Seminars are held Thursdays, Winter and Spring quarters 1:00 – 1:50pm PDT.
Bioengineering Departmental Seminar Schedule
1/5/2023: Douglas Fowler – UW
Title: Understanding genetic variants: from technology development to the clinic
Recording
1/12/2023: Benjamin Freedman -UW
Title: Bioengineering a Stem Cell Therapy for Kidney Disease
1/19/2023: Brian Aguado – UCSD
Title: Sex-specific in vitro models of aortic valve stenosis
1/26/2023: Juan Carlos del Álamo – UW Medicine
Title: Patient-specific, physics-informed prediction of cardioembolic stroke risk
2/2/2023: Prof. Denise Cai, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Title: The brain in motion: how ensemble fluidity supports memory-updating
2/9/2023: Elizabeth Wayne, Carnegie Mellon University
2/16/2023: Joshua Chen, Rice University
2/23/2023: Dr. Meredith Redd, University of Washington
Title: Strategies to combat cardiac ischemia – from stem cells to deadly venom
3/2/2023: faculty candidate hold
3/9/2023 no seminar – Phd recruitment
3/16/2023: faculty candidate hold
3/23/2023: Arup Chakraborty – MIT
3/30/2023: faculty candidate hold
4/6/2023: Anna Kuchina – IBS (Seattle)
4/13/2023: Elizabeth Nance – UW
4/20/2023: TBD
4/27/2023: Sarah Heilshorn – Stanford
5/4/2023: Rong Fan – Yale
5/11/2023: Lin Tian – UC Davis
5/18/2023: Jen Davis – UW
5/25/2023: TBD
6/1/2023: TBD
March 31: Song Li – UCLA
Title: “Engineering stem cells and biomaterials for neuromuscular regeneration”
Apr. 7: Shelly Peyton – UMass Amherst
Title: “Tissue-Inspired Synthetic Biomaterials”
Apr. 14: Erika Moore – Univ. of Florida
Title: “Understanding and Designing Biomaterials for Immune Cell Tuning”
Apr. 21: Paul Gallant – Lifenet Health
Title: TBA
Apr. 28: Shannon Oda – Seattle Children’s Research Inst./UW Pediatrics
Title: “Overcoming T cell therapy barriers with engineered proteins”
May 5: Vincent Rotello – UMass Amherst
Title: “Interfacing Nanomaterials with Biology: From Biologics Delivery to Antimicrobials”
May 12: Mark Frohlich – Indapta Therapeutics
Title: “Developing Cell Therapy for Cancer; Lessons learned over 2 Decades of Clinical Development”
May 19: Beth Pruitt – UC Santa Barbara
Title: “Human iPSC derived cardiomyocytes as models for the mechanobiology of cardiomyopathy at the single cell level”
May 26: Younan Xia – Georgia Tech
Title: “Biomimetic Scaffolds for Tissue Repair and Regeneration”
June 2: Joe Beechem – NanoString Technologies
Title: “The Spatial Biology Revolution in Life Sciences: multi-omic whole-transcriptome digital spatial profiling combined with single-cell and sub-cellular Spatial Molecular Imaging”
- Jan. 6, 2022 – Prof. Valerie Daggett – UW BioE
- Jan. 13, 2022 – Prof. Ali Khademhosseini – CEO of Terasaki Institute & UCLA BioE
- Jan 20, 2022 – Prof. Stephanie Berger – Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington
- Jan 27, 2022 – Prof. John Scott – Pharmacology, University of Washington & HHMI
- Feb 10, 2022 – Prof. Stanley Qi – Bioengineering, Stanford University
- Feb 17, 2022 – Prof. Shachi Mittal – Chemical Engineering, University of Washington
- Feb 24, 2022 – Prof. Su Ryon Shin – Harvard University
- Mar 3, 2022 – Prof. Neha Kamat – Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University
- Mar 10, 2022 – Prof. Tejal Desai – Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, UCSF
- April 1, 2021 – Dr. Sharmila Majumdar – UCSF
- April 8, 2021 – Dr. Chulhong Kim – POSTECH
- April 15, 2021 – Dr. James Carothers – UW ChemE
- April 22, 2021 – Dr. Lucas Meza – UW MechE
- April 29, 2021 – Dr. Jennifer Silva – WUSTL
- May 6, 2021 – Dr. Andre Berndt – UW BioE
- May 13, 2021 – Dr. Tyrone Porter – UT Austin
- May 20, 2021 – Dr. Elaine Nsoesie – Boston University
- May 27, 2021 – Dr. Ceci Giachelli – UW BioE
- June 3, 2021 – Dr. Alshakim Nelson – UW Chemistry
- January 7, 2021 – Dr. Princess Imoukhuede – Washington University in St. Louis
- January 14, 2021 – Dr. Kim Woodrow – University of Washington
- January 21, 2021 – Dr. Manu Platt – The Georgia Institute of Technology
- January 28, 2021 – Dr. Azadeh Yazdan – University of Washington
- February 4, 2021 – Dr. Sridevi Sarma – Johns Hopkins University
- February 11, 2021 – Dr. Muyinatu Bell – Johns Hopkins University
- February 18, 2021 – Dr. Ilana Brito – Cornell University
- February 25, 2021 – Dr. Arun Sridhar – University of Washington
- March 4, 2021 – Dr. Edwin Lindo – University of Washington
- March 11, 2021 – Dr. Thomas Hund – The Ohio State University
- April 2, 2020, Adam Engler, University of California, San Diego
- April 9, 2020, Celeste Nelson, Princeton University
- April 16, 2020, Kole Roybal, UCSF
- April 23, 2020, Julie Kientz, University of Washington
- April 30, 2020, Eric Seibel, University of Washington
- May 7, 2020, Sharmila Majumdar, UCSF
- May 14, 2020, Scott Nyberg, Mayo Clinic
- May 21, 2020, Jennifer Nemhauser, University of Washington
- May 28, 2020, Jacqueline Linnes, Purdue University
- June 4, 2020, Cyrus Ghajar, Fred Hutch