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BME Archived Events (2014–Oct 2022)

This page shows archived BME events from 2014–October 2022.
For more events please visit:

BME Archived Events (starting in November 2022)
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BME Seminars Page for our BME Colloquium and Alumni Insight Series schedule
University of Rochester Calendar
URMC Events

UR BME Reception at BMES

Thursday, October 13, 2022
7 p.m.–9 p.m.

BME Open House

Friday, September 30, 2022
3:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

Virtual Information Session for Graduate Programs

Thursday, December 16, 2021
5 p.m.–6 p.m.

Virtual

Virtual Information Session for Graduate Programs

Monday, November 22, 2021
5 p.m.–6 p.m.

University of Rochester BME Virtual Information Session for Graduate Programs

Wednesday, September 23, 2020
9 a.m.–5 p.m.

BME Seminar: Katsuo Kurabayashi, University of Michigan, "Advanced blood biomarker analysis for systemic inflammatory disorders"

Tuesday, March 3, 2020
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Karissa Tilbury, University of Maine, "Two-photon microscopy techniques to examine spatial relationships of collagen and nerve in adipose tissue"

Tuesday, February 25, 2020
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: BME Post-doctoral Fellows I, UR/URMC, "Research in progress seminar (RIPS)"

Tuesday, February 18, 2020
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Rhiannon Gaborski, BioTel Research "Logistics and analysis of medical images and cardiac data across clinical sites for drug development"

Tuesday, February 11, 2020
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Zhen Ma, Syracuse University, "Designing cardiac tissue mechanics for in vitro disease modeling"

Tuesday, February 4, 2020
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Marisol Herrera-Perez, Columbia University, "Optogenetic control of tissue mechanical forces during epithelial morphogenesis"

Tuesday, January 28, 2020
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: James McNally, ATIVA Medical, "Medical device innovation: pathways from idea to product"

Thursday, January 23, 2020
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Michel Godin, University of Ottawa, "Microfluids: From biomolecular diagnostics to enhancing cell-based therapies"

Tuesday, December 10, 2019
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Ben Cosgrove, Cornell University, "Engineering better skeletal muscle stem cell therapies"

Tuesday, December 3, 2019
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Kilean Lucas University of Rochester "Microfluidic extracellular vesicle capture from urine for cancer detection: why what you pee matters"

Tuesday, November 19, 2019
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Frédéric Lesage, Polytechnique Montreal, "Amyloid biomarkers from hyperspectral retinal imaging"

Tuesday, November 12, 2019
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Laura Slane, University of Rochester, "Ultrasound-based measurement of soft tissue mechanics"

Tuesday, November 5, 2019
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Yupeng Chen, University of Connecticut, "DNA-inspired janus base nanotubes for biomedical applications"

Tuesday, October 29, 2019
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Lola Eniola-Adefeso, University of Michigan, "Understanding cellular-particle interactions in blood: implications for disease pathology and treatment"

Tuesday, October 22, 2019
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Steven Proulx, University of Bern, "In vivo imaging of lymphatic function and cerebospinal fluid outflow in mice"

Tuesday, October 8, 2019
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Ben Miller, University of Rochester, "Engineering challenges on the path to commercializing an optical biosensor: the Adarza Biosystems story"

Tuesday, October 1, 2019
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Ian Bruce, McMaster University, "When things go bad with brain plasticity: modeling the central effects of hearing loss"

Tuesday, April 30, 2019
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Mary Beth Monroe, Syracuse University, "Shape memory polymer foam for hemorrhage control"

Tuesday, April 23, 2019
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Kenneth Henry, University of Rochester, "Perceptual consequences of auditory-nerve loss: new insights from an avian speech mimic"

Tuesday, April 16, 2019
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Jonathan Lovell, University at Buffalo, "Bioengineering using porphyrin-phospholipid liposomes"

Tuesday, April 9, 2019
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Luke Mortensen, University of Georgia, "Multiphoton intravital microscopy for analysis of regenerative MSC therapies"

Tuesday, April 2, 2019
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Janeta Zoldan, The University of Texas at Austin, "The role of biophysical and biochemical cues in engineering stem cell microenvironments"

