Previous Year

Seminar presentations from the previous academic year.

Winter 2023

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Seminar Title
Jan 20 In-person	Anne Kietzig	McGill University	Water- and ice-shedding learnt from penguins
Jan 27 Remote/Zoom	John Ronald	Western University	Molecular imaging and its application for cell therapy
Feb 3 In-person	Vladimir Brailovski	ETS, Montreal	Design, manufacture and testing of patient-specific prostheses
Feb 10 Remote/Zoom	Eddy Lang	University of Calgary	Emergency Department Operations as the Canary in the Healthcare System Coalmine
Feb 17	Steve Shih	Concordia University	Droplet-based microfluidics for applications in synthetic biology
Feb 24	Nabil Bassim	McMaster University	From mm³ to atoms – Correlative Microscopy Workflows to Solve Materials and Biological Problems
March 3	Reading week – No seminar
March 10 In-person	STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
March 17 In-person	STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
March 24 In-person	Satya Prakash	McGill University	Novel stents and microbiome engineering in chronic diseases and healthy aging
March 31 In-person	Rick Hoge	McGill University	Experiences in biomedical infrastructure planning: building Canada's first whole-body 7T MRI facility
April 7	Herve Lombaert	ETS, Montreal
April 13 Thursday, In-person	STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Fall 2022

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Seminar Title
Sept 9 In-person	Leor S. Weinberger	UCSF	Discovery & Development of Therapeutic Interfering Particles: single-administration escape-resistant antivirals
Sept 16 Remote/Zoom	Qian Liu	McGill University	Seeing is believing: a super-resolved insight into the pathogenesis of zoonoses
Sept 23 Remote/Zoom	Felix Dietlein	Harvard Medical School	Mastering the cancer noncoding genome: challenges and opportunities for biomedical engineering
Sept 30 In-person	Xiaonan Lu	McGill University	Monitoring Food Chemical and Microbiological Hazards Using Raman Spectroscopy and Machine Learning
Oct 7 In-person	Raphael Scharfmann	Université de Paris, Institut Cochin	Pancreatic endocrine cell development: From Rodent to Human
Oct 21 In-person	STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
Oct 28 In-person	STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
Nov 4 Remote/Zoom	Kiana Aran	University of California, Berkeley	The promise of graphene-based transistors for democratizing multiomics studies
Nov 11 Remote/Zoom	Alexis Vallée-Bélisle	University of Toronto	Bio-inspired switches and molecular assemblies for sensing and drug delivery applications
Nov 18 Remote/Zoom	Yong Zeng	University of Florida	Advancing EV-based Liquid Biopsy of Cancer with Micro- and Nanoengineering
Nov 25 In-person	Cancellation
Dec 2 In-person	Ethan MacDonald	University of Calgary	Cerebrovascular MRI — Applications to Aging Physiology

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