Fall 2025

15 September

Dennis Discher

4 pm
2136 Physical Sciences Complex

University of Pennsyvania, Philadelphia, PA

"Soft-physics biology and how physical forces shape cell fate and function"

22 September

Nan Xu

4 pm
2136 Physical Sciences Complex

UMD Fischell Department of Bioengineering

"Statistical learning and dynamic analysis in functional neuroimaging data"

29 September

Andrew Bower

4 pm
2136 Physical Sciences Complex

University of Maryland School of Medicine

"Structural and functional assessment of individual cells in the living human eye with multimodal adaptive optics retinal imaging"

06 October

Zhiwei Li

4 pm
2136 Physical Sciences Complex

University of Maryland College Park

"FFT-weighted background-free bioimaging by in vivo tuning plasmonic excitation of Fe3O4@Au hybrid nanorods"

20 October

Dr. Alamgir Karim

4 pm
2136 Physical Sciences Complex

University of Houston

"Stabilized Coacervate Microdroplets and Vesicles as Model Protocells"

03 November

Qi Zhang

4 pm
2136 Physical Sciences Complex

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

"RNA in Action: Bring RNA Structure to Life"

10 November

Thai Thayumanavan

4 pm
2136 Physical Sciences Complex

University of Massachusetts

"Active and Activatable Polymers for Targeted Protein Degradation"

17 November

William Jacobs

4 pm
2136 Physical Sciences Complex

Princeton University

"Designing sequence-programmable protein condensates"