Dr. Maria Dadarlat of the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering will be the next speaker at Science on Tap on Thursday, February 20th.

Aman Russom, Ph.D. Professor and Division Head, Nanobiotechnology KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden will present a Seminar entitled "Microfluidics based sample preparation for Point-of-Care Diagnostics."

Joshua Epstein, Ph.D. Professor of Epidemiology NYU College of Global Public Health, will present a distinguished lecture entitled "Agent-Based Modeling in Public Health: From Playground to Planet."

Matthew Rosen, Ph.D. Director, Low Field MRI and Hyperpolarized Media Laboratory Co-Director, Center for Machine Learning Mass General/Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging Harvard Medical School, will present a Special Seminar entitled "Life at the bottom: How low SNR inspired a new image reconstruction paradigm."

Stephanie Lindsey, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Cardiovascular Biomechanics Computation Lab, Stanford University, will present a seminar entitled, “Origins and treatment of congenital heart disease: A combined experimental-computational approach.”

Douglas Brubaker, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT and a SHINE Fellow at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals will present a seminar.

The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) Retreat at Purdue will be held on Friday, January 31, in the Martin C. Jischke Hall of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. A keynote address will be given by Bruce J. Tromberg, Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) at the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Brianna Gaskill of Purdue's Department of Animal Sciences will present "Tickling rats for superior science" as part of the Science on Tap series on January 30th.

Jenna Mueller, Ph.D., postdoctoral associate in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University, will present a seminar entitled, "See and Treat Strategies to Improve Cervical Cancer Management in Low Resource Settings."

Celestin Twizere, PhD, Director, Regional Centre for Excellence in Biomedical Engineering and eHealth, University of Rwanda, presents, "Partnership and collaboration with Regional Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Engineering (CEBE) and e-Health at University of Rwanda"