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September 22, 2020 | 4:00-4:30 PM
“Microfluidics and Digital Manufacturing”
The goal of the Folch lab is to make microfluidic devices as easy and intuitive to use as smartphones. We are developing the next generation of microfluidic devices for applications in automated cell culture, neuroscience research, cancer diagnostics, and cancer therapy
October 6, 2020 | 4:00-4:30 PM
“Actuators for Microrobotics using Microfabrication, Additive Manufacturing, and Shape Memory Alloys”
Dr. Camilo Velez Cuervo currently works as Postdoctoral Research Associate with Sarah Bergbreiter's group at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include micro/nano robotics, micro/nano device fabrication, microfabrication of magnetic microsystems, magnetic micro/nanostructures, selective magnetization of micro patterns, microsystems (MEMS), biomedical microsystems, semiconductor devices and microfluidics.
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”
Xuemei May Cheng received her bachelors degree in physics from Nanjing University in 1997, and her masters degree in solid state electronics, also from Nanjing University in 2000. She continued her studies at John Hopkins University where she earned masters and Ph.D. degrees in physics in 2004 and 2006. After a postdoctoral fellowship in the X-ray Science Division at Argonne National Lab, she joined the faculty at Bryn Mawr College in 2009. May’s research focuses on the fabrication, characterization and application of nanoscaled materials. Current projects include: templated electrochemical deposition of nanoscaled materials for energy and medical applications; time-resolved imaging of spin dynamics in magnetic nanostructures; and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism study of multiferroic materials. She has recently received an NSF CAREER award. She has also been awarded access to DOE user facilities at national laboratories.