Seminar Schedule

BME 590: Biomedical Engineering Colloquium

Spring 2023 Schedule

 

Week 1, January 12

Speaker: Spencer Szczesny, PhD

Institution: Penn State University

Talk Title: BME 590 Introduction

Format: In-person

Week 2, January 19

Speaker: Ning Jenny Jiang, PhD

Institution: University of Pennsylvania 

Talk Title: High-throughput and High-dimensional Single T cell Profiling Enabled Immune Engineering

Formal: Virtual
Seminar Recording

Week 3, January 26

Speaker: Callie Rodgers Chappell

Institution: Stanford University

Talk Title: Coloring Outside the Lines: Broadening the Scope of a STEM PhD Into Art, Education, and Policy

Format: Virtual

Week 4, February 2

Speaker: Silvia Salinas Blemker, PhD

Institution: University of Virginia

Talk Title: Image-Based Modeling of Skeletal Muscle: From Lab to Clinic to Market

Format: In-person (tentative)
Seminar Recording

Week 5, February 9

Speaker: PSU BME Grad Students

Institution: Penn State University

Talk Title: What I Wish I Had Known: Resources and Reflections of Senior Grad Students

Format: In-person
Seminar Recording

Week 6, February 16

Speaker: Michelle Jones

Institution: MedVal Scientific Information Services

Talk Title: Writing the Science: A Career in Medical Writing

Format: In-person
Seminar Recording

Week 7, February 23

Speaker: Yi Hong, PhD, FAHA

Institution: University of Texas at Arlington

Talk Title: Synthetic and Natural Biomaterials for Cardiovascular Tissue Repair

Format: In-person
Seminar Recording

Week 8, March 2

Speaker: Catherine Berdanier, PhD

Institution: Penn State University

Talk Title: Like Solving a Puzzle without Knowing the Picture: Characterizing Doctoral Engineering Attrition and Persistence

Format: In-Person
Seminar Recording

Week 9, March 9

No class - Spring Break

Week 10, March 16

Speaker: Melissa Morrow, PhD

Institution: University of Texas Medical Branch

Talk Title: Capturing Daily Movement Behavior with Wearable Sensors and Remote Monitoring in Wheelchair Users to Understand Development of Secondary Disability

Format: In-Person
Seminar Recording

Week 11, March 23

Speaker: Jennifer Wayne, PhD

Institution: Virgina Tech

Talk Title: Translational 3D Joint Modeling

Format: In-Person

Week 12, March 30

Speaker: Treena Arinzeh, PhD

Institution: Columbia University

Talk Title: Functional Biomaterials - Mimicking the Native Extracellular Matrix for Tissue Regeneration

Format: In-Person

Week 13, April 16

Speaker: Jean-Michel Mongeau, PhD

Institution: Penn State University

Talk Title: Reverse Engineering How the Brain Controls Movement: Lessons from Insect Locomotion

Format: In-Person

Week 14, April 13

Speaker: Corinne Riggin, PhD

Institution: Exponent

Talk Title: The Pathway of a Biomedical Engineer in the World of Engineering and Scientific Consulting

Format: In-Person

Week 15, April 20

Speaker: Virginia Aragon Sanabria, PhD

Institution: ThermoFisher

Talk Title: Translation of Nanoparticle Platforms: From Bench to Bedside

Format: Virtual

Week 16, April 27

Speaker: Milica Radisic, PhD, PEng

Institution: University of Toronto

Talk Title: Engineering Healthy and Diseased Myocardial Tissues

Format: Virtual