The BME Distinguished Seminar Series

The BME Distinguished Seminar Series enables the Duke community to engage with cutting-edge research through a series of invited talks by renowned academics and industry leaders

Steven Chu speaks at the Duke BME Distinguished Speaker Seminar to the Duke BME community in the Wilkinson auditorium on April 3, 2025

Meet Our Speakers

David Mooney

Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering

Harvard University

“Matrix Viscoelasticity: Control of Cell Fate to Medical Adhesives”

Steven Chu

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Physics, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and Energy Science and Engineering

Stanford University

“What can be learned by tracking the motion of cargos. due to dynein in live cells with millisecond and microsecond time resolution and sub-nanometer spatial resolution?”

Darrell Irvine

Professor of Immunology & Microbiology, Investigator

the Scripps Research Institute & Howard Hughes Medical Institute

September 11, 2025 from 3:00-5:00 PM

Darrell Irvine
Karin Jensen
Karin Jensen

Karin Jensen

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

University of Michigan

September 25, 2025 from 3:00-5:00 PM

Mikhail Shapiro

Max Delbrück Professor of Chemical Engineering and Medical Engineering, Director of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine

Caltech

October 30, 2025 from 3:00-5:00 PM

Inaugural recipient of the Izatt Memorial Lectureship

Mikhail Shapiro's headshot against a blue toned photo fo the Duke brick
Claudia Fishbach
Claudia Fishbach

Claudia Fischbach-Teschl

James M. and Marsha McCormick Family Director of the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Stanley Bryer 1946 Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Cornell University

November 13, 2025 from 3:00-5:00 PM

The Dean’s Distinguished Lectureship in Honor of Joseph A. Izatt