Events
February 2025 | |
 Tue 4 Feb 202512:00 - 13:00 |  SEMS seminars: Associate Professor Julianne L. Holloway, Arizona State University  Centre for Bioengineering Title: Designing Biomaterials with Spatiotemporal Control for Tissue Engineering Applications Abstract: Advances in materials science, biomolecule delivery, and cell biology has enabled significant innovations within the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine over the past few decades. Nonetheless, minimal translation of tissue engineering-based therapeutics to the clinic has occurred. An ongoing challenge within tissue engineering is the difficulty in regenerating... |
| Thu 6 Feb 2025 15:00 - 16:00 |  SEMS seminar: Professor Yang Liu, University of Exeter  Centre for Bioengineering Title: Harnessing Non-Smooth Dynamics for Self-Propelled Gastrointestinal Endoscopies with Vibro-Impact Capsules Abstract: The rectilinear motion of a capsule can be generated using a periodically driven internal mass interacting with the main body of the capsule as a 'hammer' in the presence of external resistances. At resonance, this 'hammer' enables the capsule to progress efficiently through complex environments without the need for external accessories. This simplicity in... |
| Wed 19 Feb 2025 15:00 - 16:00 |  SEMS seminars: Prof Guillaume Charras, UCL Centre for Bioengineering About the speaker After an undergraduate degree in Physics and Engineering in Paris, Prof Charras became fascinated by Cell Biology and turned my research interests to Biophysics. Prof Charras was fortunate to be exposed to many facets of Bioengineering and Biophysics through Masters degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and through PhD work at UCL. During this time, Prof. Charras worked in the general area of cell mechanics using experimental techniques such as AFM and... |
April 2025 | |
| Wed 2 Apr 2025 15:00 - 16:00 |  Queen Mary Bioengineering Seminar Series - Dr Alberto Elosegui-Artola, The Francis Crick InstituteCentre for Bioengineering Title The ECM viscoelasticity controls tissue spatiotemporal dynamics Abstract The mechanical properties of the extracellular matrix (ECM) regulate cellular processes during development, cancer and wound healing. Despite the universality of the ECM's viscoelasticity, how viscoelasticity affects tissue function is unknown. I will present our results where we show that the passive viscoelastic properties of the ECM regulate tissue architecture and patterning both during development and... |
May 2025 | |
| Wed 7 May 2025 09:00 - 18:00 |  Conference: London Polymer Group Meeting 2025Centre for Chemical Research The London Polymer Group gathers the community of polymer chemists, physicists and engineers interested in the design of macromolecular structures for a broad range of applications, from energy storage and electronics to therapeutics delivery and tissue engineering. The LPG annual meeting is an excellent opportunity to network and for early career researchers to present their work to our community. The 2025 annual LPG meeting will be hosted by Queen Mary University of London. We have an... |
| Wed 7 May 2025 15:00 - 16:00 |  SEMS seminars: Google DeepMind Chair of Machine Learning and AI, Professor Marc Deisenroth, UCLCentre for Bioengineering Title: Opportunities for Machine Learning to Accelerate Progress in Environmental Modelling Abstract: Modelling complex environmental systems, such as weather or oceans, is extremely challenging. Recent advances in machine learning and AI to automatically learn complex relationships from data have opened up opportunities for data-driven methodologies to make a meaningful contribution to environmental science and even play the role of a transformative technology within environmental... |