About the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Seminar Series
Through the generous support of the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, the Department of Biomedical Engineering facilitates weekly lectures each year during academic terms. Experts in all areas of Biomedical Engineering and from around the world are invited to provide a research seminar, meet with faculty and students, and learn about our academic and research facilities.
The lectures are a great platform intended for the community, students, faculty, and staff to meet and network with leading experts in the Biomedical field and industry. Come join us every week in person or virtually via our YouTube livestream.
SPRING 2025
Dr. Joel A. Spencer
Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of California Merced
Seminar Title
INTRAVITAL MICROSCOPY OF THE HEMATOPOIETIC AND IMMUNE SYSTEMS AFTER CYTOTOXIC CONDITIONING
Dr. Donald Welsh
Professor and Research Scientist; Robarts Research Institute, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology. University of Western Ontario
Seminar Title
ELECTRO- AND PHARMACO- MECHANICAL COUPLING IN CEREBRAL ARTERIES: CREATING AN INTEGRATED UNDERSTANDING OF BLOOD FLOW CONTROL
Dr. Ajit Yoganathan
Emeritus Regents' Professor & Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair, Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University
Seminar Title
CARDIOVASCULAR ENGINEERING – A “PERSONAL” JOURNEY FROM BENCH TO BEDSIDE
Dr. Jessica Wagenseil
Professor and Vice Dean for Faculty Advancement, Washington University in St. Louis
Dr. Joy Lincoln
Professor, Peter Sommerhauser Chair of Quality, Outcomes and Research Associate Chief Scientific Officer, Children’s Research Institute Associate Section Chief, Pediatric Cardiology Director; Medical College of Wisconsin, Children's Wisconsin
Dr. Jessica P. Houston
Professor of Chemical & Materials Engineering, New Mexico State University
Dr. Silvia Mangia
Professor of Radiology; Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR), University of Minnesota
Seminar Title
THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED: EXPLOITING ULTRA-SHORT/ZERO ECHO TIME FMRI AND DEVELOPING NOVEL FRAMEWORKS OF NEUROMETABOLIC/NEUROVASCULAR COUPLINGS
FALL 2024
Dr. Mark Brandon
Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Neural Circuits of Memory, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University
Dr. Mohammed Abdul Muneer
Associate Professor of JFK Neuroscience Institute, Hackensack Meridian Health, JFK University Medical Center
Seminar Title
TRANSMIGRATION OF LEUKOCYTES AND THE FORMATION OF NEUTROPHIL EXTRACELLULAR TRAPS IN TBI: A NOVEL THERAPEUTIC TARGET
Dr. Wei-Chiang Lin
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University
Dr. Shuliang Jiao
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University
Dr. Joshua Hutcheson
Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University
Dr. Guohao Dai
Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Northeastern University
Seminar Title
BIOENGINEERED PERFUSED HUMAN BRAIN MICROVASCULATURE TO MODEL BRAIN TUMOR AND NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES
Dr. M.K. Sewell-Loftin
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering; Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Dr. B. Rita Alevriadou
SUNY Empire Innovation Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University at Buffalo - SUNY
Seminar Title
MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSFER VIA ENDOTHELIAL-DERIVED EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
Dr. Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo
Full Professor and Provincial Endowed Academic Chair in Autism, Western University Robarts Research Institute and The Brain and Mind Institute
Dr. Sheng Xu
Professor and Jacobs Faculty Scholar, UC San Diego
Dr. Thomas J. Royston
Professor & Head of Biomedical Engineering, Interim Vice Chancellor for Innovation and Strategic Partnerships; University of Illinois Chicago
Seminar Title
FORCE, FIBERS, FRACTALS AND FRACTIONAL CALCULUS IN ACOUSTO-ELASTOGRAPHY
Dr. Vikas Varshney
Research Chemist, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Seminar Title
INVESTIGATING POLYMER BEHAVIOR THROUGH MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS: FROM POLYMERIZATION TO DEGRADATION AND STRUCTURE-PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS
Dr. Teresa L.Z. Jones
Program Director; Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases; National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; National Institutes of Health
SPRING 2024
Dr. Alyssa Panitch
Wallace H. Coulter Department Chair & Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology and and Emory University
Seminar Title
PROMOTING TISSUE HEALING AND REGENERATION USING PEPTIDE-MODIFIED GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS
Dr. Stefania Nicoli
Associate Professor of Genetics, Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Ian Chen
Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine
Seminar Title
LEAFLET-SPECIFIC AND LAYER-SPECIFIC MECHANISMS OF CALCIFIC AORTIC STENOSIS