Tuesday, March 26, 2019
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Deborah Fowell, University of Rochester "Maze runners: immune cell navigation of inflamed tissues"

Tuesday, March 19, 2019
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: David R. Busch, UT Southwestern Medical Center, "Neurological monitoring in the critically ill with diffuse light, from neonates to adults"

Tuesday, March 5, 2019
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Luke Mortensen, University of Georgia, "Multiphoton intravital microscopy for analysis of regenerative MSC therapies"

Tuesday, February 26, 2019
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Alayna Loiselle, University of Rochester, "Cellular mechanisms of tendon regeneration"

Tuesday, February 19, 2019
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Nozomi Nishimura, Cornell University, "Exploring behaviors of cells 'in the wild' with in vivo optical tools"

Tuesday, February 12, 2019
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Soichiro Yamada, UC Davis, "To adhere or not to adhere: regulation of adhesive contacts between cells"

Tuesday, February 5, 2019
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Constantinos Ketonis

Tuesday, December 11, 2018
8:30 a.m.

Constantinos Ketonis, M.D., Ph.D., Rothman Institute

Goergen 101

BME Seminar: Yi Wang, Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM): physics, algorithm and applications

Tuesday, December 4, 2018
8:30 a.m.

Yi Wang, Ph.D., Cornell University

Goergen 101

BME Seminar: Scott Verbridge, Targeting the physical hallmarks of cancer: new directions for tumor engineering and precision tumor ablation

Tuesday, November 27, 2018
8:30 a.m.

Scott Verbridge, Ph.D., Virginia Tech - Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences

Goergen 101

BME Seminar: Treena Arinzeh, Functional biomaterials for stem cell-based approaches in cartilage and bone repair

Tuesday, November 13, 2018
8:30 a.m.

Treena Arinzeh, Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Technology

Goergen 101

BME Seminar: Edward Schwarz, Elucidating the osteoimmunology of bone infection and developing interventions

Thursday, November 8, 2018
8:30 a.m.

Edward Schwarz, Ph.D., University of Rochester

Goergen 101

BME Seminar: Barrett Nahilla

Tuesday, October 30, 2018
8:30 a.m.

Barrett Nahilla, Ph.D., Mersana Therapeutics

Goergen 101

BME Seminar: Liisa Kuhn, Discriminating bone formation within calcium phosphate-based medical implants

Tuesday, October 23, 2018
8:30 a.m.

Liisa Kuhn, Ph.D., University of Connecticut Health

Goergen 101

BME Seminar: Nina Moore, Computational fluid dynamics and the histological characteristics of arteriovenous malformations

Thursday, October 11, 2018
8:30 a.m.

Goergen 101

BME Seminar: Douglas H. Kelley, Brain waste removal: fluid dynamics, arterial pulsations, and hypertension

Tuesday, October 9, 2018
8:30 a.m.

Douglas H. Kelley, Ph.D., University of Rochester

Goergen 101

Meliora Weekend BME Open House

Friday, October 5, 2018
3:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

Robert B. Goergen Hall, 2nd & 3rd Floors

BME Seminar: Eno Essien Ebong, Glycocalyx in atherosclerosis-relevant endothelium function

Tuesday, October 2, 2018
8:30 a.m.

Eno Essien Ebong, Ph.D., Northeastern University

Goergen 101

BME Seminar: Introduction to faculty

Tuesday, September 18, 2018
8:30 a.m.

Goergen 101

BME Seminar: Introduction to faculty

Tuesday, September 11, 2018
8:30 a.m.

Goergen 101

BME Seminar: Joseph D. Seymour, NMR and MRI measurement of molecular dynamics to characterize gel structure formation and complex fluid rheology for biomedical applications

Tuesday, May 1, 2018
8:30 a.m.

Joseph D. Seymour, Ph.D., Montana State University

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Dave Kohn, Engineered peptides to promote and inhibit bone growth

Tuesday, April 24, 2018
8:30 a.m.

