Dr. Maureen Gannon, Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Professor of Medicine, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, and Cell and Developmental Biology will present the Diabetes Research Virtual Seminar on Wednesday, June 15th at 2:00 p.m.

The BME Summer Seminar Series will continue this week with two presentations by BME researchers: Neal Patel (V. Rayz, advisor) and Andrew Sivaprakasam (M. Heinz/H. Bharadwaj, advisors). The seminar will be from 9:30-10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 15th via Zoom.

Dr. Baoxing Xu, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, will present a seminar entitled "Mechanics-driven Extreme Manufacturing" on Monday, June 13th at 10:30 a.m. in ME 2054.

Gina Shokry, MBChB, Endocrinology Fellow will present "Ketosis Prone Diabetes: Current Practices at Indiana University Health" via Zoom on Monday, June 13, from 12:00-1:00 p.m.

Hammad Khan (K. Jayant and T. Kinzer-Ursem, advisors) and Vidhya Vijayakrishnan Nair (Y. Tong, advisor) will be this week's BME summer seminar speakers. The seminars will be presented via Zoom at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 1.

Hagop Ghareebian, MBCHB, Adult Endocrinology Fellow will be presenting a research seminar entitled "Bone mineral density among patients treated with Anti-CGRO medications" at 12:00 p.m. on Monday, May 23, via Zoom.

Nam Joon Cho, the MRS Chair Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore will give a special seminar entitled "Pollen-Based Materials Innovation for Sustainable Technologies" on Monday, May 23 at 9:00 a.m. in MJIS 1001 and via Zoom.

Kinam Park, Showalter Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Pharmacy at Purdue will present a seminar entitled "The primal essence of targeted drug delivery: Can it deliver enough drug to cure?" on Friday, May 20, from 12:00-1:00 p.m. via Zoom.

Silvia Corvera, MD, Professor of Molecular Medicine and Endowed Chair in Diabetes Research at UMass Chan Medical School will present a virtual seminar at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 11, entitled "Thermogenic adipose tissue and metabolic disease."

Peter J. Thompson, PhD, Assistant Professor in Physiology and Pathophysiology at the University of Manitoba will present "Beta cell senescence in type 1 diabetes: Lessons from cell culture models" on Monday, May 2 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. via Zoom.