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
Time and Location:
- Thursday: 12:05 pm - 1:20 pm.
- All in-person BME seminarrs are in CBEB 001.
- Virtual seminars are on Zoom: https://psu.zoom.us/j/92312191648.
- Please email Ariel Christine, ajr311@psu.edu, with any questions.