Fall 2011–Spring 2012 BME Seminars

September 8, 2011
Ali Khademhosseini, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Harvard-MIT's Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Brigham and Women’s
Hospital, and Harvard Medical School
Associate Faculty
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering,
Donald D. Harrington Fellow and a visiting scholar
Department of Biomedical Engineering Department at UT Austin
Microengineered hydrogels for stem cell bioengineering and tissue regeneration
3:30 p.m., BME 3.204

September 15, 2011
Scott I. Simon, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of California, Davis
Engineering the innate immune system for improved wound healing
3:30 p.m., BME 3.204

September 22, 2011
Lydia Contreras-Martin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Building molecular lenses to understand RNA-protein regulation in vivo
3:30 p.m., BME 3.204

September 29, 2011
Karl Böhringer, Ph.D.
John M. Fluke Distinguished Chair of Engineering
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington
Low-cost diagnosis with bioMEMS—Unconventional methods and materials
3:30 p.m., BME 3.204

October 6, 2011
Erin Lavik, Sc.D.
Elmer Lincoln Lindseth Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Case Western Reserve University
Engineering therapies: a circuitous route from blood vessels to blood substitutes via spinal cord injury
3:30 p.m., BME 3.204

November 3, 2011
May Dongmei Wang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Tech and Emory University
Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar
Director of Biocomputing and Bioinformatics Core in Emory-Georgia Tech Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence
Translational biomedical and health informatics for personalized medicine
3:30 p.m., BME 3.204

November 10, 2011
Harrington Symposium
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November 17, 2011
Shankar Subramaniam, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Bioengineering,
Joan and Irwin Jacobs Endowed Chair in Bioengineering and Systems Biology,
Professor of Bioengineering, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Chemistry and Biochemistry and Nanoengineering,
University of California, San Diego
Systems analysis of insulin resistance and related pathologies
3:30 p.m., BME 3.204

December 1, 2011
Charles Lin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Center for Systems Biology
Harvard Medical School
In vivo cell tracking
3:30 p.m., BME 3.204

 
January 26, 2012
Elazer Edelman, M.D., Ph.D
Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professor of Health Sciences and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School.
Tissue Engineering: Unraveling the Mystery of Vascular and Cancer Biology
3:30 p.m., BME 3.204

 
February 2, 2012
Glenn D. Prestwich, Ph.D.
Presidential Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Presidential Special Assistant for Faculty Entrepreneurism
Department of Bioengineering
The University of Utah
From Organic Chemistry to Regenerative Medicine: Realizing the Promise of Translational Research
3:30 p.m., BME 3.204 

February 9, 2012
Kyriacos Athanasiou Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
the Child Family Professor of Engineering
Chair of Biomedical Engineering
University of California, Davis
Articular Cartilage Regeneration
3:30 p.m., BME 3.204

 
February 16, 2012
Duco Jansen, Ph.D.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Neurological Surgery
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Vanderbilt University
Photonic Neural Interfaces: Current State and Future Challenges
3:30 p.m., BME 3.204

 
March 29, 2012
Antonios G. Mikos, Ph.D.
Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Rice University
Advancing Scaffold Based Approaches for Bone Tissue Engineering
3:30 p.m., BME 3.204

April 12, 2012
Stephen Wong, Ph.D., P.E.
The Methodist Hospital Research Institute Department Chair
John S. Dunn Distinguished Endowed Chair in Biomedical Engineering
Director, Center for Bioengineering and Informatics
Label-free Molecular Vibrational Imaging and Microendoscopy for Clinical Diagnosis and Interventions
3:30 p.m., BME 3.204

April 19, 2012
Michael Sacks, Ph.D., W.A.
“Tex” Moncrief, Jr. Simulation-Based Engineering Science Chair
Institute of Computational Engineering and Sciences
Department of Biomedical Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
On the Function and Simulation of the Cardiac Valve
3:30 p.m., BME 3.204

April 26, 2012
Robert O. (Bill) Williams, Ph.D.
Johnson & Johnson Centennial Professor of Pharmaceutics
Division Head, Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy
The University of Texas at Austin
Improving Drug Delivery through Particle Engineering
3:30 p.m., BME 3.204

May 3, 2012
Abraham Lee, Ph.D.
William J. Link Professor and Chair
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Engineering the Microfluidic Delivery of Medicine at the Biological Scale
3:30 p.m., BME 3.204