BME @ CCNY has a rich history of compelling, collaborative, and innovative seminars that cut across and integrate our four major research areas. We have an especially impressive list of former speakers for our two named lectures: The Zweifach Lecture in the Fall and the SKT Lecture in the Spring.
Fall 2024 Seminar Series Schedule
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August 28
Welcome and Introduction
All Faculty and PhD/Master’s Students
September 4
David Alpert, PhD Candidate, Nicoll Lab in BME @ CCNY
Development of an adhesive cellulose hydrogel for annulus fibrosus repair
September 11
Jonathan Dyke, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine Associate Professor of Radiology
Advanced research in MRI & PET
September 18
Ankit Jain, PhD, Brooklyn College, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Structured condensates as novel biomaterials
September 25
Jaeseung Hahn, PhD, and 2015 CCNY BME Graduate, Columbia University Associate Research Scientist
Reprogramming biology: from DNA nanotechnology to bacterial cancer therapy
October 2
No Classes Scheduled
October 9
Miguel Otero, PhD, Hospital for Special Surgery Orthopedic Soft Tissue Program
Joint tissue disruption in osteoarthritis
October 16
Anand Jagota, PhD, Lehigh University Bioengineering
Understanding versus prediction: structure of DNA/SWCNT hybrids and discovery of resolving sequences
October 23
No Seminar—BMES Annual Meeting in Baltimore
October 30
Jingwei Zhang, PhD, MBA, CytoSorbents Corporation and 2011 CCNY BME Valedictorian
Clinical strategy for a blood filtration drug removal medical device
November 6
Donghui Zhu, PhD, SUNY Empire Innovation Professor, Stony Brook University Biomedical Engineering
Engineering better scaffolds for improved healing of bone defects
November 13
Benjamin W. Zweifach Memorial Lecture: Bin He, PhD, Trustee Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University *to be held in ST-161*
Dynamic brain mapping and brain-computer interface
November 20
Stephen Ma, PhD, Merck, and 2011 CCNY ChemE Grad, Hosted by BME GSA
Materials research and development
November 27
No Class (Class follows a Friday schedule)
December 4
Yizhou Dong, PhD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Icahn Genomics Institute
Lipid nanoparticle enabled mRNA therapeutics
December 11
Stephen O’Brien, PhD, Chair of Chemistry at CCNY
Some aspects of nanoparticles, theranostics, and nanomedicine
All seminars are on Wednesdays 3-4 PM in Steinman ST-402 unless otherwise noted
Spring 2024 Seminars
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January 31 |
Introduction, and Yunfei Li, PhD Candidate, CCNY BME Fu Lab Heparan sulfate modulation affects breast cancer cell adhesion and transmigration across in vitro 2D and 3D blood-brain barrier
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February 7 |
Edward Vessel, PhD, CCNY Psychology An interactionist approach to the neuroscience of aesthetics |
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February 14 |
Weiqiang Chen, PhD, New York University Biomedical Engineering A ‘Cancer Lab’ on chip: transforms cancer diagnosis and treatment |
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February 21 |
Rana Zakerzadeh, PhD, Duquesne University Biomedical Engineering Modeling approaches to understanding the role of transport in a biological tissue |
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February 28 |
Gavin Hsu, PhD Candidate, CCNY BME Parra Lab Protocol preregistration for reproducible tDCS effects and Michelle Gelbs, PhD Candidate, CCNY BME Fritton Lab Mechanical interventions to improve drug uptake and delivery to metastatic breast cancer in bone |
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March 6 |
Rachel Surowiec, PhD, IUPUI Biomedical Engineering *via zoom* Imaging biomarker development to improve fracture prediction in skeletal disease |
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March 13 |
Prabodhika Mallikaratchy, PhD, CUNY School of Medicine Molecular, Cellular, & Biomedical Sciences The development of novel functional nucleic acid materials to elucidate cell receptor activity |
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March 20 |
Claus-Peter Richter, MD, PhD, Northwestern Medicine Otolaryngology Development of cochlear implant devices |
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March 27 |
Brian Zeglis, PhD, Hunter College Chemistry Leveraging click chemistry for better radiopharmaceuticals |
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April 3 |
Chris Rylander, PhD, University of Texas at Austin Mechanical Engineering *via zoom* Medical device design |
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April 10
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Kristin Morgan, PhD, University of Connecticut Biomedical Engineering Integrating gait biomechanics and musculoskeletal modeling to improve and optimize human movement |
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April 17 |
SKT Lecture: Tejal Desai, PhD, Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering at Brown University Designing nanostructured materials to enhance therapeutic delivery This special seminar will be in ST-161 with a reception afterwards
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April 24 |
No seminar, Spring Recess |
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All seminars are on Wednesdays 3-4 PM in Steinman ST-402 unless otherwise noted
*Please note, the final 3 seminars of the semester were postponed to the Fall due to a shift to online learning
2023 Fall Seminars
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August 30 |
Welcome and Introduction Faculty and Students
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September 6 |
Christopher DelRe, PhD, CUNY ASRC Nanoscience Initiative Threading polymers into pores: borrowing from biology to engineer advanced materials
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September 13 |
Pooja Gaikwad, PhD, CUNY Graduate Center Program in Chemistry Construction and performance optimization of bioconjugated nanosensors for early detection of breast cancer and pro-inflammatory diseases
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September 20 |
Kristin Myers, PhD, Columbia University Mechanical Engineering Biomechanics of the female reproductive system
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September 27 |
Shang Wang, PhD, Stevens Institute of Technology Biomedical Engineering Optical imaging of dynamics and process in mammalian reproduction and development
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October 4 |
cancelled
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October 11 |
Zhenpeng Qin, PhD, University of Texas at Dallas Mechanical Engineering---via Zoom Nano-biophotonic tools for neuroscience and brain therapeutics (NanoBrain)
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October 18 |
Inigo Sanz-Pena, PhD, CCNY Mechanical Engineering Biomimetic wearable assistive devices with embedded sensing capabilities
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October 25 |
Yvonne Lui, MD, New York University School of Medicine Radiology Our experience and a practical radiologist’s look at deep learning-based accelerated MRI reconstruction
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November 1 |
Matthias Mittner, PhD, University of Tromso Psychology Can non-invasive brain stimulation change our propensity to mind wander?
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November 8
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Benjamin W. Zweifach Memorial Lecture: Zahi Fayad, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Director Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Institute Clinical imaging approaches in cardiovascular diseases This special seminar will be in ST-161 with a reception afterwards
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November 15 |
Kevin Costa, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Cardiology Multiscale biomechanics and mechanobiology of cardiovascular remodeling This seminar will be held in ST-161
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November 22 |
No seminar, Thanksgiving break
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November 29 |
Mia Thi, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Orthopaedic Surgery Mechanobiology of skeletal tissue
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December 6 |
Nina Lauharatanahirun, PhD, Pennsylvania State University Biomedical Engineering Computational neuroimaging
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All seminars are on Wednesdays 3-4 PM in Steinman ST-402 unless otherwise noted
*Updated October 10, 2023
Last Updated: 08/19/2024 08:32