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 Assistant Director of Communications Alyssa Tomlinson.
 
Questions? Want to meet the speaker? Please contact Assistant Professor Giuliano Scarcelli.
 
You can find all of these seminars, as well as others of potential interest, on our events calendar.

Spring 2019

Dates, titles and abstracts will be added as they are scheduled and received.
Last updated 04/19/19.

Date
Speaker
Contact
Feb. 1

 

*Students' Choice*

Functionalized Lineage Tracing Reveals Adaptive and Evolutionary Dynamics in Cancer Therapy
Dr. Amy Brock
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
University of Texas, Austin
More Info »

 


Dr. Giuliano Scarcelli
Feb. 8
Smart and Autonomous Robots for Surgery
Dr. Axel Krieger
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices
University of Maryland
More Info »
 


Dr. Giuliano Scarcelli
 
Feb. 15
Micro- and macro-optical coherence tomography for revealing airway dynamics at multiple resolution scales
Dr. Amy Oldenburg
Associate Professor
Department of Physics
University of North Carolina
More Info »
 


Dr. Giuliano Scarcelli
 
Feb. 22
Chemical Microscopy: Unveiling Molecular Signatures for Precision Diagnosis and Treatment
Dr. Ji-Xin Cheng
Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
More Info »
 


Dr. Giuliano Scarcelli
 
March 1


*Please note: The location of this seminar has changed to the Zupnik Forum (first floor) in A. James Clark Hall.

Sealing Wounds and Strengthening Tissues with Photons
Dr. Irene Kochevar 
Professor
Harvard Medical School
More Info »
 



Dr. Giuliano Scarcelli

 
March 8


Emerging imaging technologies to study cell architecture, dynamics and function
Dr. Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
Senior Group Leader
Janelia Research Campus
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
More Info »

 


Dr. Giuliano Scarcelli

 
March 15


Dr. Mark Saltzman
Goizueta Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Yale University
More Info »



Dr. Giuliano Scarcelli

 
March 22
No Seminar (Spring Break)
 


 
March 29


*Students' Choice*

Microphysiological models that rely on emergence: Applications to metastatic cancer and neurological disease
Dr. Roger Kamm
Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
More Info »



Dr. Giuliano Scarcelli
 

April 5

 

Innovations in Evidence Generation and Incorporation in Medical Device Regulatory Decision-making
Dr. Kyle Myers
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
More Info »
 



Dr. Giuliano Scarcelli

 
April 12
*CANCELLED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER*
 
Nanoparticle Heating for Therapeutics, Regenerative Medicine and Diagnostics
Dr. John Bischof
Director, Institute for Engineering in Medicine
Distinguished McKnight University Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Minnesota
More Info »
 

Dr. Giuliano Scarcelli
April 19
The Role of Biophysical And Biochemical Cues In Engineering Stem cell Microenvironments 
Dr. Janet Zoldan
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Texas, Austin
More Info »
 

Dr. Giuliano Scarcelli
 
April 26
High-speed and High-resolution Imaging of Brain Activity 
Dr. Na Ji
Associate Professor
Department of Physics
University of California, Berkeley
More Info »
 

Dr. Giuliano Scarcelli

 

May 3


Dr. Jeffrey Fredberg
Professor of Bioengineering and Physiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health School of Public Health
More Info »

 


Dr. Giuliano Scarcelli

 
May 10
 



Dr. Chris Schaffer
Associate Professor
Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering
Cornell University
More Info »

 


Dr. Giuliano Scarcelli

 

 


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