Seminars
The GSC coordinates a series of seminar hosted in both the Fall and Spring semesters for the benefit of the graduate student community. In the Fall the speaker series is hosted by the GSC and is known as the Distinguished BME Lecture — the full schedule of speakers can be found here. In the Spring the speaker series is hosted by the BME Department as part of its Faculty Search Lectures — the full schedule of speakers can be found on BME GSC Calendar. In addition to Department Seminars, the GSC also coordinates Student Seminars as a venue to practice presentation skills and bounce ideas off peers.
[Dept Seminar] 1/17/19
Come join us for the first department seminar of the new year! Mary Teruel kicks off the faculty search series this Spring.
To see the upcoming speakers and dates, please visit the department seminar page or connect to the Department Seminar Google Calendar. All Ph.D. students will be required to attend 3 out of 10 seminars. There will be a raffle at the end of the semester and you'll receive one virtual raffle ticket for each seminar you attend over the requirement, so attend as many as possible!
We will also be coordinating student lunches with each of the speakers. If you are interested in signing up for lunch, please do so at this link. Please note: due to limited space, there are a few speakers whose talks will not count toward the attendance requirement, but they are still listed on the lunch form. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact bmegsc@bu.edu. If you have conflicts, please contact Christen Bailey.
[Dept Seminar/QBP keynote] 12/13/18 John Rogers
[Student Seminar] 12/18/18 Israel Desta + Christos Michas
[Dept Seminar] 12/07/18 Christopher Moore
[Dept Seminar] TRB Annual Distinguised Lecture – Elliot Chaikof
Translational Research in Biomaterials Distinguished Lecture
This seminar COUNTS toward BME departmental seminar attendance
Elliot L. Chaikof, M.D., Ph.D.
Surgeon-in-Chief
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Johnson and Johnson Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School
“Thrombosis and Bleeding in the Modern Era”
Thursday, November 8 at 4 pm
110 Cummington Mall, Room 245
Refreshments will be served.
Abstract:
We currently lack therapies that reduce the risk of thrombosis without an attendant risk of bleeding. Such strategies will be necessary to decrease the substantial morbidity and mortality currently attributable to venous thromboembolism, stroke, myocardial infarction, and peripheral arterial disease or otherwise improve our ability to develop clinically effective implantable artificial organs that interface with blood, including the artificial heart, lung, and kidney. This seminar will review our recent efforts to develop new drugs that inhibit platelet activation and the coagulation cascade, while breaking the link between the inhibition of thrombosis and preservation of hemostasis. We will discuss strategies that locally concentrate inhibitors of thrombosis at incipient sites of clot formation, blockade of leukocytes as an under-appreciated contributor to thrombosis, and approaches to regenerate anti-thrombogenic films on blood-contacting devices after device implantation.
Biography:
Elliot L. Chaikof, M.D., Ph.D., is Chairman of the Roberta and Stephen R. Weiner Department of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), as well as the Johnson and Johnson Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He is a member of the Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering of Harvard University and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.
Dr. Chaikof received his B.A. and M.D. from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he focused on the design of artificial organs. He completed his training in General Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital and in Vascular Surgery at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.
Dr. Chaikof’s basic research interests lie at the interface of medicine and engineering. Leading collaborative research efforts with clinicians, engineers, and biologists, Dr. Chaikof has designed new strategies that have advanced the development of engineered living tissues, implantable devices, and artificial organs, as well as cell-based therapies, which have helped to define the evolving field of Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Chaikof’s laboratory has received more than $25 million in federal funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, as well as support from the American Heart Association and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. He served as the Emory Principle Investigator for a $40 million dollar, 10-year award from the National Science Foundation that funded the Georgia Tech/Emory Center for the Engineering of Living Tissues. Nearly two dozen patents have been issued or filed based on work in his laboratory and have been licensed for improving the care of patients. Dr. Chaikof’s technology has led to the formation of Cool-Bio, Inc., which is focused on the development of temperature sensitive platelet inhibitors.
Dr. Chaikof’s clinical interests focus on the treatment of vascular diseases of the aorta, carotid, and peripheral arteries. In 1994, he initiated one of the first programs for endovascular aortic aneurysm repair in the United States and was among the core group of principal investigators that conducted the first FDA approved clinical trials of stent-grafts for repair of abdominal and thoracic aortic aneurysms. He has been responsible for the formulation of national best practice guidelines for the treatment of aortic aneurysms.
Dr. Chaikof came to Harvard Medical School in 2010 from Emory University, where he held the John E. Skandalakis Chair of Surgery and was Chief of Vascular Surgery. He continues to serve as an Adjunct Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the School of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He served as President of the Atlanta Vascular Society, as well as the International Society of Applied Cardiovascular Biology.
Dr. Chaikof has been listed in the Castle Connolly guide of Best Doctors in America and was regularly named one of Atlanta’s Top Doctors by Atlanta magazine and most recently by Boston magazine. He has published more than 250 articles in major surgical journals, the New England Journal of Medicine, and Nature as well as in leading journals in the fields of engineering and chemistry. Dr. Chaikof’s leadership of clinical units and large projects that span and bring together schools of medicine and engineering and constituency organizations has contributed to public policy designed to improve the quality of care of the surgical patient.
[Student Seminar] 11/13/18 The Art of Scientific Illustration – Bell Varongchayakul
[Dept Seminar] 10/12/18 Boris Hinz
[Student Seminar] Speaker Solicitations for October Lightning talks 10/16/18
Hi Everyone,
The October edition of the GSC student seminar series is our annual Lightning Talks seminar, in which we have a larger number of presenters give one slide, five minute presentations on their research. This is to 1.) mix up presentations styles and keep the seminar series fresh and 2.) give our first-years a chance to see work from a number of labs across the department in one go.
This year's lightning talks will take place at our regular Tuesday lunch seminar time (12-1pm) on October 16th in ERB 203.
Of course, we won't be able to do this without speakers to present and that's where you all come in. If you would like to give a lightning talk please fill out this form.
Otherwise, keep your calendar open for lunch on Tuesday 10/16, and we will see you there!
Best,
Your GSC
[Student Seminar] 9/25/18 Smrithi Sunil and Shawn Javdan
The GSC Student Seminar Series kicks off this upcoming Tuesday, 9/25, @ 12 pm in ERB 203. This installment will highlight work from students in the Neurophotonics Center and the Biological Design Center.
- Smrithi Sunil (David Boas Lab): "A macroscopic to microscopic view of hemodynamics and neurovascular coupling during stroke recovery"
- Shwan Javdan (Allyson Sgro Lab): "Visualizing Extracellular Signaling Dynamics"
The Student Seminar series are student organized talks that allow grad students in the department to present on their research and practice their communication skills. This year, we would like to move the focus more towards highlighting students' research across different fields, and we will be exploring new formats. September will feature two 20 min talks, October will feature Lightening Talks, and November will feature a skills workshop focused on Scientific Illustration. As always, lunch will be served. We hope to see you there!
[Dept Seminar] 9/21/18 Nancy Allbritton
Join us for the first department seminar of the year featuring Nancy Allbritton! The rest of the semester's lineup of speakers can be found on the department seminar page.
