U-M BME Announces Fall Slate of BME 500 Seminar Speakers

U-M BME is excited to present the latest schedule of our BME 500 Seminar Series. These in-person sessions, which occur every Thursday afternoon throughout the fall semester as a part of our BME 500 course, provide students with research information on trending topics in the field. Through talks from nationally and internationally recognized experts in various biomedical engineering subdisciplines, students will learn about current research problems and gain a sense of the breadth and excitement inherent to the field of biomedical engineering. U-M BME looks forward to welcoming our guest presenters to Ann Arbor.

The next BME 500 Seminar Speaker is Sriram Vaidyanathan, Ph.D., a U-M BME alum who is now Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, The Ohio State University College of Medicine. His presentation will focus on “Development of Genome Editing Approaches to Treat Cystic Fibrosis and Other Disorders.”

Here is the upcoming speaker schedule:

• September 5–Sriram Vaidyanathan, The Ohio State University
• September 12–Enrico Opri, University of Michigan
• September 19–Alyssa Panitch, Georgia Tech
• September 26–Quing Zhu, Washington University
• October 3–Aaron Kyle, Duke University
• October 10–Jessica Weaver, Arizona State University
• October 17–Kathryn Whitehead, Carnegie Mellon University
• October 31–Michael Lustig, UC Berkeley
• November 7–Xiaojun (Lance) Lian, Penn State University
• November 15–Suzie Pun, University of Washington (Hunt Lecture) (NOTE: This is a Friday session.)
• November 21–Kareen Coulombe, Brown University
• December 5–Ellie Rahbar, Texas A&M