Department Seminar
In Fall 2015, the GSC started a student-run and hosted department seminar series. This Fall Distinguished Lecture series seeks to bring renown, compelling speakers to BU and gives students the chance to network and mingle with experts in their fields.
All members of the BME student community are welcome to participate on Department Seminar Committee! You can suggest a speaker, sign up to get lunch with the speaker or become part of the committee by emailing bmegsc@bu.edu.
To view past speakers, visit the archive here.
Fall 2020 Speaker Schedule
Seminar schedule coming soon!
Fall 2019 Speaker Schedule
All seminars to be held in PHO 206 from 3:30PM – 4:30PM on the dates listed, with the exception of * which will be from 2:00 – 3:00pm.
| Date | Speaker | Current Institution | Research Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9/6/2019 | Sumita Pennathu | UC Santa Barbara | Nanoscale chemicals and biological systems, Diagnostics |
| 10/4/2019* | Ravi Bellamkonda | Duke University | Neurological biomaterials |
| 10/11/2019 | Krishna Shenoy | Stanford University | Neural prosthetics |
| 11/1/2019 | Domitilla Del Vecchio | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Synthetic genetic circuits |
| 11/8/2019 | Cheryl Blanchard | President & CEO Keratin Biosciences | Biomaterials for regenerative medicine and drug delivery |
| 12/6/2019 | Taejkip Ha | Johns Hopkins University | Single molecule imaging |
| 12/13/2019 | Liangfang Zhang | UC San Diego | ^QBP symposium speaker |
Department Seminar with Chris B.Schaffer, PhD, Cornell University
BME Departmental Seminar with Kapil Bharti, PhD
BME Seminar: Julius Lucks, PhD
BME seminar: Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Ph.D. Rice University
Please join us for our second talk in this year's BME Seminar Series. We''ll be hearing from
Dr. Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Ph.D. Rice University
Friday, October 9, 2015
PHO 206 at 3 pm
Followed by reception
Rebecca Richards-Kortum has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s foremost scholarly honors.
Richards-Kortum is Rice’s Stanley C. Moore Professor of Bioengineering, professor of electrical and computer engineering and director Rice 360°: Institute for Global Health Technologies.
For two decades, Richards-Kortum has focused on translating research in nanotechnology, molecular imaging and microfabrication to develop optical imaging systems that are inexpensive, portable and provide point-of-care diagnoses for diseases ranging from cancer to malaria. Her research has produced 29 patents, more than 230 research papers, 11 book chapters and the textbook Biomedical Engineering for Global Health.
She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and an inaugural member of the National Advisory Council for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for the National Institutes of Health. Richards-Kortum also is a fellow of the Optical Society of America, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Biomedical Engineering Society and the National Academy of Inventors.
Her many awards and honors include the 2013 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation, the 2014 Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award from the Optical Society of America, Rice’s George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching and the 2007 Chester F. Carlson Award from the American Society for Engineering Education. She was named a professor of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 2002 and 2006.
1st BME Seminar is this Friday!
