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:
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:
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:
April 2
Prabir Patra, PhD
Chair, Biomedical Engineering
Marshall University
Title:
April 16
Jeff Moran, PhD
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
GMU
Title:
April 23
Anand Ramamurthi, PhD
Chair, Biomedical Engineering
Lehigh University
Title:
April 30
No seminar. Grad Town Hall for BIOE grad students. More details to come later.
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Previous Seminars
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