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SUMMARY:TBEP Research Seminar: Cardiovascular tissue engineering with thermoplastic elastomers
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URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/tbep-research-seminar-cardiovascular-tissue-engineering-with-thermoplastic-elastomers/
LOCATION:661 University Ave. 14th Floor Lounge\, 661 University Ave. 14th Floor Lounge
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SUMMARY:NRC+CRAFT Speaker - Invited Academic Seminar Series - Ankur Singh - Lymphoid Organoids and Multiscale Technologies for Untangling Immunity in Infectious Diseases and Cancers (Hybrid Delivery)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker\nAnkur Singh\nWoodruff Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor\nGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\nWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University School of Medicine \n\nAbstract\nFor many life-threatening global infectious diseases\, effective vaccinations are still lacking. There are numerous challenges in understanding disease transmission\, and pathology\, and developing new vaccines\, including a limited understanding of immune correlates of protection\, identification of viable vaccine candidates\, and off-target effects that must be evaluated in staged clinical trials. To generate these antibodies\, B cells are activated by T cells to form germinal centers\, which are sub-anatomical structures in the B cell follicles of lymph nodes. In germinal centers\, B cells rapidly proliferate and mutate to form somatically mutated high-affinity antibody-secreting cells. In this talk\, I will discuss my laboratory’s effort in developing murine and human ex vivo immune organoids using cells from individuals to generate antibody-secreting cells in a dish or as organ-on-chip against viral infections and antibiotic-resistant bacteria. I will subsequently describe designer bio-adhesive hydrogels and lymphatic-mimicking technologies for understanding the role of the lymphoid microenvironment in genetically diverse lymphomas and potential causes of drug resistance. \nBio: Ankur Singh is a Woodruff Faculty Fellow and an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Before Georgia Tech\, he was a tenured Associate Professor at Cornell University. His laboratory develops immune organoids and enabling technologies to understand healthy and diseased immune cells and translate therapeutics. He has received funding from the National Institute of Health\, National Science Foundation\, Wellcome Leap HOPE\, Department of Defense\, Defense Threat Reduction Agency\, the Curci Foundation\, and Lymphoma and Leukemia Society. He has published >65 articles in peer-reviewed journals\, including Nature Methods\, Nature Materials\, Nature Nanotechnology\, Nature Immunology\, Nature Communications\, Nature Reviews Materials\, Nature Protocols\, Science Advances\, Cell Reports\, PNAS\, Blood\, and Advanced Materials. He has written multiple editorials for Science Translational Medicine. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER\, Society for Biomaterials Young Investigator Award\, CMBE Young Innovator Award\, CMBE Rising Star Award\, 3M Faculty Award\, DoD Career award\, Cornell’s Teaching Excellence Award\, and Cornell’s Research Excellence Award. His immune organoids were identified among the Top 100 Discoveries of 2015 by Discover Magazine. He is the Founder and past Chair of the Immune Engineering SIG at the Society for Biomaterials and Controlled Release Society. He currently serves as the Associate Editor for Science Advances\, Biomaterials\, and Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering.  \n\nHost\nMilica Radisic
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/invited-academic-seminar-series-ankur-singh/
LOCATION:Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research\, Red Room\, 160 College Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 3E1\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Graduate Seminar Series: Clinical Stream - Ali Barzegar Khanghah
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Seminar Series: Clinical Stream\nGraduate Seminar Series for the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME). This day is for clinical 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: A Novel Automatic Tele-Rehabilitation System Using Vision Technology\nAbstract:\nBackground: Tele-rehabilitation has the potential to considerably change the way patients are monitored from their homes during the care process by providing equitable access without the need to travel to rehab centers or the high cost of personal in-home services. Developing a tele-rehab platform with the capability to automate exercise guidance and support efficient communication with the therapists will have a significant impact on rehabilitation outcomes of aging population. Our goal is to design and validate a biofeedback system to identify the quality of performed exercises and inform the patients to refine their movements to get the most out of their plan of care.\nMethods: Various datasets were reviewed and Miron et al.  dataset including depth videos was selected. This data was collected from 30 participants performing 9 different rehabilitation exercises. Each exercise was labeled as “Correctly” or “Incorrectly” executed by a clinician. We have used a pre-trained 3D Convolution Neural Network (3D-CNN) to design our biofeedback system.\nResults: The proposed biofeedback system achieved an average accuracy of 91.05% and an average F1-Score of 64.20% using Leave-One-Subject-Out cross-validation.\nConclusion: The proposed 3D-CNN was able to classify the rehabilitation videos and feedback on the quality of exercises to the users to help them modify their movement patterns. We are expanding our platform to also extract other features such as the inter-relationships of the various body parts; muscles and their coordination to enable the therapist better to understand the rehab exercises\, remotely.\n A. Miron\, N. Sadawi\, W. Ismail\, H. Hussain\, and C. Grosan\, “Intellirehabds (Irds)—a dataset of physical rehabilitation movements\,” Data\, vol. 6\, no. 5\, pp. 1–13\, 2021\, doi: 10.3390/DATA6050046.\nSupervisor Name: Dr. Atena Roshan Fekr\, Professor Geoff Fernie\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: MASc\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-clinical-stream-ali-barzegar-khanghah-2/
CATEGORIES:Graduate Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Graduate Seminar Series: Clinical Stream - Aisha Raji
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Seminar Series: Clinical Stream\nGraduate Seminar Series for the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME). This day is for clinical 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: Feasibility of a Collaborative Robot for Retraining Reaching and Grasping Functions in Stroke and Spinal Cord Injury\nAbstract:\nStroke and spinal cord injury (SCI) are causes of neurological disability that prominently affect the upper extremity. Across all ages\, these disabilities negatively impact an individual’s quality of life\, increase independence\, and has an enormous financial implication on both the individuals and the economy.\nRehabilitation is crucial in reducing morbidity and improving functional independence. Robot-assisted therapy (RT) is one of the strategies used to assist individuals within these populations in restoring their lost hand function. However\, there is presently no evidence that robot-assisted therapy alone is superior to existing conventional therapies. Our goal is to develop a new application for using robots to retrain reaching and grasping functions of the upper extremity among individuals with stroke and SCI. For this purpose\, the UR5e collaborative robot will be used alongside objects in the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute – Hand Function Test (TRI-HFT) to assist individuals perform various activities of daily living and to see if this approach will be efficient in making robot-assisted therapy more effective than other conventional therapies for upper extremity rehabilitation.\nSupervisor Name: Dr. Milos Popovic and Dr. Cesar Marquez-Chin\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-clinical-stream-aisha-raji/
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SUMMARY:Global Speaker Series: Martin Fussenegger\, PhD – ETH Zurich
DESCRIPTION:The Medicine by Design Global Speaker Series invites established and emerging international leaders in regenerative medicine to engage with our extraordinary community of researchers and clinicians.\nMedicine by Design\, in partnership with the McEwen Stem Cell Institute\, is pleased to welcome Martin Fussenegger\, PhD\, Professor\, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering\, ETH Zurich.\nThe title of this talk will be\, tbc\nIn Person – Register Here\nVirtual – Register Here\nHybrid event\, with in-person and virtual options\nIn-person will be held at the Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research\, Red Room.\nVirtual event links will be sent after registration.\n Learn more about Martin Fussenegger
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/global-speaker-series-martin-fussenegger-phd-eth-zurich/
LOCATION:Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research\, Red Room\, 160 College Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 3E1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:External Speaker Series
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