fisher 3D Printing for Engineering Complex Tissues BME Seminar Series Fischell Family Distinguished Professor and Department Chair, Fischell dept. of bioengineering at the University of Maryland
01/20/2022 Research Forum Women's Health Technologies
01/27/2022 Junghae Suh Gene therapy for neuroscience BME Seminar Series Vice President, Head of Gene Therapy Accelerator Unit, Biogen, Cambridge, MA
02/3/2022 Xiaoting Jia Multimaterial Multifunctional Fibers for Biomedical Applications BME Seminar Series Assistant Professor, Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech
02/17/2022 Kurt Thoroughman Federal support for engineering research, interdisciplinary science, and diversity, equity, and inclusion BME Seminar Series Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University
02/24/2022 Stephanie Willerth 3D bioprinting personalized neural tissue models BME Seminar Series Professor, Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering, Acting Director of Centre for Biomedical Research, and Acting Director of Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Program at the University of Victoria
02/24/2022 Stephanie Willerth Axolotl Biosciences: Spinning off a biotechnology company from an academic research lab BME Seminar Series Professor, Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering, Acting Director of Centre for Biomedical Research, and Acting Director of Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Program at the University of Victoria
03/03/2022 Igor Efimov Soft transient implantable and wearable cardiac bioelectronics BME Seminar Series Editor-in-Chief at Cardiovascular Engineering & Technology and Alisann & Terry Collins Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at George Washington University 
03/21/2022 Daniël Lakens Data peeking without p-hacking? A guide to Sequential Analysis CCSN Research Methodology Workshop Associate Professor in the Human-Technology Interaction Group at Eindhoven University of Technology
03/24/2022 Christian Zemlin Ablation and Defibrillation of Cardiac Tissue Using Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Fields BME Seminar Series Director, Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Laboratory, Associate Professor of Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
03/31/2022 Audrey Bowden R.A.P.I.D. Technologies to Improve Healthcare Accessibility BME Seminar Series Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor's Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt
04/07/2022 Naomi Chesler The mechanobiology of pulmonary hypertension progression due to left heart failure BME Seminar Series Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine
04/21/2022 Krishnendu Roy Scalable, Quality-by-Design Driven Manufacturing of Cell-based Therapies, and On-Chip Models of Immunity – Lessons from an NSF Engineering Research Center BME Seminar Series Robert A. Milton Endowed Chair, NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Cell Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT), Director, Marcus Center for Cell-Therapy Characterization and Manufacturing (MC3M), Director, Center for ImmunoEngineering, Professor at Georgia Tech
2020-2021
Date Speaker Title Seminar Series Speaker Information
8/13/2020 Ebony O. McGee Black, Brown, Bruised: How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation Education, Engineering & Race Seminar Series Associate professor of diversity and STEM education and principal investigator at the Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, and Mixed Methodologies at Vanderbilt University
8/27/2020 Brian Jefferson  Encoding Values: Exploring Connections Between Cultural Norms and Scientific Research Education, Engineering & Race Seminar Series Associate Professor of Geography and Geographic InfoSci, O’Connell Scholar,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Affiliate, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
9/7/2020  Cory Berkland Drugs Should Be Designed with Delivery in Mind (and Vice Versa BME Seminar Solon E. Summerfield Distinguished Professorship in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and in the Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of Kansas
9/24/2020 Evan A. Scott Engineering the Bio/Nano Interface for Enhanced Nano-Immunotherapy BME Seminar Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Microbiology-Immunology within the Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Feinberg School of Medicine
10/8/2020 Irina V. Larina Shining light on early development BME Seminar Associate Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor
10/22/2020 Matthew O'Donnell Light and Sound: Integrating Photonics with Ultrasonics BME Seminar Frank and Julie Jungers Dean Emeritus in the College of Engineering and Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at University of Washington
10/29/2020 Evangelia Bellas Engineering Functional Adipose Tissue BME Seminar Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Temple University
11/12/2020 Sean P. Palecek Engineering Improvements in the Quality of Stem Cell-Derived Cardiovascular Cells BME Seminar Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin – Madison
11/19/2020 Allison King Sickle Cell Disease: A Case Study of Disparities BME Seminar Professor of Pediatrics, Hematology and Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine
12/3/2020 Geoffrey J. Goodhill Using neural engineering to understand brain development BME Seminar Professor, Queensland Brain Institute & School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland
12/8/2020 Karin Sipido Arrhythmias After Myocardial Infarction – of Myocytes and Fibroblasts CBAC Professor & Head of Experimental Cardiology at the University of Leuven, Belgium
12/15/2020 Elisabetta Cerbai Abnormalities in Sodium Current and Calcium Homeostasis as Drivers of Arrhythmogenesis in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy CBAC Professor of Pharmacology and the Director of the Center for Molecular Medicine at the University of Florence, Italy
1/21/2021 Matthew A. Powell, MD Advances in gynecologic cancer: current advances and future needs Women's Health Technologies professor of obstetrics and gynecology and  division chief of gynecologic oncology, Washington University in St. Louis
1/21/2021 Nimmi Ramanujam Empowering women globally through health and educational innovation Women's Health Technologies Robert W. Carr Professor of Engineering, Professor of Cancer Pharmacology and Global Health at Duke University and director of the Center for Global Women’s Health Technologies (GWHT)
2/4/2021 Bruce J. Tromberg Bioengineering for COVID-19: Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) at Unprecedented Speed and Scale Open BME Director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
2/9/2021 W. Jonathan Lederer Mitochondrial ATP Production in Cardiac Cells CBAC Professor of Physiology & the Director of the Center For Biomedical Engineering & Technology, University of Maryland School of Medicine.
