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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Suyue Lyu
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: Towards Reducing Immunogenicity in Therapeutic Proteins Using Deep Generative Models\nSupervisor Name: Michael Garton\nYear of Study: 5\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-suyue-lyu-4/
LOCATION:MS2158
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261002T162000
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Ali Barzegar Khanghah
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: Novel Approaches for Smart Infection Prevention in Healthcare Settings\nSupervisor Name: Geoff Fernie\nYear of Study: 4\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-ali-barzegar-khanghah-2/
LOCATION:MS2158
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261009T161500
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Maryam Dehghani
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: Advancing deep learning for sign language to spoken language translation\nAbstract:\nCommunication barriers between Deaf and hearing individuals continue to limit access to education\, healthcare\, and everyday social interactions. This research aims to reduce those barriers by developing an AI-driven framework for real-time\, two-way sign language translation. The long-term goal is to combine Sign Language Recognition (SLR) and Sign Language Production (SLP) into a single system that enables more natural and accessible communication between Deaf and hearing communities.\nThe current stage of this research focuses on the SLR component using the American Sign Language Lexicon Video Dataset (ASLLVD). A complete preprocessing pipeline was developed to clean and organize the dataset\, extract body and hand landmarks using MediaPipe\, and convert sign language videos into machine-learning-ready representations. Three deep learning architectures\, LSTM-only\, CNN+LSTM\, and CNN+Transformer\, were then implemented and compared to identify the most effective approach for recognizing sign language from video.\nAmong the evaluated models\, the CNN+Transformer model achieved the strongest performance\, demonstrating a greater ability to capture both the spatial and temporal patterns that characterize sign language. These findings provide a strong foundation for the next phase of the project\, which will extend the model to generate natural\, expressive sign language from spoken or written language.\nThis work demonstrates how artificial intelligence can make communication more accessible across different languages and modalities. By integrating computer vision\, deep learning\, and sign language technologies\, the proposed framework supports more natural interactions between Deaf and hearing individuals\, helping improve access to essential services while promoting inclusion\, accessibility\, and equitable participation in society.\nSupervisor Name: Dr. Tom Chau\nYear of Study: 3\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-maryam-dehghani/
LOCATION:MS2158
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261009T162500
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20261009T163000
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Vicki 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: MS2158 – 1 King’s College Circle\nPresentation Title: Sleep-targeted neuromodulation enhances memory consolidation in childhood epilepsy\nSupervisor Name: George Ibrahim\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: MASc\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-vicki-li/
LOCATION:MS2158
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261013T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20261013T130000
DTSTAMP:20260825T140554Z
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SUMMARY:Invited Academic Seminar Series- Hasan Erbil Abaci
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URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/invited-academic-seminar-series-hasan-erbil-abaci/
LOCATION:TRI-UC – 2nd floor Auditorium\, 550 University Avenue\, 550 University Ave\, Toronto\, ON\, M5G 2A2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:BME Invited Academic Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Raegan Allan
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: CRISPR-Responsive Material Development for At-Home STI Detection\nAbstract: In 2025\, the World Health Organization (WHO) established the development of low-cost\, rapid point-of-care tests (POCTs) for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) as a worldwide research priority. STIs are often asymptomatic and\, if left untreated\, can lead to long-term health consequences that disproportionately affect women\, including pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility. Regular screening is therefore essential\, but current diagnostics are poorly suited for routine use: antigen-based POCTs lack adequate sensitivity while nucleic acid amplification tests require sophisticated laboratory infrastructure. Even where resources are abundant\, uptake remains low due to stigma and inconvenience. