Seminar Schedule
BME 590: Biomedical Engineering Colloquium
Spring 2025 Schedule
Week 1, January 16
No Speaker
Week 2, January 23
Speaker: William Hancock, Ph.D
Institution: Penn State
Talk Title: 25 years of Molecular Machines in the Hancock Lab
Format: In-Person
Week 3, January 30
No Speaker
Week 4, February 6
No Speaker
Week 5, February 13
Speaker: Parijat Bhatnagar, Ph.D.
Institution: SRI International
Talk Title: Cell-Based Delivery of Therapeutic Proteins with Spatiotemporal Resolution
Format: Virtual
Week 6, February 20
No Speaker
Week 7, February 27
Speaker: Honggang Cui, Ph.D.
Institution: Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Peptide-Enabled Design of Supramolecular Therapeutics
Format: In-Person
Week 8, March 6
Speaker: Urara Hasegawa, Ph.D.
Institution: Penn State
Talk Title: TBD
Format: In-Person
Week 9, March 13 (Spring Break — No Seminar)
Week 10, March 20
Speaker: Matthew Lazzara, Ph.D.
Institution: University of Virginia
Talk Title: TBD
Format: Virtual
Week 11, March 27
Speaker: Aijun Wang, Ph.D.
Institution: UC Davis
Talk Title: TBD
Format: In-Person
Week 12, April 3
Speaker: Jiahe Li, Ph.D.
Institution: University of Michigan
Talk Title: Understanding and Engineering Microbes for Solving Complex Problems in Biology and Medicine
Format: Virtual
Week 13, April 10
Speaker: Mariana Kersh, Ph.D.
Institution: Illinois University
Talk Title: TBD
Format: Virtual
Week 14, April 17
Speaker: Shue Wang, Ph.D.
Institution: University of New Haven
Talk Title: TBD
Format: Virtual
Week 15, April 25
Speaker: Priya Mukherjee, Ph.D.
Institution: The University of Oklahoma
Talk Title: TBD
Format: Virtual
Week 16, May 1
Speaker: Shengjie Zhai, Ph.D.
Institution: University of Nevada
Talk Title: Advancing Human Reproduction Technologies for Space Colonization
Format: Virtual
Time and Location:
- Thursday: 12:05 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.
- Unless otherwise noted, all in-person BME seminars are in 001 CBEB.
- Please email Ariel Christine, ajr311@psu.edu, with any questions.