Past Bioengineering Seminars

Fall 2022

Wednesday, November 30
Taher Saif
Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Seminar
Wednesday, November 16
Sherilynn Black
Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Medical Education, Duke University

Wednesday, November 2
Karthik Shekhar
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UC Berkeley

Wednesday, October 26
Jason D. Buenrostro (via Zoom)
Assistant Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University

Wednesday, October 19
Vivek Shenoy
Eduardo D. Glandt President’s Distinguished Professor, Center for Engineering Mechanobiology and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Pennsylvania

Wednesday, October 5
Alireza Rezania, PhD
Head of Regenerative Medicine, CRISPR Therapeutics

Wednesday, September 28
Natasha Sheybani, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Research Director, UVA Focused Ultrasound Cancer Immunotherapy Center

Wednesday, September 14
Ovijit Chaudhuri, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

August 31
Christopher J. Hernandez, Ph.D.
Professor, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Adjunct Scientist, Hospital for Special Surgery

Spring 2022

February 23
Arjun Raj, Ph.D.
Professor of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania

March 16
Rising Star Lecture in Bioengineering
Fei Chen of the Broad Institute

March 30
Warren C. W. Chan
Professor and Director, Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME), Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research (CCBR), Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, University of Toronto

April 13
Distinguished Lecture in Bioengineering
Andrés García of Georgia Tech

April 20
Shyni Varghese
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science and Orthopaedics, Duke University

April 27
Edward S. Boyden, Ph. D.
Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology at MIT, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, McGovern Institute, Professor, Departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Media Arts and Sciences, and Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fall 2021

September 8
Michael Yartsev
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, and the Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute

September 15
Aaron Streets
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley, and Investigator, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub

October 7
Senjuti Saha, PhD
Scientist & Director, Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF), Bangladesh

October 20
Michael Baym
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School

October 27
James Nuñez, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley

November 3
William James Greenleaf, PhD
Associate Professor, Genetics Department, Stanford University

November 10
Jerry Chen
Assistant Professor of Biology, Boston University

December 1
Lacramioara Bintu
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Stanford University

Spring 2021

January 27
Nancy Allbritton
Professor of Bioengineering & Dean of Engineering, University of Washington

February 3
Andrei Kozlov
Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London

February 10
Matthew Oberhardt
Program Director for Research Science, New York-Presbyterian Hospital

February 17
Nicholas J. Durr
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Designing medical devices with computational biophotonics

March 3
Nicole Steinmetz
Professor of Nanoengineering, Institute of Engineering in Medicine, UC San Diego

March 10 – Rising Star Lecture
Tim Downing
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, UC Irvine

March 31
Wilson Wong
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University

April 14
Cole DeForest
Associate Professor of Bioengineering & Chemical Engineering, University of Washington

April 28 – Distinguished Lecture in Bioengineering
Paula Hammond
Professor and Department Head, Chemical Engineering, MIT

Fall 2020

September 2
Michael Yartsev
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering,
the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, and the Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute

September 23
Taner Sen
GrainGenes, Lead Scientist
USDA-ARS Research Computational Biologist

October 7
Roseanna Zia
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University

October 14
Dan Fu
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington

October 21
Jianping Fu
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

October 28
Grace Gu
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley

November 4
José Avalos
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Princeton University

November 18
Zev Bryant
Associate Professor, Bioengineering, Stanford University

Fall 2019

September 4
Moriel Vandsburger
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
UC Berkeley

September 11
Ian Holmes
Associate Professor of Bioengineering
UC Berkeley

September 25
David Camarillo
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering and Neurosurgery
Stanford University

October 2
Joel Collier
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

October 9
Dror Seliktar
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Israel Institute of Technology

October 23
Lingyan Shi
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
UC San Diego

October 30
Eric Betzig
Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology
UC Berkeley

November 6
Jennifer Davis
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Bioengineering 
University of Washington

November 20
Rising Star Lecture: Krishanu Saha
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Medical History & Bioethics
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

December 4
Randy Carney
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
UC Davis

Spring 2019

January 10
Stephanie Tzouanas Schmidt
Stanford University, Department of Bioengineering

January 17
Reza Kalhor
Wyss Institute Research Associate in Technology Development

January 22
Patrick David Hsu
Salk Fellow, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

January 24
Joshua Weinstein
Postdoctoral Associate, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

February 13
Tilman Schaeffer, Professor
University of Tubingen (Germany)

