September 22, 2020 | 4:00-4:30 PM

“Microfluidics and Digital Manufacturing”

October 6, 2020 | 4:00-4:30 PM

“Actuators for Microrobotics using Microfabrication, Additive Manufacturing, and Shape Memory Alloys”

October 20, 2020 | 4:00-4:30 PM

“Study and Control of Collective Cell Behavior”

Prof. Daniel Cohen is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University.  Research in the Cohen lab focuses primarily on bioengineering with applications to biomaterials and tissue engineering. We take the elegant swarming and collective behaviors that allow tissues to heal injuries, grow, and form complex structures and connect them to engineering approaches that enable us to control those behaviors in new ways. One example of this is ‘outside-in’ control of tissues where we are building microfluidic and bioelectric devices to literally herd the migration of hundreds of thousands of cells in a manner analogous to sheep herding. This technology may enable us to better control tissue growth and to accelerate wound healing. On the flip side, we are building cell-mimetic materials and microstructures that can integrate directly into living tissues in order to control them from the 'inside-out’. Our work spans a variety of disciplines and we welcome people from all backgrounds to come join us!

November 3, 2020 | 4:00-4:30 PM

“Emerging Wearable Bioelectronics: Creating a New Era of Personalized Medicine”

Professor Sam Emaminejad is an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at UCLA and the founder and director of the Interconnected & Integrated Bioelectronics Lab (I²BL). Sam received his BASc (2009) and MS/PhD (2011/2014) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and Stanford University, respectively. Prior to joining UCLA, he was a joint-postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley and Stanford School of Medicine. Professor Emaminejad has received numerous honors and awards including the NSF CAREER, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) scholarship, Microsoft Merit, the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation’s NARSAD Young Investigator award, and PhRMA Research Starter Grant (Translational Medicine and Therapeutics Program). Also, he has been awarded a “Distinguished Young Investigator Award” for leading a multi-center program on remote patient monitoring with UCLA, Intermountain Healthcare and Stanford School of Medicine.

November 17, 2020 | 4:00-4:30 PM

“Nanomaterials and Spintronics”

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