2021 – 2022 Schedule
Check out our previous activities in the 2021-2022 school year
During the 2021-2022 school year, we conducted most of our activities through Blackboard.
Fall 2021
- October 15, 2021 First meeting 12 p.m. on BB Collaborate Ultra (will be recorded)
- to set up future schedules, modules, logic, and plans
- October 29, 2021 Journal Club
- Reviewing "Optical Tweezer" technique
- 7 p.m. on Blackboard
- November 12, 2021 Guest speaker
- PhD student, current project
- 7 p.m. on Blackboard
Spring 2022
- January 13, 2022 First Meeting 7 p.m. on BB Collaborate Ultra
- Set a weekly meeting time: Fri 7 p.m. - 8 p.m. (online). If there are any lab tours or guest talks scheduled, the time may vary.
- Activities we will cover include
- journal club (study group members)
- guest talk (graduate students and faculty members)
- tours (labs, companies)
- career panel (senior/grad students sharing how to find a grad school/intern, etc)
- potential student project and publications
- ask everyone to spread the word and recruit people.
- January 21, 2022 Journal Club
- FLIM, by Dr. Wang
- 7 p.m. on BB.
- January 28, 2022 Career night
- share special program, summer intern, and fellowship information, by Dr. Wang
- 7 p.m. on BB
- See content in the "career resources" folder
- February 4, 2022 Journal Club
- Retina OCT, by Alice Liu
- 7 p.m. on BB
- February 11, 2022 Guest talk
- Uniaxially Prestressed Muscle Architecture in Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE), by Joseph Crutison (jcruti2@uic.edu), an MD/PhD student.
- Keywords: Wave Propagation, Magnetic Resonance Elastography, Shear Modulus, Transverse Isotropy
- 7 p.m. on BB
- February 18, 2022 Lab tour
- Dr. Yao's lab (west campus, 1905 W Taylor St, Chicago ), with OCT onsite demonstration
- 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. RSVP
- February 25, 2022 Lab tour
- Dr. Royston's lab (842 W Taylor St. UIC East Campus SEL 1072)
- Scanning Laser Doppler Vibrometer demonstration (Silvia Leccabue )
- 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., RSVP
- March 4, 2022 Guest Talk
- Monitoring protein behaviors using fluorescent nano-antennas, by Haoran Jing and Thilini Parera, PhD students from Chemistry
- 7 p.m. on BB
- March 11, 2022 Journal Club
- An inverse breathing capsulation system for cell delivery, by Safa Hameed
- 7 p.m. on BB
- March 18, 2022 Group discussion
- officer election
- promotion and registration
- SPIE student chapter
- future activities
- IGNITE programming will occur on-campus on Saturday, April 2nd
- March 25, 2022 No Meeting
- Spring Break
- March 31, 2022 Journal Club
Jonah from the Spille Group will present at 3:30 p.m.. He will talk about his work on visualizing the nuclear actin and the following related paper (attached):
You can join the meeting here:
- April 1, 2022 Lab tour
- Dr. Avanaki's lab (SEL-w 2025)
- 2 p.m. - 3 p.m., RSVP
- April 8, 2022 Journal Club
- Fluorescent imaging of cancerous tissues for targeted surgery, by Alexandra Vorobyeva
- 7 p.m., online
- April 15, 2022 BME Research Symposium
- Keynotes and research presentations https://bme.uic.edu/bme-events/research-symposium/
- 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
- No study group meetings. I encourage you all to join
- April 22, 2022 Special Talk
- Research Symposium Keynote, by Dr. Wang
- 7 p.m., online
- May 5, 2022 Lab Tour
- Dr. Klatt's lab (835 South Wolcott Ave, South Entrance, Room 110B), Brief lab tour and shadow the process of an MRE imaging experiment.
- 2:30 p.m. - 4 p.m., RSVP