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.

Spring 2026

Dates, titles and abstracts for standard seminars will be added as they are scheduled and received.
Last updated 01/16/2026.

Date
Speaker
Contact
Jan. 30

Elise Morgan
Boston University

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Catherine Kuo
Feb. 6

Javier Atencia
Founder & CEO
PathOtrak Inc. 

More info »

Ian White

Feb. 13 Pamela Abshire
Stony Brook University
Ian White
Feb. 20 Jennifer Jones
National Cancer Institute
Ian White
Feb. 27 Manu Platt
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering |
BGSS (A. Stern)
March 6 Bill Bentley
Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices
Fischell Department of Bioengineering
Ian White

March 13

Yang Tao
Fischell Department of Bioengineering
Ian White
March 20 Spring break  
March 27 Andrew Bower
The University of Maryland, Baltimore
Edward and Jennifer St. John Center for Translational Engineering in Medicine (CTEM)
Ian White

April 3

Warren Grayson
Johns Hopkins University
Catherine Kuo
April 10 Leo Green
Purdue University
Kimberly Stroka
April 17 Jason Szafron
Carnegie Mellon University
Alex Xu
April 24 Tamara Alliston
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Catherine Kuo
May 1 Alexander Cartagena-Rivera
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Kimberly Stroka
May 8 Chia-Lung Wu
University of Rochester
Catherine Kuo

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