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2023-2024

Date	Speaker	Title	Seminar Series	Speaker Information
7/12/2023	Aitor Aguirre	Reverse engineering human heart development with pluripotent stem cells	CardS Seminar	Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering and Chief of the Division of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology at Michigan State University
8/4/2023	Woonggyu Jung	Staining-free optical imaging techniques toward digital histopathology	Imagine Seminar	Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
8/31/2023	Steve Abramowitch	From Voxels to Valsalva: Understanding the Function of the Female Pelvic Floor through Imaging and Computational Methods	BME Seminar	W.K. Whiteford Professor of Bioengineering at University of Pittsburgh
9/7/2023	Zoran Nenadic	Brain-Computer Interfaces for Human Gait Restoration	BME Seminar	William J. Link Chair and Professor of biomedical engineering at University of California, Irvine
9/21/2023	Juergen Hahn	Towards the Development of a Diagnostic Test for Autism Spectrum Disorder: Data Science Meets Metabolomics	BME Seminar	Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Chemical & Biological Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
9/28/2023	Gregg A. Duncan	Engineering mucus and innate lung defense	BME Seminar	Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park
10/5/2023	Yingxiao Wang	Remote Control of Genetics and Cellular Functions for Cancer Immunotherapy	BME Seminar	Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering at University of Southern California
10/16/2023	Kevin J. Mitchell	Defense against the Dark Arts - or how not to fool yourself with stats	CCSN Seminar	Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin
10/19/2023	Maryellen L. Giger	AI & Data Science in Medical Imaging of Cancer and COVID-19	BME Seminar	A.N. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor of Radiology at the University of Chicago
10/26/2023	Brian Schmit	Novel treadmill environments for rehabilitation of gait	BME Seminar	Professor, Hammes Family Chair, and Associate Dean of Research at Marquette University
11/2/2033	David Bundy	Towards Neuroprosthetic Applications for Stroke: Understanding Neurophysiological Correlates of Post-stroke Motor Recovery	BME Seminar	Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery (PEFA) at Washington University School of Medicine
11/16/2023	David T. Curiel	Targeted In Vivo Gene Delivery via Tropism Modified Adenoviral Vectors - A Thirty Year Quest for the Holy Grail	BME Seminar	Professor of Radiation Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine
11/30/2023	Nathaniel Huebsch	Mechanics influence disease manifestation in human iPSC-based models of inherited heart disease	BME Seminar	Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
12/4/2023	Berna Devezer and Erkan Buzbas	A systematic approach to analyze and improve experiments before embarking on replication	CCSN Seminar
12/7/2023	Felipe Quiroz	Programming and probing the self-assembly of intrinsically-disordered proteins	BME Seminar	Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech
1/25/2024	Farners Amargant i Riera	Age-associated changes in the ovarian environment: How ovarian biomechanics regulate oocyte quality	BME Seminar	Assistant Professor of Ob & Gyn at Washington University School of Medicine
2/15/2024	Isabel Vanegas	Using electrophysiology to unravel circuits of visuomotor behavior for the study, diagnosis, and treatment of neurodegenerative disorders	BME Seminar	Postdoctoral Research Associate in the department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Utah School of Medicine
2/22/2024	Jenny Jiang	High-throughput and hi-dimensional profiling of single antigen-specific T cells	BME Seminar	Peter & Geri Skirkanich Associate Professor of Innovation in the department of bioengineering at University of Pennsylvania
2/29/2024	Sarah Veatch	Biological tuning of the membrane phase transition facilitates plasma membrane organization and function	BME Seminar	Professor of Biophysics and Physics at the University of Michigan
3/7/2024	Michael Vahey	Mechanisms of antibody-mediated protection against respiratory viral infection	BME Seminar	Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering at WashU
3/12/2024	Ileana Hancu	Demystifying ARPA-H	Public Lecture	Program Manager of Health Science Futures with Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
3/20/2024	Russell Poldrack	The importance of measurement andmodeling for rigorous science	CCSN Research Methodology Workshop	Albert Ray Lang, Professor Department of Psychology at Stanford University
3/21/2024	Yali Jia	OCT Angiography and Oximetry: Prospects & Challenges	BME Seminar	Jennie P. Weeks Professor of Ophthalmology and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Oregon Health & Science University
4/4/2024	Sarah England	Translational Studies on the Oxytocin Receptor; Considerations for a Personalized Medicine Approach	BME Seminar	Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Medicine, Director, Center for Reproductive Health Sciences and Vice Chair of Research at Washington University School of Medicine
4/18/2024	Jeremy Dahl	Sound Speed Estimation in Pulse-Echo Ultrasound with Application to Image Correction and Disease Identification	BME Seminar	Associate Professor of Radiology at Stanford University
4/29/2024	Kathryn Nightingale	Ultrasonic Elasticity Imaging with Acoustic Radiation Force	BME Day	Theo Pilkington Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University

