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SUMMARY:Invited Academic Seminar Series – Ehsan Hoque- Embedding human values in digital medicine (Hybrid Delivery)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker\nEhsan Hoque\nAssociate Professor\nComputer Science\nUniversity of Rochester \n\nAbstract\nMany argue that making interoperability\, federal incentives\, barcoding\, and deep learning is the core of revolutionizing healthcare information technology. It is. But it is also about developing technologies that align with our values and integrate effortlessly with our lifestyles and healthcare workflow while improving access and equity. \nIn this talk\, I will highlight the following projects and their design principles\, technical contributions\, and a roadmap to integrating them within the existing healthcare workflow. \n1)      How to develop an automated screening and tracking of Parkinson’s disease—the fastest-growing neurological disability —through a series of tasks on a webcam anytime\, anywhere? \n2)      How can AI assist doctors in improving empathy and listening skills as they help terminally ill patients make critical decisions? \n3)      How can virtual avatars with standardized\, repeatable\, and objective feedback improve the social skills of individuals who struggle with socio-emotional communication\, such as those with Autism? \nAlong with technical contributions\, I will reflect on the journey of how a trained computer scientist like myself could get into healthcare research driven by personal circumstances and enabled by excellent collaborators. \nBio: Ehsan Hoque is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Rochester\, where he co-leads the Rochester Human-Computer Interaction (ROC HCI) Group. From 2018-2019\, he was also the Interim Director of the Goergen Institute for Data Science. Ehsan earned his Ph.D. from MIT in 2013\, where the MIT Museum highlighted his dissertation—the development of an intelligent agent to improve human ability — as one of MIT’s most unconventional inventions. Building on the work/patent\, Microsoft released “Speaker Coach” available in PowerPoint. Ehsan is best known for introducing and extensively validating the idea of using AI to train and enhance elements of basic human ability. \nEhsan and his students’ work has been recognized by NSF CAREER Award\, MIT TR35\, Young Investigator Award by the US Army Research Office (ARO). In 2017\, Science News named him one of the 10 scientists to watch\, and in 2020\, the National Academy of Medicine recognized him as one of the emerging leaders in health and medicine. Ehsan is blessed to be the primary caregiver of his younger brother\, 22\, who is nonverbal and diagnosed with Autism and down syndrome. \n\nHost\nLueder Kahrs
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SUMMARY:Careers Beyond Academia - Laura Smith\, PhD Principal Scientist\, AmacaThera and Stephanie Fisher\, PhD Senior Scientist\, BlueRock Therapeutics
DESCRIPTION:About the series\nTo what extent can we plan and design our careers? How much depends on our environment\, the choices we make\, the opportunities that present themselves\, the networks we build\, and the achievements and failures we experience along the way? Medicine by Design and Stem Cell Network have partnered to host Careers Beyond Academia\, a virtual career seminar series that will profile a wide variety of different careers available to trainees who hold a degree in the life sciences. The goal of the series is to help trainees understand the different careers available outside of academia\, the skills required for certain positions\, and some of the daily functions of those positions.\nVirtual Event – Register Here\nSpeakers:\nLaura Smith\, PhDPrincipal Scientist\, AmacaThera\nStephanie Fisher\, PhDSenior Scientist\, BlueRock Therapeutics\nEach session will feature two speaker presentations that will be recorded and available on both Medicine by Design and Stem Cell Network’s website and YouTube channel. Trainees will be able to participate in a joint Q&A and panel discussion during the session.\n 
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/careers-beyond-academia-laura-smith-phd-principal-scientist-amacathera-and-stephanie-fisher-phd-senior-scientist-bluerock-therapeutics/
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CATEGORIES:External Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Graduate Seminar Series: Cell and Tissue Stream - Aaron Rosenstein
