BME Summer Workshops @ Michigan
These workshops will provide a collaborative forum to present current research progress and discuss future research opportunities at the interface of engineering and medicine.
Metabolism & Precision Health: A Biomedical Engineering Workshop Coming July 25-26
The goal of the BME Summer Workshops @ Michigan series is to establish the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor as a place to gather, learn, and network – each summer – on important research topics in BME.
These workshops will provide a collaborative forum to present current research progress and discuss future research opportunities at the interface of engineering and medicine.
“Metabolism & Precision Health: A Biomedical Engineering Workshop,” an interdisciplinary workshop on metabolism and precision medicine, is scheduled for July 25-26, Thursday from 1:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. and Friday, from 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., in the NCRC Building 18 Dining Hall. It is co-sponsored by BME, Precision Health, the Michigan George M. O’Brien Kidney National Resource Center and the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Nathan Price, Chief Scientific Officer of Thorne HealthTech
- Marian Walhout, Professor and Chair, Department of Systems Biology, Maroun Semaan Chair in Biomedical Research, UMass Chan Medical School
- Kivanc Birsoy, Chapman-Perelman Associate Professor, Head of Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation and Genetics, Rockefeller University
- Gary Patti, Michael and Tana Powell Professor of Chemistry, Washington University
- Miriam Udler, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Ahmet Coskun, Assistant Professor, Bernie Marcus Early Career Professorship, Georgia Tech
Please register to attend the event by June 8 to reserve your place. If you are a student or postdoc who would like to present a poster or a short talk, we must receive your title and abstract, also by June 8.
Tentative Schedule of Events
Day 1 – Thursday, July 25
Begin at 1 p.m.
Session 1
Introductions and Overview
Keynote Address
Nathan Price, Chief Scientific Officer of Thorne HealthTech
Coffee Break 2:15-2:45 p.m.
Session 2:
New Technologies
- Ahmet Coskun, Assistant Professor, Bernie Marcus Early Career Professorship, Georgia Tech
- Gary Patti, Michael and Tana Powell Professor of Chemistry, Washington University
Posters + Reception 4:45 – 6 p.m.
Day 2 – Friday, July 26
8 -10 a.m.: Breakfast and Featured Speakers
Session 3:
Precision Health/Personalized Medicine 10 a.m.-noon
10 a.m: Keynote
- Marian Walhout, Professor and Chair, Department of Systems Biology, Maroun Semaan Chair in Biomedical Research, UMass Chan Medical School
- Deepak Nagrath, U-M Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Noon -1.30 p.m. Lunch Break + Posters
Lunch provided for participants
Session 4:
Metabolic Diseases. 1:30 p.m.- 3 p.m.
- U-M Nephrology faculty Anna Mathew, MBBS, Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, Nephrology
- Miriam Udler, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Kivanc Birsoy, Chapman Perelman Associate Professor, Head of Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation and Genetics, Rockefeller University
Coffee 3 -3:15 p.m.
We will share schedule updates as they are finalized.