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BME Seminar Series - 2013


10/7/2013Harnessing sphingolipid signaling and metabolism to promote angiocrine signaling, inflammation resolution and tissue repair
  Edward Botchwey
Associate Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech
  Hosted By: Warren Grayson
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9/23/2013Elucidation of Mechanisms of Tumor Initiation and Progression by Interrogation of Regulatory Networks
  Andrea Califano, Ph.D.
Columbia University
  Hosted By: Dr. Joel Bader
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6/21/2013"Multifunctional Nanoparticles for Molecular Imaging and Profiling"
  Xiaohu Gao, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Bioengineering, University of Washington
  Hosted By: Dr. Xingde Li
  More info and abstract
  Presentation video

6/13/2013The Convergence of Computational Modeling and Clinical Informatics in Neuromodulation Therapy
  Christopher R. Butson, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Neurology & Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin
  Hosted By: Dr. Butson is an ICM Faculty Candidate
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6/5/2013Neuroplasticity for Motor Learning in a Modular Motor System
  Vincent Cheung, PhD
Research Scientist, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT
  Hosted By: Dept. of BME
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5/14/2013Synthetic Approaches to Deciphering Cis-Regulatory Codes
  Sriram Kosuri, Sc.D.
Staff Scientist, Wyss Institute at Harvard University
  Hosted By: Dr. Winston Timp
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5/13/2013Designing materials for next-generation vaccines and cancer immunotherapies, or our recent obsession with hitch-hiking therapeutics
  Darrell Irvine, Ph.D.
Professor, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT
  Hosted By: Jordan Green
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5/6/2013Bayesian inference with efficient neural population codes
  Alan A. Stocker, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Computational Perception and Cognition Laboratory | Dept. of Psychology, School of Arts & Sciences, Univ. of Pennsylvania
  Hosted By: Sri Sarma
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4/29/2013Getting Deeper with Multiphoton Microscopy: In vivo neuroscience and 3D histopathology
  Michael Levene
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neurology | Yale University and Yale School of Medicine
  Hosted By: Xingde Li
  More info and abstract

4/22/2013Identifying and tracking transitions in neural spiking dynamics in the subthalamic nucleus of Parkinson’s patients
  Uri Tzvi Eden, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University
  Hosted By: Dr. Sri Sarma
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4/15/2013Infection Mimicking Polymers as Cancer Vaccines
  David J. Mooney, Ph.D.
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences And Wyss Institute, Harvard University
  Hosted By: Jordan Green
  More info and abstract

3/11/2013"Neurogrid: An energy-efficient platform for simulating large-scale neural models"
  Kwabena Boahen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Bioengineering Department, Stanford University
  Hosted By: Sri Sarma
  More info and abstract
  Presentation video

3/4/2013Intermittent Neural Synchronization in Basal Ganglia in Parkinson’s Disease
  Leonid Rubchinsky
Associate Professor, Purdue University, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine
  Hosted By: Dr. Sri Sarma

2/25/2013Label-free Imaging and Single-cell Genome Sequencing for Cancer Research and Diagnostics
  Xiaoliang Xie, PhD
Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard University
  Hosted By: Xingde Li
  More info and abstract

2/11/2013"The Virtues of Ca2+ Signaling for Synthetic Biology "
  Kevin Truong, Ph.D., P. Eng.
Associate Professor, University of Toronto
  Hosted By: David Yue
  More info and abstract
  Presentation video

2/4/2013"Understanding of human disease in a tissue-specific context through the integration of diverse functional genomics data"
  Olga Troyanskaya
Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
  Hosted By: Dr. Rachel Karchin
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