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
February 25, 2021
Engineering the In Residence Times and Biomolecule Production Capacities of Probiotics
Nathan Crook, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
Watch recorded seminar here
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