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SUMMARY:BME Holiday Party 2025
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.
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/bme-holiday-party-2025/
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UID:53669-1764763200-1764766800@bme.utoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Open Defense - Development of Predictive Culture Models of Skeletal Muscle to Advance Muscle Stem Cell Therapeutics
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URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/open-defense-development-of-predictive-culture-models-of-skeletal-muscle-to-advance-muscle-stem-cell-therapeutics/
CATEGORIES:Events & Workshops
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UID:52855-1764951000-1764951900@bme.utoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Jennifer Kieda
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: MS2158 – 1 King’s College Circle\nPresentation Title: POMaC particles for use in tissue engineering\nSupervisor Name: Milica Radisic\nYear of Study: 5\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-jennifer-kieda/
LOCATION:MS2158
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251205T162500
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251205T164000
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UID:52856-1764951900-1764952800@bme.utoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Richard jiang
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: MS2158 – 1 King’s College Circle\nPresentation Title: Development of Customizable Biomaterials that Promote Cardiac Tissue Growth Through Mechanical and Physical Cues\nSupervisor Name: Milica Radisic\nYear of Study: 3\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-richard-jiang/
LOCATION:MS2158
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251205T164000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251205T165500
DTSTAMP:20260528T121829
CREATED:20251015T172231Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251205T200738Z
UID:52857-1764952800-1764953700@bme.utoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Jathushan Kaetheeswaran
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: MS2158 – 1 King’s College Circle\nPresentation Title: Consumer-grade Smartwatches for Cardiovascular Monitoring\nAbstract: Consumer-grade smartwatches offer a new personalized health monitoring option for general consumers globally as cardiovascular diseases continue to prevail as the leading cause of global mortality. The development and validation of reliable cardiovascular monitoring algorithms for these consumer-grade devices requires realistic biosignal data from diverse sets of participants. However\, the availability of public consumer-grade smartwatch datasets with synchronized cardiovascular biosignals is limited\, and existing datasets do not offer rich demographic diversity in their participant cohorts\, leading to potentially biased algorithm development. This paper presents HEART-Watch\, a multimodal physiological dataset collected from temporally synchronized wrist-worn Google Pixel Watch 2 electrocardiogram (ECG)\, photoplethysmography\, and accelerometer signals from a diverse cohort of 40 healthy adults across three physical states – sitting\, standing and walking with reference chest ECG. Intermittent upper arm blood pressure measurements and concurrent biosignals were collected as an additional biomarker for future research.\nSupervisor Name: Milad Lankarany\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: MASc\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-jathushan-kaetheeswaran/
LOCATION:MS2158
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251205T165500
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251205T171000
DTSTAMP:20260528T121829
CREATED:20251120T192237Z
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UID:53743-1764953700-1764954600@bme.utoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Yinghe Sun
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: MS2158 – 1 King’s College Circle\nPresentation Title: Identifying generalizable features in peripheral nerve recordings for improved neuroprosthetic control\nAbstract:\nPeripheral nerve interfaces can be used to create advanced assistive technologies. Neural networks associated with multicontact nerve cuff electrodes can selectively record and discriminate neural recordings and facilitate neuroprosthetic control. Due to variations in device positioning and anatomy\, neural networks trained on one subject currently cannot generalize to others. To take advantage of available data from other subjects\, the objective was to train a neural network whose encoder portion can extract representations that generalize effectively when using transfer learning to adapt the classification to new subjects.