Research

Seminars

The following events will be in ISA 7002 at 9 a.m. on their respective days.

Past Seminars

 
Date Title Speaker(s)

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

September 16, 2024

"Soft Sensors and Electronics for Human-Machine Interfaces and Advanced Healthcare" Associate Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech

September 23, 2024

"Biophysically Faithful Biomaterial Platforms for Cardiovascular and Intestinal Mechanobiology" Dr. J. Kathryn Grande-Allen, Associate Dean, Professor of Bioengineering, Rice University

September 30, 2024

"Micro-, Nano-, and Bio-Technologies for Medical Applications" Dr. Sean Choi, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, SUNY Binghamton

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

October 21, 2024

"Engineering the Tumor Microenvironment to Dissect Mechanisms of Cancer Progression" Dr. Duy Nguyen, Professor, Moffitt Cancer Center

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

November 4, 2024

"Extracellular Matrix Modulation of Microvascular Regeneration" Dr. Ngan Huang, Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University

November 18, 2024

"Biomechanics of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms" Dr. Jessica Wagenseil, Vice Dean & Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis

December 2, 2024

  Dr. Shixie Jiang, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Florida

January 27, 2025

"Sympathetic Nervous System as Mediator of Rat IOP Circadian Rhythm" Alexandra Zamitalo

January 27, 2025

"Translaminar Pressure Statistics in Pigmented Rats" Cesar Hernandez Hisidro

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

February 10, 2025

"Real-Time Endoleak Detection After Endovascular Aneurysm Repair (EVAR) Using Smart Stent and ML" Trisha Das Mou

February 10, 2025

"Behavioral, Computational, and Electrophysiological Measures of Temporal Envelope Processing" Zenzele Thomas

February 17, 2025

"Engineered Nanostructures for Medical Diagnosis" Dr. Xiaohu Xia, External Guest Speaker from University of Central Florida

February 24, 2025

"Exploring the Stars: Astrocytes in the Auditory Brainstem" E. Morgan Amick

February 24, 2025

"Wireless IOP Telemetry in Rats with Microbead-Induced Glaucoma" Kinnera Khareedu

March 3, 2025

"Fabrication and Characterization of Anisotropic Fibrous Scaffolds for Enhanced Cell Infiltration in Heart Valve Tissue Engineering" Azin Ghasemi

March 3, 2025

"Hybrid Piezoelectric Biomaterials for Dental Implant" Md Naimur Rahman Niloy

March 10, 2025

"Metabolic Flux Optimization of Iterative Pathways and Novel Substrate Utilization for Sustainable Chemical Production" Yang Hu

March 10, 2025

"A Multilayered Multipolymer Approach to Small Diameter Vascular Tissue Engineering" Ryan Singer

March 24, 2025

"Ultrasound-Activated and Magnetically Guided Bidirectional Microneedle for Targeted Drug Delivery" Rana Saha

March 24th, 2025

"The Effects of an Augmented Acoustic Environment on Temporal Processing and Neural Response Types" Luis Franco-Waite

March 31st, 2025

"Finite Element Based Medical Image Reconstruction in Photoacoustic Tomography" Sudeep Mondal

March 31st, 2025

"Characterization of Globular Bushy Cell Communities via Complex Dendritic Networks in the Mouse Ventral Cochlear Nucleus" Etienne Labastie

April 7th, 2025

"Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy Utilizing 1064nm Laser Light" Sean Aleman

April 7th, 2025

"Moiré Superlattice in Nanofabrication" Daiyue Wei

April 14th, 2025

"Photoacoustic Imaging of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure: Insights into Fetal Cardiac and Cerebral Development" Md Farhan Tanvir

April 14th, 2025

"A Noninvasive Neuromodulation Technique Using Low-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (LIFU) to Treat Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD)" Md Iftekhar Islam

April 21st, 2025

"Applications in Medical Entomology" Eva Fernandez

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

August 25th, 2025

 

John Kasianowicz, PhD

Visiting Research Professor, Physics, University of South Florida

October 13th, 2025

 

Michael Dunne, PhD

Professor, Bioengineering, Moffit Cancer Center

October 27th, 2025

 

Jungkwun Kim, PhD

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, University of North Texas

November 3rd, 2025

 

John White, PhD

Chair, Biomedical Engineering, Boston University

November 10th, 2025

 

Brian Foster, PhD

Chair, Biosciences, Ohio State University

November 17th, 2025

 

Sunita Ho, MS, PhD

Professor, Dentistry, University of California San Francisco

November 24th, 2025

 

Don Griffin, PhD

Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia

December 1st, 2025

 

Michaël Girard, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Emory University

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