Dave Kohn, M.S.E., Ph.D., University of Michigan

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Andrew Oxenham, How We Hear Pitch: Implications for Next-Generation Auditory Implants

Tuesday, April 17, 2018
8:30 a.m.

Andrew J. Oxenham, Ph.D., Departments of Psychology and Otolaryngology, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Probing the Bioeffects of Cavitation at the Single Cell Level

Thursday, April 12, 2018
8:30 a.m.

Pei Zhong, Ph.D., Duke University

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Hari Bharadwa, When “normal hearing” is not enough — The electrophysiology of listening in a noisy world

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Hari Bharadwa, Ph.D., Purdue University

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Claust-Peter Richter, Micromechanics of the mammalian cochlea: an experimental approach

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Claust-Peter Richter, M.D., Ph.D., Northwestern University

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Jeffrey Borenstein, Dynamic Microfluidic Human Organ Systems for Disease Modeling and Drug Development

Tuesday, March 27, 2018
8:30 a.m.

Jeffrey Borenstein, Draper Labs

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Kuei Chun (Mark) Wang, Atherosclerosis: From Mechanobiology to Nanomedicine

Tuesday, March 6, 2018
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar

Tuesday, February 27, 2018
8:30 a.m.

Karin Wang, Harvard University

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Whasil Lee, From Ion Channels to Arthritis: Piezo-mediated Chondrocyte Mechanotransduction in Knee Cartilage

Thursday, February 22, 2018
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Microphysiological systems for studying vascular and cancer biology

Thursday, February 15, 2018
8:30 a.m.

Esak (Isaac) Lee, Ph.D., Harvard University

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Courtney M. Dumont, Reconstructing the Nervous System through Tissue Engineered Microenvironments

Tuesday, February 13, 2018
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Nancy Allbritton, Intestine on a Chip for Basic Biology and Patient-Specific Medicine

Tuesday, January 30, 2018
8:30 a.m.

Nancy Allbritton, M.D., Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Hari Bharadwa Purdue University

Tuesday, December 5, 2017
8:30 a.m.

Hari Bharadwa, Purdue University | "When 'normal hearing' is not enough - The electrophysiology of listening in a noisy world"

Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall

BME Seminar: Xueding Wang, University of Michigan

Thursday, November 30, 2017
8:30 a.m.

Xueding Wang, University of Michigan | "Photoacoustic technology and applications in medical diagnoses and treatments"

Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall

BME Seminar: Ron Hoy, Cornell University

Thursday, November 16, 2017
8:30 a.m.

Ron Hoy, Cornell University | "The Mating Songs of Crickets, Mosquitoes, and Spiders: Hearing with micro-and-nano-scale ears"

Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall

BME Seminar: Laurel Carney, URMC

Tuesday, November 7, 2017
8:30 a.m.

Laurel Carney, URMC | "Fluctuation Contrast in Auditory Responses: The View from the Midbrain"

Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall

BME Seminar: Michael Giacomelli, MIT

Thursday, November 2, 2017
8:30 a.m.

Michael Giacomelli, MIT | “Nonlinear, fluorescent and metabolic imaging for surgical guidance and low cost diagnostics”

Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall

Annual Biomedical Engineering Graduate School Fair

Friday, October 27, 2017
Noon–5 p.m.

University of Rochester, Biomedical Engineering, 275 Hutchison Rd Rochester, NY 14620

BME Seminar: Ashish Shah, Greatbatch, Inc.

Thursday, October 26, 2017
8:30 a.m.

Ashish Shah, Greatbatch, Inc. | "Innovative Solutions in Bone Cutting and Preparation Using Disposable Flexile Technologies"

Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall

BME Seminar: Gary Yellen, Harvard University

Tuesday, October 17, 2017
8:30 a.m.

Gary Yellen, Harvard University | "Dynamics of Brain Metabolism at a Cellular Level"

Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall

BME Seminar: John Wright, DePuy Synthes

Thursday, October 5, 2017
8:30 a.m.

John Wright, DePuy Synthes | "Joint Reconstruction at DePuy Synthes"

Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall

BME Seminar: Darren Roblyer, Boston University

Thursday, September 28, 2017
8:30 a.m.

