<h3>Biomedical Engineering
Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Seminar Series</h3>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>Friday, March 29th, 2013</strong>
<strong>Dr. Jordan J. Green</strong>
Johns Hopkins University
<strong>Title:</strong> <a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Seminar-Series-Flyer-Dr.-Jordan-J.-Green.pdf"><strong>“A Library of Engineered Polymeric Nanoparticles for Effective DNA and siRNDelivery”</strong></a>
<strong>Location:</strong> Engineering Center Room EC 2300
<strong>Time:</strong> 9:00AM-10:AM</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>Monday, March 25th, 2013</strong>
<strong>Dr. Nicholas T. Kirkland</strong>
Nagasaki University
<strong>Title:</strong> <a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Seminar-Series-Flyer-Nicholas-Kirkland.pdf"><strong>“Magnesium Biocorrosion—Common Errors to Best Practice”</strong></a>
<strong>Location:</strong> Engineering Center EC 2300
<strong>Time:</strong> 9:00AM-10AM</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>Friday, March 8th, 2013
Dr. K. Kirk Shung
</strong>Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Southern California
<strong>Title: <a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Seminar-Series-Flyer-Dr.-K.-Kirk-Shung.pdf">“High frequency ultrasound: a frontier for ultrasound“</a></strong>
<strong>Location:</strong> ENGINEERING CENTER, ROOM EC 1107
<strong>Time:</strong> 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>Friday, March 1, 2013</strong>
<b>Dr. Eva Marie Sevick-Muraca
</b>Professor and Kinder Distinguished Chair Director,
Center for Molecular Imaging Director,
Center in the NCI Network for Translational Research
The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine University of
Texas Health Science Center-Houston
<b>Title:<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Seminar-Series-Flyer-Dr.-Eva-Sevick-Muraca.pdf">“Discovery in Translation:  Near-infrared Imaging of the Lymphatics in Health and Disease”</a>
</b><b>Location</b>: Engineering Center EC 1107
<b>Time:</b> 9:00AM-10:00AM - Lecture</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><b>Tuesday, February 26<sup>th</sup> 2013
Dr. Shufeng Zhou
</b>Colleges of Pharmacy &amp; Medicine
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33612
<b>Title:</b> <b><a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Seminar-Series-Flyer2-26-zhou.pdf">“Employing Nanotechnology to Improve the Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Behaviors of Drugs”</a>
Date</b>: Tuesday, February 26<sup>th</sup> 2013
<b>Location:</b> Engineering Center EC 2300
<b>Time:</b> 9:00AM-10:00AM</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>Friday, February 22, 2013</strong>
<b>Dr. Fahmeed Hyder
</b>Professor, Biomedical Engineering &amp; Diagnostic Radiology
Director, QNMR Core Center, Yale University
<b>Title:</b> <a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Seminar-Series-Flyer-Dr.-Fahmeed-Hyder-.pdf">“</a><b><a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Seminar-Series-Flyer-Dr.-Fahmeed-Hyder-.pdf">Energy footprint of cortical function: A unified perspective on brain networks”</a>
</b><b>Location:</b> Engineering Center EC 1107
<b>Time:</b> 9:00AM-10:00AM</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>Friday, February 15, 2013</strong>
<b>Dr. Dr. Paul S. Weiss
</b>Department of Chemistry &amp; Biochemistry,
Department of Materials Science &amp; Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
<b>Title: <a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Seminar-Series-Dr.-Paul-Weiss.pdf">“Cooperative Function in Atomically Precise Nanoscale Assemblies”</a>
</b><strong>L</strong><b>ocation:</b> Engineering Center EC 2300
<b>Time</b>: 1:00PM-2:00PM – Lecture</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>Friday, February 15, 2013</strong>
<b>Dr.  Anne Milasincic Andrews
</b>Semel Institute for Neuroscience &amp; Human Behavior
University of California, Los Angeles
<b>Title: <a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Seminar-Series-Flyer-Dr.-Anne-Adrews.pdf">“Monitoring Serotonin: Why Faster is Better”</a>
</b><b>Location:</b> Engineering Center EC 2300
<b>Time:</b> 2:30PM-3:30PM – Lecture</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>February 8th</strong>
Dr. Harold (Harry) Kroto
1996 Nobel Prize Winner Chemistry
Francis Eppes Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Florida State University<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/BME-Seminar-Series-Flyer-Sir-Harold-Kroto.pdf">
<strong>“Creativité Sans Frontiéres” </strong></a>
Location: Modesto A. Maidique Campus (MMC) GC 150
Time: 1:00PM-3:30PM – Lecture
Location: Engineering Center EC 2680
Time: 4:00PM-4:30PM – Meeting BME Students
Reception: 4:30PM – Panther Pit, EC</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>February 8th</strong>
Dr. Sylvain Ballet
MNI Killam Scholar &amp; Director,
MEG Research McConnell Brain Imaging Centre Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Seminar-Series-Flyer-Dr.-Sylvain-Baillet.pdf"><strong>
“Neural Mechanisms Enabling Resting-State Brain Networks: Evidence from Time-Resolved Brain Imaging”</strong></a>
Location: Engineering Center EC 2300
Time: 9:00AM-10:00AM - Lecture</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>Tuesday, February 5th, 2013</strong>
LECTURE: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
ENGINEERING CENTER: ROOM EC 2300
<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/BME-seminar-Feb-05-2013.pdf"><strong>Bioceramics for Life Science Applications</strong></a>
Dr. Håkan Engqvist
Department of Engineering Sciences Applied Materials Science
Materials in Medicine
Uppsala University Sweden</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>February 01, 2013</strong>
9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 1107
