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The Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering

Seminar Series

The Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering values the sharing of experiences from biomedical experts in the field through scheduled seminars throughout the year.

The SBME Academic Seminar Series feature faculty members from in-state and out-of-state, some with whom we have established shared collaborative research projects. 

2024-2025 Seminar Series

Fall 2024

August 23, 2024
SBME Faculty and Staff
New SBME Graduate Student Orientation

August 30, 2024
No Seminar

September 6, 2024
SBME Graduate Faculty
SBME Graduate Faculty Research Presentations

September 13, 2024
Handan Acar, Ph.D., SBME Assistant Professor
Introduction to Seminar

September 20, 2024
Turner and Selvaraj
Graduate Student Presentations

September 27, 2024
Furrer and Catelain
Graduate Student Presentations

October 4, 2024
Masquelin and Ghanbari
Graduate Student Presentations

October 11, 2024
No Seminar - OU TX

October 18, 2024
Enkbholor
Graduate Student Presentations

October 25, 2024
No Seminar - BMES

November 1, 2024
Chris Corbett, Ph.D.
OU Director of Intellectual Property
OU Patent Application Process

November 8, 2024
Eric Andrew Appel, Ph.D.
Stanford Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
TBA

November 15, 2024
Tae Gyu Oh, Ph.D.
OUHSC Oncology Assistant Professor
TBA

November 22, 2024 (Co-Sponsored with COBRE)
Reto Fiolka, Ph.D.
UT Southwestern Associate Professor of Bioinformatics
TBA

November 29, 2024
No Seminar

December 6, 2024
No Seminar

December 13, 2024
No Seminar

Spring 2025

January 24, 2025
McCollum and He
Graduate Student Presentations

January 31, 2025
Zhang and Huang
Graduate Student Presentations

February 7, 2025
Aydin
Graduate Student Presentation

February 14, 2025
Speaker TBA
TBA

February 21, 2025
Speaker TBA
TBA

February 28, 2025
Speaker TBA
TBA

March 7, 2025
Speaker TBA
TBA

March 14, 2025
Speaker TBA
TBA

March 21, 2025
No Seminar - Spring Break

March 28, 2025
Speaker TBA
TBA

April 4, 2025
Speaker TBA
TBA

April 11, 2025
Speaker TBA
TBA

April 18, 2025
Speaker TBA
TBA

April 25, 2025
Dr. Hong Chen, Ph.D.
Washu St. Louis Associate Prefessor of Biomedical Engineering
TBA

May 2, 2024
No Seminar

May 9, 2025
No Seminar

Seminar Series Archive

August 25, 2023
No Seminar

September 1, 2023
Faculty Research Presentations

September 8, 2023
Sampurna Chakraborty, PhD Student
Advancing Breast Cancer Therapy: Exploring Conjugates with Annexin A5 Protein for Targeted Intervention

September 15, 2023
Lucas Yan, PhD Student
Evaluation of Human Kidney for Transplantation Using Polarization-Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography

September 22, 2023
Serana Nelson, MS Student
Synthesis of Biocompatible GBN Nanocomposites for Imaging of Cancer Cells and other Biomedical Applications

Drew Sikora, PhD Student
Association between Opioid Dependence and Scale Free Fractal Brain Activity: An EEG Study

September 29, 2023
Ke Zhang, PhD Student
Using symmetric illumination and color camera to achieve high throughput Fourier ptychographic microscopy

Chen Wang, PhD Student
Epidural Anesthesia Guidance by Using Polarization-Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography (PS-OCT)

October 2, 2023 (Special Seminar)
Dr. Eric Anglaret, Professor of Physics of Materials, Polytech Montpellier, Universite de Montpelier
Near Infrared Spectroscopy of Single‐walled Carbon Nanotubes Dispersed in Aqueous Environments

October 6, 2023
No Seminar, Student Fall Break

October 13, 2023
No Seminar, BMES Conference

October 20, 2023
No Seminar

October 27, 2023
No Seminar

November 3, 2023
Dr. John Klier, Gallogly College of Engineering Dean
Synopsis of industry career and lessons learned, university research involving in-situ functionalization of polymer colloids and introduction to biomanufacturing facility

November 10, 2023
No Seminar

November 17, 2023
No Seminar

November 24, 2023
No Seminar

December 1, 2023
No Seminar

December 8, 2023
No Seminar, Pre-Finals Week

December 15, 2023
No Seminar, Finals Week

 

