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 |
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January 26th, 2026 |
Student Forum Presentation: Sanem Yilmaz PhD Student under Michael Dunne PhD |
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February 2nd, 2026 |
Student Forum Presentations: Kinnera Khareedu PhD Student under Christopher Passaglia PhD and Mitchell Harrah PhD student under Ashwin Parthasarathy PhD |
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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 |
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February 16th, 2026 |
Student Forum Presentations: Zenzele Thomas PhD Student under Erol Ozmeral PhD and Juliana Castelli PhD student under Michael Dunne PhD |
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February 23rd, 2026 |
BME Seminar Series - Sunita Ho PhD: TBA |
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March 2nd, 2026 |
Student Forum Presentations: Daiyue Wei PhD Student previously under Cai Mike Wang PhD and Lina Sabkhangulova under Anna Bulysheva PhD |
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March 9th, 2026 |
BME Seminar Series - Donald Griffin PhD: Crosslinked Granular Hydrogels as Scaffolds for Accelerated and Stable In Vitro and In Vivo Integration |
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March 23rd, 2026 |
Student Forum Presentations |
Sudeep Mondal PhD Student under Huabei Jiang PhD and Nahian Nabiha Hossain MS Thesis Student under Olukemi Akintewe PhD |
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March 30th, 2026 |
Student Forum Presentations |
Mario Brock Leao MS student under Dr. Neda Latifi |
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April 6th, 2026 (Cancelled) |
Student Forum Presentations |
Farhan Tanvir PhD Student under Huabei Jiang PhD and Sean Aleman PhD Student under Ashwin Parthasarathy PhD |
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April 13th, 2026 (Cancelled) |
Student Forum Presentations |
Emily Morgan Amick PhD Student under George Spirou PhD and Luis Franco-Waite PhD Student under Joseph Walton PhD |
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April 20th, 2026 (Cancelled) |
Student Forum Presentations |
Eva Fernandez PhD Student under Sylvia Thomas PhD and |
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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 |
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August 31st, 2026 |
Stanley Liu, MD, DDS Chair, Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Nova Southeastern University |
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September 14th, 2026 |
Ian Sigal, PhD Associate Professor, Ophthalmology and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh |
Upcoming Events / Seminars
September 21st, 2026
Narutoshi Hibino, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery, University of Chicago
October 5th, 2026
Nandan Nerurkar, PhD
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
October 12th, 2026
Seda Aslan, PhD
Research Associate Scientist, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
October 19th, 2026
George J. Christ, PhD
Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Virginia
October 26th, 2026
Gary L. Bowlin, PhD
Interim Chair, Biomedical Engineering, University of Memphis
November 2nd, 2026
Rebecca L. Heise, PhD
Chair, Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University
November 9th, 2026
Donghun Yoon, PhD
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, University of Arkansas
November 23rd, 2026
Monzur Murshed, PhD
Professor, Department of Medicine, McGill University
November 30th, 2026
Nima Rafezi
PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering, University of South Florida