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May 29, 2019 @ 11:10 am
Winston Chung Hall
Integrated Circuits for Electronic Medicine   Abstract: Over the past decades, remarkable advances toward miniaturized biomedical devices have been made and have enabled the development of new approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of human diseases. For instance, smart pills are being used to image the gastrointestinal…
May 22, 2019 @ 11:10 am
Winston Chung Hall
High Resolution Biological Imaging Across Scales for Fundamental Research   Abstract: Direct physiological observation of subcellular dynamics is now feasible using the Lattice Light-Sheet Microscopy. It is a transformative imaging technology that spans the relevant scales in space and time because of the wide resolution…
May 18, 2019 @ 7:30 am
Winston Chung Hall
This year, the BioMedical Engineering Society chapter at UC Riverside returns with BioHack, the second annual student-run 12-hour health and medicine themed hackathon at UCR on Saturday May 18th, 2019! Our mission is to cultivate the next generation of biohackers and healthcare advocates to help meet the patient care needs of…
May 15, 2019 @ 11:00 am
Winston Chung Hall
Cells as Bio-Factories to Heal Wounds   Abstract: Chronic wounds are skin injuries that recur or fail to heal by 6 weeks. These wounds affect 6.5 million patients in the US and this number is growing rapidly due to a drastic increase in the number of diabetics, the obese, and the elderly, all populations in which wound…
May 08, 2019 @ 11:10 am
Winston Chung Hall
Diversification and Compartmentalization: Two Synthetic Biology Technologies for Redesigning Cells   Abstract: I will discuss two technologies my lab is developing to gain control over cellular behaviors, particularly engineered metabolism. The first is an in vivoCRISPR-guided DNA polymerase we call…
May 01, 2019 @ 11:10 am
Winston Chung Hall
Building T Cell Immunity with Biomaterials   Abstract: Dysfunction of the immune system underlies many diseases, and results from certain cancer therapies. However, strategies to effectively accelerate return of immune function and program disease-specific immune responses by manipulating stem cells and immune cells are at…
April 24, 2019 @ 11:10 am
Winston Chung Hall 205/206
Integrated Optofluidics for Biomedical Applications   Abstract: Light is a special form of energy. Its unique physical properties give engineers and scientists the possibility to create numerous enabling functional devices and instrument for biomedical applications. This presentation will cover several integrated…
April 17, 2019 @ 11:10 am
Winston Chung Hall
System Fluid Dynamics Approaches for Development of Noninvasive Diagnostics of Acute and Chronic Cardiovascular Diseases.   Abstract: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) have reached epidemic proportions with serious consequences in terms of human suffering and economic impact. Therefore, there is increasing motivation to develop…
April 10, 2019 @ 11:10 am
Winston Chung Hall
Ceramic Nanoparticles for Advanced Biomedical Applications: From Bone to Brain   Abstract: Structural complexities of ceramics in solid or colloidal forms are the key to explaining their displays of broad ranges of interesting properties. However, these complexities are yet to be harnessed to the fullest extent and…
April 03, 2019 @ 11:10 am
Winston Chung Hall 205/206
Neural Decoding and Control of Mood to Treat Neuropsychiatric Disorders   Abstract: In this talk, I first discuss our recent work on modelling, decoding, and controlling multisite human brain activity underlying mood states. I present a multiscale dynamical modelling framework that allows us, for the first time, to decode…
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