2/18/2021 Matthew Porteus Genome Editing to Create Curative Cellular Therapy Open BME M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics - Stem Cell Transplantation at Stanford
2/23/2021 David Eisner Control of Calcium in the Heart - Free and Beyond CBAC Professor of Cardiac Physiology from the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of General Physiology
2/25/2021 Adriana Velazquez As the World Gets Smaller, How Can We Expand the Biomedical Engineering Impact to Global Health? Open BME Group Lead Medical Devices and In-Vitro Diagnostics at the World Health Organization (WHO)
3/4/2021 David Boas The evolution of hemodynamics during stroke recovery: from early hours to subsequent weeks BME Seminar Director of the Neurophotonics Center at Boston University
3/4/2021 Danielle Bassett Systems Neuroscience Open BME J. Peter Skirkanich Professor of Bioengineering, Penn Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
3/9/2021 Barbara Casadei Atrial Fibrillation - Bridging the Gaps CBAC British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust where she leads the Cardiovascular Theme of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre
3/18/2021 Daniel Rueckert Learning Clinically Useful Information from Medical Images Open BME Professor of Visual Information Processing in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London
3/23/2021 Peter Kohl The Non-Textbook Heart - Structure, Electrics, Mechanics CBAC Professor and Director of the Institute for Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine, University Heart Center Freiburg - Bad Krozingen, Germany
3/25/2021 Stacey D. Finley Modeling immune cell activation in cancer: A tale of three scales BME Seminar Gordon S. Marshall Early Career Chair, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, and Quantitative and Computational Biology at the University of Southern California
3/25/2021 Warren Grayson Advances in Regenerating Musculoskeletal Tissues Open BME Director, Laboratory for Craniofacial and Orthopaedic Tissue Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University
4/1/2021 Timothy L. Downing Synthetic Genome Engineering for Cell and Tissue Engineering Open BME Assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of California, Irvine
4/8/2021 James J. Collins Synthetic Biology: Life Redesigned Open BME Institute for Medical Engineering & Science in the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT
4/13/2021 Carol Ann Remme Sodium Channel Dysfunction and Cardiac Arrhythmias - Novel Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets CBAC Associate Professor at the Department of Experimental Cardiology of the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, Netherlands
4/22/2021 Arnold P. Advincula Perspectives on Needed Surgical Innovations from Bench to Bedside. Women's Health Technologies Levine Family Professor of Women’s Health; Vice-Chair, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology; Chief of Gynecologic Specialty Surgery, Sloane Hospital for Women; Medical Director, Mary & Michael Jaharis Simulation Center; Columbia University Medical Center
New York-Presbyterian Hospital
4/29/2021 Christine O'Brien Laser Focus on Women's Health BME Seminar Instructor of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis
5/4/2021 Michel Haïssaguerre New Insight on Unexplained Sudden Cardiac Death CBAC Professor at the Victor-Segalen Bordeaux 2 University and head of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Department at Bordeaux University Hospital (Haut-Lévêque Cardiology Hospital), France
2019-2020
Date Speaker  Title
8/29/2019 Christine Schmidt, PhD Engineering Natural-Based Materials for Functional Nerve Regeneration
9/12/2019 Vivek Jayaraman, PhD The Generation and Use of an Internal Representation of Heading That is Flexible Yet Stable
9/19/2019 Jianjie Ma, PhD Finding a Pixie Dust for Cell Membrane Repair and Regenerative Medicine
9/26/2019 Christine Hendon, PhD Monitoring and Guidance of Ablation Therapy with Optics
10/10/2019 Thi Nguyen, PhD and Michelle DeLaire, PhD Navigating Your PhD
10/24/2019 Gretchen Meyer, PhD Fat-muscle Signaling: The Good, The Bad and The Beige
10/31/2019 Qi Wang, PhD Reading and Writing the Neural Code: Initial Steps Towards Restoring and Enhancing Sensory Functions Using Brain-Machine Interfaces
11/14/2019 Yong Wang, PhD Electromyometrial Imaging (EMMI) of Uterine Contractions
11/18/2019 Victor H. Barocas How Can We Use the Ever-Increasing Supply of Information To Do Better Computational Biomechanics?
