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Join us for the Bioengineering Seminar Series, which brings bioengineering experts from around the country to campus to discuss their recent findings.  Everyone is welcome! 

Seminars are held Fridays at 11 a.m., in the Pepco Room of the Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, unless otherwise noted.

Questions? Want to meet the speaker? Please contact Professor Ian White (ianwhite@umd.edu).

You can find all of these seminars, as well as others of potential interest, on our events calendar.

Previous semesters: Fall 2007 | Spring 2008 | Fall 2008 | Spring 2009 | Fall 2009 | Spring 2010 | Fall 2010 | Spring 2011 | Fall 2011 | Spring 2012 | Fall 2012

Spring 2013

Dates, titles and abstracts will be added as they are received.
Last updated 4/2/13

Date

Speaker

Host

January 24

Special Seminar
Please note day, time and location.

Thursday, January 24th
11:00 a.m.
Room 1105 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building

Offering New Solutions to Medicine via Spectroscopic Imaging
Ji-Xin Cheng
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
Purdue University
Abstract »

White
January 25 No Seminar

 

February 1

Location: Room 1200, Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building

Bridging Stem Cell Technology with Tissue Vascularization in Tissue Engineering
John P. Fisher
Professor and Associate Chair
Fischell Department of Bioengineering
University of Maryland
Abstract »

White
February 8

Location: Room 1200, Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building

Forcing Functions, Work Flow, and Default Modes: The Role of Human Factors in Medical Device Design
Vicki Lewis
Scientific Director
Center for Human Factors Research
MedStar
Abstract »

White
February 15 Effect of Surfaces on Protein Folding and Assembly
Joan-Emma Shea
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California Santa Barbara
Abstract »
Matysiak
February 22

Location: Room 1200, Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building

Nuclear Mechanics and Regulation of Cell Phenotype
Kris Dahl
Associate Professor
Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Abstract »

Aranda
March 1 Getting Deeper with Multiphoton Microscopy: In Vivo Neuroscience and 3D Histopathology
Michael J. Levene
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering and Neurology
Yale University and Yale School of Medicine
Abstract »
Lossert
March 8 Synthetic Strategies for Tuning Immune Response
Chris Jewell
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
Abstract »
White
March 15 Optical Imaging and Therapy Toward Clinical Applications
Hisataka Kobayashi
Chief Scientist
Molecular Theranostics Laboratory
Molecular Imaging Program
National Cancer institute/National Institutes of Health
Abstract »
Chen
March 22 Spring Break–No Seminar  
March 29

Location: Room 1200, Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building

E. coli Plasma Membrane Modeling and Membrane-associated Transport Proteins
Jeffrey Klauda
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
Abstract »

White
April 5 Developing the Biotechnological Toolbox: Biofabrication at the Intersection of Synthetic Biology and Microelectronics
William E. Bentley

Robert E. Fischell Distinguished Professor and Chair
Fischell Department of Bioengineering and
Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
University of Maryland, College Park
Abstract »
White
April 12 Network Analysis of Microbial Pathogens
Jason Papin
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
University of Virginia
Abstract »
Fisher
April 19 Targeting the Cytoskeletal Physics of Circulating Breast Tumor Cells to Reduce Metastasis
Stuart Martin
Associate Professor
Physiology
Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum NCI Cancer Center
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Abstract »
White
April 26

Determining the Structural Ensemble of Intrinsically Disordered Disease Peptides using Computation and Experiment
Teresa Head-Gordon
Professor
Departments of Chemistry, Bioengineering, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Abstract »

Matysiak
May 3

Intra-opeartive OCT Imaging and Sensing Devices for Clinical Translation
Yu Chen
Assistant Professor
Fischell Department of Bioenginering
University of Maryland
Abstract »

White

Questions? Want to meet the speaker? Please contact Professor Ian White (ianwhite@umd.edu).

 

   
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