Darren Roblyer, Boston University

Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall

BME Seminar: Omar Alijitawi, URMC

Tuesday, September 19, 2017
8:30 a.m.

Omar Alijitawi, URMC

Sloan Auditorium, 101 Goergen Hall

Ph.D. Thesis Defense Seminar: “Investigating the Mechanics of the Mammalian Cochlear Partition Using a Novel Microfluidic Device”

Wednesday, August 30, 2017
1 p.m.

Daniel Marnell Advised by: Prof. Jong-Hoon Nam

Hopeman Bldg, Room 224

PHD PROPOSAL SEMINAR: PHYSIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF TONE-IN-NOISE DETECTION IN THE INFERIOR COLLICULUS: THE ROLE OF ENVELOPE CUES

Wednesday, August 9, 2017
12:30 p.m.

Langchen Fan, Advised by Prof. Laurel Carney

Robert B. Goergen Hall, Room 101

ORS Upstate New York and Northeast Regional & 7th Annual CMSR Symposium

Friday, July 28, 2017
8 a.m.

University of Rochester

ORS Upstate New York and Northeast Regional & 7th Annual CMSR Symposium

Thursday, July 27, 2017
8 a.m.

University of Rochester

M.S. Defense Seminar

Thursday, July 20, 2017
Noon

David E. Abplanalp

Med 1-7619 - Adolph Auditorium Medical Center

BME Ph.D. Thesis Defense Seminar

Tuesday, July 18, 2017
9:30 a.m.

Sara Nowacki, advised by Hani Awad

K-307, Room 3-6408 Medical Center

BME end-of-year picnic

Tuesday, June 13, 2017
3:30 p.m.

Genesee Valley Park, Riverbend Shelter

8th Annual Benoit Laboratory Alex's Lemonade Stand

Sunday, June 11, 2017
1 p.m.

Brighton Farmers Market, 1150 Winton Road South Rochester, NY 14627

Graduate Student Council Event: Letchworth Stake Park Hiking Trip

Saturday, June 10, 2017
10 a.m.

Letchworth State Park, 1 Letchworth State Park, Castile, NY 14427

8th Annual Benoit Laboratory Alex's Lemonade Stand

Thursday, June 8, 2017
9 a.m.

Rochester Public Market, 280 Union St N, Rochester, NY 14609

BME Graduation Reception

Sunday, May 21, 2017
10:15 a.m.–11:15 a.m.

Goergen Hall, second floor

Graduate Student Council Event: Lilac Run 5k

Sunday, May 21, 2017
7 a.m.

Highland Park

BME Special Seminar: John A. Kellum, MD, University of Pittsburgh

Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Noon

Medical Grand Rounds, Whipple Auditorium, Room #2-6424

BME Seminar: Elizabeth Loboa, Regenerative Medicine vs. MRSA – Battling with Biomaterials

Tuesday, May 2, 2017
8:30 a.m.

Elizabeth Loboa, University of Missouri

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Hala Zreiqat, Bone regeneration – achieving its optimal potential using advanced design and fabrication technologies

Tuesday, April 25, 2017
8:30 a.m.

Hala Zreiqat, Sydney, AU

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Charles Mace, Using Paper-Based Microfluidic Devices to Bring Hematology to the Point-of-Care

Tuesday, April 18, 2017
8:30 a.m.

Charles Mace, Tufts University

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

Graduate Student Council Event: Faculty and Student Bowling

Friday, April 14, 2017
7 p.m.

Bowl-A-Roll Lanes, 1560 Jefferson Rd, Rochester, NY 14623

BME Seminar: Gerard Ateshian, Tissue engineering of articular surface-sized cartilage constructs using experimental and computational optimization

Tuesday, April 11, 2017
8:30 a.m.

Gerard Ateshian, Columbia University

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

Center for Musculoskeletal Research Seminar: Catherine K. Kuo, PhD

Wednesday, April 5, 2017
12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m.

