Join us for the Bioengineering Seminar Series, which brings experts from around the country to campus to discuss their recent findings. Everyone is welcome!

Seminars are held Fridays, 9:00 a.m.—9:50 a.m., in the Pepco Room (1105) of the Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, unless otherwise noted.

Questions? Want to meet the speaker? Please contact Assistant Professor Silvina Matysiak (matysiak@umd.edu).

You can find all of these seminars, as well as others of potential interest, on our events calendar.

Spring 2017

Dates, titles and abstracts will be added as they are scheduled and received.
Last updated 04/07/17

Date
Speaker
Host
Jan. 26
*SPECIAL DATE*


Bioengineering Special Seminar
Contact Dr. Aranda-Espinoza for details.
 


Aranda-Espinoza
 
Jan. 27

Engineering Hemostatic Nanoparticles to Stop Internal Bleeding
Erin Lavik
Professor
Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
More Info »

 
Jay
 
Feb. 3

GRADUATE STUDENTS' CHOICE

Controlling Controlled Release to Make Medicine That Imitates Life
Steven Little
Departments of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Bioengineering, Immunology, and Ophthalmology
University of Pittsburgh
More Info »

 


Matysiak
 
Feb. 7
*SPECIAL DATE*


Bioengineering Special Seminar
Contact Dr. Aranda-Espinoza for details.

 


Aranda-Espinoza
 
Feb. 10

Bioengineering Special Seminar
Contact Dr. Aranda-Espinoza for details.

 


Aranda-Espinoza
 
Feb. 13
*SPECIAL DATE*


Bioengineering Special Seminar
Contact Dr. Aranda-Espinoza for details.

 


Aranda-Espinoza
 
Feb. 17
VEGF isoforms and the ECM: therapeutic insights from computational models
Feilim Mac Gabhann 
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
More Info »

 


Jay
 
Feb. 21: 1:30 p.m.
*SPECIAL DATE & TIME*


Bioengineering Special Seminar
Contact Dr. Aranda-Espinoza for details.

 


Aranda-Espinoza
 
Feb. 23
*SPECIAL DATE*


Bioengineering Special Seminar
Contact Dr. Aranda-Espinoza for details.

 


Aranda-Espinoza
 
Feb. 24
No seminar scheduled
 

 
Feb. 28
*SPECIAL DATE*


Bioengineering Special Seminar
Contact Dr. Aranda-Espinoza for details.

 


Aranda-Espinoza
 

March 3


Bioengineering Special Seminar
Contact Dr. Aranda-Espinoza for details.
 



Aranda-Espinoza

 
March 10

BIG TEN EXCHANGE SEMINAR

Using Phenotypes to Narrow the Search for Disease-causing Variants: Tools to Support Clinical Genetic Testing for Hearing Loss and Other Inherited Diseases
Terry Braun
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Director, Coordinated Laboratory for Computational Genomics
University of Iowa 
More Info »

 




Matysiak
 

March 17


New Rare-Event Methods in Molecular Simulations:  Applications to Ligand Entry Kinetics and Protein Conformational Changes
Cameron Abrams
Professor
Drexel University
More Info »

 




Matysiak


 
March 24


No Seminar—Spring Break



 
March 31


Enabling patient centric therapies through drug delivery 
Anand Subramony
Vice President, Drug Delivery & Device Development
MedImmune
More Info »



Fisher
 
April 7


Membrane Protein Folding:  Biology Meets Thermodynamics
Stephen White
Professor, Physiology & Biophysics
University of California, Irvine
More Info »


Matysiak
 
April 14
Fooling yourself with p-values and other statistics
Regina Nuzzo
Professor
Department of Science, Technology, and Mathematics
Department of Psychology
Gallaudet University
More Info »
 

Matysiak

 
April 21
Nanotechnology aimed at the ground zero of atherosclerosis & heart disease
Prabhas Moghe
Distinguished Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Rutgers University
More Info »

Matysiak
 

 


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