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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Maya De Cruz
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: Exploration of muscle stem cell pool size regulators in the mini-IDLE biomimetic culture assay\nAbstract: Skeletal muscle regeneration is driven by muscle stem cells (MuSCs) which reside between myofibers and the surrounding basal lamina. In homeostatic tissue\, quiescent MuSCs constantly communicate with their niche and are characterized by long cytoplasmic projections\, lowered metabolic activity\, and RNA content. MuSCs activate upon injury to generate progeny for myofiber creation or repair\, while a subpopulation undergoes self-renewal to repopulate the MuSC niches. A niche occupancy plateau point exists in vivo\, however the regulators of MuSC pool size are not clearly understood. To fill this gap\, we leveraged advances in skeletal muscle tissue engineering to deliver a new strategy to evaluate MuSC niche repopulation in a dish. In this study\, we aim to characterize the cell cycle status and fates of MuSCs in 3D bioartificial tissue using the mini-IDLE (Inactivation and Dormancy LEveraged in vitro) culture assay to expand knowledge of MuSC pool size regulators. Specifically\, MuSCs were engrafted onto a thin sheet of mouse myotubes which provided the required cues to turn off molecular hallmarks of activation and sustain quiescence. First\, we quantified the population of cycling cells at days 1\, 3 and 7 post-engraftment via Ki-67 expression and EdU pulse labelling to understand changes in MuSC proliferation. Second\, we assessed fluctuations in pool size following an exogenous increase of FGF2 in the system. Thus\, our results suggest that the mini-IDLE culture assay affords the interrogation of niche occupancy limits on the number of transplanted MuSCs that successfully incorporate into recipient muscle tissue.\nSupervisor Name: Penney Gilbert\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: MASc\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-maya-de-cruz-3/
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Reke Ferdinand Avikpe
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: An In Silico Model for Predicting Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Proliferation Dynamics\nSupervisor Name: Cristina Amon\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-reke-ferdinand-avikpe/
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Jose Gilberto Camacho Valenzuela
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: Miniaturizing molecular immunoassays for diagnostics (towards single molecule detection) with Digital Microfluidics\nAbstract: Miniaturizing molecular immunoassays for diagnostics (towards single molecule detection) with Digital Microfluidics\nSupervisor Name: Aaron Wheeler\nYear of Study: 4\nProgram of Study: PhD\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-jose-gilberto-camacho-valenzuela/
LOCATION:HS610
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Seminar Series - Garrett Kurbis
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: A Lower-Limb EMG Foundation Model for Neural Decoding\nSupervisor Name: Dr. Alex Mihailidis\, Dr. Brokoslaw Laschowski\nYear of Study: 2\nProgram of Study: MASc\nPowered by Calendly.com
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/graduate-student-seminar-series-garrett-kurbis/
LOCATION:HS610
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SUMMARY:Baylis Medical: Innovating the RF Transseptal System to Global Impact
DESCRIPTION:Speaker\nKris Shah\nPresident \nBaylis Medical Technologies \n\nAbstract\nBaylis Medical has been innovating medical devices globally for over 25 years. This presentation highlights the journey of the RF Transseptal System\, used for percutaneous access to the left atrium\, from concept to becoming a global standard of care\, treating over 2 million patients in 30+ countries. Acquired by Boston Scientific for $1.75 billion USD in 2022\, the system exemplifies engineering-driven healthcare innovation. Key milestones\, challenges\, and lessons learned from clinical\, engineering\, and entrepreneurial perspectives will be shared. Time will be reserved for audience Q&A.
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/invited-academic-seminar-series-kris-shah/
CATEGORIES:BME Invited Academic Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:KITE Collaborative launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate a new stage in KITE and BME’s partnership.\n\n\nJoin us to celebrate the launch of the KITE Collaborative Initiative\, an exciting partnership between the KITE Research Institute and the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at the University of Toronto. \nAttendees will hear from KITE and BME Director Dr. Milos R. Popovic\, Dr. Christopher Yip\, Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering at the University of Toronto\, and Brad Wouters\, Executive VP of Science and Research at University Health Network\, and have a chance to network with colleagues.  \nLight refreshments will be provided.
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/kite-collaborative-launch/
LOCATION:KITE Innovation Gallery\,  Room 1-121-1\, 550 University Ave\, Toronto\, ON\, M5G 2A2\, Canada
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