Fall 2021 Seminar Series
November 18
The assay of spatial cognition in models of pediatric encephalopathy
Jeremy Barry, PhD
Assistant Professor
Neurological Sciences
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT
Watch recorded seminar here
November 11
Targeting the brain with focused ultrasound
Hong Chen, PhD
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering and Radiation Oncology
Washington University
St. Louis, MO
Watch recorded seminar here
November 4
Data-driven Neuroimaging Biomarkers to Advance Precision Medicine in Brain Disease
Yu Zhang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Bioengineering,
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA
Watch the recorded seminar here
October 28
Topological data analysis for graphs
Yusu Wang, PhD
Professor, Halicioglu Data Science Institute
University of California – San Diego
San Diego, CA
Watch recorded seminar here
October 21, 2021
Reliable feature selection and prediction under adverse contamination
David Kepplinger, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics, George Mason University
Watch recorded seminar here.
October 14, 2021
Neural dynamics underlying the coding of location and running speed in the medial entorhinal cortex
Holger Dannenberg, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Bioengineering and the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, George Mason University
Watch recorded seminar here.
October 7, 2021
Synthetic DNA Nanostructures as Platforms for Facile Nanoparticle Organization
Divita Mathur, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow,
US Naval Research Laboratory
College of Science, George Mason University
Watch recorded seminar here.
September 30, 2021
The Physics of Biology
John (Rob) Cressman, PhD
Associate Professor,
Physics and Astronomy, George Mason University
Watch recorded seminar here.
September 23, 2021
Micro/Nano Mechanics and Photonics with Atomically-Thin 2D Materials for Biomedical Engineering
Pilgyu Kang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Affiliate Faculty,
Bioengineering and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Mason University
Watch recorded seminar here.
September 9, 2021
Technologies for Development and Screening of Molecularly-Targeted Therapies
Craig Duvall, PhD
Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor
Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University
Watch recorded seminar here.
Spring 2021 Semester—Seminars Series
Thursdays, 12:00 pm—1:00 pm
Virtual Seminar Via Zoom
Please contact Carol McHugh (cmchugh4@gmu.edu) for meeting information and link.
February 18, 2021
Theory of Neural Perturbome
Claudia Clopath, Ph.D.
Professor, Bioengineering Department and
Head of Computational Neuroscience Laboratory
Imperial College London, London, England
March 4, 2021
Lipid Nanoparticle(LNP) Systems for Enabling Gene Therapies : Applications for an Hereditary Disease and a COVID-19 Vaccine
Pieter Cullis, Ph.D.
Scientific Director & CEO, NanoMedicines Innovation Network, Canada;
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia
March 18, 2021
Representation Learning and Alignment in Biological and Artificial Neural Networks
Eva Dyer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University
Atlanta, GA
March 25, 2021
Light and Sound: Integrating Photonics with Ultrasonics
Matthew O' Donnell, Ph.D.
Frank and Julie Jungers Dean Emeritus, College of Engineering;
Professor, Bioengineering Department
University of Washington,
Seattle, WA
April 1, 2021
Endotheliopathy, from bench to bedside
Rosemary Kozar, Ph.D.
Professor of Surgery, Co-Director of Shock Trauma Anesthesia Research(STAR) Center,
Director of Translational Research at Shock Trauma
University of Maryland
College Park, MD
April 8, 2021
Autonomous Surgical Robots: Will Future Surgeons Need Caffeine or 120v?
Axel Kreiger, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
April 15, 2021
Responses of CA1 pyramidal neurons and midbrain dopamine neurons to sustained depolarization
Carmen Canavier, Ph.D.
Mullins Professor and Interim Head,
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
New Orleans, LA
April 22, 2021
Detection and Correction of Cardiac MRI Quality Issues Using Deep Learning
Ilkay Oksuz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering Department,
Istanbul Technical University
Istanbul, Turkey
April 29, 2021
Exosomes and Viruses: A Tale of Two Overlapping Worlds
Fatah Kashanchi, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Systems Biology,
George Mason University