<h3>Wallace H. Coulter Foundation BME Lecture Series</h3>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong><strong>May 7, 2012</strong>
</strong>10:00AM-11:00AM, Location: EC 2300
<strong><a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Dr.-Brett-Swanson-FIU-BME-Seminar-Flyer.pdf">Challenges in Cochlear implant Sound Perception</a></strong>
Dr. Brett Swanson
Cochlear Ltd, Sydney, Australia</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>April 26, 2012</strong>
9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 2300
<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Dr.-Sharmila-Venugopal-BMELecture.pdf"><strong>Strategies to control neural excitability through the integration of
computational and experimental approaches</strong></a>
Dr. Sharmila Venugopal
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology
University of California Los Angeles <strong></strong></td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong><strong>April 16, 2012</strong>
</strong>10:00AM-11:00AM, Location: EC 1112
<strong><a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/2012-SeminarSeriesGirouard.pdf">HOW DOES HYPERTENSION IMPAIRS NEURO-VASCULAR COUPLING?</a></strong>
Dr. Helene Girouard
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology,
Faculty of Medecine,
Universite De Montreal</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>April 13, 2012</strong>
9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 1107
<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Dr.-Sherif-Elbasiouny-BME-Lecture.pdf"><strong>Early motoneuron degeneration in ALS: “The size hypothesis”</strong></a>
Dr.  Sherif Elbasiouny
Northwestern University</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong><strong><strong><strong>March 26, 2012</strong>
</strong></strong></strong>9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 2300<strong><strong>
<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2011-BMEseminar-Jose-Zariffa.pdf"><strong><strong><strong>Technology to Restore Function After Neurological Injury:
A Bench to Bedside Perspective</strong></strong></strong></a><a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Dr-Shuliang-Jiao_Feb-13_.pdf">
</a> </strong></strong>Dr.  Jose Zariffa
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong></strong><strong>March 19, 2012</strong>
9:30AM-10:30AM, Location: EC 2300<strong><strong><strong>
<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Lecture-Series-Flyer-Dr.Zhao-March_2012.pdf">Nanomedicine and Nanotoxicology: engineered nanomaterials for cancer
and toxicological studies</a></strong></strong></strong><a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Lecture-Series-Flyer-Dr.Zhao-March_2012.pdf">
</a>Dr. Yuliang Zhao (赵 宇亮)
Professor, Director
CAS Key Lab for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials &amp; Nanosafety, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), &amp; National Center for nanoscience and Technology of China</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong><strong><strong><strong>March 7, 2012</strong>
</strong></strong></strong>9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 1112<strong><strong>
<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/BME-Seminar-flyer-Dr.-John-E.-Ferguson.pdf"><strong><strong>Enhancing Electrode Design with Nanotechnology</strong></strong></a><a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Dr-Shuliang-Jiao_Feb-13_.pdf">
</a> </strong></strong>Dr. John Ferguson
University of Minnesota</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>February 29, 2012</strong>
1:30PM-2:30PM, Location: EC 2300
<strong><a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sumio-lijima.pdf">Carbon Nanotubes: Discovery and Their Biomedical Applications</a><a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Dr-Shuliang-Jiao_Feb-13_.pdf">
</a></strong>Dr. Sumio Iijima (飯島 澄男)
Professor, Director
Meijo University
NEC AIST/Nanotube Research Center
Nagoya, Japan</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>February 23, 2012</strong>
9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 2300
<strong><a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Dr-Jessica-Ramella-Roman_BME_Lecture.pdf"><strong>NONINVASIVE MONITORING OF THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF SKIN</strong></a><a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Dr-Shuliang-Jiao_Feb-13_.pdf">
</a></strong>Dr. Jessica Ramella-Roman
The Catholic University of America, Washington DC.</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong><strong>February 13, 2012</strong>
</strong>9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 1107
<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Dr-Shuliang-Jiao_Feb-13_.pdf"><strong>Listen to the retina: photoacoustic ophthalmoscopy for retinal imaging</strong>
</a> Dr. Shuliang Jiao
