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Department of Bioengineering Seminar Series - Archives

The Page Morton Hunter Distinguished Seminar Series is held in Rhodes Annex 111 at 3:30 p.m. The C. Dayton Riddle Distinguished Seminar Series is held at CUBEInC at 5:30 p.m. Richard E. Swaja Guest Lectures are held as announced.

2023 Page Morton Hunter Distinguished Seminar Series

August 31, 2023, Nathan C. Rowland, MD
Associate Professor, Departments of Neurosurgery, Neurology and Health Sciences Research
Neuromodulation for chronic stroke: Solving of technical challenges and identification of key biomarkers

September 14, 2023, Taixing Cui, MD
Professor, Department of Medical Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of Missouri
Vascular stem cells in vein graft remodeling

September 28, 2023 Megan Detloff, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy at Drexel University College of Medicine
Rehab-induced neuroimmune modulation of functional recovery after SCI

October 19, 2023, Harish Ganesh, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Navan Architecture and Marine Engineering at the University of Michigan
Seeing through water: X-ray-based measurement of cavitating flows


2022-2023 Page Morton Hunter Distinguished Seminar Series

January 19, 2023 Hongkuan Fan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Medical University of South Carolina
The Role of Fli-1 in Pericyte Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease Development

February 2, 2023, Anne Wyllie, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, Yale School of Public Health
Saliva, as a reliable sample type for sustainable surveillance and outbreak response efforts

February 16, 2023, Patrick Stayton, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington
Engineering a Polymer Zoo of Therapeutics For Infectious Disease and Cancer

March 16, 2023 Joseph Zinkovich, OD
Healthcare Academia, Director of Research and Professor, Kentucky College of Optometry - University of Pikeville
The Need for Improvement in Ophthalmic Laser Procedures

April 20, 2023, Teresa Murray, Ph.D.
Micro-optics and biosensors to study brain injury and disorders

September 1, 2022 Yu-Ping Wang, Ph.D.
Professor, Tulane University
INTEGRATION OF MULTI-MODAL BRAIN IMAGING AND MULTI-OMICS FOR PRECISION MEDICINE

September 22, 2022, Martin King, Ph.D.
Professor of Biotextiles and Textile Technology, NC State University
DESIGNING A TISSUE-ENGINEERED SCAFFOLD FOR ROTATOR CUFF TENDON REPAIR

October 20, 2022 Michel Lemay, Ph.D.
Professor of Bioengineering, Temple University
INTRATHECAL NEUROTROPHIN DELIVERY PROMOTES LOCOMOTOR RECOVERY IN A LARGE ANIMAL MODEL OF SPINAL CORD INJURY

December 1, 2022 Jaydev Desai, Ph.D.
Director – Georgia Center for Medical Robotics (GCMR)
Associate Director - Medical Robotics and Human Augmentation, Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
CHALLENGES IN ROBOTIC TRANSCATHETER AND ENDOVASCULAR INTERVENTIONS


2021-2022 Page Morton Hunter Distinguished Seminar Series

April 21, 2022 Francesco Travascio, Ph.D.
Associate Professor at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of the University of Miami
BIOMECHANICS AND BIOTRANSPORT OF THE MENISCUS

March 17, 2022, Arman Kilic, MD
John M. Kratz Endowed Chair in Cardiac Surgery
AI AND MACHINE LEARNING IN CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTHCARE

January 20, 2022 X. Lucas Lu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor at the University of Delaware
STATIN FOR THE PREVENTION OF OSTEOARTHRITIS

December 2, 2021 James Iatridis, Ph.D.
Professor of Orthopaedics, Mount Sinai Health System
INTERVERTEBRAL DISC REPAIR AND REGENERATION STRATEGIES

November 11, 2021 Liyun Wang, Ph.D.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware
Director of Center for Biomechanical Engineering Research (CBER)
PERICELLULAR PERLECAN, OSTEOCYTE MECHANOSENSING, AND BONE ADAPTATION

November 4, 2021 Makarand Risbud, Ph.D.
Thomas Jefferson University, James J. Maguire Jr. Professor of Spine Research
INBRED MOUSE STRAINS OFFER INVALUABLE INSIGHTS INTO THE PATHOGENESIS OF INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION

September 16, 2021 Carlos Fernandez-Hernando, Ph.D.
Anthony N. Brady Professor of Comparative Medicine and of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine
REGULATION OF ENDOTHELIAL CELL FUNCTION AND HOST METABOLISM DURING VIRAL INFECTION


2020-2021 Page Morton Hunter Distinguished Seminar Series

June 24, 2021 Nadeen Chahine, Ph.D.
Associate Professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Columbia University
INFLAMMATION AND MECHANOBIOLOGY IN INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION

May 6, 2021 (GREEN MD Seminar) David Neyens, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering
A HUMAN FACTORS APPROACH TO INFORM HEALTHCARE DELIVERY AND PATIENT SAFETY WITHIN A SYSTEMS ENGINEERING FRAMEWORK

April 29, 2021 Jeffrey Lotz, Ph.D.
David S. Bradford, M.D., Endowed Chair in Orthopaedic Surgery, and Vice Chair of Orthopaedic Research, UCSF
Passive and Active Spinal Stabilizers: Influence on Chronic Low Back Pain

March 25, 2021 Andrew Anderson, Ph.D.
Orthopaedics - Associate Professor; Bioengineering – Adjunct Associate Professor, Physical Therapy and Athletic Training – Adjunct Associate Professor
IMPROVING OUR WORKING UNDERSTANDING OF THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF HIP JOINT OSTEOARTHRITIS THROUGH APPLICATION OF 4-D IMAGING AND COMPUTER MODELING

January 28, 2021 Roy Dar, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
SCREENING FOR GENE EXPRESSION FLUCTUATIONS REVEALS TREATMENTS THAT CONTROL HIV DECISION-MAKING

November 5, 2020, Ge Lv, Ph.D.
Assistant professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University
FROM KINEMATIC TO ENERGETIC CONTROL OF WEARABLE ROBOTS FOR AGILE HUMAN LOCOMOTION

September 10, 2020 Michael R. King, Ph.D.
J. Lawrence Wilson, Professor and Department Chair of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University
DRIVERS WANTED: CELLULAR DELIVERY OF ANTI-CANCER THERAPEUTICS IN THE CIRCULATION