Carnegie Mellon University

2022 Fall Seminar Series 

All seminars are held in-person on Thursdays from 10:15-11:15 AM ET in Porter Hall (PH) 100   

Thursday, September 1, 2022

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David Kleinfeld, PhD
Dr. George Feher Endowed Chair in Experimental Biophysics
Distinguished Professor
Department of Physics, Neurobiology
UC San Diego 

Seminar Title: Competing neuronal and vascular interactions shape brain-wide arteriole dynamics

Thursday, September 8, 2022

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Nick Giannoukakis, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor
Institute of Cellular Therapeutics
Allegheny Health Network

Seminar Title: On the road to Emmaus, I ate some sugar...: A translational medicine journey for novel therapies to treat diabetes

Thursday, September 15, 2022

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Achuta Kadambi, PhD
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Samueli School of Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles

Seminar Title: Pushing out the Fairness-Accuracy Pareto Frontier through Computational Imaging

Thursday, September 22, 2022

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Elizabeth Blaber, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Seminar Title: Spaceflight and Aging: Regulating Tissue Regeneration with Altered Mechanical Load

Thursday, September 29, 2022

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Melanie Königshoff, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Associate Chief of Research
Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
University of Pittsburgh

Seminar Title: Can the human lung regenerate? Novel approaches for endogenous repair

Thursday, October 6, 2022

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Erica Kimmerling, PhD
Senior Policy Advisor for Public Engagement in Science
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Seminar Title: Insights into Science Policy and Public Engagement in Science at the White House

Thursday, October 13, 2022

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BMES/No Seminar

Thursday, October 20, 2022

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Fall Break/No Seminar

Thursday, October 27, 2022

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Kevin Zwezdaryk, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Tulane University School of Medicine

Seminar Title: Potential Role of Cytomegalovirus in Alzheimer's Disease

Thursday, November 3, 2022 (No Seminar)

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Tyrone Porter, PhD
Professor
Biomedical Engineering
University of Texas at Austin

Seminar was moved to take place in S2023

Thursday, November 10, 2022

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Bruce Bunnell, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics
University of North Texas

Seminar Title: Tissue Engineering for the Creation of Functional Tissues and Microphysiologic Systems

Thursday, November 17, 2022

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Tomeka L. Suber, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
University of Pittsburgh

Seminar Title: The role of itaconate in host defense and resilience in intrapulmonary Klebsiella pneumoniae infection

Thursday, November 24, 2022

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Thanksgiving/No Seminar

Thursday, December 1, 2022

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Hongpeng Jia, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Seminar Title: ACE2, The Receptor for SARS-CoV2 and Beyond

Thursday, December 8, 2022

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Alejandro Soto-Gutiérrez, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pathology
University of Pittsburgh

Seminar Title: Biofabrication of Human Livers 

Thursday, December 15, 2022

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Adam Q. Bauer, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Seminar Title: Advances in optical imaging technology for mapping functional brain organization and neurovascular coupling in mice