Dr. Kartik Balachandran
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arkansas
Seminar Title
LABEL-FREE ASSESSMENT OF EARLY CALCIFIC AORTIC VALVE DISEASE PROGRESSION – THE ROLE OF ALTERED METABOLISM
Dr. Delia Cabrera DeBuc
Research Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Miami
Patrick Franzen
Director of Publications & Platform, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
Dr. Robert Frisina
Distinguished University Professor & Endowed Chair, University of South Florida
Seminar Title
HIGHLIGHTS OF RECENT ADVANCES IN BME AND NEUROENGINEERING APPROACHES TO TREATING HEARING LOSS
Dr. Cherie Stabler
J. Crayton Pruitt Family & UF Foundation Preeminence Term Professor and Departmental Chair of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida
Seminar Title
ENGINEERING BIOMATERIALS FOR IMPROVING CELL THERAPY IN TYPE 1 DIABETES
FALL 2023
Dr. Joshua Hutcheson
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Graduate Program Director, Florida International University
Dr. Jessica Ramella-Roman
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University
Dr. Zachary Danziger
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University
Dr. Oleksii Shandra
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University
Dr. Raj Pulugurtha
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University
Dr. Teresa Murray
Rhodes Eminent Scholar Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Louisiana Tech University
Dr. Detlev Boison
Professor and Vice Chair, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Seminar Title
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING APPROACHES FOR THE TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF EPILEPSY AND ITS COMORBIDITIES
Dr. Jeffrey Wolchok
Associate Professor and Department Head, University of Arkansas
Dr. Yang Liu
Professor, University of Pittsburgh
SPRING 2023
Dr. Kristin M. Myers
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University
Seminar Title
THE BIOMECHANICS OF HIGH-RISK PREGNANCIES: EVALUATING CERVICAL FUNNELING
Dr. Jessica Ramella-Roman
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University
Dr. Anthony McGoron
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Florida International University
Dr. Nikolaos Tsoukias
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University
Dr. Amir Shmuel
Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery, Physiology, and Biomedical Engineering, McGill University
Seminar Title
ANALYSIS OF THE SPATIAL SPECIFICITY OF BOLD AND CEREBRAL BLOOD VOLUME FMRI AND THE MECHANISMS UNDERLYING DECODING INFORMATION CONVEYED BY CORTICAL COLUMNS
Dr. Tatiana Novikova
Courtesy Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University
Seminar Title
ADVANCES IN MUELLER POLARIMETRY FOR TISSUE DIAGNOSIS AT MACRO- AND MICROSCALE
Dr. Christine Hendon
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
Dr. Brian Aguado
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego
Dr. Christopher Chen
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
Seminar Title
ENGINEERING THE NEXT GENERATION MODELS OF CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY AND DISEASE
Dr. Cynthia St. Hilaire
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Ashutosh Agarwal
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Miami
Dr. Lynn Rothschild
Adjunct Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Brown University
Seminar Title
STAR TREK MEETS ET: (SYNTHETIC) BIOLOGY AS AN ENABLING TECHNOLOGY FOR SPACE EXPLORATION
Dr. Kalpana Katti
Distinguished Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, North Dakota State University
Dr. Sergio Fantini
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University
Seminar Title
DIFFUSE OPTICAL IMAGING OF THE HUMAN BRAIN: COHERENT HEMODYNAMICS AND DUAL-SLOPE TECHNIQUES
Dr. Julio Martinez-Trujillo
Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University
Seminar Title
REVERSE ENGINEERING MEMORY CIRCUITS IN COMPLEX BRAINS: FROM SINGLE NEURONS TO BEHAVIOR
Mark Chen
Research Scientist, Open AI
Seminar Title
CHATGPT AND BEYOND: EXPLORING THE WORLD OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
FALL 2022
Dr. Oleksii Shandra
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University
Dr. Anamika Prasad
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University
Dr. Anuradha Godavarty
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University
Dr. Joshua Hutcheson
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University
Dr. Raj Pulugurtha
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University
Dr. Zachary Danziger
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University
Dr. Shuliang Jiao
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University
Dr. Wei-Chiang Lin
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University
Dr. Jorge Riera
Associate Professor and Interim Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University
Dr. Jin He
Associate Professor of Physics, Florida International University
Seminar Title
THE DEVELOPMENT OF NANOTECHNOLOGY ENABLED NEW TOOLS FOR PRECISION MEDICINE
Dr. Angelo Gaitas