2022-2023

Date	Speaker	Title	Seminar Series	Speaker Information
07/19/2022	George Inglis	Navigating the Scientific Publishing Process and the Nature Portfolio		Associate Editor at Communications Biology
09/01/2022	Randolph S. Ashton	Bioengineering CNS Morphogenesis for Scalable Application in Regulatory Science and Precision Medicine	BME Seminar Series	Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering & Wisconsin Institute of Discovery; Associate Director, Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center
09/15/2022	Young L. Kim	Hyperspectral learning and cyberphysical biophotonics for mHealth	BME Seminar Series	Professor and Associate Head for Research in Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University
09/22/2022	Michael House	The Cervix as a Biomechanical Structure	BME Seminar Series	Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Tufts University School of Medicine and a specialist in maternal-fetal medicine at Tufts Medical Center
09/26/2022	Alexandra Rutz	3D Printed Conducting Polymers as Bioelectronic Scaffolds	IMSE Seminar	Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
09/29/2022	Dennis Barbour	Predicting the Present to Forecast the Future: An Updated Modeling Framework for Perception, Cognition and Medicine	BME Seminar Series	Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Washington University
10/20/2022	Peter Kasson	Physical mechanism in the entry and inhibition of emerging enveloped viruses	BME Seminar Series	Associate Professor in Molecular Physiology and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia
10/27/2022	Michael King	AdaptiSPECT-C: A Multi-Module Multi-Pinhole Adaptable SPECT System Dedicated to Brain Imaging	BME Seminar Series	Professor of Radiology at UMass Chan Medical School
11/03/2022	Melissa Skala	Label-free optical microscopy of T cell and stem cell metabolism	BME Seminar Series	Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Investigator, Morgridge Institute for Research
11/17/2022	Pinar Zorlutuna	Tissue Engineered Disease Models to Study the Effect of Age on Disease Progression	BME Seminar Series	Sheehan Family Collegiate Professor of Engineering and Acting Associate Dean for Diversity and Faculty Development at University of Notre Dame
01/19/2023	Jai Rudra	Immunoengineering with Supramolecular Peptide Biomaterials	BME Seminar Series	Associate Professor of biomedical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
01/26/2023	Taekjip Ha	Light, CRISPR and DNA Repair	BME Seminar Series	Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Biophysics, and Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
02/02/2023	Jessica Oakes	Particles in the Lung: from Dysfunction to Treatment	BME Seminar Series	Assistant Professor of bioengineering at Northeastern University
02/22/2023	Carlotta Berry	My STEM is for the streets: Strategies to normalize and diversify STEM by bringing it to the masses	Education, Engineering & Race Seminar Series	Lawrence J. Giacoletto Endowed Chair and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
02/23/2023	Yifan Dai	A New Phase of Biological Controls- A design framework for programmable synthetic biomolecular condensates and the mechanisms of a functional liquid-liquid interface	BME Seminar Series	Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
03/02/2023	Thomas Boland	Cells in Machines and Things we Discovered Along the Way	BME Seminar Series	Professor of metallurgical, materials and biomedical engineering and director of biomedical engineering program at The University of Texas at El Paso
03/23/2023	Nanyin Zhang	From neuron to behavior: investigating brain network function using multi-modal approach	BME Seminar Series	Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Brain Imaging at Pennsylvania State University
04/06/2023	Sarah Keller	Vacuole membranes of hungry yeast are tiny, living, phase-separating thermostats	BME Seminar Series	Duane and Barbara LaViolette Endowed Professor of Chemistry at University of Washington
04/07/2023	Michael I. Miller	Molecular Computational Anatomy: From Euler to Dirac	BME & ESE Seminar	Bessie Darling Massey Professor and Director of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Co-Director, Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Whiting School of Engineering
04/10/2023	Akhilesh K. Gaharwar	Engineered Biomaterials for In situ Tissue Regeneration"	BME Seminar Series	Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University
04/10/2023	Carl T. Bergstrom	Dealing with Selection Bias	CCSN Research Methodology Workshop	Professor of biology at the University of Washington
05/01/2023	Alexandra Rutz	Soft, Hydrated, and 3D Bioelectronic Interfaces	BME Day	Assistant Professor in biomedical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
05/01/2023	Barbara Shinn-Cunningham	Why hearing loss can sabotage communication in lively social settings	BME Day	George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor of Auditory Neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon University