\nThe study applied neural networks to classify naturally evoked compound action potentials corresponding to three different sensory stimuli. The datasets were obtained from the sciatic nerves of 9 Long-Evans Rats through 7×8-channel cuff electrodes. To leverage data from multiple subjects\, we pre-trained the network on either one subject or merged data from multiple subjects\, then used cross-validation to retrain and evaluate it on a separate target subject. Layer freezing was applied to identify which part of the encoder would best generalize.\nPre-training with merged datasets led to a significant increase in mean macro-F1 score compared to subject-specific models trained from scratch (0.810±0.130 vs 0.733±0.121\, p < 0.05)\, regardless of the number of frozen layers. Pre-training on a single subject did not lead to a significant improvement.\nA pre-training approach combining data from multiple subjects shows significant improvement in classification performance. The study developed an encoder that benefits classification performance on unseen subjects despite anatomical variability and device positioning differences.\nSupervisor Name: José Zariffa\nYear of Study: 3\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-yinghe-sun/
LOCATION:MS2158
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251205T165500
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UID:53744-1764953700-1764954600@bme.utoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Yinghe Sun
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: MS2158 – 1 King’s College Circle\nPresentation Title: Identifying generalizable features in peripheral nerve recordings for improved neuroprosthetic control\nAbstract:\nPeripheral nerve interfaces can be used to create advanced assistive technologies. Neural networks associated with multicontact nerve cuff electrodes can selectively record and discriminate neural recordings and facilitate neuroprosthetic control. Due to variations in device positioning and anatomy\, neural networks trained on one subject currently cannot generalize to others. To take advantage of available data from other subjects\, the objective was to train a neural network whose encoder portion can extract representations that generalize effectively when using transfer learning to adapt the classification to new subjects.\nThe study applied neural networks to classify naturally evoked compound action potentials corresponding to three different sensory stimuli. The datasets were obtained from the sciatic nerves of 9 Long-Evans Rats through 7×8-channel cuff electrodes. To leverage data from multiple subjects\, we pre-trained the network on either one subject or merged data from multiple subjects\, then used cross-validation to retrain and evaluate it on a separate target subject. Layer freezing was applied to identify which part of the encoder would best generalize.\nPre-training with merged datasets led to a significant increase in mean macro-F1 score compared to subject-specific models trained from scratch (0.810±0.130 vs 0.733±0.121\, p < 0.05)\, regardless of the number of frozen layers. Pre-training on a single subject did not lead to a significant improvement.\nA pre-training approach combining data from multiple subjects shows significant improvement in classification performance. The study developed an encoder that benefits classification performance on unseen subjects despite anatomical variability and device positioning differences.\nSupervisor Name: José Zariffa\nYear of Study: 3\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-yinghe-sun-2/
LOCATION:MS2158
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251209T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251209T130000
DTSTAMP:20260528T121829
CREATED:20250408T173702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T151633Z
UID:49402-1765281600-1765285200@bme.utoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Invited Academic Seminar Series - Ross Ethier - Signalling pathways in myopia
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nMyopia (near-sightedness) is predicted to affect 50% of all people worldwide by 2050. Although near-sightedness itself can be corrected optically (glasses\, contacts)\, myopia increases the risk of blinding diseases (glaucoma\, retinal detachment\, etc.) and thus the increased incidence of myopia is predicted to be an important driver of vision loss worldwide. Most cases of myopia are due to excessive axial eye growth; unfortunately\, the signaling pathways underlying this axial growth are very poorly understood. We have found that oral administration of all-trans retinoic acid (atRA) causes myopia in mice\, implicating atRA as an important player in the myopigenic signaling cascade. In this talk\, I will describe our ongoing studies of myopigenic atRA signaling in the eye based on the use of mouse models\, atRA tracer studies and mathematical modeling. I will also describe studies of how atRA interacts with dopaminergic signaling and light levels (two known modulators of myopia).
