Past Department Seminars

Past Schedules

This is an archive of past speakers of the Distinguished Department Seminars. For a list of current and upcoming presenters, please visit the committee page.

2019
2018
2017
2016
2015

 

Spring 2019 Speaker Schedule

1/17/2019 Mary Teruel Stanford University “Control of Cell Differentiation by Feedback, Noise, and Oscillation Timing”
1/22/2019 Brianne K. Connizzo Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Examining Homeostatic Regulation of Tissue Properties and Tendon Pathology Through the Use of Novel Explant Culture Models”
1/24/2019 Kristina Haase Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Mimicking Nature Tissue Engineering Strategies to Probe Vascular Disease at the Microscale”
1/31/2019 Itay Budin University of California, Berkeley “Exploring the Private Life of Cell Membranes Through Lipid Engineering”
2/5/2019 Ahmet Coskun Stanford University, School of Medicine “Multiplex Imaging of Spatial Biology in Single Cells”
2/7/2019 Ariel Furst University of California, Berkeley “Electrochemistry for Sensors and Energy”
2/12/2016 Karina Nakayama Stanford University “The Role of ECM Spatial Patterning in Bioengineering Musculoskeletal and Cardiovascular Tissues”
2/14/2019 Lin Tian University of California, Davis “Watching Brain in Action: Creating Tools for Functional Analysis of Neural Circuitry”
2/19/2019 Christopher Schaffer Cornell University “Advanced Nonlinear Optical Microscopy for in vivo Studies of Nervous System Function and Dysfunction”
2/21/2019 Jacques Bothma University of California, Berkeley “Lighting up the Cnetral Dogma in Living Embryos to Uncover How Genomic Sequence Encodes Cell Fate Decisions”
2/26/2019 Jianzhu Ma University of California, San Diego “Interpreting Genetic Variants Using Network Models of a Cell”
2/28/2019 Albert Lee HHMI, Janelia Research Campus “The Statistical Structure of  Hippocampal Representations”
3/7/2019 Anna Devor University of California, San Diego “Microscope Foundation of Multimodal Human Imaging”

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Fall 2018 Speaker Schedule

9/21/2018 Nancy Allbritton UNC/NC State (Joint Dept of Biomedical Engineering) “Bioanalytical Microdevices for the Next Generation of Cell-Based Assays”
10/12/2018 Boris Hinz University of Toronto “Myofibroblasts, Macrophages, Matrix, Mechanics and More”
11/8/2018* Elliot Chaikof Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School “Thrombosis and Bleeding in the Modern Era”
*TRB annual distinguished lecture
12/8/2018 Christopher Moore Brown University “Bioluminescent Tools for Optimal control and Imaging of Cellular Circuits”
12/13/2018** John Rogers Northwestern University “Soft Electronic and Microfluidic Systems for the Skin”
**QBP symposium keynote speaker

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Spring 2018 Speaker Schedule

Spring speakers are all interviewing faculty candidates.

1/9/2018 Lyla Isik MIT
postdoc		 “The Computational and Neural Basis of Social Vision: Perceiving Human Actions and Interactions”
1/11/2018 Deblina Sarkar MIT
postdoc		 “Low-power Electronics for Neural Engineering”
1/18/2018 Laura Lewis Harvard, MGH
junior fellow		 “Fast Multimodal Imaging for Tracking Whole-Brain Dynamics in Sleep and Wake”
1/23/2018 Abhyudai Singh University of Delaware
associate prof		 “Systems Biology in Single Cells: A Tale of Two Viruses”
1/25/2018 Katheryne Wilson Stanford School of Medicine
instructor of Radiology		 “Early Detection of Breast Cancer Using Light and Sound”
2/1/2018 Hadi Nia MGH
postdoc		 “Solid Stress and Elastic Energy as New Measures of Tumor Mechanopathology “
2/6/2018 Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez MIT
postdoc		 “Engineering Biology to Make Novel Medicines”
2/8/2018 Jose Alvarado MIT
postdoc		  — Cancelled–
2/15/2018 Ariel Lesa Furst University of California, Berkeley
postdoc		 “Electrochemical Biosensors”
2/20/2018 Aaron Aguirre Harvard Medical School, MGH
assistant prof		 “Cardiac Imaging at Cellular Resolution: New Frontiers for Intravital Optical Microscopy”
2/22/2018 Krishna Jayant Columbia University
postdoc		 “From Synapse to Soma: Nanoelectrode Physiology for Mapping Brain Activity Across Scales”
2/27/2018 Michael Economo HHMI/Janelia Research Campus
research scientist		 “Wiring the Brain: New Approaches for Studying Long-range Neural Circuits in Motor Control and Beyond”
3/1/2018 Aditya Kunjapur Harvard Medical School
postdoc		 “Expanding the Microbial Chemistry Repertoire by Engineering Selective Processes”

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Fall 2017 Speaker Schedule

9/8/2017 John Dabiri Stanford University  “The role of fluid dynamic forces in aquatic animal morphogenesis”
10/27/17 Peng Yin Harvard University “Nanoscale construction and imaging with DNA”
11/3/17 Cristina Canavesi LighTopTech Corp. “Real-time in-vivo cellular imaging”
12/1/2017 Danielle Basset University of Pennsylvania “Perturbation and control of human brain network dynamics”
12/15/2017 Jef D. Boeke* NYU Langone Medical Center “Writing genomes”

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Fall 2016 Speaker Schedule

9/9/2016 Jay Keasling University of California, Berkeley “Engineering Microbial Metabolism for Production of Chemicals and Fuels”
Synthetic & Systems Biology
9/16/2016 Lihong Wang Washington University in St. Louis “Redefining the Spatiotemporal Limits of Optical Imaging: Photoacoustic Tomography, Wavefront Engineering, and Compressed Ultrafast Photography”
Optics/Instrumentation (*joint with ME)
10/14/16 Roger Tsien University of California, San Diego
HMMI, 2008 Nobel Prize Winner		  —passed away in August 2016–
10/21/16 Kristi Anseth University of Colorado, Boulder –cancelled–
11/4/2016 Susan Marguiles University of Pennsylvania “Mechanisms of Pediatric TBI – Integrating Computational and Experimental Approaches to Understanding Brain Injury”
Biomechanics
11/18/2016 David Cook Seres Therapeutics “The Human Microbiome:  A Target for Ecobiotic Drugs”
Non-academic (Biotech Industry)
12/13/16 Michael Levin* Tufts University “Endogenous Bioelectric Circuits that Determine Anatomical Remodeling: Biomedical Opportunities for Decoding Somatic Pattern Memories”
*QPB-TRB Symposium

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Fall 2015 Speaker Schedule

9/25/2015 Arup Chakroborty MIT “How to hit HIV where it hurts”
Synthetic & Systems Biology
10/9/2015 Rebecca Richards-Kortum Rice University “Translating New Biomedical Technologies to Low Resource Settings”
Optical Diagnostics
10/30/2015 Julius Lucks Cornell University “Controlling Cells through RNA Folding: Towards Design Principles for RNA Engineering”
Wildcard
11/20/2015 Kapil Bharti National Eye Institute “Induced to Cure: Developing and Autologous iPS Derived RPE Based Cell Therapy for Macular Degeneration”
Government
12/11/2015 Chris Schaffer Cornell University “In vivo Imaging of Cell Dynamics in Animal Models of Neurological Disorders”
Neuroengineering

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