Research
Seminars
The following events will be in ISA 7002 at 9 a.m. on their respective days.
Past Seminars
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September 9, 2024 |
"Engineering Vascularized Organoids: Decoding Human Development and Disease in a Dish" | Dr. Mingxia Gu, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati |
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September 16, 2024 |
"Soft Sensors and Electronics for Human-Machine Interfaces and Advanced Healthcare" | Associate Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech |
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September 23, 2024 |
"Biophysically Faithful Biomaterial Platforms for Cardiovascular and Intestinal Mechanobiology" | Dr. J. Kathryn Grande-Allen, Associate Dean, Professor of Bioengineering, Rice University |
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September 30, 2024 |
"Micro-, Nano-, and Bio-Technologies for Medical Applications" | Dr. Sean Choi, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, SUNY Binghamton |
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October 14, 2024 (to be rescheduled) |
"Freezing and Fungi: Structural Design Elements in Bioinspired and Biological Materials" | Dr. Steven Naleway, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, The University of Utah |
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October 21, 2024 |
"Engineering the Tumor Microenvironment to Dissect Mechanisms of Cancer Progression" | Dr. Duy Nguyen, Professor, Moffitt Cancer Center |
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October 28, 2024 |
"Multiscale Mechanical and Compositional Characterization of Bone Tissue in Patient Populations with Increased Fragility" | Dr. Eve Donnelly, Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, Cornell University |
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November 4, 2024 |
"Extracellular Matrix Modulation of Microvascular Regeneration" | Dr. Ngan Huang, Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University |
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November 18, 2024 |
"Biomechanics of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms" | Dr. Jessica Wagenseil, Vice Dean & Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis |
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December 2, 2024 |
Dr. Shixie Jiang, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Florida | |
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January 27, 2025 |
"Sympathetic Nervous System as Mediator of Rat IOP Circadian Rhythm" | Alexandra Zamitalo |
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January 27, 2025 |
"Translaminar Pressure Statistics in Pigmented Rats" | Cesar Hernandez Hisidro |
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February 3, 2025 |
"Resolving the Mesoscopic Missing Link: Biophysical Modeling of EEG and fMRI from Cortical Columns" | Dr. Jorge Riere Diaz, External Guest Speaker from Florida International University |
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February 10, 2025 |
"Real-Time Endoleak Detection After Endovascular Aneurysm Repair (EVAR) Using Smart Stent and ML" | Trisha Das Mou |
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February 10, 2025 |
"Behavioral, Computational, and Electrophysiological Measures of Temporal Envelope Processing" | Zenzele Thomas |
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February 17, 2025 |
"Engineered Nanostructures for Medical Diagnosis" | Dr. Xiaohu Xia, External Guest Speaker from University of Central Florida |
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February 24, 2025 |
"Exploring the Stars: Astrocytes in the Auditory Brainstem" | E. Morgan Amick |
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February 24, 2025 |
"Wireless IOP Telemetry in Rats with Microbead-Induced Glaucoma" | Kinnera Khareedu |
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March 3, 2025 |
"Fabrication and Characterization of Anisotropic Fibrous Scaffolds for Enhanced Cell Infiltration in Heart Valve Tissue Engineering" | Azin Ghasemi |
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March 3, 2025 |
"Hybrid Piezoelectric Biomaterials for Dental Implant" | Md Naimur Rahman Niloy |
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March 10, 2025 |
"Metabolic Flux Optimization of Iterative Pathways and Novel Substrate Utilization for Sustainable Chemical Production" | Yang Hu |
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March 10, 2025 |
"A Multilayered Multipolymer Approach to Small Diameter Vascular Tissue Engineering" | Ryan Singer |
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March 24, 2025 |
"Ultrasound-Activated and Magnetically Guided Bidirectional Microneedle for Targeted Drug Delivery" | Rana Saha |
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March 24th, 2025 |
"The Effects of an Augmented Acoustic Environment on Temporal Processing and Neural Response Types" | Luis Franco-Waite |