11/21/2019 Jason Burdick, PhD Engineering Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications
12/5/2019 Lonnie Shea, PhD Tissue Engineering for Early Disease Detection and Monitoring Response
1/16/2020 Siyuan Rao, PhD Biomedical Engineering Platform for Neural Circuits Interrogation
1/21/2020 Tim Otchy, PhD 3D-printing at the micro- and nano-scale: a new approach to chronic neural-machine interfaces
1/28/2020 Helen Schwerdt, PhD Multi-Modal Interfaces for Probing Chemical and Electrical Neural Activity Long-Term
1/30/2020 Alexandra Rutz, PhD Materials and additive manufacturing for seamless bioelectronic-tissue interfaces
2/3/2020 Naren Vyavahare, PhD You Are Old as Your Elastin: Therapies to Extend Human Life
2/20/2020 Ismael Seáñez, PhD Body and brain-machine interfaces for personalized assistance and neurorehabilitation
2/27/2020 Chelsey Simmons, PhD Cellular Contributions to Tissue Mechanics: Case Studies in Cancer and Regeneration
3/5/2020 Brenda Ogle, PhD Strategies for 3D Printing Complex Cardiac Tissue Mimics
2018-2019
Date Speaker Title
9/6/2018 Aaron Seitz, PhD The Promise of Brain Training Games
9/13/2018 Sharona Gordon, PhD No Gain, No Pain: Phosphoinositide Regulation of TRPV1 Ion Channels
9/20/2018 Paula Hammond, PhD David H. Koch Chair, Professor of Engineering, Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9/21/2018 Milan Yager, PhD Falling Out of Love With Science
9/27/2018 Byron Yu, PhD Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University
11/4/2018 Zhen Xu, PhD Histrotripsy: Imaging Guided Ultrasound Therapy for Non-invasive Surgery
11/5/2018 Mansoor A. Haider Development and Calibration of Mathematical Models for Matrix Accumulation and Remodeling in Biological Soft Tissues
11/15/2018 Craig J. Goergen, PhD Cardiovascular 4D Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Murine Imaging
11/29/2018 Kausik Si, PhD What Memories are Made Of
12/6/2018 Steven Poelzing, PhD Buffers and Biomedical Reproducibility: Lessons from the Heart
12/18/2018 Chao Zhou, PhD Ultrahigh-Speed Optical Coherence Tomography and its Biomedical Applications
1/10/2019 Ariel L. Furst, PhD Electrochemistry for Sensors and Energy
1/17/2019 Song Hu, PhD Multi-parametric Photoacoustic Microscopy: Auscultation of Hemodynamics and Energy Metabolism at the Microscopic Level
1/29/2019 Ahmet F. Coskun, PhD Multiplex Imaging of Spatial Biology in Single Cells
1/31/2019 Yonggang Shi, PhD Neuro Image Computing Research for Translational Brain Mapping and Beyond
2/5/2019 Jonathan T. Reeder, PhD Soft Biomedical Devices for Modulating, Measuring and Exploiting Thermal Physiology
2/7/2019 Laurel E. Hind, PhD Elucidating the Role of the Microenvironment in Directing Innate Immune Cell Motility
2/12/2019 Lingyan Shi, PhD High Resolution Optical Imaging of Metabolic Dynamics in Animals
2/21/2019 Ashutosh Agarwal, PhD Organ on Chip Platforms for Modeling Human Disease
2/25/2019 Heather Powell, PhD Biomaterial Strategies for Developing Biomimetic Engineered Skin
3/18/2019 Silviya Zustaik, PhD Hydrogels for Drug Screening and Protein Delivery Applications
3/21/2019 Michelle Repice, PhD Successful Networking: Making Meaningful Career Connections
3/22/2019 David Elad, DSc Biomechanics of the Female Reproductive Tract
4/11/2019 Thi Nguyen, Phd Leveraging LinkedIn
4/12/2019 Sumita Pennathur, PhD Development of Medical Devices Using MEMS and Electrokinetic Fluid Technology
4/18/2019 Janice L. Robertson, PhD Driving Forces of Greasy Protein Association in Greasy Membranes
4/29/2019 Kwabena Boahen Spike-Based Neuromorphic Computing
2017-2018
Date Speaker Speaker Information
9/7/2017 Kristen Myers, PhD Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University
9/11/2017 Adam Engler, PhD Associate Professor of Bioengineering, UC San Diego
9/21/2017 Shawn Chen, PhD Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
9/28/2017 David Odde, PhD Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota
10/31/2017 Manu Platt, PhD Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Diversity Director, STC on Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems, GRA Distinguished Scholar, Georgia Tech
11/2/2017 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
11/6/2017 Elizabeth Wayne, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11/16/2017 Princess U II Imoukhuede, PhD Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
12/4/2017 Julie C. Liu Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering,Purdue University
1/18/2018 Jai Rudra, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Texas Medical Branch
1/25/2018 Jiahe Li, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Department of Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2/1/2018 Blaine Christiansen, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of California, Davis
