Fall 2018 – Spring 2019

04/22/2019 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Wallace H. Coulter Chair, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Injury Biomechanics, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech College of Engineering
Susan S. Margulies, Ph.D.
Location: Communicore, C1-17
04/15/2019 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Bernard A. and Frances M. Weideman Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Seminar Series: Darryl Thelen, Ph.D.
Location: Communicore, C1-17
04/01/2019 – 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Joel D. Boerckel, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery & Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania
Mimicking Morphogenesis for Regeneration
Location: Communicore, C1-17
03/25/2019 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Yeongseon Jang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida
Supramolecular Biomaterials Made from Recombinant Proteins: Understanding Structure to Engineer Properties for Target Applications
Location: Communicore, C1-17
03/11/2019 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Thomas S. Johnston Jr., M.B.A. President, KLS-Martin Manufacturing
Personalized Medicine: How Individual Patient Solutions are Revolutionizing Reconstructive Surgery
Location: Communicore, C1-17
02/25/2019 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Joseph M. DeSimone, Ph.D. Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry, UNC, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, NC State University
Joseph M. DeSimone, Ph.D.
Location: Communicore, C1-17
02/18/2019 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Mary Kathryn Sewell-Loftin, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis
Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts Regulate Vascular Growth via Biomechanical Forces
Location: Communicore, C1-17
02/04/2019 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Scott Wilson, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago
Antigen-Glycopolymer Conjugates: Engineering Immunity and Tolerance
Location: Communicore, C1-17
01/28/2019 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Xiao Hu, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia
Multiscale Musculoskeletal Simulations Reveal Novel Insights in Neurophysiology and Neuromuscular Disorders
Location: Communicore, C1-17
01/22/2019 – 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Felipe Garcia Quiroz, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, The Rockefeller University
Imaging Skin through the Lenses of Phase Separation: Liquid-like Membraneless Organelles Dictate Skin Barrier Formation
Location: Communicore, C1-3
01/14/2019 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Elizabeth Wayne, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hijacking Macrophage Activation to Control Gene Delivery
Location: Communicore, C1-17
01/07/2019 – 3:00 pm
Tyler Clites, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Biomechatronics Group, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Enhancing Human Anatomy to Improve Bionic Integration
Location: Communicore, C1-17
12/14/2018 – 10:00 am
Juliane Nguyen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Developing Biologics for Targeting Inflammatory Cells to Treat Myocardial Infarction and Cancer
12/10/2018 – 2:30 pm
Katie Galloway, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, University of Southern California
Slick Software, Slow Hardware: Balancing Biophysical Tradeoffs Drives Cellular Reprogramming
Location: Communicore, C1-17
12/03/2018 – 3:00 pm
Marjolein C.H. van der Meulen, Ph.D., James M. and Marsha McCormick Director of Biomedical Engineering, Swanson Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University
Marjolein C.H. van der Meulen, Ph.D.
Location: Communicore, C1-17
11/26/2018 – 3:00 pm
Cynthia Chestek, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan
Neural Interfaces for Controlling Finger Movements
11/06/2018 – 2:00 pm
Dr. Taralyn McCarrel, D.V.M., Assistant Professor, Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida
BME Grand Rounds
11/05/2018 – 3:00 pm
James Duncan, Ph.D., Ebenezer K. Hunt Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering & Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale University
Left Ventricular Deformation Analysis from 4D Echocardiography: A Machine Learning Approach
10/29/2018 – 3:00 pm
Senior Advisor, Clara Wu and Joe Tsai Foundation, Vice President for Research Emeritus, University of Virginia
Thomas C. Skalak, Ph.D.
Location: Communicore, C1-17
10/22/2018 – 3:00 pm
Vinata Vedam-Mai, M.Sc., Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery & Center for Movement Disorders & Neurorestoration, University of Florida
Biovalue in DBS Brain Banking
10/16/2018 – 3:00 pm
Benton Lecture Series: Celia Matthews Elliott, Director of Ext. Affairs and Special Projects Instructor, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Persuasion in Technical Communications
10/15/2018 – 3:00 pm
Jennifer Amos, Ph.D., Teaching Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Aligning Assessment and Evaluation Methods to Support Students’ Identities as Holistic Engineers
10/08/2018 – 3:00 pm
Industry Speaker: Thomas Jozefiak, Ph.D., Co-Founder, Chief Scientific Officer, Glyscend Incorporated
Translational Biomaterials Discovery: Commercial Success Stories for Polymers and Biomaterials
10/04/2018 – 3:00 pm
Dr. Harvey W. Chim, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Florida
BME Grand Rounds
10/01/2018 – 3:00 pm
Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Miami
Leonard Pinchuk, Ph.D., D.Sc., (h.c.), NAE.
Location: Communicore, C1-17
09/24/2018 – 3:00 pm
Roberta Goode, M.S., President, Goode Compliance International
Ten Steps from Pupil to Proprietor
09/17/2018 – 3:00 pm
Industry Speaker: Ivan Howard, M.B.A., M.S., Investment Officer, Hirtle, Callaghan & Co.
Making the Transition from Engineer to Entrepreneur
09/10/2018 – 3:00 pm
Xin Tang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida
Integrative Mechanobiology: Cancer Mechanics and Beyond
Location: Communicore, C1-17
08/27/2018 – 3:00 pm
Whitney Stoppel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida
Developing Personalized Biomaterials: An Investigation into Striated Muscle