Catherine K. Kuo, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester

URMC, Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

BME Seminar: Jeffrey Weiss, Probing Molecular Damage and Failure of Collagen in Connective Tissues

Tuesday, April 4, 2017
8:30 a.m.

Jeffrey Weiss, University of Utah

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

Graduate Student Council Event: Foodlink Pantry Volunteering

Saturday, April 1, 2017
10 a.m.

Foodlink, 1999 Mt Read Blvd, Rochester, NY 14615

BME Seminar: David Walt, Single Molecules and Single Cells: Using Microwell Array Technology to Probe Chemistry and Biology at Their Fundamental Limits

Tuesday, March 28, 2017
8:30 a.m.

David Walt, Tufts University

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

Professor Catherine K. Kuo speaker for CMSR William F. Neuman Visiting Scientist Speaker Series

Wednesday, March 15, 2017
12:30 p.m.

Catherine K. Kuo, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester

Ryan Case Method Room (Room 1-9576)

BME Seminar: Hang Lu, Deep Phenotyping Enabled by Microfluidics and High-Throughput Quantitative Microscopy

Tuesday, March 7, 2017
8:30 a.m.

Hang Lu, Georgia Tech

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

University of Rochester cohosts 2017 Mid-Atlantic Region Biomaterials Day

Friday, February 24, 2017

Graduate Student Council Event: Faculty and Student Trivia Night

Thursday, February 23, 2017
5 p.m.

BME Seminar: Hamid Dehghani, Adventures in diffuse optical imaging

Tuesday, February 21, 2017
8:30 a.m.

Hamid Dehghani, Birmingham, UK

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Tom Howard, University of Rochester Medical Center

Tuesday, February 14, 2017
8:30 a.m.

Tom Howard, University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC)

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Tim Baran, Photodynamic Therapy: Overview and Clinical Trials at URMC

Tuesday, February 7, 2017
8:30 a.m.

Tim Baran, University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC)

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

Graduate Student Council Event: Sky Zone Trampoline Park Night

Saturday, February 4, 2017
5 p.m.

155 Bellwood Dr, Rochester, NY 14606

BME Seminar: Krishna Padmanabhan, Breaking down and building up brain circuits to uncover principles of computation

Tuesday, January 31, 2017
8:30 a.m.

Krishna Padmanabhan, University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC)

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Rickson Mesquita, Measuring brain connections with nearinfrared spectroscopy

Tuesday, January 24, 2017
8:30 a.m.

Rickson Mesquita, University of Campinas (Brazil)

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

Holiday Toy Drive for Golisano’s Children’s Hospital

Thursday, December 22–Friday, December 23, 2016

BME Seminar: Brian Cunningham, Photonic Crystal Biosensor Microscopy: A new tool for live cell adhesion imaging and single molecule resolution biosensing

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Brian Cunningham, University of Illinois

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Dan Bergstralh: Keeping it Together: How Division and Reintegration Ensure Epithelial Integrity

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Dan Bergstralh, University of Rochester

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Greg Madejski, MgFl2 nanomembranes for Molecular Imaging and Biosensing

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Greg Madejski, University of Rochester

Ortho Clinical Diagnostics

Thursday, November 17, 2016
5 p.m.–6:30 p.m.

BME Seminar: David Mooney, Viscoelasticity: cell populations to single cells

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

David Mooney, Ph.D., School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Wyss Institute, Harvard University

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Patrick Oakes, Spatiotemporal Regulation of Actomyosin Contractility in Adherent Cells

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Patrick Oakes, University of Rochester

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Marjolein van der Meulen, Cornell University

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Regine Choe, Diffuse Optical & Correlation Tomography for Longitudinal Monitoring of Bone Healing and Cancer Treatment

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Prof. Regine Choe, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Kyongbum Lee, Using metabolomics to investigate biological responses to environmental chemicals

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Kyongbum Lee, Professor and Chair, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Tufts University

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

Department of Biomedical Engineering Open House

Friday, October 7, 2016
3:30 p.m.

BME Seminar: Clark Hung, A Paradigm for Functional Tissue Engineering of Articular Cartilage

Tuesday, October 4, 2016
8:30 a.m.

