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?”

Upcoming Seminars

Karin Jensen

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan

Deborah Estrin

Robert V. Tishman Founder’s Chair, Professor of Computer Science, Associate Dean for Impact, Cornell University

Mikhail Shapiro

Max Delbrück Professor of Chemical Engineering and Medical Engineering, California Institute of Technology Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Director, Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine

Claudia Fischbach

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