September 2, 2022
Dr. Kevin Fraancis
MONITORING DISEASE STATES IN LIVE ANIMALS USING NON-IVASIVE OPTICAL IMAGING

October 21, 2022
Dr. Yvonne Chen
ENGINEERING NEXT-GENERATION T CELLS FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY

October 28, 2022
Dr. Chao Zhou
ULTRAHIGH-SPEED OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY AND ITS BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS

November 4, 2022
Dr. Jongyong Ye
DEVELOPMENT OF AN OPEN-MICROCAVITY OPTICAL SENSOR FOR SENSITIVE LABEL-FREE BIOSSAYS

November 11, 2022
Dr. Susan Thomas
ENGINEERED BIOMATERIALS FOR LYMPH NODE DRUG DELIVERY AND DISEASE MODELING ENABLE NEXT-GENERATION APPROACHES IN CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY

November 18, 2022
Dr. Jennifer Barton
EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER WITH MULTIMODAL ENDOSCOPES

December 2, 2022
Dr. Carligin Bouten
MATERIALS-DRIVEN IN-SITU CARDIOVASCULAR TISSUE ENGINEERING

January 20, 2023
Dr. Karen Jonscher
MATERNALLY SUPPLEMENTED PQQ TARGETS CERAMIDE METABOLISM IN OFFSPRING TO BLUNT DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAMMING OF NAFLD

January 27, 2023
Cancelled

February 3, 2023
Dr. Joel Collier
IMMUNE-MODULATING PEPTIDE MATERIALS FOR INFLAMMATORY DISEASE

February 10, 2023
Graduate Student Presentations

February 24, 2023
Graduate Student Presentations

March 3, 2023
Dr. Kaitlyn Sadtler
HARNESSING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM IN TISSUE REGENERATION

March 24, 2023
Dr. Xueding Wang
Light + Sound: Imaging & Therapy

March 31, 2023
Dr. Zhongping Chen
ADVANCES IN FUNCTIONAL OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY: TRANSLATION OF F-OCT TECHNOLOGY FROM BENCH TO BEDSIDE

April 7, 2023
Dr. Baowei Fei
Hyperspectral Imaging for Cancer Detection and Image-Guided Surgery

April 14, 2023
Dr. Krishnendu Roy
Cancelled

April 21, 2023
Graduate Student Presentations

April 28, 2023
Graduate Student Presentations

September 24, 2021

Brian Pogue, Ph.D.  MacLean Professor of Engineering Dartmouth College

ENGINEERING OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEMS FOR SPECIALTY MEDICAL APPLICATIONS

 

October 1, 2021

Lesley Chow, Ph.D.

SPATIALLY ORGANIZED BIOMATERIALS TO DIRECT OSTEOCHONDRAL TISSUE REGENERATION

 

October 22, 2021

Shalini Prasad, Ph.D.

SWEATSENSER DX an enabling technology for on demand profiling of cytokines on passively expressed eccrine sweat

 

October 29, 2021

David Otuya, Ph.D.

Transnasal Platform for Imaging, Biopsy and Biomass Sampling of the Gut.

 

November 12, 2021

Chandramouli Krishnan, Ph.D.

 

November 19, 2021

Sydney Schaefer, Ph.D.

 

December 3, 2021

Ze Wang, Ph.D.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Ashish Ranjan, Ph.D.  Associate Professor and Kerr Chair Department of Physiological Sciences, Oklahoma State University.

Translating Focused Ultrasound Directed Nanoparticles and Immunoadjuvants for Chemo_Immunotherapy of Solid Tumors

 

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Lee E. Miller, Ph.D.  Professor of Physiology, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and BME, Northwestern University.

Designing Motor BCIS for the Real World

 

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Franca Tecchio, Ph.D.  Director of Laboratory of Electrophysiology for Translational Neuroscience, National Research Council (CNR), Italy.

How Simple is the Brain Complexity

 

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Silvestro Micera, Ph.D.  Professor, Bertarelli Foundation Chair in Translational Neuroengineering., Swiss Federal Institute of Tecnology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

IMPLANTABLE NEUROPROSTHESES TO UNDERSTAND AND RESTORE SENSORY, MOTOR AND AUTONOMIC NEURAL FUNCTIONS

 

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Sahab Khalsa, Ph.D.  Professor, Director of Clinical Studies, Laureate Institute for Brain Research; Assistant Professor in Health Sciences, Univeristy of Tulsa.

