2025 Spring Seminar Series 

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Esak Lee, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences
Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering
Cornell University

Seminar Title: Human Lymphatic System on a Chip

Thursday, January 23, 2025

Peter Yingxiao Wang, Ph.D.
Department Chair, Dwight C. and Hildagarde E. Baum Professor
Alfred E. Mann Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
University of Southern California (USC)

Seminar Title: Ultrasound Control of Genetics/Epigenetics and Cellular
Functions for Cancer Immunotherapy

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Kristen Jakubowski, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Emory University & Georgia Institute of Technology

Seminar Title: Neuromechanics-driven Exoskeletons for Precision Rehabilitation

Thursday, January 30, 2025

No seminar

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Jacqueline Burke, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Northwestern University

Seminar Title: βeta Biomaterials: Supporting Islet Function In Vivo

Thursday, February 6, 2025

Gary W. Liu, Ph.D.
NIDDK K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Fellow
Langer & Traverso Laboratories | Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Seminar Title: Engineering polymeric biomaterials across length scales

Thursday, February 13, 2025 

Karen Martin, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Malmberg Group
Department of Cancer Immunology
Oslo University Hospital

Seminar Title: Engineering allorejection-resistant NK cell therapies

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 

Taylor Cannon, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bioelectronics Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Seminar Title: Functional optical imaging for visualizing cellular dynamics in vivo across systems and scales

Thursday, February 20, 2025

Jason Liwei Guo, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
NHLBI F32
Stanford University

Seminar Title: Mapping Lung Scarring vs. Healing Across Time and Space

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Sebastian Castillo Hair, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Washington

Seminar Title: Engineering cell state-specific gene regulation with AI and synthetic biology

Thursday, February 27, 2025

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Spring Break/No Seminar

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Fang-Yi "Ida" Su, Ph.D.
NIH NCI K99/R00 Postdoctoral Fellow
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Tech & Emory School of Medicine

Semianr Title: In Vivo Engineering of Disease-Specific T Cells for CAR T Cell Therapy and Autoimmune Disease Prevention

Thursday, March 13, 2025

Tin Yi Chu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Biostatistics
Yale University

Semianr Title: Understanding Cell-Cell Communication: From Bulk Level
Assays to Spatial Transcriptomics and Liquid Biopsy

Tuesday, March 18, 2025 

Mary Chase Sheehan
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
PhD Student
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Seminar Title: Design for Impact: Developing and Teaching Engineering Courses about Women’s Health Medical Device Design and Numerical Methods

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Rachael Schmedlen, Ph.D.
Teaching Professor
Biomedical Engineering
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Seminar Title: Evolution of a BME Design Program through Clinical Exposure

Thursday, March 27, 2025 

Ruth Ochia, PhD, PE 
Professor of Instruction, Department of Bioengineering
Director of Assessment and Evaluation, College of Engineering
Temple University

Seminar Title: Enhancement of transfer of design thinking in undergraduate bioengineering students

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Kathleen Bieryla, PhD 
Associate Professor
Shiley School of Engineering
University of Portland

Seminar Title: Designing the Engineer: How First-Year Experiences Influence Engineering Identity and Major Selection

Thursday, April 3, 2025

Thursday, April 10, 2025

Canceled/No Seminar

Thursday, April 17, 2025

 No Seminar

Thursday, April 24, 2025

Alberto Aliseda, Ph.D.
Chair of Mechanical Engineering and
PACCAR Endowed Professor
Adjunct in Neurological Surgery and
Aeronautics & Astronautics
University of Washington

Seminar Title: Fluid Mechanics of Intracranial Aneurysms: Fundamental aspects and application to clinical decision-making