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BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Computational imaging biomarkers for precision medicine: characterizing heterogeneity in breast cancer” (Rhea Chitalia)

BRB 253

The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Despina Kontos are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Rhea Chitalia. Title: "Computational imaging biomarkers for precision medicine: characterizing heterogeneity in breast cancer" Date: Thursday, December 16, 2021 Time: 1:15 PM Location: BRB 0253 and Zoom. Zoom information: RHEA CHITALIA is inviting […]

BE Seminar: “Neural Engineering and the Primate Brain: Working at the Electrical and Optical Interface” (Bijan Pesaran)

Moore 216 200 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

This seminar will be held live and broadcast on zoom – link coming soon. Neural engineering is enjoying an era of transformative growth. Classical methods that dominated the neurosciences for decades are being replaced by powerful new technologies. In this talk, I will discuss how to engineer electrical and optical interfaces to the primate brain. […]

CIS Seminar: “Encrypted Computation”

Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Can we use cryptography to protect data while simultaneously enabling computation over it? Such cryptosystems have the potential to enable all of the amazing benefits of cloud computing without forcing users to give up control over their private data. The breakthrough development of fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) took the first step in this direction by showing […]

BE Seminar: “Self-Assembling Nanotechnologies for Precision Biomaterials” (Santiago Correa, Stanford)

Self-assembled materials with defined nanoscale architectures can engage with biological systems in fundamentally new ways, providing unprecedented biomedical opportunities. In particular, the ability to more precisely control both the location and timing of drug release makes these biomaterials especially useful for delivering potent or sensitive cargo, which has major implications for cancer therapy and immuno-engineering. […]

MEAM Seminar: “Assembly Engineering of Patchy Particles into Complex Structures, and Beyond”

Zoom - Email MEAM for Link peterlit@seas.upenn.edu

The ability to predict, design and make the perfect material with just the right properties to do what we want, how we want, and when we want is the holy grail of materials research. Such “materials on demand” require control over thermodynamics, kinetics, nonequilibrium behavior, and structure across many length and time scales. With continuing […]

CEMB Future Leaders: “The place of plant chromatin in sensing mechanical stress”

https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96715197752

Launched in May 2021, the Future Leaders in Mechanobiology is a monthly seminar series featuring up-and-coming leaders in mechanobiology–PhD students and postdocs from a wide range of fields, backgrounds, and institutions. By providing an international stage to share one’s work and opportunities to interact with researchers at all career stages, we aim to create an inclusive and […]

CBE Seminar: “Tackling Disease-Associated Biomolecules: From RNA Therapeutics to Single-Molecule Detection”

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Abstract The functionality versatility of polymeric and nucleic acid materials provides diverse engineering opportunities for the detection and therapeutic targeting of disease-associated biomolecules. My work has encompassed nanoscale and microscale technologies to address challenges in cancer therapeutics and diagnostics, from targeting the expression of dysregulated genes to probing rare protein biomarkers. I will first describe […]

ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Statistical Learning for System Identification, Prediction, and Control”

Zoom - Meeting ID 949 5950 4530

Despite the recent widespread success of machine learning, we still do not fully understand its fundamental limitations. Going forward, it is crucial to better understand learning complexity, especially in critical decision making applications, where a wrong decision can lead to catastrophic consequences. In this thesis, we focus on the statistical complexity of learning unknown linear […]

MSE Seminar: “How do tissues fracture and repair across length scales?”

https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96715197752

In structural materials engineering, we often aim to create materials that are simultaneously strong, tough and lightweight- a combination classically considered mutually exclusive. Biogenic composite materials such as bone exhibit a combination of these properties exceeding that of their constituents, a feat generally credited to their hierarchal structure, down to the nanoscale. In this talk, […]

BE Seminar: “Engineering New Tools to Understand Airway Mucosal Barrier Function” (Gregg Duncan)

Moore 216 200 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

This seminar will be held in person and on zoom (the link will be sent out via email). Mucus is a biological gel within the lung designed to behave like an “escalator” with the ability to capture potentially harmful inhaled materials (e.g. pathogens, particulates) and carry these materials via mucociliary clearance up to the throat […]