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/invited-academic-seminar-series-ross-ethier/
LOCATION:Toronto Rehabilitation Institute\, 550 University Ave\, 2nd Floor Auditorium\, 550 University Ave\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5G 2A2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:BME Invited Academic Speaker Series
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UID:52858-1765555800-1765556700@bme.utoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Osama Khan
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: MS2158 – 1 King’s College Circle\nPresentation Title: Drug delivery to lung cancer using prodrug-loaded microbubbles and endobronchial ultrasound\nSupervisor Name: Naomi Matsuura\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-osama-khan/
LOCATION:MS2158
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251212T162500
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251212T164000
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UID:52859-1765556700-1765557600@bme.utoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Rena Far
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: MS2158 – 1 King’s College Circle\nPresentation Title: The effect of musical rhythms on human brain cell and circuit dynamics\nSupervisor Name: Dr. Taufik Valiante\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-rena-far/
LOCATION:MS2158
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251212T164000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251212T165500
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UID:52860-1765557600-1765558500@bme.utoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Reut Shor
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: MS2158 – 1 King’s College Circle\nPresentation Title: Reversing Outer Retinal Corrugations: Toward Optimized RRD Management\nAbstract:\nObjective: To develop and validate a quantitative biomechanical framework that models outer retinal corrugations (ORC) formation and progression in rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) patients\, to predict the development of post-op outer retinal fold (ORF).\nMethods: In a prospective\, multicenter cohort at St. Michael’s Hospital (Toronto\, Canada) and the Department of Medicine and Health Sciences “V. Tiberio” (Campobasso\, Italy) from January 1\, 2023\, to January 1\, 2025\, sequential OCT scans of detached retinas in RRD patients were obtained at presentation\, within 24h before treatment\, and at 1-\, 3-\, and 6-months post-treatment. Regions of interest (ROIs) were aligned across scans using shared anatomic landmarks\, manually segmented\, and automatically analyzed in MATLAB to compute strain mismatch and elasticity-modulus mismatch. Measured values were compared with theoretical predictions for surface-instability patterns in a bilayer system with differential expansion rates. Temporal changes in strain and modulus mismatch were evaluated against kinetic models of gel swelling. Correlation between strain values\, post-op ORF development and visual acuity (VA) were tested.\nResults: 42 patients (60 ROIs) met inclusion criteria. Post-op ORF occurred in 13/60 ROIs (21.7%). Elasticity-modulus mismatch versus strain was mapped to a bilayer phase diagram within a high-adhesion regime\, with non-corrugated ROIs in the “flat” region and corrugated ROIs in the “wrinkle/fold” domains. The minimum strain for the flat-to-corrugated transition was 0.13. No ORFs were observed for strain 5. The strain threshold associated with ~50% ORF risk differed by treatment: ≥0.25 for Pars Plana Vitrectomy (PPV) or Scleral Buckle (SB) and ≥0.43 for Pneumatic Retinopexy (PnR). A kinetic model of ORC progression based on gel-swelling theory showed good agreement with the data. Across cohorts\, higher pre-op strain trended toward worse post-op VA.\nConclusions: ORC behavior in RRD can be quantitatively characterized by strain and elasticity-modulus mismatch. Treatment-dependent strain thresholds predict post-op ORF and align with observed visual acuity trends. This mechanics-based framework elucidates ORC pathophysiology and may support risk stratification in choosing timing and selection of reattachment strategies.\nSupervisor Name: Prof Frank Gu\, Dr Rajeev Muni\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: MASc\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-reut-shor/
LOCATION:MS2158
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251212T171000
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UID:52880-1765558500-1765559400@bme.utoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Michael 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: MS2158 – 1 King’s College Circle\nPresentation Title: Design and Feasibility of a Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment Algorithm for Rehabilitation Video Games\nSupervisor Name: Elaine Biddiss\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: MASc\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-michael-lam/
LOCATION:MS2158
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251219T161000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251219T162500
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LAST-MODIFIED:20251219T180755Z
UID:52881-1766160600-1766161500@bme.utoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Mahmoud Abdelkarim
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: MS2158 – 1 King’s College Circle\nPresentation Title: Hydrodynamic focusing to synthesize lipid-based nanoparticles: Computational and experimental analysis of chip design and formulation parameters\nSupervisor Name: Hagar Labouta\nYear of Study: 3\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-mahmoud-abdelkarim/
LOCATION:MS2158
