The Bioengineering Seminar Series

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 A. James Clark Hall, Room 2132, unless otherwise noted.
 
BIOE Special Seminar speaker bios and abstracts are announced via our department listserv. If you have a question about an upcoming Special Seminar, please email Public Relations Specialist Emily Rosenthal.
 
Questions? Want to meet the speaker? Please contact Assistant Professor Kim Stroka.
 
You can find all of these seminars, as well as others of potential interest, on our events calendar.

Fall 2019

Dates, titles and abstracts will be added as they are scheduled and received.
Last updated 12/16/19.

Date
Speaker
Contact
Aug. 30

 

*Big Ten+ Exhange Seminar*

Functionalized Lineage Tracing Reveals Adaptive and Evolutionary Dynamics in Cancer Therapy
Dr. Shu Q. Liu
Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Northwestern University
More Info »



Dr. Kim Stroka
Sept. 5
*Note: Date & Location*

 

BIOE Special Seminar
A. James Clark Hall, Room 4104

 



Alyssa Tomlinson
 
Sept. 6

 

Immune-informed biomaterial design
Dr. Erika Moore
Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Florida
More info

 



Dr. Kim Stroka
 
Sept. 13
 
Electromicrobiology: from field to technology, and back again
Dr. Sarah Glaven
Research Biologist
Naval Research Laboratory
 


Dr. Bill Bentley
 
Sept. 20
Bioengineering and clinical translation of microfluidic technologies to improve targeting of cancer metastasis
Dr. Stuart Martin
Professor of Physiology
Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Maryland School of Medicine
More info
 
 

Dr. Kim Stroka

 
September 27

 

Challenges and Strategies for Intra-articular Delivery of Drugs in the Treatment of Arthritis
Dr. Lori Setton 
Professor
Chair of Biomedical Engineering
Washington University in St. Louis

 



Dr. Kim Stroka

 
October 4


Stem Cell Commercialization and Transitioning from Academia to Industry
Dr. Xuan Xu
Field Application Scientist
RoosterBio, Inc.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
More Info

 


Dr. Kim Stroka

 
October 11

Mechanics of Glioma Mouse Models of Human GBM Subtypes 
Dr. David Odde
Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Minnesota


Dr. Kim Stroka

 
October 18
No Seminar (BMES Meeting)
 


 
October 25
 
Programmable DNA nanostructures for biomedical research
Dr. Yonggang Ke
Assistant Professor
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
 


Dr. Ian White
 

November 1

Extreme Microfluidics: Sorting of Extremely Rare Circulating Tumor Cells and Clusters
Dr. Mehmet Toner
Helen Andrus Benedict Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Harvard Medical School
Director, BioMEMS Center, Massachusetts General Hospital


Dr. Shawn He

 
November 8
 
The blood microenvironment: The good, bad, and the sticky
Dr. Owen McCarty
Chair of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine
Oregon Health and Science University
 

Dr. Kim Stroka
November 15
 
Mechanobiological insights into the mechanisms of aortic valve disease
Dr. Craig Simmons
Research Chair in Mechanobiology
University of Toronto
More Info
 

Dr. Kim Stroka
 
November 22

Measuring mechanical forces at cell-cell junctions and the nuclear LINC complex
Dr. Daniel Conway
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Virginia Commonwealth University

Dr. Kim Stroka

 

November 29


No Seminar - Thanksgiving

 




 
December 6
 


TBA
 




 

December 13
 



Biomaterials for Drug Delivery and Cell Transplantation to Treat Nerve Injury
Dr. Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert 
Chair
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
More Info
 



Dr. Kim Stroka

 

 


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