Carnegie Mellon University

2022 Spring Seminar Series 

All seminars are held in-person on Thursdays from 10:15-11:15 AM ET in the HOA 160 or on Zoom   

Thursday, January 20, 2022

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Carlos Aguilar, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
University of Michigan

Seminar Title: Understanding & Rewriting the Molecular Music of Muscle Stem Cells in Aging

Thursday, January 27, 2022

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Special Seminar
During this seminar, the students will watch the documentary “Picture a scientist”, followed by a discussion.
In this documentary, leading women scientists discuss the inequality they’ve faced as they set out to create a new formula to make STEM open to all.

Thursday, February 3, 2022

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Warren L. Grayson, PhD
Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University

Seminar Title: Exploring Neurovascular Interactions in Musculoskeletal Tissue Regeneration

Thursday, February 10, 2022

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No Seminar

Thursday, February 17, 2022

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Anand Iyer, PhD
Chief Strategy Officer
Welldoc

Seminar Title: Digital Therapeutics and Chronic Disease Management:  A Case Study in Diabetes

Thursday, February 24, 2022

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Open House/No Seminar

Thursday, March 3, 2022

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TBA

Thursday, March 10, 2022

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Spring Break/No Seminar

Thursday, March 17, 2022

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Omid Veiseh, PhD
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research
Rice University

Seminar Title: Immune Modulatory Biomaterials for Cell-Based Therapeutics

Thursday, March 24, 2022 

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Giovanni Traverso, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Assistant Professor of Medicine (part-time)
Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Seminar Title: Biomedical Device Development for Gastrointestinal Applications

Thursday, March 31, 2022

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Pitt-CMU BioE Day/No Seminar

Thursday, April 7, 2022

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Spring Carnival/No Seminar

Thursday, April 14, 2022

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Dominique Durand, PhD
Elmer Lincoln Lindseth Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Case School of Engineering
Department of Neurosciences
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
School of Medicine
Director
Neural Engineering Center
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University

Seminar Title: Novel form of neural communication in the brain by electric field coupling

Thursday, April 21, 2022

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Silvia Salinas Blemker, PhD
Robert Thomson Distinguished Professor
Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering,
Ophthalmology, and Orthopaedic Surgery
University of Virginia

Seminar Title: Multi-scale computational modeling to provide new insights into skeletal muscle injury, regeneration, and disease