Colloquium Series

Tuesdays from 2:00 to 3:15pm
2 Metrotech Center, Room 9.009
Or by Zoom at nyu.zoom.us/j/99910503282

Mirella L. Altoé, PhD
Adjunct Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
NYU Tandon School of Engineering

"Diffuse Optical Tomographic (DOT) Imaging for Diagnosis and Therapy-Monitoring of Breast Cancer"

September 7, 2021

Jin Montclare, PhD
Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
NYU Tandon School of Engineering

"Intelligent Protein Biomaterials for Medicine"

September 14, 2021

Nathalie Pinkerton, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
NYU Tandon School of Engineering

"Developing Responsive Soft Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications"

September 21, 2021

Els Fieremans, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Radiology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Probing Brain Microstructure and Pathology with Diffusion MRI"

September 28, 2021

Riccardo Lattanzi, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Radiology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Cartilage Assessment"

October 5, 2021

S. Farokh Atashzar
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Tandon School of Engineering

"Intelligent Human-Robot Fusion: The Horizon of Assistive Robotics"

October 19, 2021

David Truong, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
NYU Tandon School of Engineering

"Genome Writing of Human iPSCs for Off-the-Shelf Cell Therapies"

October 26, 2021

Frank Rimalovski, Dee N. Dao
Executive Director
Entrepreneurial Institute
New York University

"Entrepreneurship at New York University"

November 2, 2021

Zhe S. Chen, PhD
Associate Professor
Depts. of Psychiatry and Neuroscience & Physiology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Scaling up knowledge discovery in systems neuroscience: a closed-loop brain-machine-interface (BMI) solution"

November 16, 2021

Juergen Hahn, PhD
Professor & Chair
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

"Development of a Diagnostic Test for Autism Spectrum Disorder: Data Science Meets Metabolomics"

November 23, 2021

Mitchell B. Schaffler, PhD
Professor & Chair 
Department of Biomedical Engineering
City College of New York (CCNY)

"Skeletal Tissues Regeneration and Engineering"

November 30, 2021

Krista Durney
Senior Research Scientist
TARA Biosystems

"Predictive Tissue Models for Faster and Safer Cardiac Drug Discovery"

December 7, 2021

Michael A. Long, PhD
Depts. of Neuroscience & Physiology and Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery
Neuroscience Institute
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Comparative neurobiology of vocal communication"

December 14, 2021

Spring 2021 Colloquium takes place Tuesdays, 2:30 - 3:30pm in 2 Metrotech Center, Room 802 or by Zoom: nyu.zoom.us

Osamah J. Choudhry, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Dept. of Neurosurgery
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
CEO, Medivis

"Computer-assisted surgery with augmented reality and robotics in surgical navigation"

March 2, 2021

Adeen Flinker, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

“Intracranial signatures of language perception and production

March 9, 2021

Vivek J. Srinivasan, PhD
Depts. of Ophthalmology and Radiology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Human Brain Interferometers for Better Blood Flow"

March 16, 2021

Liam J. Holt, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Institute for Systems Genetics
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

“Crushing cells: How does crowding and compression affect biology?"

March 23, 2021

Adler Perotte, MD, MA
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Bioinformatics
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

"Bayesian inference and prediction based on electronic health record data and metabolomics"

March 30, 2021

Neha P. Kamat, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Center for Synthetic Biology
Chemistry of Life Processes Institute
Northwestern University

"Harnessing Bilayer Membranes and Cell-Free Systems to Investigate Control Biological Processes"

April 6, 2021

Kiana Aran, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer at Cardea Bio
Assistant Professor of Medical Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont Colleges, CA

"The story behind CRISPR-chip, the first CRISPR-powered Transistor: From research bench to commercialization"

April 13, 2021

Haogang Cai, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Radiology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Tech4Health 
 

"Nanoengineered biomaterials and optical meta-surfaces for biomedical research"

April 20, 2021

Elham Azizi, PhD
Herbert & Florence Irving Assistant
Professor of Cancer Data Research
Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics 
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering

"Machine Learning for Modeling the Dynamics of the Tumor Microenvironment"

April 27, 2021

Andrea Nye
President & CEO at Xylyx Bio, Inc

“Navigating the Ups and Downs and Sideways of a University Start-up Company"

May 4, 2021

Andreas H. Hielscher, PhD
Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering
NYU Tandon School of Engineering

“Introduction to Colloquium: The Clinical Biophotonics Laboratory at NYU"

September 4, 2020

Dikoma C Shungu, PhD
Professor of Physics in Radiology, Director of the Laboratory for Advanced MRS Research
Weill Cornell Medicine

“Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging in Clinical Applications and Neuroscience Research.”

September 11, 2020 
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Molly Flexman, PhD
Department Head of Precision Diagnosis and Image Guided Therapy
Philips - USA

“Augmented Reality in Clinical Practice”

September 18, 2020

Khalil Ramadi, PhD
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
NYU Abu Dhabi

“Minimally invasive technologies for neuromodulation in treatment of neurologic, metabolic, and immune disorders"

September 25, 2020

Mohammad Qasaimeh, PhD
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering
NYU Abu Dhabi

"Advanced Microfluidics and Microdevices  for Biomedical Applications and Point-of Care Diagnostics”

October 2, 2020

Hyun K. Kim, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University / NYU - Tandon

“Modeling of Light Propagation and Image Formation in Human Tissue: From Breast Cancer Detection to Reading the Human Mind.”

October 9, 2020

Aravinda Chakravarti, PhD
Muriel G. and George W. Singer Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology
Professor, Department of Medicine & Institute for Systems Genetic
Director, Center for Human Genetics and Genomics
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Epigenomic Maps of the human heart"

October 16, 2020

Kevin C. Chan, PhD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Radiology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

“Structural, Metabolic and Functional Brain Imaging for Disease Detection and Therapeutic Monitoring in Glaucoma"

October 23, 2020

Mini Das, PhD
Associate Professor of Physics & Biomedical Engineering
University of Houston

"New Frontiers in Spectral X-Ray Imaging and Computed Tomography"

October 30, 2020

Katsuo Kurabayashi, PhD
Professor of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Michigan

"Advanced Blood Biomarker Analysis for Systemic Inflammatory Disorders."

November 6, 2020

Qi Wang, PhD
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University

"New technologies for restoring and enhancing sensory functions and cognition through brain-machine interfaces (BMI)"

November 13, 2020

Youssef Wadghiri, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"At the Crossroads: Engineering strategies for in vivo preclinical imaging at NYU"

November 20, 2020

Philip Leucht, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Cell Biology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Stem cell-based tissue engineering strategies to enhance bone regeneration" 

December 4, 2020

Steven Kuyan, PhD
Director, Entrepreneurship, Managing, Director, Future Labs
NYU Tandon School of Engineering

“Entrepreneurship and Public-Private Partnerships at NYU”

December 11, 2020