2021-2022

Date	Speaker	Title	Seminar Series	Speaker Information
09/14/2021	Ana Maria Gomez	New Mechanism in Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia (CPVT1)	CBAC	Director of Research Inserm, France and Associate Editor of the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology (JMCC)
09/16/2021	Michelle L.Oyen	Biomechanical Functions of the Extra-Embryonic Tissues Throughout Pregnancy	BME Seminar Series	Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Engineering, East Carolina University
09/23/2021	Barani Raman	What the insect’s nose tells the insect’s brain? Testing a new theory for olfaction	BME Seminar Series	Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University
09/28/2021	Antonio Zaza	Therapeutic SERCA Enhancement – why and how	CBAC	Professor of Physiology and Director, School of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
09/30/2021	Ariella Shikanov	Functional Tunable Biomimetics for Engineering of Ovarian Tissue	BME Seminar Series	Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Associate Professor, Macromolecular Science and Engineering at University of Michigan
10/5/2021	Ulrich Schotten	From translation to integration: What is the next step in addressing the complexity of atrial fibrillation mechanisms?	CBAC	Professor and Chair Department of Physiology, University Maastricht, The Netherlands
10/7/2021	Ramille Shah	Biofabrication of Artificial Ovary Microenvironments	Women's Health Technologies	Associate Professor in Richard and Loan Hill Department of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois-Chicago
10/21/2021	Raffaella De Vita	From monologues to dialogues: An engineering analysis of the vagina	BME Seminar Series	Professor and Associate Department Head in the Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics Department at Virginia Tech
10/28/2021	Jon Silva	Precision Antiarrhythmic Medicine	BME Seminar Series	Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Washington University
11/4/2021	Brendan Harley	Building tissues engineering complexity through biomaterial design	BME Seminar Series	Sc.D., Robert W. Schaefer Professor in the Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
11/9/2021	Toon van Veen	Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy: from bedside to bench and back to the patient	CBAC	Associate Professor, Department of Medical Physiology at the University Medical Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands.
11/11/2021	Christian Weber		Beyond My Experience	Data Analyst III at Centene Corporation in St. Louis
11/18/2021	Katharina Ribbeck	Partners in Slime: How Mucus Regulates Microbial Virulence	BME Seminar Series	Associate Professor, Biological Engineering and Hyman Career Development Professor at MIT
12/2/2021	Ravi Radhakrishnan	Can Soft Signals Turn Oncogenic? A soft-matter and multiscale modeling approach to engineering cancer cells and inform therapies	BME Seminar Series	Professor and Chair of Bioengineering; Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Founding Member and Former Director of Penn Institute for Computational Science
12/7/2021	Julia Gorelik	Functional Imagining of Nanodomains in Cardiomyocytes	CBAC	Professor of Cellular Biophysics, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
12/9/2021	Research Forum		Women's Health Technologies
01/20/2022	John Fisher	3D Printing for Engineering Complex Tissues	BME Seminar Series	Fischell Family Distinguished Professor and Department Chair, Fischell dept. of bioengineering at the University of Maryland
01/20/2022	Research Forum		Women's Health Technologies
01/27/2022	Junghae Suh	Gene therapy for neuroscience	BME Seminar Series	Vice President, Head of Gene Therapy Accelerator Unit, Biogen, Cambridge, MA
02/3/2022	Xiaoting Jia	Multimaterial Multifunctional Fibers for Biomedical Applications	BME Seminar Series	Assistant Professor, Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech
02/17/2022	Kurt Thoroughman	Federal support for engineering research, interdisciplinary science, and diversity, equity, and inclusion	BME Seminar Series	Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University
02/24/2022	Stephanie Willerth	3D bioprinting personalized neural tissue models	BME Seminar Series	Professor, Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering, Acting Director of Centre for Biomedical Research, and Acting Director of Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Program at the University of Victoria
02/24/2022	Stephanie Willerth	Axolotl Biosciences: Spinning off a biotechnology company from an academic research lab	BME Seminar Series	Professor, Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering, Acting Director of Centre for Biomedical Research, and Acting Director of Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Program at the University of Victoria
03/03/2022	Igor Efimov	Soft transient implantable and wearable cardiac bioelectronics	BME Seminar Series	Editor-in-Chief at Cardiovascular Engineering & Technology and Alisann & Terry Collins Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at George Washington University
03/21/2022	Daniël Lakens	Data peeking without p-hacking? A guide to Sequential Analysis	CCSN Research Methodology Workshop	Associate Professor in the Human-Technology Interaction Group at Eindhoven University of Technology
03/24/2022	Christian Zemlin	Ablation and Defibrillation of Cardiac Tissue Using Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Fields	BME Seminar Series	Director, Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Laboratory, Associate Professor of Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
03/31/2022	Audrey Bowden	R.A.P.I.D. Technologies to Improve Healthcare Accessibility	BME Seminar Series	Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor's Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt
04/07/2022	Naomi Chesler	The mechanobiology of pulmonary hypertension progression due to left heart failure	BME Seminar Series	Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine
04/21/2022	Krishnendu Roy	Scalable, Quality-by-Design Driven Manufacturing of Cell-based Therapies, and On-Chip Models of Immunity – Lessons from an NSF Engineering Research Center	BME Seminar Series	Robert A. Milton Endowed Chair, NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Cell Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT), Director, Marcus Center for Cell-Therapy Characterization and Manufacturing (MC3M), Director, Center for ImmunoEngineering, Professor at Georgia Tech

