Seminar Series
Current Seminars
Seminars will be held at 10:30 am in 322 ISE Lab.
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Hosting Faculty |
| 2/11/2019 | Chris Jewell | University of Maryland | Emily Day and April Kloxin |
| 2/25/2019 | Pam VandeVord | Virginia Tech | Megan Killian and Dawn Elliott |
| 3/11/2019 | Savio Chan | Northwestern University | Megan Killian |
| 4/15/2019 | Andres Garcia | Georgia Tech | John Slater |
| 4/29/2019 | Erin Lavik | University of Maryland Baltimore County | Emily Day |
| 5/13/2019 | Eric Perreault | Northwestern University | Fabrizio Sergi |
Previous Seminars
2018
| Date | Speaker | From | Hosting Faculty |
| 9/24/2018 | Aileen Huang-Saad | University of Michigan | Sarah Rooney |
| 10/22/2018 | Joel Boerkel | University of Pennsylvania | Megan Killian |
| 11/7/2018 | Kyle Lampe | University of Virginia | Dawn Elliott |
| 11/12/2018 | Barclay Morrison | Columbia University | Curtis Johnson |
| 2/26/2018 | Farshid Guilak | Washington University |
| 3/26/2018 | Debra Auguste | Northeastern University |
| 4/20/2018 | Paula Hammond | MIT |
| 4/30/2018 | Steve George | University of California |
| 5/14/2018 | Neville Hogan | MIT |
2017
| 2/6/2017 | Vicky Nguyen | Johns Hopkins |
| 2/27/2017 | James Sulzer | UT Austin |
| 3/27/2017 | Scott Waldman | Thomas Jefferson |
| 4/3/2017 | Albert Folch | University of Washington |
| 4/24/2017 | Suzie Pun | University of Washington |
| 5/1/2017 | Vince Calhoun | U of New Mexico |
| 5/15/2017 | Bob Sah | UC SAN Diego |
| 9/11/2017 | Michelle Oyen | Cambridge University |
| 9/18/2017 | Roger Kamm | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 10/16/2017 | Darryl Thelen | University of Wisconsin |
| 11/13/2017 | Julia Barthold, M.D. | Nemours / A.I. DuPont Hospital for Children |
| 12/11/2017 | Elisa E. Konofagou | Columbia University |
2016
May 2, 2016
Larry Taber, Ph.D. Dennis and Barbara Kessler Professor Washington University in St. Louis
10:30AM in 322 ISE Lab [view/download flyer]
Seminar Title: “Mechanical Aspects of Early Heart and Eye Development”
April 11, 2016
10:30AM in 322 ISE Lab [View/Download Seminar Flyer]
Rhonda Prisby, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology University of Delaware
Seminar Title: “The coupled nature of the vascular and skeletal systems”
March 28, 2016
Mark Pierce, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Rutgers University
10:30AM in 322 ISE Lab [view/download flyer]
Seminar Title: “Rare-earth doped nanocomposites for targeted short-wave infrared imaging of cancer”
March 7, 2016
Jason Burdick, Ph.D. Professor University of Pennsylvania
10:30AM in 322 ISE Lab [view/download flyer]
Seminar Title: “Engineering Hydrogels for Tissue Repair”
February 29, 2016
Leaf Huang, Ph.D. Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professor University of North Carolina
10:30AM in 322 ISE Lab
Seminar Title: “Lipid stabilized nano precipitates for drug and gene delivery”
February 26, 2016
Julius Korley, Ph.D., MBA President & CEO at Affinity Therapeutics Associate Coulter Program Director Case Western Reserve University
1:00pm in 322 ISE Lab [view/download seminar flyer]
Seminar Title: “Translational Research to Address Unmet or Poorly Met Clinical Needs.”
2015
November 2, 2015
Clark Hung, Ph.D. Professor Biomedical Engineering Columbia University
10:30AM in 322 ISE Lab [View/Download Seminar Flyer]
Seminar Title: “A Paradigm for Functional Tissue Engineering of Articular Cartilage”
October 5, 2015
Michelle Dawson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Georgia Tech
10:30AM in 322 ISE Lab [View/Download Seminar Flyer]
Seminar Title: “Mechanics and Malignancy: Biophysical Approaches for Understanding Cancer”
September 14, 2015
Eleftherios Terry Papoutsakis, Ph.D. Eugene DuPont Chaired Professor Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering University of Delaware
10:30am in 322 ISE Lab [Seminar Flyer]
Seminar Title: “Microparticles as cellular communicators to empower therapies: the case of megakaryocyctic microparticles.”
May 8, 2015
Ting Lu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Bioengineering & Institute for Genomic Biology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
9:30am in 322 ISE Lab (Download Seminar Flyer)
Seminar Title: “Understanding and programming bacterial functionality via engineered gene networks.”
Claudia Fischbach-Teschl, Ph.D. Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering Cornell University
March 5, 2015
9:00am in 322 ISE Lab
Co-sponsored by the NIH-COBRE “Molecular Design of Advanced Biomaterials”
Susan Marguiles, Ph.D. George H. Stephenson Term Professor Bioengineering University of Pennsylvania
2014
September 18, 2014
11:00am in 311 Pearson Hall
Athanassios Sambanis , Ph.D. Professor • School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Program Director • Biomedical Engineering Program National Science Foundation
October 16, 2014
11:00am in 322 ISE Lab
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In this two part talk, Dr. Sambanis will first detail his lab’s research on cell and tissue-based therapies for diabetes, and will then describe the Biomedical Engineering Program at NSF.
Seminar Titles: “Cell and Tissue-based Therapies for Insulin-Dependent Diabetes” and “The Biomedical Engineering Program at the National Science Foundation”
November 13, 2014
11:00am in 322 ISE Lab
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Jordan Green , Ph.D. Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
December 4, 2014
11:00am in 322 ISE Lab (Download Seminar Flyer)
Vincent Wang , Ph.D. Associate Professor Orthopedic Surgery Rush University Medical Center
December 11, 2014
11:00am in 322 ISE Lab
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Jeff Jacot, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering Rice University and Texas Children’s Hospital