February 20
Neil Kelleher, Professor
Northwestern University

February 27
Kiana Aran, Ph.D.
Keck Graduate Institute

March 6
Sanjeevl Sivasankar, Associate Professor
University of California, Davis

March 13
Beth Pruitt, Assistant Professor
University of California, Santa Barbara

March 15
Distinguished Lecture: Dennis Discher, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Robert D. Bent Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Bioengineering
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

March 20
Iwijn De Vlaminck, Assistant Professor
Cornell University

March 27
No Seminar due to Spring Break

April 3
Michael McMahon, Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins University

April 10
Donald Ort, Professor
University of Illinois

April 17
Jonathan Lindner, Professor
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)

April 24
Assaf Gilad, Professor
Michigan State University(MSU)

May 1
Markita del Carpio Landry, Professor
University of California, Berkeley

Fall 2018

August 29
Emma Lundberg – Associate Professor
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Zuckerberg Chan Biohub – Sabbatical Visitor

September 5
John Dueber – Associate Professor
University of California, Berkeley

September 12
Bo Huang – Professor
University of California, San Francisco

September 19
Michael Grunze
Professor(emeritus) – Institute of Applied Physical Chemistry
University of Heidelberg, Germany

September 26
Tatiana Segura – Professor
Duke University

October 3
Mary Frances Nunez Teruel
Stanford University

October 10
Tobias Meyer – Professor
Stanford University

October 24
Nicole Seiberlich
Case Western

October 31
Jennifer Listgarten
University of California, Berkeley

November 7
Ovi Chaudhuri – Assistant Professor
Stanford University

November 28
Shelly Peyton
UM Amherst

December 5
Chang Liu
University of California, Irvine

Spring 2018

January 24
Liana Lareau
QB3 Fellow, University of California, Berkeley

January 31
Parisa Hosseinzadeh
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Washington

February 7
Gabriel Rocklin
Senior Fellow, University of Washington

February 14
Carolina Tropini
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

February 21
Distinguished Lecture: Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D.
Founding Director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University

Friday, February 23
Jason Yang
Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

February 28
Pulin Li – Postdoctoral Fellow
California Institute of Technology

Friday, March 2
Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez
Postdoctoral Associate, Areces Foundation Junior Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

March 14
Stephanie Fraley
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego

March 21
Seth Shipman
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School

March 28
Michael Long
Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology, New York University School of Medicine

April 11
Rising Star Lecture: Stanley Qi
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical & Systems Biology, Stanford University

April 18
Kim Butts Pauly
Professor of Radiology (General Radiology), Stanford University

April 25
Ilya Levental
Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

May 2
Krishna Nayak
Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California

Fall 2017

August 30
Atul Parikh
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering
UC Davis

September 6
Shana Kelley
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, Biochemistry
University of Toronto

September 13
Sibley Auditorium
Irina Conboy
Associate Professor of Bioengineering
UC Berkeley

September 20
Evan Scott
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Northwestern University

September 27
Lani Wu
Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
UCSF

October 4
Michelle Khine
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
UC Irvine

October 11
NO SEMINAR due to BMES Meeting

October 18
Mary Dunlop
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Boston University

October 25
Long Cai
Research Professor In Biology
California Institute of Technology

November 1
Amit Pathak
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
Washington University in St. Louis

November 8
NO SEMINAR due to Veteran’s Day Holiday

November 15
Ying Zheng
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
University of Washington

November 22
NO SEMINAR due to Thanksgiving Holiday

November 29
David Issadore
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Electrical & Systems Engineering
University of Pennsylvania

December 6
Irene Chen
Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of California, Santa Barbara

Spring 2017

January 25
Ido Braslavsky
Visiting Scholar at Stanford University
Associate Professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

February 1
Moriel Vandsburger
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
UC Berkeley

February 8
Jim Wells
Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
UCSF

February 15
Manu Prakash
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Stanford University

February 22
Princess Imoukhuede
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
University of Illinois — Urbana Champaign

March 1
Ashleigh Theberge
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
University of Washington

March 8
Ngan Huang
Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Stanford University

March 15
*Sibley Auditorium
Dino DiCarlo
Professor of Bioengineering
UCLA

March 22
Chris Vollmers
Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering
UC Santa Cruz

March 29
NO SEMINAR due to Spring Recess

April 5
Kandice Tanner
Chief, Tissue Morphodynamics Unit
National Institutes of Health

April 12
Polly Fordyce
Assistant Professor of Genetics and Bioengineering
Fellow, ChEM-H Institute
Stanford University

April 19
Ahmad (Mo) Khalil
Innovation Career Development Professor
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Director, Biological Design Center
Boston University