2020-2021

Date	Speaker	Title	Seminar Series	Speaker Information
8/13/2020	Ebony O. McGee	Black, Brown, Bruised: How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation	Education, Engineering & Race Seminar Series	Associate professor of diversity and STEM education and principal investigator at the Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, and Mixed Methodologies at Vanderbilt University
8/27/2020	Brian Jefferson	Encoding Values: Exploring Connections Between Cultural Norms and Scientific Research	Education, Engineering & Race Seminar Series	Associate Professor of Geography and Geographic InfoSci, O’Connell Scholar, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Affiliate, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
9/7/2020	Cory Berkland	Drugs Should Be Designed with Delivery in Mind (and Vice Versa	BME Seminar	Solon E. Summerfield Distinguished Professorship in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and in the Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of Kansas
9/24/2020	Evan A. Scott	Engineering the Bio/Nano Interface for Enhanced Nano-Immunotherapy	BME Seminar	Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Microbiology-Immunology within the Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Feinberg School of Medicine
10/8/2020	Irina V. Larina	Shining light on early development	BME Seminar	Associate Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor
10/22/2020	Matthew O'Donnell	Light and Sound: Integrating Photonics with Ultrasonics	BME Seminar	Frank and Julie Jungers Dean Emeritus in the College of Engineering and Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at University of Washington
10/29/2020	Evangelia Bellas	Engineering Functional Adipose Tissue	BME Seminar	Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Temple University
11/12/2020	Sean P. Palecek	Engineering Improvements in the Quality of Stem Cell-Derived Cardiovascular Cells	BME Seminar	Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin – Madison
11/19/2020	Allison King	Sickle Cell Disease: A Case Study of Disparities	BME Seminar	Professor of Pediatrics, Hematology and Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine
12/3/2020	Geoffrey J. Goodhill	Using neural engineering to understand brain development	BME Seminar	Professor, Queensland Brain Institute & School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland
12/8/2020	Karin Sipido	Arrhythmias After Myocardial Infarction – of Myocytes and Fibroblasts	CBAC	Professor & Head of Experimental Cardiology at the University of Leuven, Belgium
12/15/2020	Elisabetta Cerbai	Abnormalities in Sodium Current and Calcium Homeostasis as Drivers of Arrhythmogenesis in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy	CBAC	Professor of Pharmacology and the Director of the Center for Molecular Medicine at the University of Florence, Italy
1/21/2021	Matthew A. Powell, MD	Advances in gynecologic cancer: current advances and future needs	Women's Health Technologies	professor of obstetrics and gynecology and division chief of gynecologic oncology, Washington University in St. Louis
1/21/2021	Nimmi Ramanujam	Empowering women globally through health and educational innovation	Women's Health Technologies	Robert W. Carr Professor of Engineering, Professor of Cancer Pharmacology and Global Health at Duke University and director of the Center for Global Women’s Health Technologies (GWHT)
2/4/2021	Bruce J. Tromberg	Bioengineering for COVID-19: Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) at Unprecedented Speed and Scale	Open BME	Director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
