2019 Spring Seminar Schedule

	January 25, 2019 Sabrina Varanelli Nemedio Title: "Infrastructure Tools for Accelerating High-Tech Medical Device Development"
	February 1, 2019 Lab Safety Training Department of Environmental Health and Safety NJIT Information
	February 7, 2019 SPECIAL SEMINAR J. Christopher Fritton, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Orthopaedics New Jersey Medical School Rutgers University Title: Utilizing Mechanics to Better Understand and Build Bone Tissue
	February 15, 2019 Peng Jiang, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience Rutgers University Title: Modeling Down Syndrome Using Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
	February 19, 2019 SPECIAL SEMINAR Ghaith Androwis, Ph.D. Research Scientist, Kessler Foundation Assistant Research Professor, NJIT Title: Wearable Robotics for Mobility and Rehabilitation
	February 21, 2019 SPECIAL SEMINAR Joon-hyuk Park, Ph.D. NRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow US Army Research Lab Title: Wearable robots: "How to befriend robots on humans"
	February 25, 2019 SPECIAL SEMINAR R. Chase Cornelison, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics Virginia Tech Title: Targeting fluid flow and shear stress for brain cancer therapy
	February 28, 2019 SPECIAL SEMINAR Jonathan M. Grasman, Ph.D. NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow Tufts University Title: 3D tissue Systems to Study Tissue Innervation
	March 1, 2019 Ilker Hacihaliloglu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering Rutgers University Title: Smart Ultrasound Imaging for Image Guided Interventions and Therapy
	March 4, 2019 SPECIAL SEMINAR Young Hye Song, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Florida Title: Engineering Tissue Mimics for Disease Modeling and Regenerative Medicine
	March 7, 2019 SPECIAL SEMINAR Siavash Rezazadeh, Ph.D. Research Scientist Locomotor Control Systems Laboratory University of Texas at Dallas Title: Using Reduced-Order Models for Design and Control of Bipedal Robotic Systems
	March 8, 2019 Dan Sanes, PhD Professor Center for Neural Science New York University Title: Perceptual and neural consequences of early auditory experience
	March 15, 2019 Damiano Zanotto, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology Title: Wearable Technology for Gait Training and Gait Analysis
	March 29, 2019 Anders Carlsson, Ph.D. Department of Physics NSF Center for Engineering and MechanoBiology Washington University in St. Louis Title: Force Generation in Biological Cells
	April 5, 2019 Lucas Parra, Ph.D. Professor of Biomedical Engineering City University of New York Title: On Brainwaves and Videos and Video Games
	April 12, 2019 Lorenzo Fontolan, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher Howard Hughes Medical Institute Title: Neural circuit dynamics underlying short-term memory in frontal cortex
	April 18, 2019 SPECIAL SEMINAR Douglas John Weber Associate Professor Department of Bioengineering University of Pittsburgh Title: Implantable, injectable, and wearable devices for sensing and effecting neurological functions
	April 26, 2019 James Yang, Ph.D. Associate Professor Texas Tech University Title: Nonlinear Dynamics of Human Upright Postural Stability on a Balance Board Using an Ankle-Hip Model
	May 3, 2019 Fatemeh Haghighi, Ph.D. Professor of Neuroscience Director of the Laboratory of Medical Epigenetics Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai Title: Traumatic Brain Injury: Acute and Chronic Transcriptional Regulatory Changes and Clinical Correlates
Brooke1_crop.jpg	May 7, 2019 Brooke Flammang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Federated Department of Biological Sciences New Jersey Institute of Technology Title: Fishes did it first: Morphological Mechanisms and Bioinspiration

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