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SUMMARY:BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: "Harnessing Regnase-1 and Roquin-1 activity to modulate T cell function" (David Mai)
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Carl June are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of David Mai.\n \n\nDate: January 22\, 2024\nTime: 1PM EST\n\n\nTitle: Harnessing Regnase-1 and Roquin-1 activity to modulate T cell function\nLocation: Arthur H Rubenstein Auditorium (https://www.itmat.upenn.edu/itmat/education-and-training/assets/user-content//documents/DirectionsSmilowCTRAuditorium.pdf)\n\n\nZoom link\n\n\nThe public is welcome to attend.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/be-doctoral-dissertation-defense-harnessing-regnase-1-and-roquin-1-activity-to-modulate-t-cell-function-david-mai/
LOCATION:Arthur H Rubenstein Auditorium\, 3400 Civic Center Boulevard\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Doctoral,Graduate,Student,Dissertation or Thesis Defense
ORGANIZER;CN="Bioengineering":MAILTO:be@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240123T100000
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SUMMARY:MEAM Seminar: "Transport and Delivery by Active Materials"
DESCRIPTION:One of the major challenges in robotics is controlling micromanipulation by active and adaptive materials. Existing delivery technologies often suffer from limited navigation control\, low speeds\, and proneness to environmental disturbances. Biology often solves these problems by collectively organizing actuation at the microscale. For example\, pathogens are removed from our lungs by an active carpet of cilia [1]. Inside these cilia\, in turn\, microtubules form highways for molecular motors. In this talk\, I will present developments in the microfabrication of “artificial cilia” [2] and “artificial microtubules” [3]. We designed amphibious cilia that can transport both liquids and dry objects. These carpets can sort particles by size and by shape using a crowd-surfing effect. We also designed magnetic microtubules\, structured microfibers that rapidly guide particles through flow networks such as the cardiovascular system. These works offer unique strategies for robust microscale delivery\, but equally shed light on non-equilibrium diffusion [4] in biological transport processes. \n[1] Ramirez-San Juan GR et al. “Multi-scale spatial heterogeneity enhances particle clearance in airway ciliary arrays”\, Nat. Phys. 16: 958–964 (2020) \n[2] Demirörs AF et al. “Amphibious transport of fluids and solids by soft magnetic carpets”\, Adv. Sci. 202102510 (2021) \n[3] Gu H et al. “Artificial microtubules for rapid and collective transport of magnetic microcargos”\, Nat. Mach. Intel. 4: 678–684 (2022) \n[4] Guzman-Lastra F et al. “Active carpets drive non-equilibrium diffusion and enhanced molecular fluxes\,” Nat. Commun. 12: 1906 (2021)
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/meam-seminar-transport-and-delivery-by-active-materials/
LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics":MAILTO:meam@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240124T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240124T131500
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SUMMARY:ASSET Seminar: "Learning to Read X-Ray: Applications to Heart Failure Monitoring" (Polina Golland\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: \nWe propose and demonstrate a novel approach to training image classification models based on large collections of images with limited labels. We take advantage of availability of radiology reports to construct joint multimodal embedding that serves as a basis for classification. We demonstrate the advantages of this approach in application to assessment of pulmonary edema severity in congestive heart failure that motivated the development of the method.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/asset-seminar-polina-golland-massachusetts-institute-of-technology/
LOCATION:Raisler Lounge (Room 225)\, Towne Building\, 220 South 33rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240124T153000
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SUMMARY:CBE Seminar: "Bioinspired Protein-Based Cancer Immunotherapy" (Yanpu He\, MIT)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nImmunotherapy has revolutionized the field of cancer treatment over the past two decades\, though only a small fraction of patients treated will achieve complete remission. As such\, new paradigms to overcome resistance to immunotherapies are urgently needed. My research seeks to tailor immunotherapies towards individual differences in immune systems and the inherent heterogeneity of cancer. For this talk\, I will share my work on a key therapeutic target against cancer called the STimulator of INterferon Genes (STING) signaling. I first addressed an innate immunodeficiency caused by a loss-of-function mutation of STING protein affecting 20% of the human population\, using the cytosolic domain of STING (STINGΔTM) as a functional agonist carrier to activate signaling in STING-deficient cells. Subsequently\, I developed a therapeutic cancer vaccine based on this platform by fusing STINGΔTM with immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) nanobodies. The treatment eliminated subcutaneous colon and melanoma tumors in 70-100% of mice and protected all cured mice against rechallenge\, while mechanistic studies revealed a distinct STING-mediated anti-tumor immunity driven by robust TH1 polarization and Treg suppression in CD4+ T cells\, followed by the collaboration of CD8+ T and NK cells to eliminate tumors. For my independent group\, I will continue these prospects in designing protein therapeutics and leveraging the full potential of CD4+ T cells\, initially towards personalized cancer immunotherapies and expanding to other monogenic immunodeficiencies and drug delivery challenges in the long run.