Join us for the Bioengineering Seminar Series, which connects experts from around the country with our faculty, students, and staff to discuss their recent findings. Everyone is welcome!

Regular seminars are held in person in A. James Clark Hall Room 2121 on Fridays from 9:00 a.m. – 9:50 a.m. unless otherwise notedAll BIOE faculty, students, staff, postdocs, and affiliates as well as additional subscribers to our weekly seminars emails receive reminders—including Zoom event information when applicable—the week of each seminar. 

BIOE Special Seminar speaker bios and abstracts are announced via our department listserv only and are not open to the general public. If you have a question about an upcoming Special Seminar, please email bioe-comms@umd.edu.

If you do not yet receive our weekly seminars email and would like to subscribe to the listserv, or if there is a particular seminar listed below that you would like to attend, please sign up online. Emails are traditionally sent on Monday mornings, with a reminder email on the morning of any scheduled BIOE seminars.

Fall 2025

Dates, titles and abstracts for standard seminars will be added as they are scheduled and received.
Last updated 09/02/2025.

Date
Speaker
Contact
Sept 5. 1st year PhD students only Ian White
Sept. 12

Leveraging biomaterial systems to address traumatic brain injury via nanotherapeutics and biomarker discovery

Sarah Stabenfeldt
President’s Professor and Harrington Endowed Chair
School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering
Arizona State University

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Catherine Kuo

Sept. 19

Engineering protein material interfaces for medical applications

Luis Alvarez
Theradaptive, Inc

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Steven Jay

Sept. 26 No seminar this week.  
Oct. 3 Deborah Hemingway
Ecphorah Capital
Ian White
Oct. 10

No Seminar this week.

 

Oct. 17

No Seminar this week.  
Oct. 24

Self-Assembling Peptide-Drug Conjugates: A New Frontier at the Intersection of Prodrug Design, ADCs, and Nanomedicine

Honggang Cui
Johns Hopkins University

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Gregg Duncan
Oct. 29

Human Stem Cell-based Articular Joint Tissue Engineering: From Joint Regeneration to Joint-on-a-Chip (miniJoint)

Rocky Tuan
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Catherine Kuo

Nov. 7

Single Molecule and Single Particle Analysis for Clinical Diagnosis

David Walt
Harvard University
Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH)
Wyss Institute at Harvard

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Catherine Kuo
Nov. 14

Eleonora Tubaldi
The University of Maryland
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Ian White
Nov. 21

 

Dean Ho
National University of Singapore
(Virtual)

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Catherine Kuo
Nov. 28

Thanksgiving

Gregg Duncan

 

Dec. 5

Intravital microscopic characterization of disease pathology in the living rodent brain

Abbas Yaseen
Northeastern University 

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Nan Xu

Dec. 12    

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