BME 500 Speaker Series Starts August 28

U-M BME presents the latest schedule for our BME 500 Seminar Series. These in-person sessions, which will 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. 

BME’s Chima Maduka, DVM, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, and Scholar, Michigan Program for Advancing Cultural Transformation in the Biomedical Health Sciences, will be the first speaker for Fall 2025. 

“This seminar series provides a unique opportunity to learn about cutting-edge research from an exceptional set of speakers that we have been able to bring in from U-M and around the country,” said Anne Draelos, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics. “One of the things I really appreciate about these seminars is being exposed to topics outside my expertise to stimulate new collaborative ideas or projects.”    

“The breadth of the talks is vast and spans a large portion of the research areas here at U-M BME,” added Aaron Morris, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering. “The seminar series provides an excellent foundation for our graduate students as they deepen their understanding of BME as a discipline and for the department as a whole to stay current on the newest developments.”

Here is this fall’s scheduled speaker series schedule:

• Chima Maduka, U-M BME
• Joyce Wang, U-M BME
• Josh White, Stryker
• Yang Xiao, U-M Pathology
• Ankur Singh, Georgia Tech
• Chunxiu (Traci) Yu, Michigan Tech
• Cameron Aubin, U-M Robotics
• Cole Deforest, University of Washington
• Sasha Cai Lesher-Pérez, U-M Chemical Engineering
• Michelle Oyen, Wayne State University
• Sridevi Sarma, Johns Hopkins University (Hunt Lecturer)
• Chiara Bellini, Northeastern University
• Matt O’Meara, U-M Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics
• Parisa Hosseinzadeh, University of Oregon