2/9/2021	W. Jonathan Lederer	Mitochondrial ATP Production in Cardiac Cells	CBAC	Professor of Physiology & the Director of the Center For Biomedical Engineering & Technology, University of Maryland School of Medicine.
2/18/2021	Matthew Porteus	Genome Editing to Create Curative Cellular Therapy	Open BME	M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics - Stem Cell Transplantation at Stanford
2/23/2021	David Eisner	Control of Calcium in the Heart - Free and Beyond	CBAC	Professor of Cardiac Physiology from the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of General Physiology
2/25/2021	Adriana Velazquez	As the World Gets Smaller, How Can We Expand the Biomedical Engineering Impact to Global Health?	Open BME	Group Lead Medical Devices and In-Vitro Diagnostics at the World Health Organization (WHO)
3/4/2021	David Boas	The evolution of hemodynamics during stroke recovery: from early hours to subsequent weeks	BME Seminar	Director of the Neurophotonics Center at Boston University
3/4/2021	Danielle Bassett	Systems Neuroscience	Open BME	J. Peter Skirkanich Professor of Bioengineering, Penn Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
3/9/2021	Barbara Casadei	Atrial Fibrillation - Bridging the Gaps	CBAC	British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust where she leads the Cardiovascular Theme of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre
3/18/2021	Daniel Rueckert	Learning Clinically Useful Information from Medical Images	Open BME	Professor of Visual Information Processing in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London
3/23/2021	Peter Kohl	The Non-Textbook Heart - Structure, Electrics, Mechanics	CBAC	Professor and Director of the Institute for Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine, University Heart Center Freiburg - Bad Krozingen, Germany
3/25/2021	Stacey D. Finley	Modeling immune cell activation in cancer: A tale of three scales	BME Seminar	Gordon S. Marshall Early Career Chair, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, and Quantitative and Computational Biology at the University of Southern California
3/25/2021	Warren Grayson	Advances in Regenerating Musculoskeletal Tissues	Open BME	Director, Laboratory for Craniofacial and Orthopaedic Tissue Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University
4/1/2021	Timothy L. Downing	Synthetic Genome Engineering for Cell and Tissue Engineering	Open BME	Assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of California, Irvine
4/8/2021	James J. Collins	Synthetic Biology: Life Redesigned	Open BME	Institute for Medical Engineering & Science in the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT
4/13/2021	Carol Ann Remme	Sodium Channel Dysfunction and Cardiac Arrhythmias - Novel Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets	CBAC	Associate Professor at the Department of Experimental Cardiology of the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, Netherlands
4/22/2021	Arnold P. Advincula	Perspectives on Needed Surgical Innovations from Bench to Bedside.	Women's Health Technologies	Levine Family Professor of Women’s Health; Vice-Chair, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology; Chief of Gynecologic Specialty Surgery, Sloane Hospital for Women; Medical Director, Mary & Michael Jaharis Simulation Center; Columbia University Medical Center New York-Presbyterian Hospital
4/29/2021	Christine O'Brien	Laser Focus on Women's Health	BME Seminar	Instructor of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis
5/4/2021	Michel Haïssaguerre	New Insight on Unexplained Sudden Cardiac Death	CBAC	Professor at the Victor-Segalen Bordeaux 2 University and head of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Department at Bordeaux University Hospital (Haut-Lévêque Cardiology Hospital), France

