The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Jennifer Phillips-Cremins are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Daniel Emerson. Title: Uncovering Structure-function Relationships in Chromatin Architecture Date: October 20, 2023 Time: 1:00 PM Location: BRB 0253 Zoom link The Public is welcome to attend.
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Max Kelz are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Andrzej Wasilczuk Reversing Engineering the Anesthetic State: Insights from Behavior and CNS Circuit Cracking November 7th, 1:30-2:30pm Jordan Medical Education Center, Room 505EW 3400 Civic Center Blvd Philadelphia, PA 19104 A hybrid option […]
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Arjun Raj are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Sam Reffsin. Title: Mapping variable host gene expression states to viral infection Date: November 9, 2023 Time: 2:30pm-4:30pm Location: Smilow 11-146AB The public is welcome to attend.
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Foteini Mourkioti are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Nuoying Ma. Title: Piezo1 regulation of muscle stem cell heterogeneity and function and skeletal muscle generation. Date: Monday, December 4, 2023 Time: 9:30AM Location: CRB Austrian Auditorium Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81956870491?pwd=Q3GuaOdgeYeTAdMFzHuYVYsvBR24nb.1 The public is welcome […]
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Rahim Rizi are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Faraz Amzajerdian. Title: "Development of Hyperpolarized Xenon-129 Imaging Approaches for Assessing Lung Transplantation". Date: Monday, December 18, 2023 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Donner-Grice Auditorium (HUP Dulles Building 2nd floor) The public is welcome to attend.
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania along with Drs. Chamith Rajapakse and Felix Wehrli are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Brandon Jones. Title: "MRI Quantification of Cortical Bone Microstructure and Material Composition with Ultrashort Echo Time" Date: Wednesday, January 17th, 2024 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Donner-Grice Auditorium (HUP Dulles Building 2nd floor) Zoom […]
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Ophir Shalem are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Saranya Santhosh Kumar. Title: Exploring the cell biology of neurodegenerative diseases at scale Date: January 18, 2024 Time: 10:00 am Location: HUB-01-1632 conference room The public is welcome to attend.
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Carl June are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of David Mai. Date: January 22, 2024 Time: 1PM EST Title: Harnessing Regnase-1 and Roquin-1 activity to modulate T cell function Location: Arthur H Rubenstein Auditorium (https://www.itmat.upenn.edu/itmat/education-and-training/assets/user-content//documents/DirectionsSmilowCTRAuditorium.pdf) Zoom link The public is welcome to attend.
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Despina Kontos are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Apurva Singh. Title: "Computational imaging and multiomic biomarkers for precision medicine: characterizing heterogeneity in lung cancer" Date: February 12, 2024 Time: 1:00 PM Location: John Morgan Building, Class of 62 auditorium Zoom link The public is […]
Dr. Lu will introduce a fluorescence molecular imaging method to track therapeutic antibody delivery from cancer patients in vivo, down to single cells, through first-in-human clinical trials. She will present a new experimental and AI-powered analytical framework that integrates single-cell drug imaging with spatial omics to decipher drug-target-microenvironment in situ. This work establishes a foundational […]
