BME Summer Seminar Series will continue on Wednesday, May 31, 9:30 a.m. via Zoom. This week’s presenters: Eugene Kim (Tamara Kinzer-Ursem, advisor) will present “The Role of CaMKII, Drebrin-A and F-actin Tripartite in Homeostatic Plasticity” and Rachel Stingel (Riyi Shi, advisor) will present “Excitotoxicity and acrolein damage following (or caused by) spinal cord injury – the role of GLT-1.”

Graham Fraser, PhD, will be the guest speaker for the Department of Health & Kinesiology on Wednesday, May 31st, at 3:00 p.m. in Lawson B151.

Fahmida Sultana Laboni (Taeyoon Kim advisor) will present "Cell Shape Changes Driven by Actomyosin Contractility" as part of the BME Summer Seminar Series on Wednesday, May 24 at 9:30 a.m. via Zoom.

Rita Saroufim, Pediatric Endocrinology Fellow – PGY6, Pediatric Endocrinology & Diabetology, Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health, will present “Fellow Research Presentation”

The BME Summer Seminar Series will kick off this Wednesday, May 17, at 9:30 a.m. via Zoom. Each week, two graduate students will present their current work. We encourage all of you to attend and support our grad students as they participate in the second milestone of their PhD. Feedback on their presentation style and content is critical to their professional development and will be of great benefit to our students. We hope to see you there!

Katalin Susztak, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine & Genetics, Director of Penn/CHOP Kidney Innovation Center, University of Pennsylvania, will present “Shifting Focus in Diabetes Care: Moving from Glucose Control to Complications Prevention” on Wednesday, May 10 at 2:00 p.m. via Zoom.

Stephen A. Boppart, MD, PhD, Professor and Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign will present “Imaging with Artificial Intelligence for Identifying Optical Biosignatures of Disease using Simultaneous Label-free Auto-fluorescence Multi-harmonic (SLAM) Microscopy” on Tuesday, May 2, at 10:30 a.m. in WALC 2088 and via Zoom.

Heba Ismail, MBBCH, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, Indiana University School of Medicine, will present “Type 1 Diabetes: From Microbiome Associations to Interventions and Modulation.”

Nan Kong presents "Shortening Emergency Medical Response Time with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Ambulance Joint Operations" as part of the Institute for Control, Optimization and Networks (ICON) weekly seminar series on Friday, April 28th, from 3:30-4:45 p.m. in ARMS 1109 and via Zoom.

Dr. Joseph M. Howard, NASA, will present “Current and Future NASA Space Telescopes” as part of the Purdue Computational Imaging Seminars, on Thursday, April 27th, at 10:00 a.m. in Fowler Hall. (Doors open at 9:30 a.m.)