2019-2020

Date	Speaker	Title
8/29/2019	Christine Schmidt, PhD	Engineering Natural-Based Materials for Functional Nerve Regeneration
9/12/2019	Vivek Jayaraman, PhD	The Generation and Use of an Internal Representation of Heading That is Flexible Yet Stable
9/19/2019	Jianjie Ma, PhD	Finding a Pixie Dust for Cell Membrane Repair and Regenerative Medicine
9/26/2019	Christine Hendon, PhD	Monitoring and Guidance of Ablation Therapy with Optics
10/10/2019	Thi Nguyen, PhD and Michelle DeLaire, PhD	Navigating Your PhD
10/24/2019	Gretchen Meyer, PhD	Fat-muscle Signaling: The Good, The Bad and The Beige
10/31/2019	Qi Wang, PhD	Reading and Writing the Neural Code: Initial Steps Towards Restoring and Enhancing Sensory Functions Using Brain-Machine Interfaces
11/14/2019	Yong Wang, PhD	Electromyometrial Imaging (EMMI) of Uterine Contractions
11/18/2019	Victor H. Barocas	How Can We Use the Ever-Increasing Supply of Information To Do Better Computational Biomechanics?
11/21/2019	Jason Burdick, PhD	Engineering Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications
12/5/2019	Lonnie Shea, PhD	Tissue Engineering for Early Disease Detection and Monitoring Response
1/16/2020	Siyuan Rao, PhD	Biomedical Engineering Platform for Neural Circuits Interrogation
1/21/2020	Tim Otchy, PhD	3D-printing at the micro- and nano-scale: a new approach to chronic neural-machine interfaces
1/28/2020	Helen Schwerdt, PhD	Multi-Modal Interfaces for Probing Chemical and Electrical Neural Activity Long-Term
1/30/2020	Alexandra Rutz, PhD	Materials and additive manufacturing for seamless bioelectronic-tissue interfaces
2/3/2020	Naren Vyavahare, PhD	You Are Old as Your Elastin: Therapies to Extend Human Life
2/20/2020	Ismael Seáñez, PhD	Body and brain-machine interfaces for personalized assistance and neurorehabilitation
2/27/2020	Chelsey Simmons, PhD	Cellular Contributions to Tissue Mechanics: Case Studies in Cancer and Regeneration
3/5/2020	Brenda Ogle, PhD	Strategies for 3D Printing Complex Cardiac Tissue Mimics

