Larry S. Schlesinger, M.D., Professor, President and CEO, Texas Biomedical Research Institute will present “The M. tuberculosis macrophage encounter: From basic science discovery to a potential host-directed therapy for tuberculosis” on Wednesday, March 27 at 2:00 p.m. in MJIS 2001 and via Zoom.

Mikhail G. Shapiro, PhD, Max Delbruck Professor of Chemical Engineering and Medical Engineering, California Institute of Technology will present "Talking to cells: Biomolecular engineering for deep tissue imaging
and control of cellular function" on Wednesday, March 27th at 9:30 a.m. in MRGN 121 and via Zoom.

Dr. Ed Greenfield, Indiana University, will present “The novel antibiotic halicin retains antibacterials activity against biofilms” on Wednesday, March 27 at 12:00 noon in the Drug Discovery Facility, Lobby Conference Room and via Zoom.

Ikenna C. Niebedim, PhD, Scientist and Deputy Lead, Critical Materials Innovation Hub, Ames National Laboratory and Adjunct Associate Professor, Iowa State University, will present “Materials Recycling for Electric Vehicles Application” on Tuesday, March 26 at 10:30 a.m. in POTR 234 (Fu Room).

Leaving no good deed unknown, the College of Engineering is pleased to present its Spring 2024 Celebrating Our Associate Professors lunch sessions. BME’s own Yunjie Tong will be celebrated on March 26th at 11:30 a.m. in STEW 279.

Jerome Mertz, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University will present “Fast Volumetric Imaging in Brain Tissue” on Wednesday, March 20, at 9:30 a.m. in MRGN 121 and via Zoom.

Suresh K. Mittal, DVM, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Virology, Purdue, will present "Development of Universal Influenza Vaccine and its Implication of Pandemic" on Thursday, March 7 at 12:30 p.m. in LYNN 1136.

Seminars in Hearing Research will host Pasquale Bottalico, Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on Thursday, March 7 at 12:00 p.m. in Nelson Hall, Room 1215. His presentation is entitled "Classroom acoustics for enhancing students' understanding when a teacher suffers from a dysphonic voice."

Karen Willcox, Director of the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Associate Vice President for Research, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, and Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin will present "From reduced-order modeling to scientific machine learning: How computational sciences is enabling the design of next-generation engineering systems" on Wednesday, March 6, at 2:00 p.m. in the ARMS Atrium.

Melissa Lambeth Kemp, PhD, Carol Ann & David D. Flanagan Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech and Emory University will present “Redox systems biology: Computational strategies for predicting cancer therapeutic responses” on Wednesday, March 6th at 9:30 a.m. in MJIS 1001 (NOTE LOCATION CHANGE) and via Zoom.