From Sensations to Symptoms: The role of Interoception in Mental Health.

 

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Satoshi Kashiwagi, M.D., Ph.D.  Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Gordon Center for Medical Imaging, Department of Radiology.

Near-Infrared Laser Adjuvant for Vaccinations

 

March 5, 2021

Kirill Larin, Ph.D.

Structural and Functional Imaging of Tissues with Optical Coherence Tomography / Elastography.

 

April 9, 2021

Matthew Wettergreen, Ph.D.

Developing Student Professional and Technical Skills Through Hands on Engineering Design Programming.

 

April 16, 2021

Jamal Lewis, Ph.D.

ADVANCES IN ENGINEERING PARTICLES FOR IMMUNOTHERAPY OF AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE

 

April 23, 2021

Chris Xu, Ph.D.

MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY FOR IMAGING DEEPER, WIDER, AND FASTER

 

April 30, 2021

Devin Hubbard, Ph.D.

WILD IDEAS IN DESIGN PEDAGOGY & MASK TECHNOLOGIES

August 30, 2019

NANYIN ZHANG, PH.D Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering  Pennsylvania State University

MANIPULATING AND MONITORING THE BRAIN NETWORK FUNCTION IN AWAKE RODENTS USING MULTI-MODAL APPROACHES

 

September 6, 2019

WEI CHEN, PH. D Professor of Biomedical Engineering Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Education and Research Dean of the College of Mathematics and Science University of Central Oklahoma

SYNERGIZING PHOTOTHERAPY AND IMMUNOTERAPY FOR METASTATIC CANCERS

 

Sept 12, 2019

Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D, University Professor, Albert and Wilda Van Dusen Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Professor of Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering,Chief Executive Officer, Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, University of Connecticut

Success is What you Leave Behind

 

Oct 08, 2019

T. Venky Venkatesan, Director of the Nano Institute at the National University of Singapore (NUSNNI) Professor of ECE, Physics, MSE and NGS.

ULTRA-LOW SWITCHING ENERGY MEMORIES TO ARTIFICIAL NEURONS

 

Oct 25, 2019

Anthony C. Johnson, clinical assistant professor of research in the OU Medicine Department of Neurology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.

THE BLACK BOX OF CHRONIC VISCERAL PAIN: SHINING LIGHT ON NOVEL CIRCUITRY

 

Nov 08, 2019

Larry McEnerney, Director of Writing Programs, University of Chicago

Writing Effectively for Biomedical Engineering: The Value of Creating Value

 

Nov 15, 2019

Joseph culver, Professor of Radiology, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine.

DIFFUSE OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY

 

Dec 06, 2019

Metin Akay, Founding Chair, John S Dunn Endowed Chair Professor, University of Houston.

BRAIN CANCER CHIP FOR PRECISION MEDICINE

 

Jan 6, 2020

Yu Zhang, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry and Behavior Sciences, Stanford University

NEURAL PATTERN DECODING USING MACHINE LEARNING FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS

 

Jan 09, 2020

Dr. WEI CHEN, Professor, Biomedical Engineering Dean, College of Mathematics and Science, University of Central Oklahoma

ANTITUMOR IMMUNE RESPONSES INDUCED BY LASER IMMUNOTHERAPY FOR TREATMENT OF METASTATIC CANCERS

 

Jan 23, 2020

Yuan Yang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University Medical School.

FUNCTIONAL NEURAL CONNECTIVITY IN HEMIPARETIC STROKE

 

March 6, 2020

Anna Csiszar, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Donald W. Reynolds Endowed Chair of Aging Research Reynolds Oklahoma Center on Aging, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.

ADJUSTMENT OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW VIA NEUROVASCULAR COUPLING

 

April 10, 2020

Doris M. Benbrook, Ph.D. Presidential Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Co-Leader, Gynecologic Cancers Program Co-Principal Investigator, Center for Cancer Prevention and Drug Development Stephenson Cancer Center University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

DEVELOPMENT OF A CANCER DRUG THAT DISRUPTS ONCOGENIC HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN A/CLIENT PROTEIN INTERACTIONS

 

APRIL 17, 2020

Jeff Ross, Ph.D. Chief Executive Officer, MiroMatrix.

