September 18 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ME 903 Graduate Seminar: Mike Molnar 3M Auditorium, rm 1106 Mechanical Engineering Building 1513 University Ave, Madison The ME 903: Graduate Student Lecture Series features campus and visiting speakers who present on a variety of research topics in the field of mechanical engineering. Michael Molnar (BSME '85) is...
September 18 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CBE Seminar Series: Pramod Wangikar Seminar 9-10am at Union South Landmark Room Pramod WangikarChair Professor for Green Chemistry and Industrial BiotechnologyDepartment of Chemical EngineeringIndian Institute of Technology BombayMumbai, India Harnessing Metabolomics for Precision Medicine and...
September 19 @ 12:05 PM - 12:55 PM Mechanics Seminar: Professor Matthew Brake 3M Auditorium, rm 1106 Mechanical Engineering Building 1513 University Ave, Madison The Mechanics Seminar Series is a weekly seminar given by campus and visiting speakers on topics across the spectrum of mechanics research (solids, fluids, and dynamics). Professor Matthew Brake is an...
September 22 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BME Seminar Series: Marty Pagel, PhD 1003 (Tong Auditorium) Engineering Centers Building 1550 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States Molecular Imaging of the Tumor Microenvironment Marty Pagel, PhDProfessorDepartment of Medical PhysicsDepartment of RadiologyUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Abstract:Tumor acidosis, hypoxia, and vascular perfusion are well-known characteristics of the tumor microenvironment. We...
September 23 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CBE Seminar Series: David Schaffer David SchafferDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringUniversity of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA Directed Evolution of New AAV Vectors for Clinical Gene Therapy Gene therapy has experienced an increasing number of successful human...
September 26 @ 12:05 PM - 12:55 PM Midwest Mechanics Seminar: Professor Daniel Chung The Mechanics Seminar Series is a weekly seminar given by campus and visiting speakers on topics across the spectrum of mechanics research (solids, fluids, and dynamics). Professor Daniel Chung is an Associate Professor at The University of Melbourne. Presentation Title: Fluid mechanics of riblets drag reduction Abstract: Riblets are a surface texture composed of tiny...
September 29 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BME Seminar Series: Hua Wang, PhD 1003 (Tong Auditorium) Engineering Centers Building 1550 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States Molecular to Systemic Engineering of Immune Cells for Robust Immunotherapy Hua Wang, PhDAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Materials Science and EngineeringUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Abstract:Immunotherapy has achieved significant clinical progress for the treatment of cancer and other diseases over the past decade, but challenges, including low patient responses, off-target side effects, and poor efficacy against solid...
September 30 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CBE Seminar Series: Hal Alper Hal S. AlperProfessor & Cockrell Family Regents Chair in EngineeringDepartment of Chemical EngineeringUniversity of Texas-AustinAustin, TX Beyond the test-tube: metabolic engineering for next-generation applications Advances in metabolic engineering and synthetic biology can enable microbes to produce nearly any organic molecule of interest—from biofuels to biopolymers to pharmaceuticals. While this approach has fueled the industrial biotechnology,...
October 3 @ 12:05 PM - 12:55 PM Mechanics Seminar: Tanmoy Chatterjee 3M Auditorium, rm 1106 Mechanical Engineering Building 1513 University Ave, Madison The Mechanics Seminar Series is a weekly seminar given by campus and visiting speakers on topics across the spectrum of mechanics research (solids, fluids, and dynamics). Tanmoy Chatterjee is the Lead...
October 6 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BME Seminar Series: From Campus to Career: Maximizing Experiences for Industry Readiness 1003 (Tong Auditorium) Engineering Centers Building 1550 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States Abstract: Universities are organized primarily by departments, but industry is organized by function: research, design, regulatory, quality assurance, sales, marketing. Having some knowledge of this structure ahead of time will...