It’s hard to write an abstract. It’s harder to write a glamorous one that tells your story without overselling your results. Community for Rigor is here to help! Join Professor Konrad Kording for a rigorous abstract writing workshop on March 20th, 2024. Together, let’s lovingly glam up abstracts from the Community and make the most of 100 […]
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Drs. Michael J. Mitchell and William H. Peranteau are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Rohan Palanki. Title: Ionizable lipid nanoparticles for in utero gene editing of congenital disease Date: March 20th, 2024 Time: (1PM-3 PM) Location: Law Auditorium, Smilow Center for Translational Research (5th Floor) The public is welcome […]
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. David Issadore are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Hanfei Shen. Title: Nanofluidic Isolation and Quantification of Specific Extracellular Vesicles and Machine Learning Analysis to Aid Clinical Decision-Making Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 Time: 1:30pm-3:30pm Location: Towne 337 The public is welcome to […]
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. D. Kacy Cullen are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Victor Acero. Title: Tissue Engineered Cortical-Hippocampal Neural Networks for Pharmacological Investigations Date: March 20, 2024 Time: 2:00 PM Location: John Morgan Building Class of 62 Auditorium Zoom option: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/5112542338 The public is welcome to attend.
This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT The ever-increasing penetration of level-2 autonomous vehicles (AVs) offers an opportunity to reshape the energy efficiency and throughput of our highways. Even at current low penetration rates (1-5%), we have observed in small settings that adopting different […]
Metals powders like aluminum and boron are attractive potential fuel additives for pyrotechnics, propellants and explosives due to their high energy release upon oxidation. However, they tend to agglomerate, have lengthy ignition delays, and low combustion rates/efficiencies. This work aims to design metal powders with tuned surface, micro-structure, morphology, or chemistries to mitigate these challenges […]
Fluid flows and mass transport mediate countless natural and engineered processes, ranging from the spreading of pollutants to carbon capture and water cleaning. In this talk, I will share three examples of my research where fundamental ideas in transport phenomena are applied to inform technologies with direct impact on energy and the environment. First, I […]
Disease processes within the human body are shaped by the dynamic interplay between invading pathogens and the host's defense mechanisms. The intricate molecular interaction involves continuous modifications of both host and pathogen proteins, driven by posttranslational modifications (PTMs) and coevolutionary mutations, to finely regulate their interactions with binding partners. In this talk, I will elucidate […]
Today, access to high-quality data has become the key bottleneck to deploying Machine Learning (ML). Often, data that is most valuable is locked away in inaccessible silos due to unfavorable incentives and ethical-legal restrictions. This is starkly evident in healthcare, where such barriers have led to highly biased and underperforming tools. In my talk, we will […]
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Marco Ruella are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Puneeth Guruprasad. Title: Decoding the tumor microenvironment to engineer the next generation of CAR T cells Date: Friday, March 22nd Time: 10:00-11:00 AM Location: Smilow Translational Research Center, Arthur H. Rubenstein Auditorium […]
Many natural materials achieve excellent combinations of mechanical properties through their micro- and nano-scale structures, which leverage a level of complexity currently unmatched in engineering design. Recent advances in digital manufacturing have enabled the introduction of these fine-scale architectures to improve the mechanical properties of materials, but their complexity still lags far behind that of […]
This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. PANEL DISCUSSION Please join us for a lively panel discussion featuring GRASP Faculty members Dr. Pratik Chaudhari, Dr. Dinesh Jayaraman, and Dr. Michael Posa. This panel will be moderated by Dr. Kostas Daniilidis around the current hot topic of AI […]