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-Cas diagnostics offer programmable\, low-cost\, rapid\, isothermal nucleic acid detection. CRISPR diagnostics use controllable DNA cleavage upon detection of the target pathogen to generate signal. Traditional CRISPR diagnostics are fluorescence-based\, but recently CRISPR-responsive materials have emerged as an alternative to enable their use at the point-of-care. Here\, we design a multiplexed point-of-care CRISPR-Cas diagnostic platform incorporated into a tampon for at-home STI screening in women to detect Chlamydia trachomatis (CT)\, Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG)\, and Trichomonas vaginalis (TV). The assay combines isothermal recombinase polymerase amplification and CRISPR-Cas12a reactions to detect species-specific nucleic acid sequences. Our platform leverages a DNA hydrogel with an immobilized colourimetric dye that is released by activated Cas12a in the presence of the target pathogen\, enabling equipment-free colourimetric readout\, eliminating the need for laboratory infrastructure. The CRISPR-Cas assay designs for CT detection in a standard fluorometric assay have a 1 aM limit of detection within 1 hour. Transitioning these designs to a hydrogel-based dye-release assay\, we achieve 500 aM sensitivity within 2 hours. The hydrogels will be tested with NG and TV CRISPR-Cas assays for multiplexed detection. The tampon diagnostic platform design combines detection with sample collection and processing which has the potential to lay the groundwork for at-home STI diagnostics.\nSupervisor Name: Caitlin Maikawa\nYear of Study: 3\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-raegan-allan/
LOCATION:MS2158
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Xiaoxuan Xiao
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: Human Time Cell Supports Working Memory Maintenance\nSupervisor Name: Taufik Valiante\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-xiaoxuan-xiao/
LOCATION:MS2158
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261016T162000
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Dharsan Ravindran
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: Time-Series Foundation Models for Multi-Service Urgent Surgical Demand\nSupervisor Name: Cari Whyne\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: MASc\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-dharsan-ravindran/
LOCATION:MS2158
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20261016T163000
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Tenzin Yangzom
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: Wearable sensor for microvascular blood flow and endothelial function assessment\nSupervisor Name: Daniel Franklin\nYear of Study: 5\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-tenzin-yangzom-3/
LOCATION:MS2158
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261023T161000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20261023T161500
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Hugo Higueros
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: Implantable Devices with Multimodal Sensing Capabilities for the Assessment of Deep Tissue\nAbstract: Conventional non-invasive optical and bioelectrical approaches for the assessment of hemodynamic and fibrotic states remain limited in their ability to interrogate deep tissue. This work presents a series of unimodal and multimodal implants featuring multi-wavelength photoplethysmography (PPG) and bioimpedance (BIOZ) sensing capabilities. The implants are evaluated in healthy and fibrotic disease models and under a variety of hemodynamic challenges\, enabling blood-volume-invariant tissue oximetry and the identification of novel fibrotic biomarkers.\nSupervisor Name: Dr. Daniel Franklin\nYear of Study: 5\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-hugo-higueros-2/
LOCATION:MS2158
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261023T161500
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Zoe Paraskevopoulos
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: Optimizing Deep Brain Stimulation for Essential Tremor\nSupervisor Name: Milad Lankarany\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-zoe-paraskevopoulos/
LOCATION:MS2158
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261023T162000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20261023T162500
DTSTAMP:20260909T163910Z
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UID:10000757-1792772400-1792772700@bme.utoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Luka Zigomanis
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: Alternative Approaches to Quantifying Brain-Muscle Connectivity\nSupervisor Name: Kei Masani\nYear of Study: 3\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-luka-zigomanis/
LOCATION:MS2158
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261023T162500
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20261023T163000
DTSTAMP:20260909T163910Z
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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: Lipid nanoparticles optimized for large RNA cargo enhance genome editing in mouse liver\, lung and brain\nAbstract: Non-viral delivery of large gene editors remains a major barrier to unlocking the therapeutic potential of genome editing. Although lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are clinically validated for RNA delivery\, their efficacy often declines when encapsulating larger mRNA transcripts necessary for genome editing. In this work\, we present a large-cargo-informed lipid discovery strategy that incorporates mRNA size into the rational design and screening of LNPs. By synthesizing a library of over 300 unique ionizable lipid candidates and evaluating their performance using multi-kilobase reporter mRNAs\, we identified a class of large-cargo-optimized lipids (LC-lipids). The lead ionizable lipid\, LC-1\, enabled improved Cas9 gene knockout and adenine base editing across multiple tissue types and administration routes\, including the liver (intravenous)\, brain (intrathecal)\, and lung (intratracheal)\, consistently outperforming benchmark LNPs using LP-01 and ALC-0315 as the ionizable lipid.\nSupervisor Name: Dr. Bowen Li\nYear of Study: 4\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-fanglin-gong-3/
LOCATION:MS2158
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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