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Seminar Series: Cell and Tissue Stream\nGraduate Seminar Series for the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME). This day is for cell and tissue stream presenters.\nIf you would like to invite your Principal Investigator\, please add their email via the ‘Add Guest’ button and they will also be notified of your presentation.\nPresentation Title: Recording cellular histories in DNA with prime editing\nAbstract: Recording cellular stimuli into DNA has been a common aspiration of synthetic biologists for the purposes as both a research tool and eventual clinical diagnostic application. Whether as a means of understanding interactions on the single-cell level\, or reconstructing histories of cellular events\, a cellular DNA recording device has widespread utility. Previous attempts at building a robust recorder\, however\, have fallen short on this goal. Here I present steps taken towards developing a recording device which can incorporate sequential analog signals of events into genomic DNA. This device will leverage prime editing as a means of integrating signals encoded on prime editing guide RNAs (pegRNAs) into a specific region of the genome termed recording loci\, while pegRNA expression will be induced by the magnitude of signals respectively. I envisage a mechanism whereby repeated prime editing can construct an organized cellular record of event histories. Development of this device requires empirical identification of the sequence-determinants of effective prime editing\, as well as constructs for translation of diverse cellular signals into pegRNA messages of commensurate magnitude. Preliminary results indicate a baseline for recording synthetic signals in this manner. Ultimately this project will yield a robust recording device which can meet investigator’s needs\, and can hopefully be adopted as both a research tool and clinical diagnostic device.\nSupervisor Name: Dr. Michael Garton\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: PhD\nZoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89610372821?pwd=azd4SCtYVWtreVovaGNPV1c2NGY2Zz09\nMeeting ID: 896 1037 2821\nPassword: 483329\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-seminar-series-cell-and-tissue-stream-aaron-rosenstein/
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SUMMARY:Graduate Seminar Series: Molecular Stream - Mohamed Elsayed
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Seminar Series: Molecular Stream\nGraduate Seminar Series for the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME). This day is for molecular stream presenters.\nIf you would like to invite your Principal Investigator\, please add their email via the ‘Add Guest’ button and they will also be notified of your presentation.\nPresentation Title: Towards automated cell isolation using Optoelectronic Tweezers and Digital Microfluidics\nAbstract:\nOptoelectronic tweezers uses patterned illumination to generate electric field gradients\, inducing dielectrophoretic forces that can move objects.\nI will introduce light-driven micromotors and micromachines based on optoelectronic tweezers. Using a circular micro-gear as a unit component\, we demonstrate a range of new functionalities\, including a touchless micro- feed-roller that allows the programming of precise three-dimensional particle trajectories\, multi-component micro-gear trains that serve as torque- or velocity-amplifiers\, and micro- rack-and-pinion systems that serve as microfluidic valves.\nI will present the utility of this technique in a biological application through a project “Autonomous control of optoelectronic microrobots for brain stem cell isolation”. There are various exciting research questions in the field of neuroscience that require harvesting stem cells from mouse brains. Current methods for harvesting stem cells have poor yield and often require pooling cells from various mice\, placing serious limitations on the type of research. We explored using the optoelectronic micro-robot to harvest stem cells from primary dissection cell suspensions. These are sensitive cells so they benefit strongly from the gentle approach offered by the optoelectronic micro-robot.\nI will then switch gears to present work done to date in another project using digital microfluidics “Automated processing of sexual assault samples to enable rapid DNA analysis”. Sexual assault samples contain DNA from multiple sources\, making them one of the most challenging types of forensic samples to analyze\, often beyond the reach of rapid DNA analyzers. The goal of this project is to develop a workflow that facilitates the use of rapid DNA typing instruments for sexual assault samples.\nSupervisor Name: Aaron Wheeler\nYear of Study: 5\nProgram of Study: PhD\nZoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89610372821?pwd=azd4SCtYVWtreVovaGNPV1c2NGY2Zz09\nMeeting ID: 896 1037 2821\nPassword: 483329\nPowered by Calendly.com
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