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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Alyssia Sanchez
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Student Seminar Series\nPlease ensure you invite your Principal Investigator by adding their email via the ‘Add Guest’ button and they will also be notified of your presentation.\nLocation: WB116\nPresentation Title: Home-based reminder system and data driven insights for dementia care\nSupervisor Name: Dr. Alex Mihailidis\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: MASc\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-alyssia-sanchez/
LOCATION:WB116
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Gurnish Sidora
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Student Seminar Series\nPlease ensure you invite your Principal Investigator by adding their email via the ‘Add Guest’ button and they will also be notified of your presentation.\nLocation: WB116\nPresentation Title: Towards the Use of Transcanal Recordings and Computational Fluid Dynamics for Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulsatile Tinnitus\nSupervisor Name: Dr. David Steinman\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: MASc\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-gurnish-sidora/
LOCATION:WB116
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Rawad Alkallas
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Student Seminar Series\nPlease ensure you invite your Principal Investigator by adding their email via the ‘Add Guest’ button and they will also be notified of your presentation.\nLocation: WB116\nPresentation Title: A Multi-Nodal Physiological Monitoring System Utilizing Multi-Wavelength Photoplethysmography and Bioimpedance for Advanced Hemodynamic Classification\nSupervisor Name: Daniel Franklin\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: MASc\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-rawad-alkallas/
LOCATION:WB116
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240312T120000
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SUMMARY:Merging Humans and Machines to Assist Human Movement – Daniel Ferris
DESCRIPTION:Speaker\nDaniel Ferris\nRobert W. Adenbaum Professor\nJ. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering\nUniversity of Florida \n\nAbstract\nThe University of Florida Human Neuromechanics Laboratory studies the science and engineering of bionic prostheses\, robotic exoskeletons\, and mobile brain computer interfaces. The two goals are to better understand how humans control their bodies and to develop new technologies to assist human movement in health and disability. Prof. Dan Ferris will discuss why both neuroscience and biomechanics are necessary to engineer new human augmentation technologies and how studying humans using prostheses\, exoskeletons\, and mobile brain imaging can enhance our understanding of human physiology. \n  \nShort Bio: \nDaniel Ferris is the Robert W. Adenbaum Professor of Engineering Innovation at the University of Florida. Dr. Ferris completed his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley\, M.S. at the University of Miami\, and B.S. at the University of Central Florida. After completing postdoctoral fellowships at the UCLA Department of Neurology and the University of Washington Department of Electrical Engineering\, he joined the faculty at the University of Michigan for 16 years. In 2017\, Dr. Ferris moved to the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida. \n\nHost\nKei Masani
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/invited-academic-seminar-series-daniel-ferris/
LOCATION:Medical Sciences Building 3154\, 1 King's College Cir\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 1A8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:BME Invited Academic Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Ruonan Cao
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Student Seminar Series\nPlease ensure you invite your Principal Investigator by adding their email via the ‘Add Guest’ button and they will also be notified of your presentation.\nLocation: WB116\nPresentation Title: Probing the epigenetic mechanisms for entering and exiting drug-tolerant persister state using high-throughput 3D tumour arrays\nSupervisor Name: Prof. Alison McGuigan\nYear of Study: 4\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-ruonan-cao/
LOCATION:WB116
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Stefan Mladjenovic
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Student Seminar Series\nPlease ensure you invite your Principal Investigator by adding their email via the ‘Add Guest’ button and they will also be notified of your presentation.\nLocation: WB116\nPresentation Title: TBD\nSupervisor Name: Warren Chan\nYear of Study: 4\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-stefan-mladjenovic/
LOCATION:WB116
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Kyle Lam
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Student Seminar Series\nPlease ensure you invite your Principal Investigator by adding their email via the ‘Add Guest’ button and they will also be notified of your presentation.\nLocation: WB116\nPresentation Title: Mechanical Control of Exosome Formation by Mesenchymal Stromal Cells\nAbstract:\nMesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) are used in cell therapies\, for instance to repair severely\nburned skin that is subject to severe ‘hypertrophic’ scarring. To obtain the billions of MSC\nrequired for therapies small biopsy material is typically expanded on stiff surfaces\, like plastic\nculture dishes or beads in bioreactor. The stiff culture material mechanically activates MSCs into\nscar-promoting cells that lose their regenerative potential. My host lab developed culture\nsubstrates with the softness of skin that prevents the scar-inducing properties. MSC harvested\nfrom such ‘soft cultures’ and transplanted to wounded rat skin promoted scarless healing while\ntheir counterparts from conventionally stiff surfaces caused scars. Because the transplanted MSC\ndisappear much earlier from the recipient tissue (1-4 days) than scarring takes place (9-12 days)\,\nwe hypothesize that soft-cultured MSC produce soluble factors that instruct the host wound cells\nto make ‘better’ wound tissue.\nIt is the aim of my project to characterize the so-called extracellular vesicles\, specifically\nexosomes\, that are secreted by MSC cultured on soft substrates compared to those produced by\nstiff-cultured MSC. We will use these exosomes from differently stiff environments to treat\nfibroblasts and quantify the MSC activation\, which promotes scarring. Lastly\, we aim to\nelucidate the mechanism of how the mechanical environment affects exosome production. We\npropose that these secreted factors can be isolated and used in controlled applications to treat\nwounds that are at risk to turn into severe scars.\nSupervisor Name: Boris Hinz\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: MASc\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-kyle-lam/