2018-2019

Date	Speaker	Title
9/6/2018	Aaron Seitz, PhD	The Promise of Brain Training Games
9/13/2018	Sharona Gordon, PhD	No Gain, No Pain: Phosphoinositide Regulation of TRPV1 Ion Channels
9/20/2018	Paula Hammond, PhD	David H. Koch Chair, Professor of Engineering, Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9/21/2018	Milan Yager, PhD	Falling Out of Love With Science
9/27/2018	Byron Yu, PhD	Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University
11/4/2018	Zhen Xu, PhD	Histrotripsy: Imaging Guided Ultrasound Therapy for Non-invasive Surgery
11/5/2018	Mansoor A. Haider	Development and Calibration of Mathematical Models for Matrix Accumulation and Remodeling in Biological Soft Tissues
11/15/2018	Craig J. Goergen, PhD	Cardiovascular 4D Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Murine Imaging
11/29/2018	Kausik Si, PhD	What Memories are Made Of
12/6/2018	Steven Poelzing, PhD	Buffers and Biomedical Reproducibility: Lessons from the Heart
12/18/2018	Chao Zhou, PhD	Ultrahigh-Speed Optical Coherence Tomography and its Biomedical Applications
1/10/2019	Ariel L. Furst, PhD	Electrochemistry for Sensors and Energy
1/17/2019	Song Hu, PhD	Multi-parametric Photoacoustic Microscopy: Auscultation of Hemodynamics and Energy Metabolism at the Microscopic Level
1/29/2019	Ahmet F. Coskun, PhD	Multiplex Imaging of Spatial Biology in Single Cells
1/31/2019	Yonggang Shi, PhD	Neuro Image Computing Research for Translational Brain Mapping and Beyond
2/5/2019	Jonathan T. Reeder, PhD	Soft Biomedical Devices for Modulating, Measuring and Exploiting Thermal Physiology
2/7/2019	Laurel E. Hind, PhD	Elucidating the Role of the Microenvironment in Directing Innate Immune Cell Motility
2/12/2019	Lingyan Shi, PhD	High Resolution Optical Imaging of Metabolic Dynamics in Animals
2/21/2019	Ashutosh Agarwal, PhD	Organ on Chip Platforms for Modeling Human Disease
2/25/2019	Heather Powell, PhD	Biomaterial Strategies for Developing Biomimetic Engineered Skin
3/18/2019	Silviya Zustaik, PhD	Hydrogels for Drug Screening and Protein Delivery Applications
3/21/2019	Michelle Repice, PhD	Successful Networking: Making Meaningful Career Connections
3/22/2019	David Elad, DSc	Biomechanics of the Female Reproductive Tract
4/11/2019	Thi Nguyen, Phd	Leveraging LinkedIn
4/12/2019	Sumita Pennathur, PhD	Development of Medical Devices Using MEMS and Electrokinetic Fluid Technology
4/18/2019	Janice L. Robertson, PhD	Driving Forces of Greasy Protein Association in Greasy Membranes
4/29/2019	Kwabena Boahen	Spike-Based Neuromorphic Computing

2017-2018

Date	Speaker	Speaker Information
9/7/2017	Kristen Myers, PhD	Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University
9/11/2017	Adam Engler, PhD	Associate Professor of Bioengineering, UC San Diego
9/21/2017	Shawn Chen, PhD	Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
9/28/2017	David Odde, PhD	Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota
10/31/2017	Manu Platt, PhD	Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Diversity Director, STC on Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems, GRA Distinguished Scholar, Georgia Tech
11/2/2017	James Fitzpatrick, PhD	Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology, and Biomedical Engineering Scientific Director, Washington University Center for Cellular Imaging, Washington University in St. Louis
11/6/2017	Elizabeth Wayne, PhD	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11/16/2017	Princess U II Imoukhuede, PhD	Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
12/4/2017	Julie C. Liu	Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering,Purdue University
1/18/2018	Jai Rudra, PhD	Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Texas Medical Branch
1/25/2018	Jiahe Li, PhD	Postdoctoral Fellow, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2/1/2018	Blaine Christiansen, PhD	Associate Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of California, Davis
2/8/2018	Meng Cui, PhD	Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biology, Purdue University
2/15/2018	Katharina Maisel, PhD	Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
2/22/2018	Jia Liu, PhD	Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
2/26/2018	Michele Marcolongo, PhD	Department Head & Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University
2/27/2018	Audrey Fan, PhD	Instructor, Department of Radiology, Stanford University
3/8/2018	Samantha Santacruz, PhD	Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
3/29/2018	Tamara Kinzer-Ursem, PhD	Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University
4/26/2018	Shulamit Levenberg, PhD	Dean, Professor, Stanley and Sylvia Shirvan Chair in Cancer and Life Sciences Technion University, Haifa, Israel
5/1/2018	Scott Hollister, PhD	Professor and Patsy and Alan Dorris Chair in Pediatric Technology, Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical, Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University