2/8/2018 Meng Cui, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biology, Purdue University
2/15/2018 Katharina Maisel, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Molecular Engineering,
University of Chicago
2/22/2018 Jia Liu, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Stanford University
2/26/2018 Michele Marcolongo, PhD Department Head & Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University
2/27/2018 Audrey Fan, PhD Instructor, Department of Radiology, Stanford University
3/8/2018 Samantha Santacruz, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
3/29/2018 Tamara Kinzer-Ursem, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University
4/26/2018 Shulamit Levenberg, PhD Dean, Professor, Stanley and Sylvia Shirvan Chair in Cancer and Life Sciences Technion University, Haifa, Israel
5/1/2018 Scott Hollister, PhD Professor and Patsy and Alan Dorris Chair in Pediatric Technology, Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical, Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
2016-2017
Date Speaker Speaker Title Speaker Information
1/19/2017 Nandan Nerurkar Molecular Control of Physical Forces during Morphogenesis of the Vertebrate Gut Harvard Medical School
1/24/2017 Marjan Rafat Deconstructing the Tumor and Tissue Microenvironment Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Radiation Physics, Stanford Medicine
1/26/2017 Michael Vahey Catching the Flu in the Act: Quantifying Influenza A Virus Assembly and Organization using Multispectral Viral Strains Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioengineering, University California, Berkeley
1/31/2017 Erik Dreaden A Tale of Two Particles: Engineering Rational Combination Therapies against Metastatic Tumors Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2/2/2017 Nathaniel Huebsch Harnessing Mechanobiology to create better Disease Models and Therapies from Mesenchymal and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Senior Scientist, Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
2/9/2017 Christopher Nelson Delivery of Genome Engineering Technologies for Precision Gene Therapy Postdoctoral Scholar, Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
2/14/2017 Eduardo Reátegui Microfluidic Liquid Biopsy: seeking Particles Large and Small in Cancer Patient Blood Research Fellow, Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital /Harvard Medical School
2/16/2017 Raiyan Zaman Novel Fiber-Based Optical Systems for Biomedical Applications Instructor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford Medicine
2/21/2017 Erica Jung High-speed neural imaging with a genetically encoded voltage sensor Postdoctoral Associate, Synthetic Neurobiology Lab at the Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2/28/2017 Michael Mitchell Engineering Blood and Marrow for Cancer Therapy Burroughs Wellcome Fund CASI Fellow, Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3/2/2017 Kshitiz The Stag Hunt Game in Cancer: How Cells Cooperate Within Cancer Populations and Stroma to Divide and Conquer Associate Research Scientist, Institute of Systems Biology, Yale University
3/9/2017 Abhinav K. Jha Objective Assessment of Image Quality-based Techniques to Advance Technologies for Quantitative Medical Imaging Instructor, Radiology, Johns Hopkins University
3/23/2017 Yoram Rudy Noninvasive Imaging of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmias in the Intact Human Heart: Selected Examples The Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor
3/28/2017 Paul Wiseman Mesoscale Regulation of Podosome Turnover in Human Dendritic Cells Revealed with Image Correlation Methods Professor, Professor of Physics & Chemistry, Otto Maass Chair in Chemistry, McGill University
3/30/2017 Leslie M. Loew Signaling to the Actin Cytoskeleton Professor, Cell Biology and Computer Science & Engineering, University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Engineering
4/13/2017 Andrea Califano Addressing the Precision Deficit Disorder: leveraging Genomic Data and Models in the Post-mutational Era Chair, Systems Biology, Professor, Chemical & Systems Biology, Columbia University
4/20/2017 Michel M. Maharbiz Recent Advances in Neural Dust, a Platform for Peripheral and Central Nervous System Recording Professor, Electrical Engineering, University of California - Berkeley
4/27/2017 David Eliezer Alpha-synuclein, Tau and Complexin: Disordered Proteins in Neurodegeneration and Neurotransmission Professor, Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medical College
4/28/2017 Karin Wang Mechanobiology of Breast Tumorigenesis Research Fellow, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard University School of Public Health