2022 Fall Seminar Series 

Thursday, September 1, 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

BMES/No Seminar

Thursday, October 20, 2022

Thursday, October 27, 2022

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)

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

Seminar was moved to take place in S2023

Thursday, November 10, 2022

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

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

Thursday, December 1, 2022

Hongpeng Jia, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Johns Hopkins Medicine

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

Thursday, December 8, 2022

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

Seminar Title: Biofabrication of Human Livers 

Thursday, December 15, 2022

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