Clark T. Hung, Ph.D., Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

Career Conversation: Andrew Bochenko, Senior Product Manager at Bigfoot Biomedical

Thursday, September 29, 2016
5 p.m.

Goergen 102

BME Seminar: Michael G. Schrlau, Engineered Surfaces for Enhanced Gene Transfection

Tuesday, September 27, 2016
8:30 a.m.

Michael G. Schrlau, Ph.D., Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Joyce Wong, Biomaterials to Detect and Treat Cardiovascular Disease

Tuesday, September 20, 2016
8:30 a.m.

Joyce Wong, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Division of Materials Science & Engineering, Boston University

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

URnano Summer Workshops

Monday, August 15, 2016
9 a.m.

Special BME Seminar

Monday, August 8, 2016
3:30 p.m.

Goergen 109

Neuroscience Seminar: Schmitt Lecture

Thursday, June 9, 2016
4 p.m.

Speaker: John W. Krakauer, Johns Hopkins University

Department of Neuroscience in the School of Medicine

Neuroscience Seminar: Mary Notter Lecture

Thursday, May 26, 2016
4 p.m.

Speaker: Dr. Nancy Kanwisher, MIT

Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine

BME Seminar: Nanoprobes for tissue and cells electrical interrogation

Tuesday, April 26, 2016
8:30 a.m.

Speaker: Tzahi Cohen-Karni

River Campus | Robert B. Goergen Hall | Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

Annual BME Department Banquet

Friday, April 22, 2016
6 p.m.

Goergen Atrium

BME Seminar: Squeezing New Information out of DNA

Tuesday, April 19, 2016
8:30 a.m.

Speaker: Sabrina Leslie, McGill University

River Campus | Robert B. Goergen Hall | Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: The long road to a bionic pancreas

Tuesday, April 12, 2016
8:30 a.m.

Speaker: Edward Damiano, Boston University

River Campus | Robert B. Goergen Hall | Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: PhD Defense: Voluntary Modulation of Motor Cortex Activity for Brain-Computer Interface Control

Thursday, March 31, 2016
8:30 a.m.

Speaker: Andrew Law, University of Rochester

River Campus | Robert B. Goergen Hall | Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Optical Molecular Imaging Beyond the Microscopy Depth Limit

Tuesday, March 29, 2016
8:30 a.m.

Speaker: Xavier Intes, National University of Singapore

River Campus | Robert B. Goergen Hall | Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Molecular imaging for surgery and radiation therapy

Tuesday, March 22, 2016
8:30 a.m.

Speaker: Brian Pogue, Dartmouth University

River Campus | Robert B. Goergen Hall | Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Tissue Engineering - An Industrial Perspective

Tuesday, March 15, 2016
8:30 a.m.

Speaker: Chris Wagner, The College of New Jersey

River Campus | Robert B. Goergen Hall | Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: System identification approaches for human sensory neurophysiology: applications to cognitive and clinical neuroscience and neural engineering solutions

Thursday, March 3, 2016
8:30 a.m.

Edmond Lalor, Trinity College Dublin

River Campus | Robert B. Goergen Hall | Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: Multisensory processes benefiting natural auditory scene parsing

Thursday, February 25, 2016
8:30 a.m.

Ross Maddox, University of Washington

River Campus | Robert B. Goergen Hall | Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar Series: Defining and understanding complex markers from large-scale behavioral data of clinical populations

Tuesday, February 16, 2016
8:30 a.m.

Qi Zhao, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Ophthalmology, National University of Singapore

River Campus | Robert B. Goergen Hall | Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar: A BME's Entrepreneurial Journey Launches at the University of Rochester

Tuesday, February 9, 2016
8:30 a.m.

David Narrow, CEO, Sonavex, Inc., Baltimore, MD

River Campus | Robert B. Goergen Hall | Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar Series: Moving Beyond Linear State-Space Models to Advance Brain-Machine Interfaces

Thursday, February 4, 2016
8:30 a.m.

River Campus | Robert B. Goergen Hall | Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar Series: Cognitive Factors that Shape Neural Prosthetic Control

Tuesday, February 2, 2016
8:30 a.m.

