• Bioengineering Works in Progress Student Seminar Series

    This virtual seminar series is an opportunity for Bioengineering graduate students to present their research. The first presenter is Fernando Ivich from the Niedre & Clark lab. Title: “Development of an Optical Instrument for Diffuse Sensing of Fluorescence-Based Circulating Sensors for Human in vivo Drug Monitoring”. The second presenter is Suzanne Stasiak from the Parameswaran lab. […]

  • BioE Seminar Series Presents: Tara Deans

    Tara Deans, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah  “Using synthetic biology to engineer therapeutic devices” ABSTRACT:   Synthetic biology has transformed how cells can be reprogrammed, providing a means to reliably and predictably control cell behavior with the assembly of genetic parts into more complex gene circuits. […]

  • Virtual Heads Up Lunchtime Funtime

    Graduate Student Services is hosting a Heads Up Virtual “lunchtime funtime” event for Master’s students to get to know each other and play an exciting competition against each other on October 1st, 12-1pm EST!  Heads Up is a game where one student in a group will have to guess 10 words within a category with […]

  • Bioengineering Works in Progress Student Seminar Series

    This virtual seminar series is an opportunity for Bioengineering graduate students to present their research. The first presenter is Shira Tsour from the Slavov lab. Title: “Quantifying rates of mistranslation”. The second presenter is Richard Huffman from the Slavov lab. Title: “Increased Sensitivity, Reliability, and Consistency of Single-Cell Proteomics Measurements via Targeted LC-MS/MS Methods”. Please […]

  • BioE Seminar Series Presents: Wayne Mitzner

    Wayne Mitzner, Ph.D. Professor and Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Environmental Health & Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore Maryland  “New Insights into Lung Anatomy” ABSTRACT:   We have utilized an optical clearing method to allow visualization of a heretofore undescribed subpleural acinar structural organization in the mammalian […]

  • BioE Seminar Series Presents: Aileen Huang-Saad

    Aileen Huang-Saad, Ph.D., MBA Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Entrepreneurship, and Engineering Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI  “Closing the Gap Between Theory and Practice: Rethinking Engineering Education in Real-Time” ABSTRACT:   Despite 20 years of focus on organizational change and effective educational best practices in STEM higher education, significant research findings have had minimal […]

  • Bioengineering Works in Progress Student Seminar Series

    This virtual seminar series is an opportunity for Bioengineering graduate students to present their research. The first presenter is Yifang Liu from the Rouhanifard lab. Title: “Defining cell states based on stochastic transcription”. The second presenter is Max Winkelman from the Dai lab. Title: “Bioengineered Neurovascular Niche Supports Neural Stem Cell Proliferation and Neurogenesis”. Please […]

  • BioE Seminar Series Presents: Roger Kamm

    Roger Kamm, Ph.D. Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA  “Metastasis on a chip: Effects of intravascular and transendothelial flow” ABSTRACT:   Many CTCs fail to survive the voyage from the primary tumor to the metastatic site, and die before they can initiate a new […]

  • Bioengineering Works in Progress Student Seminar Series

    This virtual seminar series is an opportunity for Bioengineering graduate students to present their research. The first presenter is Sepideh Tavakoli from the Rouhanifard lab. Title: “Single-molecule detection of modified mRNAs in human cells”. The second presenter is Aleksandra Petelski from the Slavov lab. Title: “Exploring Ribosomal Protein Stoichiometry in Lung Adenocarcinoma Patients”. Please email […]

  • BioE Seminar Series Presents: Jennifer Fiegel

    Jennifer Fiegel, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City IA “Oh the Places You’ll Go – Strategies to Treat Pulmonary Bacterial Biofilms and Cell-Penetrating Microbes” ABSTRACT:   Lung diseases remain a leading cause of death worldwide, with significant increases observed in incidence, morbidity, […]