April 26
Patrick Stayton
Professor of Bioengineering
University of Washington

May 3
Neel Joshi
Associate Professor of Biological Engineering
Harvard University

Fall 2016

Aug 31
Jacob Corn
Scientific Director, Innovative Genomics Initiative – UC Berkeley

Sept 7
Adam Engler
Associate Professor of Bioengineering, UCSD

Sept 14
Carolyn Larabell
Professor of Anatomy, UCSF

Sept 21
Rising Star Lecture: Kim Woodrow
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, University of Washington

Sept 28
Jamal Lewis
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis

Oct 12
Audrey (Ellerbee) Bowden
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Oct 19
Peyman Golshani
Associate Professor of Neurology, UCLA

Nov 2
Hana El-Samad
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF

Nov 16
Ellen Heber-Katz
Professor, Lankenau Institute for Medical Research

Dec 2
Annual Bioengineering Distinguished Lecture:
Robert Langer
David H. Koch Institute Professor
Biological Engineering, MIT

Spring 2016

January 20
Andre Berndt
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

January 27
Possu Huang
Research Scientist, University of Washington

February 3
Lacra Bintu
Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology

February 10
Philip Romero
Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles

February 17
Raju Tomer
Senior Scientist, Stanford University

February 24
Moriel Vandsburger
Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Kentucky

March 2nd
Judith Campisi
Buck Institute for Research on Aging and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

March 9
Tatiana Engel
Research Specialist, Stanford University

Mar 16
Talia Lerner
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

Mar 30
Anthony Zador
Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

April 6
David Camarillo
Tashia and John Morgridge Endowed Faculty Scholar, Child Health Research Institute at Stanford
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Stanford University

April 13
Bence Ölveczky
Associate Professor, Harvard University

April 20
Kristopher A. Kilian
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

April 27
Linda Griffith
School of Engineering Teaching Innovation Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering, and Director, Center for Gynepathology Research, MIT

Fall 2015

September 9
Sophie Dumont
Assistant Professor of Cell & Tissue Biology and Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco

September 16
Yukio Nagasaki
Professor of Materials Science, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, Master’s School of Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences; Principal Investigator, Strategic Initiatives (Project type), University of Tsukuba

September 23
Andreas Bausch
Professor of Physics, Technische Universität München

September 20
Fan Yang
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Orthopaedic Surgery, Director of Stem Cell and Biomaterials Engineering Laboratory
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University

October 14
Todd McDevitt
Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease
Professor of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco

October 21st
Ron Zuckermann
Biological Nanostructures Facility, The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

October 28
Oscar Hallatschek
Assistant Professor & William H. McAdams Chair of Physics and Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley

November 4
Mark LaBarge
Staff Scientist, Life Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Wednesday, November 18th
Joshua Shaevitz
Associate Professor of Physics and Genomics, Princeton University

December 2
Steven C. George, MD, PhD
Elvera and William Stuckenberg Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Washington University in St. Louis

Spring 2015

Wednesday, January 28
Aaron Streets
Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Peking University

Wednesday, February 4
Jeffrey Rogers
Director of Engineering- Google

Wednesday, February 11th
Kai Wang
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Wednesday, February 18th
Stephanie C. Weber
Postdoctoral Fellow
Princeton University

Wednesday, March 4
Kelly Stevens
Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Wednesday, Mar 11
Roozbeh Ghaffari
Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Wednesday, Apr 1
Tyrone Porter
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering- Boston University

Wednesday, Apr 8
Elliott Hui
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering- University of California, Irvine

Wednesday, April 15th
Michael Rudnicki
Senior Scientist, Ottawa Health Research Institute
Director, Program in Regenerative Medicine, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa

Wednesday, April 29th
Sua Myong
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

Wednesday, May 6
M. Amin Arnaout, MD
Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Principal Investigator at Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital

Fall 2014

Wednesday, October 1
Salman Khetani
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Colorado State University

Wednesday, October 8
Paula T. Hammond
David H. Koch Professor of Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering and Koch Institute of Integrative Cancer Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Wednesday, October 15
Cory Berkland
Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
The University of Kansas

Wednesday, October 29
Matthias P. Lütolf
Laboratory of Stem Cell Bioengineering
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Spring 2014

Fall 2013

Sept. 4
Sanjay Kumar
Associate Professor of Bioengineering- University of California, Berkeley
Hosted by Professor Kevin Healy

Sept. 11
Edward Botchwey
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering- Georgia Institute of Technology
Hosted by Professor Sanjay Kumar

