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Fall 2018-2019
Thursday, September 6th, 2018
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, September 13th, 2018
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, September 17th, 2018
9:00am
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11:00am
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Ultrafast Single-Cell Level Enzymatic Tumor Profiling
Chia-Hung Chen,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Biomedical Engineering,
National University of Singapore,
Tuesday, September 18th, 2018
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
David Angeles Albores,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophyscs,
Caltech,
Wednesday, September 19th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2018
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, September 27th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"How Nuclear Architecture Regulates Transcription"
Rafael Casellas,
Principal Investigator,
Genomics and Immunity Section,
NIH,
Friday, September 28th, 2018
12:00am
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12:00am
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, October 5th, 2018
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2018
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, October 15th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special CNS Seminar
Florian Engert,
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, October 16th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"How lncRNAs Shape Chromatin Structure to Control Gene Expression"
Mitchell Guttman,
Assistant Professor,
Biology & Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 17th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Beckman Lecture
Developing New Metal-Catalyzed Reactions for Organic Synthesis
Melanie S. Sanford,
Moses Gomberg Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Michigan,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, October 25th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Distinguished Medical Engineering Seminar
Cardiovascular biomineralization
Linda L. Demer, Professor,
Departments of Medicine, Physiology, and Bioengineering,
University California Los Angeles,
Friday, October 26th, 2018
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Monday, October 29th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biology Seminar
"Understanding the Genetic Basis for Biological Patterning from the Bottom Up"
Pulin Li,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 30th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Algorithmic and Architectural Foundations for Programmable Molecular Machines: DNA Robots, Information-Processing Circuits, and Reconfigurable Nanostructures"
Lulu Qian,
Assistant Professor,
Biology & Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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8:30pm
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Watching metalloenzymes at work
Amie Boal,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Department of Chemistry,
Pennsylvania State University,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, November 1st, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Medical Engineering Seminar
Histotripsy: Imaging Guided Ultrasound Therapy for Non-invasive Surgery
Zhen Xu, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Education,
Department of Biomedical Engineering,
University of Michigan,
Wednesday, November 7th, 2018
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, November 8th, 2018
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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** CANCELED ** T&C Chen Center for Brain-Machine Interface Distinguished Lecture Series.
"Dynamic Sensorimotor Control and Brain-Machine Interface"
He Cui,
Principal Investigator and Lab Head ,
Laboratory of Neural Mechanism of Motor Control ,
Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai, China,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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Sloan-Swartz Seminar in Theoretical Neurobiology
"Population Coding of Hand Movements in the Primate Brain"
Hansjorg Scherberger,
Head, Research Group Neurobiology,
OPT German Primate Center, Gottingen, Germany,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Medical Engineering Seminar
Presentations by Medical Engineering Ph.D. Students: Colin Cook, David Mittelstein, Luizetta Navrazhnykh
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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T & C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Distinguished Lecture
Toward a Normative Account of the Capacity Constraints in Cognitive Control: Shared vs. Separated Representations and Interactive vs. Independent Parallelism
Jonathan Cohen,
Robert Bendheim and Lynn Bendheim Thoman Professor,
Princeton University,
Friday, November 9th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
A neuroeconomic measure of social avoidance
Johannes Schultz,
Assistant Professor,
Institute of Experimental Epileptology and Cognition Research,
University of Bonn,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Sloan-Swartz Seminar in Theoretical Neurobiology
"The Relationship Between Implicit and Explicit Visuomotor Task Learning in Hippocampus and Parietal Cortex"
Christian Klaes,
Emmy Noether Group Leader,
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany,
Saturday, November 10th, 2018
2:00pm
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11/11
3:00pm
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Monday, November 12th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2018
11:30am
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"A Mitochondrial Stress Response, Toxic Genomes and Aging"
Cole Haynes,
Associate Professor,
Molecular, Cell and Cancer ,
University of Massachusetts Medical School,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2018
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, November 15th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Medical Engineering Seminar
Diagnosing disease with extracellular vesicles: Finding heterogeneous, nanoscale needles in a nanoscale haystack
David Issadore, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Electrical and Systems Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania-SEAS,
Monday, November 19th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chen Distinguished Visitor Series - Raj Rao from University of Washington
The Bayesian Brain: From Predictive Coding to Decision Making
Raj Rao,
C. J. and Elizabeth Hwang Professor and co-Director of the NSF Center for Neurotechnology,
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Washington,