Bioengineering 15 year Celebration

Schedule

The 19th Annual UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium
Thursday, June 21st - Saturday, June 23rd, 2018:
Riverside Convention Center and The Historic Mission Inn Hotel & Spa

All sessions will be held at the Alumni and Visitors Center unless otherwise noted.

Schedule

Friday, October 22, 2021
8:00 am – 8:30 am Registration
8:00 am – 8:30 am Continental Breakfast
8:30 am – 9:00 am

Opening Remarks 

  • Xiaoping Hu, Chair of the Department of Bioengineering
  • Christopher Lynch, Dean, Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering, UCR
  • Scott Simon, Chair of BIC, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, UCD
9:00 am – 9:30 am

Keynote Speaker
Bruce Tromberg, NIH, Director of NIBIB
9:30 am – 10:00 am Keynote Speaker
Tejal A. Desai, Ernest L. Prien Professor and Chair of the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at University of California, San Francisco and head of the Therapeutic Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory
10:00 am - 10:10 am Break
10:10 am – 10:30 am Jack Tang, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Otolaryngology- Head & Neck Surgery, University of Southern California
10:30 am – 10:50 am Gokul Upadhyayula, Assistant Professor in Residence of Cell and Developmental Biology, UC Berkeley
10:50 am – 11:10 am Jillian M. Clinton, Staff Scientist, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech
11:10 am – 11:30 am Jerome S. Schultz, Inaugural Chair of the Department of Bioengineering, UCR, Distinguished Professor, University of Houston 
11:30 am – 11:50 am Yan Liu, Director of R&D in Nova Therapeutics at San Diego
11:50 am – 12:10 pm Carissa Rodriguez, Optical Scientist, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
12:10 pm  - 12:30 pm Christopher Hughes, PhD student, University of Pittsburgh
12:30 pm – 12:50 pm Devin McBride, Assistant Professor, Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery, UTHealth Medical School
12:50 pm – 1:10 pm Jiandi Wan, Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering, UC Davis
1:10 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Barney Graham, NIH, Deputy Director, Vaccine Research Center
3:00 pm – 3:20 pm Jana Buccula, Associate Director Clinical Advanced Analytics at Abbott
3:20 pm – 3:40 pm Marlon Thomas, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas
3:40 pm – 4:00 pm Shahid Islam, Sr. Engineer, Systems R&D, BD
4:00 pm – 4:20 pm Harbani Malik, Sr. Scientist at Teneobio, Inc.
4:20 pm – 4:40 pm Wesley Poon, MD-PhD student at Texas A&M Health Science Center
4:40 pm – 5:00 pm Break
5:00 pm – 6:00pm Industrial Presentations
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Reception