Biomedical Engineering
Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Seminar Series

Spring 2019


January 18, 2019
Raj Raghavendra Rao
Chair, University of Arkansas
Title: Challenges in Stem Cell Bioprocessing for Regenerative Biomedical Applications
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 2300
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


January 25, 2019
James Weiland
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University of Michigan
Title: Retinal Prosthesis for the Blind
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 2300
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


February 1, 2019
Guy Romain
Physical Therapist and Owner of NeuroFit360
Title: Improving the quality of life and health through skilled physical therapy
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 1104
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


February 8, 2019
Manu Platt
Associate Professor, Georgia Tech and Emory University
Title: “What’s Eating You?” Quantifying Proteolytic Activity in Health and Disease
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 2300
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


February 15, 2019
Anne Robertson
Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Pittsburgh University
Title: Effective Remodeling in the Walls of Human Cerebral Aneurysms
Location: Engineering Center Panther Pit
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


February 22, 2019
Bob Tranquillo
Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota
Title: Biologically-Engineered Tubular Heart Valves
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 1104
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


March 1, 2019
Hyungbae Kwon
Research Group Leader, Max Planck
Title: Dissecting behaviourally-relevant neuronal population at cellular resolution
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 2300
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


March 8, 2019
Olga Korotkova
Professor, Department of Physics, University of Miami
Title: Light in turbulence-like biological tissues
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 1104
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


March 22, 2019
Melissa Grunlan
Professor, Texas A&M University
Title: Self-Cleaning, Thermoresponsive Membranes for Implanted Glucose Biosensors
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 2300
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


March 29, 2019
Eric Perreault
Chair and Professor, Northwestern Reserve University
Title:  Task-dependent regulation of human limb mechanics and the implication for designing rehabilitation interventions
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 2300
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


April 5, 2019
Lena Ting
Georgia Tech and Emory University
Title: Revisiting muscle spindle function to understand impaired sensorimotor control
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 1104
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


February 12, 2019
Matthew Maltese
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Innovation Opportunities in Medical Device Development
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 1115
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


Fall 2018

September 21, 2018
Warren Grill
Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University
Title: Temporal Pattern of Brain Stimulation as a New Dimension of Therapeutic Innovation
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 3930
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


September 28, 2018
Sheldon Weinbaum
Distinguished Research Professor of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering at City University of New York
Title: From Red Cells to Skiing, to a Jet Train that Travels at 700 km/hr on a Giant Ski
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 2300
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


October 5, 2018
Warren Ruder
Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburgh
Title: Enabling New Discoveries and Technologies by Combining Synthetic Biology with Biomedical Systems
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 2300
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


October 12, 2018
Bianca Maceo-Heilman
Postdoctoral Associate at University of Miami
Title: Discovering the Physiological Optics of the Lens in Middle Earth
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 1107
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


October 26, 2018
John Frangioni
CEO of The Curadel Companies
Title: Clinical Translation of Imaging Systems and Contrast Agents for Image-Guided Surgery
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 2300
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


November 2, 2018
Hal Blumenfeld
Professor at Yale University
Title: Impaired Consciousness in Focal Seizures: Neuroimaging, Physiology and Treatment with Deep Brain Stimulation
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 2300
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


November 16, 2018
Jonathan Butcher
Cornell University
Title: Endothelial-Interstitial Interactions During Aortic Valve Homeostasis and Calcific Degeneration
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 2300
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM


December 7, 2018
Austin Roorda
Professor at University of California
Title: Adaptive optics imaging to reveal structure and function of neural circuits that underlie human spatial and color vision
Location: Engineering Center Room EC 1105
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM