Spring 2024 Graduate Seminars

Spring 2024 
DateSpeakerTitle

January 22 

SC 3655 

Michelle Scherer, PhD 

UI Distinguished Chair & Professor 

Director Hanson Center for Communication 

Civil and Environmental Engineering 

 

Kristy Hartsgrove Mooers, MFA, BA 

Theatre Arts 

Hanson Center for Technical Communication

January 29 

SC 3655

David Moser, PhD 

Professor of Psychiatry 

Director of Educational Outreach, Office of DEI, Carver College of Medicine 

Implicit Bias in Healthcare

February 5 

SC 3655 

No Seminar 

February 12 

SC 3655 

Joshua Goldberg, PhD 

Associate Professor, Department of Medical Neurobiology, IMRIC 

Director of the Brain Disease Research Center (BDRC) 
Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University 

A Wave Theory of the Dopamine-Acetylcholine Balance in the Striatum

February 19 

SC 3655

Engineering Graduate Student Council 

February 26 

SC 3655 

No Seminar 

March 4 

SC 3655 

Heather Powell, PhD 

Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering 

Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering 

The Ohio State University 

Biomaterial Strategies for Developing Biomimetic Engineered Skin

March 11 

SC 3655 

Spring Break: No Seminar  

March 18 

SC 3655 

Guadalupe Canahuate, PhD 

Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering 

University of Iowa 

Leveraging Patient-reported Outcomes for Risk Prediction in Head and Neck Cancer

March 25 

SC 3655 

Michael Mackey, PhD 

Associate Professor 

Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering 

University of Iowa 

Intracellular Reaction Networks: Systems Biology Models

April 1

SC 3655

Roy J. Carver Travel Award Presentees 

April 8 

SC 3655 

Jessica Sieren, PhD 

Associate Professor of Radiology 

University of Iowa 

Lung Cancer Screening Efficacy Through Quantitative Biomarkers

April 15 

SC 3655 

Filiz Yesilkoy, PhD 

Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering 

University of Wisconsin-Madison 

Optical Metasurfaces for Biosensing and Bioimaging Applications

April 22 

SC 3655 

Muge Karaman, PhD 

Assistant Professor, Dept of Biomedical Engineering 

University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago 

Advanced Diffusion Imaging of Cancer: Brain, Breast, and Beyond 

April 29 

SC 3655 

Claudia Mello-Thoms, PhD 

Associate Professor of Radiology - Perceptual Research 

University of Iowa 

Adventures in Medical Image Perception 

May 6 

SC 3655 

No Seminar