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/cbe-seminar-bioinspired-protein-based-cancer-immunotherapy-yanpu-he-mit/
LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering":MAILTO:cbemail@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240125T150000
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SUMMARY:ESE Grace Hopper Lecture - "Disrupting NextG"
DESCRIPTION:As 5G takes to the airwaves\, we now turn our imagination to the next generation of wireless technology. The promise of this technology has created an international race to innovate\, with significant investment by government as well as industry. And much innovation is needed as 6G aspires to not only support significantly higher data rates than 5G\, but also improved reliability along with excellent coverage indoors and out\, including for underserved areas. New architectures including edge computing must be designed to drastically enhance efficient resource allocation while also reducing latency for real-time control. Breakthrough energy-efficiency architectures\, algorithms and hardware will be needed so that wireless devices can be powered by tiny batteries\, energy-harvesting\, or over-the-air power transfer. And machine learning may will play a big role in the underlying technologies for NextG as well as the “killer apps” that will drive its deployment and success. This talk will describe what the wireless future might look like along with some of the innovations and breakthroughs required to realize this vision.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/ese-grace-hopper-lecture-title-tbd/
LOCATION:Glandt Forum\, Singh Center for Nanotechnology\, 3205 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Lecture
ORGANIZER;CN="Electrical and Systems Engineering":MAILTO:eseevents@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240126T103000
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SUMMARY:Spring 2024 GRASP on Robotics: Dinesh Manocha\, University of Maryland\, College Park\, “Robot Navigation in Complex Indoor and Outdoor Environments”
DESCRIPTION:This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. \nABSTRACT\nIn the last few decades\, most robotics success stories have been limited to structured or controlled environments. A major challenge is to develop robot systems that can operate in complex or unstructured environments corresponding to homes\, dense traffic\, outdoor terrains\, public places\, etc. In this talk\, we give an overview of our ongoing work on developing robust planning and navigation technologies that use recent advances in computer vision\, sensor technologies\, machine learning\, and motion planning algorithms. We present new methods that utilize multi-modal observations from an RGB camera\, 3D LiDAR\, and robot odometry for scene perception\, along with deep reinforcement learning for reliable planning. The latter is also used to compute dynamically feasible and spatial aware velocities for a robot navigating among mobile obstacles and uneven terrains. We have integrated these methods with wheeled robot and legged platforms and highlight their performance in crowded indoor scenes and dense outdoor terrains.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/spring-2024-grasp-on-robotics-dinesh-manocha-university-of-maryland-robot-navigation-in-complex-indoor-and-outdoor-environments/
LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="General Robotics%2C Automation%2C Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab":MAILTO:grasplab@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240126T141500
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SUMMARY:PICS Colloquium: "An introduction to neural ODEs in scientific machine learning."
DESCRIPTION:This is a quick introduction to neural ODEs for scientific applications. The goal is to (a) provide a modelling tool that enhances the expressivity of existing theory-driven approaches\, (b) demonstrate that neural ODEs are easy to use via modern autodifferentiable software\, and (c) give enough of the tips-and-tricks needed to make neural ODEs work in practice! \nZoom link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96060692429
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/pics-colloquium-an-introduction-to-neural-odes-in-scientific-machine-learning/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Penn Institute for Computational Science (PICS)":MAILTO:dkparks@seas.upenn.edu
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