Department of Ophthalmology and Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Southern California</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>February 6, 2012</strong>
9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 1107
<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Dr.Vinjamuri-lecture.pdf"><strong>A synergy-based brain-machine interface for
dexterous control of prosthetic hands</strong></a>
Dr. Ramana Kumar Vinjamuri
University of Pittsburgh</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>February 3, 2012</strong>
9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 1112
<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/2011-Seminar-Series-Flyer-Caicedo.pdf"><strong>Revisiting the biology of the human islet of Langerhans</strong></a>
Dr. Alejandro Caicedo
Department of Medicine
University of Miami</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong>February 2, 2012</strong>
1:00PM-2:00PM, Location: EC 1115
<strong><a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Dr.-Jorge-Alamo-Alenzuela_Flyer.pdf">Sentinella 102 Portable Gamma Camera- New Technology in the USA</a></strong>
<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/sentinella102.pdf">Sentinilla 102</a>
Jorge Alamo Valenzuela
Oncovivion: Gem-Imaging SA</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>January 27, 2012</strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong>
</strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong>1:30PM-2:30PM, Location: EC 1109
<strong><a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/BME-Seminar-Dr.-Sadik.pdf">Multidimensional Pain Biosensors</a></strong>
Dr. Wunmi Sadik
Center for Advanced Sensors &amp; Environmental Systems
State University of New York at Binghamton</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>January 13, 2012</strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong>
</strong></strong></strong>1:00PM-2:00PM, Location: EC 1115
<strong><a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Dr.-Ronald-W.-Millard-PhD..pdf">Drugs or Stem Cells for Recovery of Heart Function Following Ischemia</a></strong>
Dr. Ronald W. Millard
Pharmacology &amp; Cell Biophysics
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>January 12, 2012</strong></strong></strong></strong></strong>
</strong></strong></strong>9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 2300
<strong><a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Dr-Qi-Wang-Lecture.pdf">Reading and Writing the Neural Code: Initial Steps toward Artificial Sensory Percepts and Implications for Neural Prostheses</a></strong>
Dr. Qi Wang
Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong><strong><strong><strong>January 10, 2012</strong>
</strong></strong></strong>9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 2300
<strong><a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Dr-Jorge-Riera-Lecture.pdf">Multimodal Functional Neuroimaging: Integration of fMRI and EEG/MEG data</a></strong>
Dr. Jorge Riera
School of Medicine, Tohoku University</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong><strong>October 28, 2011</strong>
</strong>9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 1115<strong>
<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/JorgeRiera_pdf.pdf"><strong>Ca2+ oscillations in astrocytes during the development of Alzheimer’s disease: Impacts on the FMRI-BOLD signal.</strong></a>
</strong>Dr. Jorge Riera
School of Medicine, Tohoku University</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong><strong><strong><strong>October 21, 2011</strong>
</strong></strong></strong>9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 1115<strong><strong><strong>
</strong></strong><a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Biomedical-Seminar-Series-Flyer-Template2_HYG.pdf">Development of Polymeric Heart Valve Prostheses</a></strong>
Dr. Hitomi Y. Greenslet
Department Mechanical and Materials Engineering
University of Florida</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong></strong><strong><strong>September 16, 2011</strong>
</strong>9:00AM-10:00AM, Location: EC 2300<strong>
<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/BME-Lecture-Dr.-Sarah-Erickson.pdf"><strong>DIFFUSE OPTICAL IMAGING OF BREAST CANCER
USING A NOVEL HAND-HELD DEVICE</strong></a>
</strong>Dr. Sarah Erickson
Biomedical Engineering
Florida International University<strong></strong></td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ffffff;"><strong><strong>September 09, 2011</strong>
</strong>10:00AM-11:00AM, Location: EC 2300<strong>
<a href="https://bme.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Dr.-Moon-Seminar-Series-Flyer.pdf"><strong>CONJUGATED POLYMER NANOPARTICLES FOR BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS</strong></a>
</strong>Dr. Joong-ho Moon
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Florida International University<strong>
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