Bioengineering Transplantable Organs— The Future of Regenerative Medicine

 

Virtual BESA Symposium

APRIL 24, 2020

Jennifer L. West, Ph.D. Co-founder | NanoSpectra Biosciences Professor | Biomedical Engineering, Duke University.

Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Nanotechnology: Translating Cutting-Edge Technologies from the Lab to the Clinic

August 13, 2018

George Gopen, JD, PhD, Professor Emertitus, Duke University.

Scientific Writing from the Reader’s Perspective

 

August 17, 2018

Ramin Skibba, PhD. Scientific Writer

Charting a Course from Science Research to Science Writing for the Public!

 

September 14, 2018

Wendy Newstetter, Assistant Dean in the College of Engineering, Georgia Tech.

Problem-based Learning in Engineering Education

 

September 28, 2018

Jie ZhengAssociate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Renal Clearable Nanomedicines

 

October 12, 2018

Liping TangProfessor at the Universtiy of Texas - Arlington

Development of Cancer Traps for Combating Metastatic Cancer

 

October 26, 2018

Michael Businelle, Associate Professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine

Using smartphones to identify and intervene upon mechanisms of behavior change

 

November 2, 2018

Robin Felder, Professor and Associate Director of Clinical Chemistry and Toxicology

Automated 3D cell culture provides standardized, biologically relevant and high capacity production of human cells

 

November 9, 2018

Kent Leach, Professor in Biomedical Engineering at UC Davis

Engineered microenvironments to guide progenitor cell-based therapies in tissue paper.

 

November 30, 2018

M. N. V. Ravi Kumar, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Texas A&M Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy.

Emerging Nanosystems in Drug Delivery:  It’s all about delivery

 

December 5, 2018

Craig Duvall, Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University

Matrix binding nanocarriers for molecularly targeted osteoarthritis therapy

 

March 6, 2019

X. Edward Guo, Ph.D., Chair and Stanley Dicker Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering Columbia University

Bone Bioengineering: Microstructure, Mechanics, Mechanobiology and Beyond

 

March 15, 2019

Javier A. Jo, Ph.D., Professor of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma

Novel Technologies for Quantitative Optical Image Guided Precision Medicine

 

June 14, 2019

Jenny Robinson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Kansas

Emulsion Electrospun Fibers for Sex-Dependent Fibrocartilage Regeneration

Sept. 1, 2017

Cory Berkland, Ph.D.Solon E. Summerfield Distinguished Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at The University of Kansas.

A Few Early Lessons in Entrepreneurship

 

October 20, 2017

Michael Deem, Ph.D. Department of Bioengineering Rice University

Static and Dynamic Measures of Human Brain Connectivity Predict Complementary Aspects of Human Cognitive Performance

 

October 27, 2017

Kumar Sripathirathan, Ph.D.  CEO of DRIK, Inc.  

Drug discovery and development

 

Nov 10, 2017

Akhilesh K. Gaharwar, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University.

Designing Mineral Based Therapeutics to Control and Direct Cell Function

Sept. 16, 2016

Gregory Sutton, Ph.D. Royal Society University Research Fellow, Department Biological Sciences University of Bristol, UK

Lessons in Mechanical Design Learned from Insects

 

Oct. 28, 2016

Lijie Grace Zhang Associate Professor Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of Biomedical Engineering Department of Medicine The George Washington University 

Integrating 3D Bioprinting and Nanomaterials for Complex Tissue Regeneration

 

Nov. 4, 2016

Emily Day, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Delaware

Enabling High Precision Cancer Therapy with Engineered Nanoparticles

 

Nov. 11, 2016

Michael C. Morton Vice President for Corporate Regulatory Affairs Medtronic, Inc.

The Medical Device Industry: Perspectives of the Global Healthcare Ecosystem

 

Nov. 18, 2016

Hinrich Staecker, MD, Ph.D. Professor Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery University of Kansas Medical Center

Molecular Modification of Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Translational Inner Ear Research

 

May 5, 2017

Brendan Harley, Sc.D. Dept. of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

Engineering the Niche to Address Emerging Challenges in Regenerative Medicine

April 13, 2016

Rachel Childers Ph.D. Candidate, Ohio State University, Department of Biomedical Engineering; Candidate for Professor of Practice

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