Spring 2026 Seminars
Thursdays, 11:00am-12:00pm, Horizon Hall 1011 (unless noted otherwise), Fairfax Campus
January 29
Ti'Air Riggins
PhD Candidate, Michigan State University
Inspire Speaker Series with Outreach, Student Success & Engagement
Title: Neurotechnology Design Features Impact on the Function and Identity of Reactive Astrocytes
February 5
Ryan Zurakowski, PhD
Chair, Biomedical Engineering Department
University of Delaware
Title: Modeling antiretroviral transport and exclusion in the lymph node
February 12
Pouya Rezai, PhD
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
GMU
Title:
February 19
Carolina Tecuatl Tolama, PhD
Postdoc, Bioengineering Department
GMU
Title:
February 26
Sang Wook Lee, PhD
Professor, Biomedical Department
Catholic University of America (CUA)
Title: Personalized Robotic and Virtual Reality Approaches for Post-Stroke Hand and Upper Extremity Rehabilitation
March 5
No seminar. Please attend Bioengineering Networking Force Event on March 4, 2026, 5-7:30pm, Center for the Arts.
March 12
No seminar. Spring Break.
March 8
TBD
March 26
Xue Han, PhD
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
Title: Cellular Voltage Imaging Analysis of Neural Circuit Dynamics Underlying Spatial Navigation and Clinical Neuromodulation
April 2
Prabir Patra, PhD
Chair, Biomedical Engineering
Marshall University
Title: Functional Nanobiomaterials in Bioengineering
April 16
Jeff Moran, PhD
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
GMU
Title: Toward the Fantastic Voyage: Micro- and Nanomotors for Biomedical Applications
April 23
Anand Ramamurthi, PhD
Chair, Biomedical Engineering
Lehigh University
Title: Regenerative platforms to restore tissue stretch
April 30
No seminar. Grad Town Hall for BIOE grad students. More details to come later.
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Previous Seminars
Title: The Inside Story of Movement: Mapping Neural Drive, Muscle Function, and Motion in Cerebral Palsy
Shriniwas Patwardhan, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher, NIH
Watch recorded seminar here
Title: Mathematical Models of Contact Lens Drug Delivery
Rayanne Luke, PhD
Asst. Professor, Mathematical Sciences
GMU
Watch recorded seminar here
Title: Delivery of Cationic Antimicrobials to Bacterial Infections Using Polyelectrolyte Surfactant Nanoparticles
Charles M. Roth, PhD
Chair & Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Rutgers
Watch recorded seminar here
Title: Democratizing Cervical Cancer Screening with PapsAI: Affordable Automated Pap-Smear Analysis
William Wasswa, PhD
Mbarara University of Science and Technology
Watch recorded seminar here
Title: Lung-derived Extracellular Matrix Materials for Disease Modeling and Drug Delivery
Rebecca Heise, PhD
Inez A. Caudill, Jr. Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering
VCU
Watch recorded seminar here
Title: Multifunctional Flexible Sensors using Laser-Engineered Porous Graphene
Shirin Movaghgharnezhad, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
GMU
Watched recorded seminar here
Title: The mechanics of living tissues: Mechanobiology from growth to injury in the nervous system
Bryan Pfister, PhD
Professor and Chair, Biomedical Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Watch recorded seminar here
Title: Engineering the Microcirculation
Shayn Peirce-Cottler, PhD
Professor and Chair, Biomedical Engineering
UVA
Watch recorded seminar here
Title: A systems engineering approach to digital twin models for biological systems
Lizhi Wang, PhD
Professor, Bioengineering
GMU
Title: My Journey to Microscopy Mastery
Bryce Dunn, PhD Candidate
Bioengineering, GMU
Watch recorded seminar here
Title: Modern Applications of Quantitative Ultrasound for Biomedical Research
Jonathan Mamou, Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering in Radiology
Weill Cornell Medicine
Cornell University
Watch recorded seminar here
Title: Models for Petascale Imaging: Applications to Humans in Alzheimer Disease and Mice
Michael Miller, Professor and Director
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Watch recorded seminar here
Title: Reactivating Memories in the Mammalian Brain
John White, Professor and Chair
Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
Watch recorded seminar here
Title: Data-driven computational modeling and analysis of human movement.
Qi Wei, Associate Professor
Bioengineering, GMU
Please email Carol McHugh (cmchugh4@gmu.edu) if you'd like to view this talk
Title: 3D Printing to Engineer Complex Tissues
John Fisher, Fischell Family Distinguished Professor & Dept. Chair
Fischell Dept. of Bioengineering
University of Maryland
Watch recorded seminar here
Title Ultrasound-mediated wound healing and rehabilitation
Parag Chitnis, Associate Professor
Bioengineering, GMU
Watch recorded seminar here
Title: Mechanical Characterization through Bioindentation in Optimizing Biomaterial and Nanomedicine Fabrication
Arjunsinh Harer, Account Partner
Optics11 Life
Alumni of GMU Bioengineering
Watch recorded seminar here
Title: Naturally derived polymers as biomaterials
Liszt Madruga, Research Assistant Professor
Bioengineering, GMU
Watch recorded seminar here
Title: Assessment of Deep Neural Networks from a Medical Imaging Perspective
Mark Anastasio, Head
Dept. of Bioengineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Watch recorded seminar here