Fall 2008 ME 398 Seminar Series
From Stanford Biomechanical Engineering Division
Please use the signup links if you would like to meet with a seminar speaker during their visit. Faculty can add themselves to a time slot if they have an account or can email Shelley Cluff with their title, contact information, department, preferred meeting times and office location and she can confirm a timeslot for you.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Location | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/22 | Lena H. Ting, Ph.D. | Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Tech | Standing in balance: Translating high-level intentions into low-level motor commands in animals, humans, and robots | 530-127 | 4:15 |
| 9/29 | Tom Andriacchi, Ph.D. | Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University | What's a nice knee like you doing in a joint like this? Biomotion research at Stanford. | 530-127 | 4:15 |
| 10/6 | Evan A. Zamir, Ph.D. | Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech | A More Rigorous Computational Approach for Studying Cell-Autonomous Migration in Living Embryos | 530-127 | 4:15 |
| 10/13 | Helen H. Lu, Ph.D. | Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University | Interface Tissue Engineering and the Formation of Complex Musculoskeletal Tissue Systems | 530-127 | 4:15 |
| 10/20 | Julius M. Guccione, Ph.D. | Surgery, UC San Francisco and San Francisco VA Hospital | Virtual Tools for Cardiac Ventricular Remodeling Surgery | 530-127 | 4:15 |
| 10/27 | TBD | 530-127 | 4:15 | ||
| 11/3 | Mark R. Cutkosky, Ph.D. | Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University | Applying Biological Principles to the Design and Operation of Legged Robots for Planetary Exploration | 530-127 | 4:15 |
| 11/10 | Jeffrey C. Lotz, Ph.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery, U.C. San Francisco | Intervertebral disc tissue engineering to treat low back pain | 530-127 | 4:15 |
| 11/17 | Amy E. Herr, Ph.D. | Bioengineering, U.C. Berkeley | Microfluidic Instrumentation for Advancing Biomarker Discovery to Clinical Diagnostics | 530-127 | 4:15 |
| 12/1 | TBD | 530-127 | 4:15 |
Attend all seminars for ME398 credit, you may substitute any other seminar once to make up a missed session, email Prof. Levenston a summary with name/title of the speaker and makeup seminar and the most interesting thing you learned there. Seminars marked with * are special seminars in different locations. You may use the following link to add seminars and key academic dates to your google calendar.
