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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Rachael Cowie
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: HS610 – 155 College St\, Room 610\nPresentation Title: Amber™ Preserves Histology\, Immunostaining\, and Nucleic Acid Yield Up To 7 Days\nSupervisor Name: Shaf Keshavjee\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: MASc\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-rachael-cowie/
LOCATION:HS610
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241202T172500
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Carolina Chávez Madero
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: HS610 – 155 College St\, Room 610\nPresentation Title: ERK 1/2 signalling to predict muscle cells fate outcomes\nSupervisor Name: Penney Gilbert\nYear of Study: 5\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-carolina-chavez-madero-2/
LOCATION:HS610
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Canceled: Graduate Student Seminar Series - Chantel Campbell
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: HS610 – 155 College St\, Room 610\nPresentation Title: Engineering Angle-Ply Biomaterials\nSupervisor Name: Dr. Axel Guenther\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: PhD\nCancellation Reason: aren’t feeling well\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-chantel-campbell/
LOCATION:HS610
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241202T175500
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UID:46037-1733162100-1733163000@bme.utoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Aleksandra Fomina
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: HS610 – 155 College St\, Room 610\nPresentation Title: In vitro tumor niches to probe mechanisms of chemiresistance in pancreatic cancer\nSupervisor Name: Alison McGuigan\nYear of Study: 5\nProgram of Study: PhD\nReschedule Reason: Adding Supervisor as guest\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-aleksandra-fomina-3/
LOCATION:HS610
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241209T171000
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Brynn Voigt
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: MY380\nPresentation Title: Combined Bioimpedance and Photoplethysmography Device as a Cuffless Blood Pressure Tool\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-brynn-voigt/
LOCATION:MY380
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Behrad Taghibeyglou
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: MY380\nPresentation Title: Development of accessible digital technologies to improve sleep assessment in people experiencing homelessness\nSupervisor Name: Dr. Azadeh Yadollahi\nYear of Study: 4\nProgram of Study: PhD\nReschedule Reason: Adding Supervisor as guest\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-behrad-taghibeyglou/
LOCATION:MY380
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241209T174000
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UID:46041-1733766000-1733766900@bme.utoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Thierry Dugas
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: MY380\nPresentation Title: Development and Validation of a Textile-Based Prosthetic Pressure Sensing System\nSupervisor Name: Dr. Jan Andrysek\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: MASc\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-thierry-dugas/
LOCATION:MY380
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241210T120000
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SUMMARY:Tunable Multifunctional Macromolecules via Parallel Experiment and Computation: from Drug Delivery to Nucleic Acid Therapeutics - Theresa Reineke
DESCRIPTION:Speaker\nTheresa Reineke\nProfessor \nDepartment of Chemistry\nCollege of Science & Engineering\nUniversity of Minnesota \n\nAbstract\nMultifunctional macromolecules have a tremendous impact on a multitude of applications. For example\, the development of polymer excipients can improve the solubility and bioavailability of intractable drugs\, nucleic acid delivery vehicles have promise to promote selective genome editing\, and materials from sustainable monomers may lower the environmental impact of plastics. While the materials function is diverse across these fields\, the synthetic principles are similar and should be readily tunable for each specific application while remaining biologically and environmentally benign. Modern polymer chemistry and engineering offers numerous pathways for tailorable materials development and a multitude of rich monomer functionality (high heteroatom content and stereochemistry)\, composition\, molecular weight\, and architecture (linear\, statistical\, block\, brush)\, where engineering is now hindered by the infinite design space. To this end\, we have coupled parallel experimental workflows with computation and/or machine learning to effectively understand structure-activity trends\, mechanisms\, and rapidly discover high performance structures. For example\, we have applied these techniques to design delivery vehicles for Cas9 ribonucleoprotein (RNP)\, plasmid (pDNA)\, and combination payloads. A library of statistical copolymers has been synthesized and systematic variations in physicochemical properties and trends for encapsulation/delivery of RNP and pDNA payloads were examined in parallel. Structure-function correlations underlying cellular internalization\, editing efficiency\, gene expression\, and cellular toxicity of the polymer-payload formulations were probed through machine learning approaches. This workflow allowed rapid identification of successful architectures that outperform commercial reagents\, achieving nearly 60% editing efficiency via non-homologous end-joining. Furthermore\, the data set allowed us to uncover the physicochemical basis of delivery performance\, offering understanding of divergent requirements for successful delivery of RNP and plasmid payloads. Our work demonstrates the power of combinatorial synthesis and high-throughput characterization methodologies coupled with data science approaches to discover promising macromolecules and structure-property relationships that would have otherwise remained inaccessible to intuition. \nBiography \nTheresa M. Reineke is the Prager Endowed Chair in Macromolecular Science and a Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Minnesota. She also holds graduate faculty appointments in the Departments of Chemical Engineering/Materials Science and Pharmaceutics. She received a B.S. Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire\, a M.S. Degree from Arizona State University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She then received a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for her work in gene therapy at the California Institute of Technology prior to beginning her independent faculty career. Her research group is focused on enabling fundamental and applied technology advancements in the fields of macromolecules for nucleic acid delivery and gene editing\, oral delivery of therapeutics\, and sustainability. She has published over 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts and patents and manages a large group of researchers supported by several corporate\, private and national funding agencies. Reineke is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society\, Royal Society of Chemistry\, along with the Kavli and Alfred P. Sloan Foundations. She has received numerous awards\, including in the 2005 National Science Foundation CAREER and Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Awards\, 2008 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award\, 2009 National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award\, 2012 Outstanding New Investigator Award from the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy\, 2017 Carl S. Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry Award from the American Chemical Society Division of Polymer Chemistry\, 2018 DuPont Nutrition and Health Sciences Excellence Medal\, and 2022 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society. Reineke has also served for 11 years as an Associate Editor for the journals ACS MacroLetters and Chemical Science and in 2023 became Editor-in Chief of Bioconjugate Chemistry. Further\, Reineke has cofounded three biotech companies in the field of nucleic acid delivery: Techulon\, Inc.\, Nanite\, Inc.\, and LiberateBio\, Inc.