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Seminar Title
SINGLE-CELL TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS USING MICROFLUIDICS, BIO-MEMS, AND ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY
Dr. Jana Kainerstorfer
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Seminar Title
NON-INVASIVE OPTICAL IMAGING OF THE BRAIN – FROM THE CLINICAL BEDSIDE TO MARINE ENVIRONMENTS
Dr. Steven Zanganeh
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
SPRING 2022
Dr. James N. Warnock
Founding Chair & Professor of the School of Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Georgia
Dr. Brendon Baker
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan
Seminar Title
DISSECTING CELL-SPECIFIC, MATRIX-MEDIATED CONTRIBUTIONS TO FIBROSIS USING NEW BIOMATERIALS AND MICROPHYSIOLOGIC MODELS
Dr. Ngan F. Huang
Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University
Miami Heart ♥ Month
Seminar Title
EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX CUES FOR ENGINEERING CARDIOVASCULAR REGENERATION
Dr. Jun Liao
Associate Professor, University of Texas at Arlington
Miami Heart ♥ Month
Seminar Title
COLLAGEN AND ELASTIN IN HEART BIOMECHANICS:
From Novel Interfacial Protective Role of Heart Epicardium to Collagen Fibril Kinematics in Mitral Valve Leaflets
Dr. Keith March
Professor of Cardiology and Director of the UF Center for Regenerative Medicine
Miami Heart ♥ Day Symposium
Seminar Title
NEXT-GENERATION CELL-BASED THERAPIES: CELLULAR THERAPIES IN A BOTTLE, ON THE SHELF, AND TREATING HEARTS
Dr. Tarak Rambhatla
Cardiology, Medical Director of Inpatient Cardiac Services, Baptist Health South Florida
Miami Heart ♥ Day Symposium
Seminar Title
CARDIO VASCULAR DISEASE: PREVENTION TO AVOID TREATMENT
Dr. John X.J. Zhang
Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth College
Graduate Research Day
Seminar Title
MICROCHIPS IN TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE:
FROM CANCER DIAGNOSIS, BIOENERGY HARVESTING TO WEARABLE APPLICATIONS
Dr. George Karniadakis
Professor of Applied Mathematics and Engineering, The Charles Pitts Robinson and John Palmer Barstow, Brown University
Seminar Title
INTEGRATING MACHINE LEARNING AND MULTISCALE MODELING IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
When: 3/25/22 | 9:00 AM
Virtual: Register for Zoom Link
Dr. Fidias E. Leon-Sarmiento
Associate Professor (Courtesy), Florida International University
Seminar Title
THE EFFECTS OF CRANIOFACIAL MUSCLE CONTRACTIONS ON THE (FORMERLY) VAGAL NERVE SOMATOSENSORY EVOKED POTENTIALS
Dr. Mahendra Kavdia
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University
Seminar Title
SYSTEMS BIOLOGY OF OXIDATIVE STRESS IN VASCULAR TISSUE
When: 4/8/22 | 9:00 AM
Virtual: Register for Zoom Link
Dr. Michael R. King
J. Lawrence Wilson Professor and Department Chair, Vanderbilt University
Seminar Title
DRIVERS WANTED: CELLULAR DELIVERY OF ANTI-CANCER THERAPEUTICS IN THE CIRCULATION
When: 4/15/22 | 9:00 AM
In-Person: Room EC 2300
Virtual: Register for Zoom Link
FALL 2021
Dr. Helcio Orlande
Professor in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Dr. Wei-Chiang Lin
Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, FiU
Seminar Title
SUBCUTANEOUS CAPNOGRAPHY AND ALL-OPTICAL QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND IMAGING
Dr. Joshua Hutcheson
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, FIU
Dr. Raj Pulugurtha
Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, FiU
Dr. Sharan Ramaswamy
Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, FiU
Dr. Shuliang Jiao
Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, FiU
Dr. Anuradha Godavarty
Associate Professor & Undergraduate Program Director, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University
Seminar Title
NEAR-INFRARED OPTICAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGIES – DEVELOPMENT TO CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
Dr. Mary Preston McDougall
Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University
Seminar Title
ENGINEERING APPROACHES TO INCREASE THE ACCESSIBILITY OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AND SPECTROSCOPY
This seminar is part of the Undergraduate Research Celebration.
Dr. Carlos Lavernia
Adjunct Professor Biomedical Engineering, University of Miami
Dr. Maysam Ghovanloo
Senior Design Engineer, Silicon Creations
Seminar Title
FUNDAMENTALS OF WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION TO IMPLANTABLE MICROELECTRONIC DEVICES
Dr. Teja Guda
Jacobson Distinguished Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Texas at San Antonio
Seminar Title
LEVERAGING MATRIX MECHANICS AND BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS TO REGENERATE VASCULARIZED TISSUES
Dr. Xinmai Yang
Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Institute for Bioengineering Research, The University of Kansas
Dr. Ramaraja Ramasamy
Professor and Associate Dean School of Chemical, Materials, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Georgia
Seminar Title
TOWARDS POINT OF SERVICE RAPID DIAGNOSTIC METHODS FOR BACTERIAL PATHOGENS
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