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251219T162500
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251219T164000
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UID:52861-1766161500-1766162400@bme.utoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Fanglin Gong
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: MS2158 – 1 King’s College Circle\nPresentation Title: Engineering of Amino Acid-Derived Ionizable Lipids Enables Inhaled Base Editing for Therapeutic Gene Correction in the Lung\nAbstract: CRISPR-based gene editing holds promise for treating genetic diseases\, yet its application to lung disorders has been hindered by the challenges of pulmonary delivery. Inspired by the modularity and biocompatibility of amino acid-derived chemistries\, we report the combinatorial synthesis of 960 ionizable lipids incorporating chemically diverse backbones from both proteinogenic and non-proteinogenic α-amino acids. Through high-throughput screening and structure-function analysis\, we identify CHCha-10\, a cyclohexyl amino acid-derived lipid that forms biodegradable nanoparticles capable of efficiently delivering mRNA-based gene editors to lung epithelial cells. Following intratracheal administration\, CHCha-10 nanoparticles exhibit enhanced mucus penetration\, and epithelial-specific transfection in both mice and ferrets. As a functional application\, we demonstrate the first instance of in vivo base editing in the lung via inhalation. Delivery of adenine base editor mRNA and guide RNA targeting the CFTR G542X mutation restores CFTR expression and chloride channel function in G542X human airway epithelial cells\, mouse-derived intestinal organoids\, and the lungs of cystic fibrosis mice. This work establishes a chemically modular design framework for ionizable lipids and a translatable platform for RNA-based pulmonary gene correction.\nSupervisor Name: Dr. Bowen Li\nYear of Study: 3\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-fanglin-gong-2/
LOCATION:MS2158
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251219T164000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251219T165500
DTSTAMP:20260528T121829
CREATED:20251016T172233Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251219T180755Z
UID:52883-1766162400-1766163300@bme.utoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Sima Buchnak
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: MS2158 – 1 King’s College Circle\nPresentation Title: Functional and Structural Connectivity in Paediatric Post-Stroke Dystonia\nAbstract:\nIntroduction: Dystonia is a motor impairment that affects 20% of children post basal ganglia arterial ischemic stroke (CAIS). Disrupted inhibitory processing in the sensorimotor cortex is implicated and reflected by alterations in beta event-related desynchronization (ERD). In a prior magnetoencephalography (MEG) study during a cognitive-motor task\, beta ERD response amplitude was larger in both hemispheres of CAIS with no dystonia (D-)\, and the non-lesioned hemisphere of CAIS with dystonia (D+)\, compared to healthy controls (HC). This finding was suggestive of compensatory sensorimotor plasticity.\nObjective: To determine whether beta ERD shows similar trends during a passive movement task and explore associations with corticospinal tract (CST) microstructure.\nMethods: Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and MEG data were collected in CAIS (D+/D-) and HC participants from a prior study. A passive movement task assessed beta reactivity without the confounding effects of impaired motor execution. CST microstructure was evaluated using tractography and diffusion metrics.\nResults: Twenty-six participants (16CAIS: 8D+/8D- ;10HC) were included (Table 1). Compared to HC\, beta ERD amplitude during passive movement was greater in the lesioned hemisphere of D+ (p = 0.036) and the non-lesioned hemisphere of D- (p = 0.030) patients\, with similar trends in the other hands (Fig 1). In the lesioned hemisphere\, mean diffusivity (MD) was highest in D+\, intermediate in the D-\, and lowest in the HC group. Fractional anisotropy (FA) showed an inverse trend. Non-lesioned hemispheres showed comparable MD and FA across groups (Fig 2).\nConclusion: Group differences in CST.microstructure were consistent with motor outcomes but did not mirror the functional measures of inhibitory processing. Our finding of higher beta ERD during passive movement of both hands\, in all CAIS groups (D+/D-) compared to controls\, was unexpected.\nThese studies suggest that the basic function of the CST is relatively preserved in dystonia. Future studies should investigate the potential role of cognition in the maladaptive response of dystonia.\nHsu P.\, et al.\, (2025) Hum Brain Mapp. 46 e7020\nSupervisor Name: Douglas Cheyne\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: MASc\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-sima-buchnak/
LOCATION:MS2158
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251219T165500
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251219T171000
DTSTAMP:20260528T121829
CREATED:20251016T172233Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251219T180756Z
UID:52884-1766163300-1766164200@bme.utoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Amy Huang
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: MS2158 – 1 King’s College Circle\nPresentation Title: Evaluating the hemodynamic fidelity of idealized versus intraoperative boundary conditions in acute type B aortic dissection simulations\nSupervisor Name: Cristina Amon\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: MASc\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-amy-huang/
LOCATION:MS2158
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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