LOCATION:WB116
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Chung Yi Tseng
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Student Seminar Series\nPlease ensure you invite your Principal Investigator by adding their email via the ‘Add Guest’ button and they will also be notified of your presentation.\nLocation: WB116\nPresentation Title: TBD\nSupervisor Name: Leo Chou\nYear of Study: 4\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-chung-yi-tseng/
LOCATION:WB116
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Kevin Da
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Student Seminar Series\nPlease ensure you invite your Principal Investigator by adding their email via the ‘Add Guest’ button and they will also be notified of your presentation.\nLocation: WB116\nPresentation Title: Lateral Flow Assays for Acute Kidney Injury Monitoring in Pediatric Patients\nSupervisor Name: Dr. Craig Simmons & Dr. Xinyu Liu\nYear of Study: 1\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-kevin-da/
LOCATION:WB116
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Melody Li
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Student Seminar Series\nPlease ensure you invite your Principal Investigator by adding their email via the ‘Add Guest’ button and they will also be notified of your presentation.\nLocation: WB116\nPresentation Title: Vascularized Heart-on-a-chip for Recapitulating Physiological Complexity\nAbstract:\n*Rationale: Modeling physiological cardiac tissue and its disease responses accurately has been a crucial task for researchers to streamline therapeutics development and enhance drug screening efficiency. This is however difficult due to the complex composition and interaction of the heart\, including the intricate vessel network plays an important role in modulating cardiac function. There exists a clear gap in developing a three-dimensional physiological platform that mimics cell interactions to capture accurate cardiac responses. The focus of my thesis work is to develop an in vitro engineered heart-on-a-chip platform with perfusable vasculature\, which can be used for higher-fidelity therapeutic screening of cardiovascular diseases;\n*Methods: We designed a thermoplastic-based platform\, where hPSC-derived CM self-organized into 3D between flexible rods near a central microwell. After cardiac construct formation\, ECs and stromal cells were introduced to self-organize into the microvascular network with gravity-driven media flow. After 3 weeks of co-culturing\, contractile force and vessel properties were assessed to investigate the effect of bi-directional interactions on cardiac tissue and microvasculature. The platform can be used to test anti-fibrotic drugs like lisinopril and observe changes in tissue stiffness and microvasculature functionality in a fibrosis model.\n*Results: For preliminary results\, a perfusable microvasculature formed by ECs and stromal cells was established and the selective permeability of the vasculature was tested by the fluorescent dextran. Cardiac tissue is expected to exhibit maturation hallmarks with the presence of perfusable vasculature.\n*Conclusion/Significance: The vascularized heart-on-a-chip model will capture key hallmarks of cardiac development and microvascular dysfunction\, promoting advanced tissue maturity and stable function for up to a month. The study will therefore provide a valuable tool for high-fidelity therapeutic screening\, aiding in the management of cardiovascular pathology and the development of new functional myocardium.\nSupervisor Name: Sara Vasconcelos\nYear of Study: 3\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-melody-li/
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Azadeh Aghamohammadi Sereshki
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Student Seminar Series\nPlease ensure you invite your Principal Investigator by adding their email via the ‘Add Guest’ button and they will also be notified of your presentation.\nLocation: WB116\nPresentation Title: An Investigation of E-I Balance in Autism and ADHD\nSupervisor Name: Dr. Azadeh Kushki\nYear of Study: 4\nProgram of Study: MASc\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-azadeh-aghamohammadi-sereshki/
LOCATION:WB116
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - David Li
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Student Seminar Series\nPlease ensure you invite your Principal Investigator by adding their email via the ‘Add Guest’ button and they will also be notified of your presentation.\nLocation: WB116\nPresentation Title: Modulation of the brain microenvironment for stroke therapy\nSupervisor Name: Molly Shoichet\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-david-li/
LOCATION:WB116
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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UID:42978-1711629600-1711630500@bme.utoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Anne Mei
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Student Seminar Series\nPlease ensure you invite your Principal Investigator by adding their email via the ‘Add Guest’ button and they will also be notified of your presentation.\nLocation: WB116\nPresentation Title: Automatic estimation of hand impairment in stroke survivors using egocentric video of multiple activities of daily living\nSupervisor Name: José Zariffa\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: MASc\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-anne-mei/
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