Seminar Schedule

BME 590: Biomedical Engineering Colloquium

Fall 2024 Schedule

Week 1, August 29

Speaker: Zhen Ma, Ph.D.
Institution: Syracuse University
Talk Title: Generating Lineage-Specific Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSCs) for Scalable Extracellular Vesicle Therapeutics
Format: Virtual

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Week 2, September 5

Speaker: Esther Gomez, Ph.D
Institution: Penn State
Talk Title: Impact of Matrix Mechanics on Growth Factor Regulated Cell Signaling and Fate
Formal: In-Person

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Week 3, September 12

Speaker: Jenn Gray, Ph.D. and Sarah Kiemle, Ph.D.
Institution: Penn State
Talk Title: TBA
Format: In-Person

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Week 4, September 19

Speaker: Antony McNamee, Ph.D.
Institution: Griffith University
Talk Title: From High-Shear Stress to Haemolysis: Unravelling Blood Trauma with Erythrocyte Biophysics and Blood Rheology
Format: In-Person

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Week 5, September 26

Speaker: Ana Estrada, Ph.D.
Institution: Fairfield University
Talk Title: Cardiovascular Modeling Across Scales: Growth & Remodeling in the Heart and Aorta
Format: In-person

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Week 6, October 3

Speaker: Shreya Raghavan, Pd.D..
Institution: TAMU
Talk Title: Mechano-immunology Building Blocks in the Metastatic Tumor Microenvironment
Format: Virtual

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Week 7, October 10

Speaker: Xiaoping Bao, Ph.D.
Institution: Purdue University
Talk Title: Engineer CAR-neutrophils for Targeted Chemoimmunotherapy Against Glioblastoma
Format: In-Person

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Week 8, October 17

Speaker: Lu Bai, Ph.D.
Institution: Penn State Eberly College of Science
Talk Title: Invasion Mechanism and Binding Specificity of Pioneer Transcription Factor
Format: In-Person 

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Week 9, October 24 (No Seminar)

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Week 10, October 31

Speaker: Zhongming Liu, Ph.D.
Institution: University of Michigan
Talk Title: Imaging and Modulating Gut-Brain Interactions
Format: Virtual

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Week 11, November 7

Speaker: Anandi Krishnan, Ph.D.
Institution: Rutgers University
Talk Title: The Versatile Platelet: A Bridge to Translational Medicine
Format: Virtual

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Week 12, November 14

Speaker: Ying Mei, Ph.D.
Institution: Clemson University
Talk Title: Human Cardiac Organoids for Heart Repair and Disease Modeling
Format: In-Person

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Week 13, November 21

Speaker: Qiaobing Xu, Ph.D.
Institution: Tufts
Talk Title: TBD
Format: Virtual

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Week 14, November 28

Thanksgiving Break

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Week 15, December 5

Speaker: Wilson Wong, Ph.D.
Institution: Boston University
Talk Title: TBD
Format: Virtual

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