Coulter Seminar Series - Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering.

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Fridays from Noon to 1 PM Beginning January 22

All seminars will be virtual. Register at: https://go.unc.edu/j5W3E

2021 BME Spring Seminars

22-Jan	Adriana San Miguel, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University "Deep phenotyping reveals regulators and outcomes of aging and stress in C. elegans"
29-Jan	Ralf Jungmann, PhD, Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich "DNA-based super-resolution microscopy"
5-Feb	Cole A. DeForest, PhD, Weyerhaeuser Endowed Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Washington "User-Programmable Hydrogel Biomaterials to Probe and Direct 4D Stem Cell Fate"
12-Feb	Vivian Mushahwar, PhD, Professor, Division of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, University of Alberta "Tapping Into Spinal Networks to Restore Walking After Spinal Cord Injury"
19-Feb	Yoav Shechtman, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology "Next generation localization microscopy - or - how and why to ruin a perfectly good microscope."
26-Feb	Lola Eniola-Adefeso, PhD, University Diversity & Social Transformation Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering , Miller Faculty Scholar, Vice Chair for Graduate Education in Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor "Understanding Cellular-Particle Interactions in Blood: Implications for Vascular-Target Drug Carrier Design"
5-Mar	Lucas Scholars Presentations, Undergraduate Research in Biomedical Engineering, Presentations by: Elizabeth Stanley (Mentor: Imran Rizvi), Truc Tran (Mentor: Koji Sode), and Maggie Wagner (Mentor: Jason Franz) (Makeup seminar. Not required for BME 802 / BMME 890.)
12-Mar	Ameya Kirtane, PhD, Instructor in Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School “Pushing the Limits of Oral Drug Delivery Systems” (Makeup seminar. Not required for BME 802 / BMME 890.)
19-Mar	Steven Caliari, PhD, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia "Instructive biomaterials for skeletal muscle tissue engineering"
26-Mar	Lesley W. Chow, PhD, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering Materials Science & Engineering, Lehigh University "Spatially Functionalized Biomaterials to Direct Tissue Regeneration"
2-Apr	No Seminar, UNC Holiday
9-Apr	Jamal Lewis, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis "Advances in engineering particles for immunotherapy of autoimmune disease"
16-Apr	Wilbur Lam, MD, PhD, W Paul Bowers Research Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Wallace H Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University "Clinical translation of engineered microsystems in hematology"
23-Apr	Maryam Shanechi, PhD, Assistant Professor & Viterbi Early Career Chair, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Systems, University of Southern California "Dynamical modeling, decoding, and control of multiscale brain networks: from motor to mood"
30-Apr	Laura Hansen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine "Exploring the role of satellite cells in vascular biology and peripheral artery disease"