Fall 2021 – Spring 2022

04/18/2022 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Ruogu Fang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida
Artificial Intelligence in Cognitive Aging: Novel Diagnosis and Precision Intervention
Location: Virtual via Zoom & projected in Communicore, C1-004
04/11/2022 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Scott T. Robinson, M.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Vascular Surgery & Endovascular Therapy, College of Medicine, University of Florida
That’s a Wrap! A Journey of Clinical Translation from Galway to Gainesville
Location: Communicore, C1-004 with simultaneous Zoom broadcast
04/04/2022 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Frances S. Ligler, D.Phil., D.Sc., Professor and Eppright Chair in Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University
Leadership Seminar: Perspective on Optical Biosensors: Evolutionary and Quantum Leaps
Location: Virtual via Zoom & projected in Communicore, C1-004
03/28/2022 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Arlyne Simon, Ph.D., Platform Architect | Founder & Author at Abby Invents
How Systems Engineering Enables Biomedical Innovations
Location: Virtual via Zoom & projected in Communicore, C1-004
03/21/2022 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Amy Orsborn, Ph.D., Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor, Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Bioengineering, University of Washington
Shaping and Optimizing Learning in Brain-machine Interfaces
Location: Communicore, C1-004 with simultaneous Zoom broadcast
03/14/2022 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Deva Chan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering Purdue University
Joint Health and Disease at the Interface of Imaging, Mechanics, and Biology
Location: Communicore, C1-004 with simultaneous Zoom broadcast
02/28/2022 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Xiao Fan, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University
Genetic Architecture of Pediatric Cardiomyopathy
Location: Virtual via Zoom & projected in Communicore, C1-004
02/21/2022 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Sanjukta Krishnagopal, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London
Network and Machine Learning Methods for Studying Evolution of Biological Networks Applied to Predictive Medicine
Location: Virtual via Zoom & projected in Communicore, C1-004
02/07/2022 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Haohan Wang, Ph.D., Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Beyond Finite Samples: Trustworthy Machine Learning Methods to Understand the Genetic Basis of Phenotyped Subtypes of Alzheimer’s disease
Location: Virtual via Zoom & projected in Communicore, C1-004
01/31/2022 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Mariano Gabitto, Ph.D., Assistant Investigator, Allen Institute for Brain Science
Learning Structure in Single-cell Chromatin Data During Cortical Development
Location: Communicore, C1-004 with simultaneous Zoom broadcast
01/24/2022 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Nancy Padilla-Coreano, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida
Elucidating the Role of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Social Dominance
Location: Virtual via Zoom & projected in Communicore, C1-004
01/10/2022 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Janak Gaire, Ph.D., & Eleana Manousiouthakis, Ph.D.
Location: Virtual via Zoom
12/06/2021 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Catherine Kuo, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park Department of Orthopaedics, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore
Tendon Regeneration Strategies Informed by Mechanobiology of Embryonic Development
Location: Virtual via Zoom
11/29/2021 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Leadership Seminar: James J. Collins, Ph.D., Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science, MIT Department of Biological Engineering, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, The Wyss Institute
Synthetic Biology: Life Redesigned
Location: Virtual via Zoom
11/15/2021 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
George Sgouros, Ph.D., Director of Radiological Physics Division, Professor of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine
Radiopharmaceutical Therapy: Looking Into the Black Box of Cancer Therapy
Location: Virtual via Zoom
11/08/2021 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Alison Sheets-Singer, Ph.D., Principal Biomechanics Researcher, Nike
Toward Creating Products that Enhance Athlete Performance
Location: Virtual via Zoom
11/01/2021 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Kharma Foucher, MD, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Departments of Kinesiology and Nutrition and Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Biomechanical & Energetic Factors Associated with Physical Activity Limitations in Osteoarthritis
Location: Virtual via Zoom
10/25/2021 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Cesar de la Fuente, Ph.D., Presidential Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania
Machine Biology for Infectious Diseases
Location: Virtual via Zoom
10/18/2021 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Nesreen Alsmadi, Ph.D., Senior Engineer, Research & Development, Axogen
Peripheral Nerve Regeneration and Repair Technologies
Location: Virtual via Zoom
10/11/2021 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Joyce Wong, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
Biomaterials to Control & Probe Cell Behavior: A Journey from Blood Vessels to Women’s Reproductive Health
Location: Virtual via Zoom
10/04/2021 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Mei He, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Florida
Understanding 3D Tissue Microenvironment for Developing Precision Therapeutic Delivery
Location: Virtual via Zoom
09/27/2021 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
James Moon, Ph.D., John Gideon Searle Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan
Joint Seminar with Chemical Engineering: James Moon, Ph.D.
Location: Virtual via Zoom
09/20/2021 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Leadership Seminar: Raphael C. Lee, MS(BmE), MD, ScD, FACS, Paul and Allene Russell Distinguished Service Professor Director, Laboratory for Molecular Regeneration Pritzker School of Medicine, Fellow, Pritzker Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
Synthetic Molecular Chaperones for Trauma Resuscitation
Location: Virtual via Zoom
09/13/2021 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Shreya Saxena, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Florida
Modeling the neural control of movement: flexible control of movement speed and data-driven inference
Location: Virtual via Zoom
08/30/2021 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Ashley Brown, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Microgel-based materials for regenerative medicine applications
Location: Virtual via Zoom
08/23/2021 – 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Fan Zhang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Florida
Nanomedicine-based Approaches to Address Immune Suppression and Resistance
Location: Virtual via Zoom