<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Seminar-Series-Flyer-Dr.-Kristyn-S.-Masters.pdf"><strong>Manipulation of the Cellular Microenvironment to Study Tissue Development and Disease</strong></a>
Dr. Kristyn S. Masters, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
University of Wisconsin</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;">January 25, 2013
9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 1107
<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Seminar-Series-Flyer-Dr.-Jian-Wu.pdf"><strong>Corneal Stromal Tissue Regeneration by Human Corneal Stromal Stem Cells (hCSSCs)</strong></a>
Dr. Jian Wu
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
University of Pittsburgh
McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>January 23, 2013</strong>
9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 2300
<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Seminar-Series-Flyer-Dr.-Herman-Autrup-.pdf"><strong>Toxicity of Silver Nanoparticles – Ion or Nanoparticles</strong></a>
Dr. Herman Autrup
University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>January 18, 2013</strong>
9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 1107
<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Seminar-Series-Flyer-Dr.-Shankar-Vallabhajosula.pdf"><strong>Theranostics: Targeted Radiopharmaceuticals for Diagnosis and Therapy</strong></a>
Dr. Shankar Vallabhajosula
Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>January 11, 2013</strong>
9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 2300
<strong><a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Seminar-Series-Spring2013.pdf">RESEARCH LINES: Biomedical Engineering Department at FIU</a></strong>
Faculty
Department of BME
Florida International University</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>November 30, 2012</strong>
9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 2300
<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Seminar-Series-Saha-Fall-2012-final.pdf"><strong>Ethical Challenges in Biomedical Engineering Research</strong></a>
Subrata Saha,  PhD
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery &amp; Rehabilitation Medicine
SUNY Downstate Medical Center</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>November 16, 2012</strong>
9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 2300
<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Seminar-Series-DrFederico-Rosei-.pdf"><strong>Nanoscale structure and modification of Biomaterials</strong></a>
Dr. Federico Rose
INRS Energy, Materials and Telecommunications</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>November 2, 2012</strong>
9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 2300
<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/121102-Zeng-BME-Seminar.pdf"><strong>Ricci Flow for Shape Registration and Geometric Analysis</strong></a>
Dr. Wei Zeng
Assistant Professor
School of Computing and Information Sciences
Florida International University</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>October 12, 2012</strong>
9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 2300
<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/BME-Seminar-Series-Flyer-Dr.-Tony-Y.-Hu.pdf"><strong>Nanopore-based Assay for Disease Biomarker Detection and Discovery</strong></a>
Dr. Tony Y. Hu
Department of Nanomedicine,The Methodist Hospital Research Institute
Dept. of Cell and Developmental Biology,
Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong></strong><strong>October 5, 2012</strong>
9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 2300
<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Seminar-Series-Flyer-Dr.-Jin-Zhong-Zhang.pdf"><strong>Shed Light on Nanomaterials for Solar Energy Conversion and Cancer Therapy</strong></a>
Dr. Jin Zhang
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California Santa Cruz</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong></strong><strong></strong><strong>September 24, 2012</strong>
9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 2300
<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/BME-Seminar-Flyer-Dr.-Sridhar.pdf"><strong>Nanoplatforms for Personalized Medicine</strong></a>
Dr. Srinivas Sridhar
Northeastern University</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>September 21, 2012</strong>
9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 2300
<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/BME-Seminar-Series-Flyer-Dr.-Yao.pdf"><strong>Intrinsic optical signal imaging: concurrent assessment of retinal structure and physiological function</strong></a>
Dr. Xincheng Yao
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Alabama at Birmingham</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>September 14, 2012</strong>
9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 2300
<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/120914_Dr.-Muthuswamy-Flyer.pdf"><strong>“Neural interfaces for next generation prostheses”</strong></a>
Dr. Jit Muthuswamy
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Arizona State University</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>September 7, 2012</strong>
9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 2300
<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/09-07-12-Flanders-BME-seminar.pdf"><strong>“Neural Control of Hand Movement”</strong></a>
Dr.   Martha Flanders
Professor of Neuroscience
University of Minnesota Medical School</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>August 31, 2012</strong>
9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 2300
<strong><a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/120831-Pinchuk-BME-Seminar.pdf">“New Advances in Biomaterials and Combinations of Biomaterials and Drugs, and their Role in Angioplasty, Stenting and Ophthalmic Devices”</a></strong>
<strong>D</strong>r. Len Pinchuk
CEO, Innovia</td>
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