2022 Spring Seminar | Department of Biomedical Engineering

January 21	Dr. Daniel Nieto, PhD Assistant Professor at Complex Tissue Regeneration Department MERLN, Institute for Technology Inspired Regenerative Medicine Maastricht University, Netherlands Subject: Light Based Bioprinting Technologies for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
January 28	Dr. Gunnar Cedersund Associate Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering Linköping University, Sweden Subject: Digital Twins
February 2	Dr. Elisa Kallioiemi Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Psychiatric University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas Subject: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation - A Unique Tool to Study and Treat the Brain
February 4	Dr. Ryan Branski, PhD Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Research Rehabilitation Medicine and Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery NYU Grossman School of Medicine Subject: The Most Bioactive Organ-Biomaterials and Novel Therapeutics for the Vocal Folds
February 7	Dr. Joel Finbloom, PhD. Postdoctoral Fellow. Department of Biomedical Engineering and Therapeutic Sciences University of California San Francisco Subject: Harnessing Self-Assembly Across Length Scales to Advance Biomedical Applications
February 11	Dr. Evangelia Bellas, PhD Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Temple University, Philadelphia Subject: Engineering Functional Adipose Tissue
February 25	Dr. Valerie Tutwiler, PhD Assistant Professor. Department of Biomedical Engineering Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey Subject: Biomechanics of Blood Clots
March 4	Dr. George McConnell, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology Subject: Insights from Neural Activity Patterns During Deep Brain Stimulation
March 11	Dr. Yasser Iturria Medina, PhD Assistant Professor of Neurology Canada Research Chair in Multimodal Data Integration in Neurodegeneration Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University Subject: Multifactorial brain modeling for better understanding of disease mechanisms and treatment needs in neurodegeneration
March 25	Dr. Janaka Senarathna, PhD Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Radiology and Radiological Science John Hopkins University School of Medicine Subject: Functional Optical Imaging: a new frontier beckons
April 1	Dr. Ali Golestani, PhD Department of Medical Physic University of Toronto Subject: Effect of brain physiology on resting-state fMRI
April 8	Dr. Ragini Verma, PhD Professor, Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics, Department of Radiology University of Pennsylvania Subject: From Population Studies to Precision Imaging: Trials and tribulations and the way forward
April 22	Dr. Yi Wang, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering University of South Carolina Subject: Intelligent Multi-fidelity Surrogate-based Optimization Framework for Microfluidic Concentration Gradient Generator Design
April 29	Dr. Jongsang Son, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology Subject: Altered neuromuscular properties after chronic stroke
May 3	Dr. Benjamin Schuster, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Rutgers University Subject: Putting “Membranes” on Membrane-less Organelles