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
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
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
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