Coulter Seminar Series - Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering.

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Fridays from Noon to 1 PM Beginning August 20

Seminars will be presented from 321 MacNider (UNC) or 4142 Engineering Building III (NC State) as noted on the schedule and videoconferenced to the alternate location, unless otherwise noted.

2021 BME Fall Seminars

Presented From	Date	Seminar Details
NC State	8/20/2021	Richard B Fair, PhD, Lord-Chandran Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University “Droplet Microfluidics as a Platform for Biomedical Research, Rapid Diagnostics and Profits”
UNC	8/27/2021	Douglas J Weber, PhD, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Neuroscience Institute and Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University “Neural prostheses for restoring sensory and motor functions”
NC State	9/3/2021	Katherine J Mack, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, North Carolina State University "The Communication Space: Sharing Cosmology with the World (and Beyond)"
UNC	9/10/2021	BME Chair Candidate Seminar (This will be an internal department seminar not shared outside UNC/NC State)
UNC	9/17/2021	Elisa E Konofagou, PhD, Robert and Margaret Hariri Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Radiology (Physics), Columbia University "Imaging of Elastic Properties of Cardiovascular and Cancerous Tissues as well as Brain Therapies Using Ultrasound"
NC State	9/24/2021	Robert Kirsch, PhD, Allen H. and Constance T. Ford Professor and Chair, Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University “Reconnecting the Hand and Arm to the Brain (ReHAB): BCI control of upper limb FES”
NC State	10/1/2021	Mike McShane, PhD, James J. Cain Professor II in Biomedical Engineering, Head of Department of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University “From Wearables to Insertables: Enabling Next-Generation Metabolite Monitoring with Responsive Biomaterials”
UNC	10/8/2021	Samuel Achilefu, PhD, FRSC, Michel M. Ter-Pogossian Professor of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis “Convergence of light, devices, and molecules to detect and treat cancer”
NC State	10/15/2021	Tony Voiers, CEO, Advanced Chemotherapy Technologies “My Journey from Engineer to Entrepreneur”
No Seminar	10/22/2021	No Seminar, UNC Fall Break
UNC	10/29/2021	Brendon M Baker, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan “Dissecting cell-specific contributions to pulmonary fibrosis using new biomaterials and microphysiologic models”
NC State	11/5/2021	Frances S. Ligler, DPhil, DSc, Lampe Distinguished Professor, Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, NC State University & UNC Chapel Hill “Bioengineering as an interdisciplinary sport”
NC State	11/12/2021	Gupi Ranganathan, MFA, Artist “Liminal Meanderings: Between Art, Science and Engineering”
UNC	11/19/2021	Undergraduate Research in Biomedical Engineering, Presentations by: Christian Fitzgerald (Lucas Scholar, Mentor: Imran Rizvi) and Kamellia Karimpour (Lucas Scholar, Mentor: Virginie Papadopoulou), Amber Detwiler (Mentor: Danny Freytes), and Emily Warren (Mentor: Bill Polacheck)