Seminars are held Thursdays, Winter and Spring quarters 1:00 – 1:50pm PDT.
The March 31 seminar will be held via Zoom, and the remaining Spring 2022 seminars will be held in person in Foege Hall, N130A.
Bioengineering Departmental Seminar Schedule
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: Dr. Meredith Redd, University of Washington
Title: Strategies to combat cardiac ischemia – from stem cells to deadly venom
2/23/2023: TBD
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”
Tentative schedule:
Jan. 6, 2022 – Prof. Valerie Daggett – UW BioE
2021-11-04T10:38:43-07:00Title: TBA|
Jan. 13, 2022 – Prof. Ali Khademhosseini – CEO of Terasaki Institute & UCLA BioE
2021-12-16T08:43:23-08:00Title: Engineering in Precision Medicine|
Jan 20, 2022 – Prof. Stephanie Berger – Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington
2021-11-04T10:39:04-07:00Title: TBA|
Jan 27, 2022 – Prof. John Scott – Pharmacology, University of Washington & HHMI
2021-12-16T08:44:03-08:00Title: Exploring and exploiting the spatial constraints of cAMP signaling|
Feb 10, 2022 – Prof. Stanley Qi – Bioengineering, Stanford University
2021-12-16T08:44:37-08:00Title: Synthetic Genome Engineering for Studying Genomics and Therapy|
Feb 17, 2022 – Prof. Shachi Mittal – Chemical Engineering, University of Washington
2021-12-16T08:45:06-08:00Title: Optical and chemical profiling of cancer using Artificial Intelligence for next generation diagnosis|
Feb 24, 2022 – Prof. Su Ryon Shin – Harvard University
2021-11-04T10:39:44-07:00Title: TBA|
Mar 3, 2022 – Prof. Neha Kamat – Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University
2021-11-04T10:39:52-07:00Title: TBA|
Mar 10, 2022 – Prof. Tejal Desai – Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, UCSF
2021-12-16T08:45:35-08:00Title: Therapeutic biomaterials: engineering material “structure” to modulate biologic delivery|
Due the current limitations related to managing the COVID-19 pandemic, these seminars will be delivered online and are open to UW community members and the public. Registration is required. For lectures available to the public, click on the registration link under lecture details.
April 1, 2021 – Dr. Sharmila Majumdar – UCSF
2021-03-31T16:26:28-07:00Field: "Intelligent Imaging of Joint Degeneration in Osteoarthritis"|
April 8, 2021 – Dr. Chulhong Kim – POSTECH
2021-04-05T09:31:23-07:00Field: "Trans-Energy Multimodal Imaging: from Development to Commercial Products via Clinical Translation" (Note Special Time: 4:30 PM)|
April 15, 2021 – Dr. James Carothers – UW ChemE
2021-04-13T15:24:38-07:00Field: "Engineering Synthetic Cells for Bioproduction, Biomedicine and Bioenergy"|
April 22, 2021 – Dr. Lucas Meza – UW MechE
2021-04-20T09:04:23-07:00Field: It's a Small World: Reengineering Material Properties Using Micro- and Nanoarchitecture|
April 29, 2021 – Dr. Jennifer Silva – WUSTL
2021-04-26T11:58:29-07:00Field: Design & Development of a Mixed Reality System for Cardiac Ablation Procedures|
May 6, 2021 – Dr. Andre Berndt – UW BioE
2021-04-27T22:49:19-07:00Field: High-throughput Engineering of Fluorescent Biosensors for Intra- and Extracellular Cell Signaling|
May 13, 2021 – Dr. Tyrone Porter – UT Austin
2021-05-11T14:48:29-07:00Field: Biomedical Applications for Ultrasound-triggered Exploding Nanodroplets|
May 20, 2021 – Dr. Elaine Nsoesie – Boston University
2021-05-17T13:28:09-07:00Field: Use of Data Science to Address Health Inequity|
May 27, 2021 – Dr. Ceci Giachelli – UW BioE
2021-05-26T06:17:28-07:00Field: Myeloid Cell Engineering to Treat Osteoclast Deficiency and Ectopic Calcification|
June 3, 2021 – Dr. Alshakim Nelson – UW Chemistry
2021-05-21T11:20:42-07:00Field: Polymer Platforms for 3D Printing Engineered Living Materials|
Due the current limitations related to managing the COVID-19 pandemic, these seminars will be delivered on-line and are open to UW community members.
January 7, 2021 – Dr. Princess Imoukhuede – Washington University in St. Louis
2021-02-25T12:12:10-08:00Field: Biomedical Engineering|
January 14, 2021 – Dr. Kim Woodrow – University of Washington
2021-02-25T12:11:48-08:00Field: Bioengineering|
January 21, 2021 – Dr. Manu Platt – The Georgia Institute of Technology
2021-02-25T12:11:35-08:00Field: Biomedical Engineering|
January 28, 2021 – Dr. Azadeh Yazdan – University of Washington
2021-03-15T09:56:07-07:00Field: Bioengineering|
February 4, 2021 – Dr. Sridevi Sarma – Johns Hopkins University
2021-02-25T12:09:43-08:00Field: Biomedical Engineering|
February 11, 2021 – Dr. Muyinatu Bell – Johns Hopkins University
2021-02-25T12:08:28-08:00Field: Electrical & Computer Engineering|
February 18, 2021 – Dr. Ilana Brito – Cornell University
2021-02-25T12:07:24-08:00Field: Biomedical Engineering|
February 25, 2021 – Dr. Arun Sridhar – University of Washington
2021-02-25T12:06:57-08:00Field: Cardiology|
March 4, 2021 – Dr. Edwin Lindo – University of Washington
2021-02-25T12:06:35-08:00Field: Office of Health Care Equity|
March 11, 2021 – Dr. Thomas Hund – The Ohio State University
2021-02-25T12:05:44-08:00Field: Biomedical Engineering|
April 2, 2020, Adam Engler, University of California, San Diego
2020-01-29T09:41:14-08:00Title: Engineering Mechanobiology|
April 9, 2020, Celeste Nelson, Princeton University
2020-01-29T09:41:00-08:00Title: Recapitulating Morphogenesis of the Lung|
April 16, 2020, Kole Roybal, UCSF
2020-01-29T09:50:22-08:00Title: Synthetic Biology Tools to Enhance Immune Cell Therapies for Cancer|
April 23, 2020, Julie Kientz, University of Washington
2020-01-29T09:40:46-08:00Title: Human-Computer Interactions in Health|
April 30, 2020, Eric Seibel, University of Washington
2020-01-29T09:40:29-08:00Title: Optical Scanning for Image Acquisition and Display|
May 7, 2020, Sharmila Majumdar, UCSF
2020-01-29T09:40:10-08:00Title: Progress in Magnetic Resonance and Micro-computed Tomography|
May 14, 2020, Scott Nyberg, Mayo Clinic
2020-01-29T09:39:50-08:00Title: Organ Engineering - From Bench to Bedside|
May 21, 2020, Jennifer Nemhauser, University of Washington
2020-01-29T09:39:31-08:00Title: Synthetic Control of Plant Logic|
May 28, 2020, Jacqueline Linnes, Purdue University
2020-01-29T09:39:06-08:00Title: Point-of-Care Diagnosis and Disease Monitoring|
June 4, 2020, Cyrus Ghajar, Fred Hutch
2020-01-29T09:38:41-08:00Title: Microenvironment in Cancer Metastasis|