Biomedical Engineering
Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Seminar Series

Friday, October 6, 2017
Steven Bressler
Interim Director and Professor in the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences at Florida Atlantic University
Title: Resource Allocation by Top-Down Interareal Cortical Coordination in Cognition
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 1105
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


Friday, October 20, 2017
Reinaldo Sanchez
Assistant Professor of Mathematics School of Science at St. Thomas University
Title: A Discussion on Data Analytics and Machine Learning Applications for Engineering and Science
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 2300
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM


Friday, October 27, 2017
Dr. Chon Ki
Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at University of Connecticut
Title: Development of a Low-Cost Wearable Device for Intermittent and Continuous Monitoring of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 2300
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


Friday, November 3, 2017
Dr. Mala Mahendroo
Professor—Depart. Of Obstetric and Gynocology at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Title: Cervical Remodeling: From Molecular Pathways to Potential Clinical Tools
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 2300
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


Friday, November 17, 2017
Dr. Jose C. Principe
Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida
Title: The Importance of Point Process Models to Quantify the Electroencephalogram
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 1113
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


Friday, December 8, 2017
Dr. James Rusling
Head, Division of Analytical Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry at University of Connecticut
Title: Microfluidic Arrays for Protein-based Cancer Diagnostics and Toxicity Screening
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 1114
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


Friday, January 19, 2018
Dr. Leonidas Iasemidis
Professor & Eminent Scholar Chair at Louisiana Tech University
Title: Probing and Understanding the Dynamics of the Epileptic Brain
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 2300
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


Friday, February 16, 2018
Nathalie Nunez
MDR/Vigilance Manager
Medtronic, Mechanical Circulatory Support
Title: Everything you wanted to know about Corporate + Quality
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 2300
Time: 10:00AM-11:00AM

Monica Perez
Associate Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery
University of Miami
Title: Neural Control of Grasping After Spinal Cord Injury
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 2300
Time: 4:00PM-5:00PM


Friday, February 9, 2018
Masanori Aikawa
Chair & Founding Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular Sciences at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Title: Systems Approach to Target Discovery for Cardiometabolic Disease
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 2300
Time: 9:00AM-10:00AM


Friday, February 16, 2018
Dr. Frederick Schoen
Executive Vice Chairman, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Professor of Pathology and Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School
Title: Cardiac Valve Replacement Surgery: Collaborative Innovation in Design, Biomaterials
and Cell-Matrix Biology
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 2300
Time: 9:00AM-10:00AM


Friday, February 23, 2018
David Merryman
Associate Chair of BME at Vanderbilt University
Title: Cadherin-11 Mechanobiology in Cardiac Fibrosis and Disease
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 1116
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


Friday, March 2, 2018
Fabrice Manns
Chair and Professor of BME at University of Miami
Title: Accommodation, Presbyopia, and Optical Coherence Tomography
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 1112
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


Friday, March 9, 2018
Kunjan R. Dave
Title: Intracerebral Hemorrhage and Therapeutic Targets
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 2300
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


Friday, March 23, 2018
Marvin Doyley
University of Rochester
Title: Elastographic Imaging: from Early Detection of Cardiovascular Disease to Monitoring Targeted Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 1107
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM