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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Oct 05, 2015 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: James Weiland, PhD (Professor of Ophthalmology & BME), John Wood, MD (Professor of Pediatrics, Keck, Children's Hospital Los Angeles); Ted Berger, PhD (Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Neuroscience); Arek Gertych, PhD (Asst. Prof., Cedars Sinai),
Talk Title: BME Faculty Research Areas
Series: Seminars in Engineering, Neuroscience & Health (ENH)
Biography: James Weiland, PhD (Professor of Ophthalmology & BME)
http://profiles.sc-ctsi.org/james.weiland
John Wood, MD (Professor of Pediatrics, Keck, Children's Hospital Los Angeles)
http://www.chla.org/profile/john-wood-md-phd
Ted Berger, PhD (Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Neuroscience)
http://bme.usc.edu/directory/faculty/core-faculty/theodore-w-berger/
Arek Gertych, PhD (Assistant Professor, Cedars Sinai)
http://bio.csmc.edu/view/15048/Arkadiusz-Gertych.aspx
Host: Stanley Yamashiro, PhD
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Oct 12, 2015 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Gully Burns, D. Phil., Supervising Computer Scientist, Project Leader (USC Viterbi's Information Sciences Institute)
Talk Title: TBA
Biography: http://www.isi.edu/people/burns/homepage
Host: Stanley Yamashiro, PhD
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Oct 19, 2015 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Qiming Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering (USC)
Talk Title: Bioinspired anti-biofouling via active deformation: from marine structures to biomedical devices
Series: Seminars in Engineering, Neuroscience & Health (ENH)
Abstract: Biofouling, the accumulation of boiomolecules, cells, microorganisms and their deposits on submerged and implanted surfaces, is a ubiquitous problem across many human endeavors including maritime operations, medicine, food industries and biotechnology. Examples include: (i) the high cost of mitigation of biofouling on maritime vessels, (ii) the growing significance of infectious biofilms (matrix-enclosed microbial adlayers) as a failure mode of implanted materials and devices, and (iii) the adaptation of antibiotic resistant bacterial strains within biofilms in medical and industrial settings. Creating environmentally friendly and biocompatible surfaces that can effectively manage biofouling has been an extremely challenging task. Existing commercial antifouling technologies generally rely on either toxic biocides or static coatings that suffer drawbacks in ecological impacts or long-term effectiveness. In Nature, an enormous number of biological surfaces clean themselves through active deformation and motion; for example, cilia on the surfaces of respiratory tracts constantly sweep out inhaled foreign particles that are sequestered in hydrated, protective mucus layers. Inspired from this physical approach of antifouling, we demonstrate a method to actively and effectively detach micro- and macro-fouling organisms by harnessing dynamic change of surface area and topology of biocompatible elastomers in response to external stimuli. We hypothesize that the fouling detachment is an interfacial debonding process due to the large deformation of the elastomer substrate. The hypothesis has been tested and verified with various types of microbes and marine animals, including Cobetia marina, Ecoli, P. Mirabilis and barnacles. The results show that substrate deformation can detach over 90% of attached biofoulings. These dynamic surfaces can be fabricated from materials that are already commonly used in marine coatings and medical devices and can be actuated by practical electrical and pneumatic stimuli. We further demonstrate the effectiveness of the method in the field studies in the Ocean and prototype models for urinary catheter. Assisted by the additive manufacture technology in our lab, we expect this dynamic fouling-releasing method may find broad applications in various settings of biomedical devices and water purification/desalinization.
Biography: Qiming Wang is Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Southern California. His recent research interests are focused on two folds: (1) additive manufacture of soft active materials for applications in adaptable lightweight structures, tissue engineering, drug delivery, robotics and energy storage, and (2) anti-biofouling for clean water and biomedical devices. Originally from China, he obtained B.S. degree from Fudan University in 2010. Thereafter, he owned Ph.D. degree from Duke University in 2014, and subsequently experienced one-year postdoctoral training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He won MRS Graduate Student Award, ASME Best Student Paper Award, NSF-PACAM Fellowship, NIH-Duke Lew Pre-doctoral Fellowship and Kewaunee Student Achievement Award. His research was widely reported by Discovery, Washington Post, BBC Focus, NBC News, Wall Street Journal, Physics Today, NSF News, Duke News, and MIT News. More information can be found at www-bcf.usc.edu/~qimingw.
Host: Stanley Yamashiro, PhD
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Department of Biomedical Engineering Systems Cellular-Molecular Bioengineering Distinguished Speaker Series
Fri, Oct 23, 2015 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Trey Ideker, PhD, Professor, Departments of Medicine and Bioengineering University of California, San Diego
Talk Title: The Cancer Cell Map Initiative
Series: Department of Biomedical Engineering Systems Cellular-Molecular Bioengineering Distinguished Speaker Series
Abstract: **Lunch and refreshments will be available at 12:30 pm**
Host: Professor Stacey Finley, PhD
More Information: Ideker_flyer + bio_October 23 Seminar.pdf
Location: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) - 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Oct 26, 2015 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Damien Rodger, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at the USC Eye Institute
Talk Title: Biomedical Microdevices for Use in Ophthalmology and Spinal Cord Injury
Series: Seminars in Engineering, Neuroscience & Health (ENH)
Abstract: The problems of outer retinal degeneration (ORD) and spinal cord injury (SCI) affect millions of people worldwide, often resulting in devastating blindess and para- or quadriplegia that strongly impair a person's activities of daily living and impact their level of happiness. to help thwart the effects of these diseases, novel flexible microtechnologies have been developed for functional electrical stimulation and recording in retinal and spinal cord prosthetics. Topics to be discussed include a revolutionary dual-metal-layer micro-electrode array fabrication scheme as well as high-density scalable packaging efficacy of these arrays in stimulating the neural targets and demonstrate their biostability. In addition, new devices are being investigated for intraocular pressure sensing as well as for ophthalmic patch grafts, which will briefly be discussed.
Host: Stanley Yamashiro, PhD
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.
