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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Join us virtually to celebrate the Petit Institute's Bioengineering Interdisciplinary Graduate Program!
RSVP HERE
Attend via BlueJeans Link HERE
AGENDA
12 noon Welcome and Opening Remarks - Hang Lu, Ph.D., Director, and Manu Platt, Ph.D., Deputy Director - BioEngineering Program
12:05 p.m. "Journey to Bioengineering" - Shuichi Takayama, Ph.D. - Outstanding BioE Faculty Advisor; Introduced by Hannah Viola
12:45 p.m. "Biosensors for Field Deployable Diagnostics" - Monica McNerney, Ph.D. - Outstanding BioE Thesis; Introduced by Mark Styczynski, Ph.D.
1:15 p.m. Rapid Fire Presentations - 10 current BioE students to present
2:15 p.m. "Securing a Job as a Ph.D. Student: A Few Pitfalls and Tactical Solutions" - Steven Schwaner, Ph.D., BioE Alum Class of 2019, Consultant, Exponent; Introduced by Ross Ethier, Ph.D.
2:45 p.m. "Universal Brain-machine Interfaces Enabled by Flexible Scalp Electronics & Deep-learning” - Musa Mahmood, Doctoral Candidate - Outstanding BioE Paper; W. Hong Yeo, Ph.D., Advisor
3:15 p.m. "Adhesion Analysis to Interrogate Extravasation Capacity of CD8 T Cells for Adoptive Cell Therapy" - Camila Camargo, Doctoral Candidate - Outstanding BioE Abstract; Susan Thomas, Ph.D., Advisor
3:30 p.m. “Insect Pee: How Sharpshooters Excrete Ultrafast Fluid Droplets” - Elio Challita, Doctoral Candidate - Outstanding BioE Abstract; Saad Bhamla, Ph.D., Advisor
3:45 p.m. "A Bioengineering Journey: Navigating Unique Challenges and Opportunities" - Ivana Parker, Ph.D., BioE Alum Class of 2015, Assistant Professor University of Florida; Introduced by Manu Platt, Ph.D.
4:15 p.m. 2020 Awards Announced – Outstanding Rapid Fire Presentation, Christopher Ruffin Leadership Award
4:30 p.m. Virtual Happy Hour
5:30 p.m. Adjourn