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/invited-academic-seminar-series-theresa-reineke-2/
LOCATION:C. David Naylor Building\, Room 6\, 6 Queens Park Crescent West\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 3H2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:BME Invited Academic Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241213T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241213T140000
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SUMMARY:BME Holiday Party 2024
DESCRIPTION:Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME) is proud to host this year’s Institute-wide holiday celebration! Get out of your labs and offices\, socialize\, get to know one another\, and help build our community. \nDate and Time:  December 13\, 2024\, 11:00 AM-2:00 PM\nVenue:  Great Hall\, Hart House
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/bme-holiday-cocktail-party-2024/
LOCATION:Great Hall\, Hart House\, 7 Hart House Cir\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 3H3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events & Workshops
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Michael Tisi
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: MY380\nPresentation Title: Machine Learning Can Predict Lung Function Patterns from Oscillometry Signals\nSupervisor Name: Chung-Wai Chow\nYear of Study: 4\nProgram of Study: PhD\nReschedule Reason: Adding Supervisor as guest\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-michael-tisi/
LOCATION:MY380
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241216T174000
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Atousa Assadi
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: MY380\nPresentation Title: Risk Assessment and Prediction of Opioids Induced Respiratory Depression During Sleep\nAbstract: Opioids induced respiratory adverse events during sleep is a major health challenge. These adverse events are mainly characterized as prolonged reduction of airflow and respiratory rate and reduced blood oxygen saturation. The consequences are cardiopulmonary complications\, increased morbidity\, hospital length of stay\, costs\, 30-day readmission\, and higher mortality. The risk factors include age\, sex\, body mass index\, opioids’ dosage\, comorbid sleep and cardiac disorders\, and concomitant use of other medications. While identifying high-risk individuals\, proper monitoring of their respiratory function\, and timely interventions can significantly prevent the adverse events\, current techniques have low accuracy\, lack external validation\, have false errors\, cannot predict adverse respiratory events. Therefore\, in this research project\, our goal is to develop algorithms based on signal processing and artificial intelligence techniques for risk assessment and prediction of respiratory adverse events during sleep in individuals who are taking opioids. The outcome of this research can help identify high-risk individuals for more frequent monitoring of their respiratory function. Moreover\, the monitoring and prediction algorithm can be used to alert the caregivers in advance of an adverse event for initiating proper intervention.\nSupervisor Name: Dr. Azadeh Yadollahi\nYear of Study: 5\nProgram of Study: PhD\nReschedule Reason: Adding supervisor as guest\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-atousa-assadi-3/
LOCATION:MY380
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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UID:46044-1734370800-1734371700@bme.utoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Delaram Sadatamin
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: MY380\nPresentation Title: Developing a Textile-Based Wearable for ECG Monitoring\nSupervisor Name: Dr. Azadeh Yadollahi\nYear of Study: 3\nProgram of Study: PhD\nReschedule Reason: Adding supervisor as guest\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-delaram-sadatamin/
LOCATION:MY380
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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UID:46045-1734371700-1734372600@bme.utoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Saba Sadatamin
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: MY380\nPresentation Title: PhD seminar thesis – 2nd\nSupervisor Name: George Ibrahim\nYear of Study: 4\nProgram of Study: PhD\nReschedule Reason: Adding supervisor as guest\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-saba-sadatamin/
LOCATION:MY380
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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