Events

March 2025
Tue 4 Mar 2025   12:00 - 13:00	SEMS PDRA-PhD seminars: Poppy Smith, Mia Frances Crowther and Rory Douglas Bennett  Centre for Bioengineering Title: Automated Production of Engineered Nerve Tissue Talk Summary of Poppy Smith: Traumatic peripheral nerve injury has a sudden, debilitating effect on millions of people every year, resulting in loss of sensation and movement, significantly reducing quality of life. The standard clinical treatment to repair peripheral nerve injuries which result in a gap in the nerve tissue, is the nerve autograft. The autograft has multiple limitations including donor site morbidity and availability,...
April 2025
Tue 1 Apr 2025   12:00 - 13:00	SEMS seminars: Defence Professor of Military Surgery and Trauma, Hon Professor of Surgery, Consultant Surgeon, Colonel Nigel Tai, QMUL & Royal London Hospital Centre for Bioengineering Title: Non-Compressible Haemorrhage - a problem for Engineers? Abstract: Exsanguination - literally bleeding to death - is the biggest cause of preventable trauma death, both in military and civilian settings. New solutions to this problem are required, and engineers will be a vital part of the progress towards such solutions. This talk will convey the problem to an engineering audience and help generate background understanding. About the speaker: Colonel Nigel Tai is the UK...
Wed 2 Apr 2025   15:00 - 16:00	Queen Mary Bioengineering Seminar Series - Dr Alberto Elosegui-Artola, The Francis Crick Institute Centre 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 2025 Centre 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, UCL Centre 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...