Sept. 18
Mohammad Mofrad
Associate Professor of Bioengineering- University of California, Berkeley
Hosted by Professor Kevin Healy

Oct. 2
Anup Singh
Senior Manager, Biological Science and Technology, Sandia National Laboratories
Senior Director, Analytical Technologies, The Joint BioEnergy Institute
Hosted by Professor Adam Arkin

Oct. 9
Robert O. Ritchie
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hosted by Professor Kevin Healy

Oct. 16
Andrew Ellington
Wilson and Kathryn Fraser Research Professorship in Biochemistry – The University of Texas at Austin
Hosted by Professor John Dueber

Oct. 23
Dirk Hockemeyer
Assistant Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology- University of California, Berkeley
Hosted by Professor Kevin Healy

Oct. 30
Donald Gaver
Professor at The Institute for Cellular & Molecular Biology- Tulane University
Hosted by Professor Dorian Liepmann

Nov. 6
Luke Lee
Professor of Bioengineering- University of California, Berkeley
Hosted by Professor Kevin Healy

Nov. 13
Nicole Steinmetz
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering- Case Western Reserve University
Hosted by Professor Kevin Healy

Nov. 20
Syed Hossainy
Volwiler Fellow and Director, Innovation Incubator, Abbott Vascular
Hosted by Professor Kevin Healy

Dec. 4
Nenad Bursac
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering- Duke University
Hosted by Professor Song Li

Spring 2013

Wed 1/23
Sriram Kosuri
Staff Scientist at the Wyss Institute- Harvard University
Hosted by Niren Murthy

Wed 1/30
John Hogenesch
Associate Professor of Pharmacology- University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by John Dueber / Steven Brenner

Wed 2/6
Shuichi Takayama
Professor of Biomedical Engineering- University of Michigan
Hosted by Amy Herr

Wed 2/6
Dave Zhang
Postdoctoral Scholar at the Wyss Institute- Harvard University
Hosted by Niren Murthy

Wed 2/13
Allan Hoffman
Emeritus Professor of Bioengineering- University of Washington
Hosted by Kevin Healy

Thurs 2/14
Mikhail Shapiro
Miller Research Fellow at the Departments of Bioengineering and Molecular & Cell Biology- University of California, Berkeley
Hosted by Niren Murthy

Wed 2/20
Rong Lu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine- Stanford University
Hosted by Niren Murthy

Wed 2/27
Kwanghun Chung
BWF CASI Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Bioengineering Department- Stanford University
Hosted by Niren Murthy

Thurs 2/28
Ximin “Tracy” He
Postdoctoral Associate- Harvard University
Hosted by Niren Murthy

Mon 3/4
Jordan Miller
Postdoctoral Fellow- University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by Niren Murthy

Wed 3/6
David Meaney
Professor and Chair of Bioengineering- University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by Sanjay Kumar

Thurs 3/7
Cheemeng Tan
Society in Science – Branco Weiss Fellow & Lane Fellow at the Ray and Stephanie Lane Center for Computational Biology- Carnegie Mellon University
Hosted by Niren Murthy

Mon 3/11
Phillip Messersmith
Professor- Northwestern University
Hosted by Niren Murthy

Wed 3/13
Stefan Duma
Harry C. Wyatt Professor and Head of Virginia Tech / Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences
Hosted by Kevin Healy

Thurs 3/14
Tania “Tali” Konry
Instructor in Surgery (Bioengineering)- Harvard Medical School,
Assistant in Bioengineering- Massachusetts General Hospital, Research Fellow- Shriners Hospital
Hosted by Niren Murthy

Mon 3/18
Matthew Paszek
Fellow- Cornell University / University of California, San Francisco
Hosted by Niren Murthy

Wed 3/20
Cole DeForest
Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering- California Institute of Technology
Hosted by Niren Murthy

Mon 3/25
Anand Subramaniam
Postdoctoral Fellow- Harvard University
Hosted by Niren Murthy

Wed 3/27
Jonathan Liu
Assistant Professor at The State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook
Hosted by Niren Murthy

Wed 4/3
Benjamin Cosgrove
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology- Stanford University
Hosted by Niren Murthy

Wed 5/1
Rigoberto “Gobet” Advincula
Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering- Case Western Reserve University
Research Professor of Chemistry- University of Houston
Hosted by Kevin Healy

Wed 5/8
Richard Murray
Thomas E. and Doris Everhart Professor of Control & Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering- California Institute of Technology
Hosted by John Dueber