2016-2017

Date	Speaker	Speaker Title	Speaker Information
1/19/2017	Nandan Nerurkar	Molecular Control of Physical Forces during Morphogenesis of the Vertebrate Gut	Harvard Medical School
1/24/2017	Marjan Rafat	Deconstructing the Tumor and Tissue Microenvironment	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Radiation Physics, Stanford Medicine
1/26/2017	Michael Vahey	Catching the Flu in the Act: Quantifying Influenza A Virus Assembly and Organization using Multispectral Viral Strains	Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioengineering, University California, Berkeley
1/31/2017	Erik Dreaden	A Tale of Two Particles: Engineering Rational Combination Therapies against Metastatic Tumors	Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2/2/2017	Nathaniel Huebsch	Harnessing Mechanobiology to create better Disease Models and Therapies from Mesenchymal and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells	Senior Scientist, Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
2/9/2017	Christopher Nelson	Delivery of Genome Engineering Technologies for Precision Gene Therapy	Postdoctoral Scholar, Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
2/14/2017	Eduardo Reátegui	Microfluidic Liquid Biopsy: seeking Particles Large and Small in Cancer Patient Blood	Research Fellow, Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital /Harvard Medical School
2/16/2017	Raiyan Zaman	Novel Fiber-Based Optical Systems for Biomedical Applications	Instructor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford Medicine
2/21/2017	Erica Jung	High-speed neural imaging with a genetically encoded voltage sensor	Postdoctoral Associate, Synthetic Neurobiology Lab at the Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2/28/2017	Michael Mitchell	Engineering Blood and Marrow for Cancer Therapy	Burroughs Wellcome Fund CASI Fellow, Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3/2/2017	Kshitiz	The Stag Hunt Game in Cancer: How Cells Cooperate Within Cancer Populations and Stroma to Divide and Conquer	Associate Research Scientist, Institute of Systems Biology, Yale University
3/9/2017	Abhinav K. Jha	Objective Assessment of Image Quality-based Techniques to Advance Technologies for Quantitative Medical Imaging	Instructor, Radiology, Johns Hopkins University
3/23/2017	Yoram Rudy	Noninvasive Imaging of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmias in the Intact Human Heart: Selected Examples	The Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor
3/28/2017	Paul Wiseman	Mesoscale Regulation of Podosome Turnover in Human Dendritic Cells Revealed with Image Correlation Methods	Professor, Professor of Physics & Chemistry, Otto Maass Chair in Chemistry, McGill University
3/30/2017	Leslie M. Loew	Signaling to the Actin Cytoskeleton	Professor, Cell Biology and Computer Science & Engineering, University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Engineering
4/13/2017	Andrea Califano	Addressing the Precision Deficit Disorder: leveraging Genomic Data and Models in the Post-mutational Era	Chair, Systems Biology, Professor, Chemical & Systems Biology, Columbia University
4/20/2017	Michel M. Maharbiz	Recent Advances in Neural Dust, a Platform for Peripheral and Central Nervous System Recording	Professor, Electrical Engineering, University of California - Berkeley
4/27/2017	David Eliezer	Alpha-synuclein, Tau and Complexin: Disordered Proteins in Neurodegeneration and Neurotransmission	Professor, Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medical College
4/28/2017	Karin Wang	Mechanobiology of Breast Tumorigenesis	Research Fellow, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard University School of Public Health