River Campus | Robert B. Goergen Hall | Sloan Auditorium (room 101)

BME Seminar Series: In Vivo Joint Function and Dysfunction: Implications for Early Onset Osteoarthritis

Tuesday, January 26, 2016
8:30 a.m.

River Campus | Robert B. Goergen Hall | Sloan Auditorium (room 101)

CTSI Skill-Building Workshop - Orphan product pricing issues

Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Noon–1 p.m.

Helen Wood Hall Auditorium, 1W-304

America's Got Regulatory Science Talent Contest

Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Noon–1 p.m.

Helen Wood Hall Auditorium, 1W-304

Seminar Series: RIPS: Development of Poly(ethylene glycol) Hydrogels for Salivary Gland Regeneration

Tuesday, December 8, 2015
8:30 a.m.

Andrew Shubin, University of Rochester

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

Building a Regulatory Science Infrastructure: The Virginia Center of Translational and Regulatory Sciences

Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Noon–1 p.m.

Helen Wood Auditorium, 1W-304

Seminar Series: Applications for Microfluidic Technologies in Tissue Engineering and Molecular Diagnostics

Tuesday, December 1, 2015
8:30 a.m.

Vinay Abhyankar, University of Texas, Arlington

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

CTSI Skill-Building Workshop - Industry Consulting: The Contract

Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Noon–1 p.m.

Helen Wood Auditorium, 1W-304

Seminar Series: RIPS: Immunomodulatory Effects of Nanoparticles on the Contact Hypersensitivity Response

Tuesday, November 17, 2015
8:30 a.m.

Samreen Jatana, University of Rochester

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

Developing a Regulatory Science Training Program

Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Noon–1 p.m.

Helen Wood Auditorium, 1W-304

Seminar Series: Chemical Amplification – Applications in Imaging, Patterning and Bioassay Technologies

Tuesday, November 10, 2015
8:30 a.m.

Henry Gysling, Catassays, Inc.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

1st Annual Immune Imaging Symposium

Saturday, November 7, 2015
8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.

Saunders Research Building, University of Rochester

Career Conversations

Tuesday, November 3, 2015
6 p.m.–7 p.m.

BME Alum Nicole Telleri Simpson, HeartWare Inc.

Goergen 109

Medical Countermeasures

Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Noon–1 p.m.

Helen Wood Auditorium, 1W-304

Seminar Series: Engineering Patient-Derived hiPSC Cell Model(s) for Studying Retinal Degenerative Diseases

Tuesday, November 3, 2015
8:30 a.m.

Ruchira Singh, University of Rochester

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

Seminar Series: Exploring New Visualization Paradigms via Biomedical Imaging and Modeling: Virtual Augmentation for Simulation, Computer-Assisted Diagnosis and Minimally Invasive Therapy

Tuesday, October 27, 2015
8:30 a.m.

Dr. Cristian Linte, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

BME Seminar Series: The Science of Ultrathin Membrane Separations

Tuesday, October 20, 2015
8:30 a.m.

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

Development of International Scientific Resources in collaboration with NIH and FDA: the Telemetric and Holter ECG Warehouse (THEW) case

Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Noon–1 p.m.

Helen Wood Auditorium, 1W-304

Seminar Series: Calcitonin Gene Related Peptide’s (CGRP’s) Role in Auditory and Vestibular Efferent Feedback and Migraine

Tuesday, October 13, 2015
8:30 a.m.

Dr. Anne Luebke, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neurobiology & Anatomy, University of Rochester

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

Seminar Series: In Vitro Models in Blood-Brain Barrier Research: Current and Novel Technologies

Tuesday, October 6, 2015
8:30 a.m.

Dr. Luca Cucullo, Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

River Campus, Robert B. Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium (Room 101)

K-207 Auditorium (2-6408), University of Rochester Medical Center

IEEE EMBS Rochester Chapter Event: "Resonant Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy and Applications to Breast and Thyroid Cancer Screening"

Tuesday, September 23, 2014
6 p.m.

Rochester BioVenture Center