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March 31st, 2025 |
"Finite Element Based Medical Image Reconstruction in Photoacoustic Tomography" | Sudeep Mondal |
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March 31st, 2025 |
"Characterization of Globular Bushy Cell Communities via Complex Dendritic Networks in the Mouse Ventral Cochlear Nucleus" | Etienne Labastie |
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April 7th, 2025 |
"Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy Utilizing 1064nm Laser Light" | Sean Aleman |
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April 7th, 2025 |
"Moiré Superlattice in Nanofabrication" | Daiyue Wei |
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April 14th, 2025 |
"Photoacoustic Imaging of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure: Insights into Fetal Cardiac and Cerebral Development" | Md Farhan Tanvir |
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April 14th, 2025 |
"A Noninvasive Neuromodulation Technique Using Low-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (LIFU) to Treat Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD)" | Md Iftekhar Islam |
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April 21st, 2025 |
"Applications in Medical Entomology" | Eva Fernandez |
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April 21st, 2025 |
"Forming a Protocol Using Artificial Intelligence to Reconstruct Cells from Electron Microscopic Images of the Ventral Cochlear Nucleus of the Mouse" | Savannah Lyle |
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August 25th, 2025 |
John Kasianowicz, PhD Visiting Research Professor, Physics, University of South Florida |
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October 13th, 2025 |
Michael Dunne, PhD Professor, Bioengineering, Moffit Cancer Center |
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October 27th, 2025 |
Jungkwun Kim, PhD Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, University of North Texas |
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November 3rd, 2025 |
John White, PhD Chair, Biomedical Engineering, Boston University |
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November 10th, 2025 |
Brian Foster, PhD Chair, Biosciences, Ohio State University |
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November 17th, 2025 |
Sunita Ho, MS, PhD Professor, Dentistry, University of California San Francisco |
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November 24th, 2025 |
Don Griffin, PhD Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia |
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December 1st, 2025 |
Michaël Girard, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Emory University |
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December 5th, 2025 |
Damijan Miklavcic, MS, PhD Professor, Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana |
Upcoming Events / Seminars
January 26th, 2026
Student Forum Presentation: Sanem Yilmaz PhD Student under Michael Dunne PhD
February 2nd, 2026
Student Forum Presentations: Kinnera Khareedu PhD Student under Christopher Passaglia PhD and Mitchell Harrah PhD student under Ashwin Parthasarathy PhD
February 9th, 2026
Student Forum Presentations: Audrey Gabbard MS Thesis Student under George Spirou PhD and Mohamed Ali Gharbal PhD Student under Joseph Dituri PhD
February 16th, 2026
Student Forum Presentations: Zenzele Thomas PhD Student under Erol Ozmeral PhD and Juliana Castelli PhD student under Michael Dunne PhD
February 23rd, 2026
BME Seminar Series - Sunita Ho PhD: TBA
March 2nd, 2026
Student Forum Presentations: Daiyue Wei PhD Student previously under Cai Mike Wang PhD and Lina Sabkhangulova under Anna Bulysheva PhD
March 9th, 2026
BME Seminar Series - Donald Griffin PhD: Crosslinked Granular Hydrogels as Scaffolds for Accelerated and Stable In Vitro and In Vivo Integration
March 16th, 2026
Student Forum Presentations: Gabriel Garcia PhD Student under Piyush Koria PhD and Ryan Singer PhD Student under Mark Jaroszeski PhD
March 23rd, 2026
Student Forum Presentations: Sudeep Mondal PhD Student under Huabei Jiang PhD and Nahian Nabia Hossain MS Thesis Student under Olukemi Akintewe PhD
March 30th, 2026
Student Forum Presentations: Nima Rafezi PhD Student under Babak Naghizadehsafa PhD and Hasibur Rahman PhD Student under Albert Kim PhD
April 6th, 2026
Student Forum Presentations: Farhan Tanvir PhD Student under Huabei Jiang PhD and Sean Aleman PhD Student under Ashwin Parthasarathy PhD
April 13th, 2026
Student Forum Presentations: Emily Morgan Amick PhD Student under George Spirou PhD and Luis Franco-Waite PhD Student under Joseph Walton PhD
April 20th, 2026
Student Forum Presentations: Eva Fernandez PhD Student under Sylvia Thomas PhD and
Rana Saha PhD Student under Robert Frisina PhD and Yogi Goswami PhD
April 27th, 2026
Student Forum Presentations: Trisha Das Mou PhD under Ashwin Parthasarathy PhD and Naimur Rahman Niloy PhD student under under Robert Frisina PhD and Yogi Goswami PhD