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Sep24
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lessFall 2024 Classes Begin (No Northwestern Monday in Fall)
TIME Tuesday, September 24, 2024
CONTACT Office of the Registrar nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR University Academic Calendar
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Sep26
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lesshttps://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/biomedical/news-events/bme-seminar-series/
TIME Thursday, September 26, 2024 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
LOCATION Tech L361, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Naomi Vasciannie naomi.vasciannie@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick - Biomedical Engineering Department (BME)
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Sep30
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lessLast day to add a class or change a section for Fall (Last day for tuition adjustment related to enrollment changes (to or from full-time). No reductions are made to bills for dropped or swapped classes after this date)
TIME Monday, September 30, 2024
CONTACT Office of the Registrar nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR University Academic Calendar
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Oct3
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lessTools for Analyzing, Controlling, and Simulating Biological Systems
Analyzing, repairing, and simulating complex biological systems, such as the brain, require tools for systematically mapping, dynamically observing, and dynamically controlling these systems. We are discovering new molecular principles to enable such technologies. For example, we discovered that one can physically magnify biological specimens by synthesizing dense networks of swellable polymer throughout them, and then chemically processing the specimens to isotropically swell them. This method, which we call expansion microscopy, enables ordinary microscopes to do nanoimaging – important for mapping molecules throughout cells, tissues, and organs. As a second example, we serendipitously discovered that microbial rhodopsins, genetically expressed in neurons, could enable their electrical activity to be precisely controlled in response to light. These molecules, now called optogenetic tools, enable causal assessment of how neurons contribute to behaviors and pathological states, and are yielding new candidate treatment strategies for brain diseases. Finally, we are developing, using new strategies such as robotic directed evolution, fluorescent reporters that enable the precision measurement of signals such as voltage. In order to reveal relationships between different molecular signals within a cell, we are developing spatial and temporal multiplexing strategies that enable many such signals to be imaged at once in the same living cell. We design all our tools to be easy to use, and we share all our tools as freely as possible. Scientifically, we are focusing on the integrated application of these tools to collect ground truth-oriented data for the worm C. elegans and the larval zebrafish, with the goal of creating biologically accurate computer simulations of entire small brains.
TIME Thursday, October 3, 2024 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
LOCATION Tech L361, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Naomi Vasciannie naomi.vasciannie@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick - Biomedical Engineering Department (BME)
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Oct17
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lessAdvancing arrhythmia patient care with digital twins and AI
BIO:
Dr. Trayanova holds the inaugural Murray B. Sachs Professorship in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. She is also a Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and a Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics. She envisioned, created, and directs the Alliance for Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Treatment Innovation. She is also the Director for AI Research in Health and Medicine at Johns Hopkins University under the Data Science and AI Institute, where she is responsible for directing efforts across the university in developing and deploying AI applications that advance healthcare delivery and improve patient outcomes. She also directs the Computational Cardiology Laboratory.
Dr. Trayanova is internationally recognized as a leader in personalized multi-scale computational modeling of whole heart electrophysiology and arrhythmias (heart digital twinning). Her research output includes 450 published papers and book chapters. She has published extensively in the most prestigious journals, such as The Lancet, Nature Cardiovascular Medicine, Nature Communications, Nature BME, Science Advances, Science TM, Physiological Reviews, Nature Reviews Cardiology, eLife, and others.
Trayanova’s work has received world-wide recognition, and she is the recipient of numerous honors and awards. She is the recipient of an NIH Director’s Pioneer Award in 2013; in 2019, she was inducted in the Women of Technology International Hall of Fame, an honor conferred only on 5 women each year from around the world. Also in 2019, she received the Distinguished Scientist Award from Heart Rhythm Society. This was followed by the Zipes Distinguished Award by the same society in 2020, and by the Gordon Moe Award by the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society in 2023. In 2025, Trayanova will be the recipient of the Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz Award by the Physiological Society. Trayanova has been named a Fellow of every American and European clinical cardiology society, testifying to her impact in clinical practice. She is also a Fellow of AIMBE, BMES, IAMBE, and IUPS. She has given over 380 invited lectures, majority of them keynotes or plenary lectures. Dr. Trayanova’s work has received widespread media coverage and recognition (see recent article in the Wall Street Journal, and she has also given a TEDx talk. Dr. Trayanova is also the inventor on numerous patents and patent applications filed world-wide. In recognition of her innovation, she was named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2020.
TIME Thursday, October 17, 2024 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
LOCATION Tech L361, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Naomi Vasciannie naomi.vasciannie@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick - Biomedical Engineering Department (BME)
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Nov7
EVENT DETAILSmore info
lesshttps://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/biomedical/news-events/bme-seminar-series/
TIME Thursday, November 7, 2024 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
LOCATION Tech L361, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Naomi Vasciannie naomi.vasciannie@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick - Biomedical Engineering Department (BME)
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Nov21
TIME Thursday, November 21, 2024 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
LOCATION Tech L361, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Naomi Vasciannie naomi.vasciannie@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick - Biomedical Engineering Department (BME)
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Dec7
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lessFall classes end
TIME Saturday, December 7, 2024
CONTACT Office of the Registrar nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR University Academic Calendar