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bmeunite.bsky.social @bmeunite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our final 2026 BME UNITE Future Faculty Seminar will be on Monday, October 5th, at 1 pm EST. Come hear from Drs. Shaniel Bowen, Kelsey Watts, and Angelea Maestas-Olguin to learn more about their ongoing work and future research programs! Register here: tinyurl.com/bmeunite2026

Dr. Shaniel Bowen (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai): Precision Pelvic Health Across the Lifespan: Bridging Imaging, Biomechanics, and Functional Outcomes

Dr. Kelsey Watts (University of California Los Angeles): Identification of Sex-Specific Mechanisms of Endothelial to Mesenchymal Transition (EndMT) Contributing to Atherosclerotic Plaque Stability Using a Multi-Omics Approach

Dr.Angelea Maestas-Olguin (University of New Mexico): Nanotechnology Enabling Gene Therapy In Women's Health

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bmeunite.bsky.social @bmeunite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The third 2026 BME UNITE Future Faculty Seminar will be on Monday, September 28th, at 1 pm EST. Come hear from Drs. @vlaney.bsky.social, Paul Calle Contreras, and Hadas Frostig to learn more about their ongoing work and future research programs! Register here: tinyurl.com/bmeunite2026

Dr. Victoria Laney (University of Illinois Chicago): Noninvasive Molecular MRI of the Tumor Microenvironment: Mapping Therapeutic Resistance and Tissue Remodeling

Dr. Paul Calle Contreras (University of Oklahoma): Machine Learning in Medical Imaging

Dr. Hadas Frostig (Boston University): Three-photon population imaging of subcortical brain regions

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bmeunite.bsky.social @bmeunite.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The second 2026 BME UNITE Future Faculty Seminar will be on Monday, Sept 15th, at 1 pm EST. Come hear from Drs. @niasv.bsky.social, Carla Nathaly Villacis Nunez, and Babatunde Adebayo Kehinde to learn more about their ongoing work and future research programs! Register here: tinyurl.com/bmeunite2026

Dr. Estefanía Sánchez Vásquez (UC Santa Cruz): Making giant decisions: dynamic activity of CDK2 influences trophoblast stem cell differentiation

Dr. Carla Nathaly Villacis Nunez (University of Michigan): Towards Digital Twins For Soft Tissue Repair

Dr. Kehinde Adebayo Babatunde (University of Wisconsin): Neutrophil Navigation in Injury and Infection: Decoding Extracellular Vesicle and Toxoplasma gondii Cues in Human Microphysiological Systems

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bmeunite.bsky.social @bmeunite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The first 2026 BME UNITE Future Faculty Seminar will be on Monday, August 31st, at 1 pm EST. Come hear from Drs. Ciana López, @cpane94.bsky.social, and @fanzzzz.bsky.social to learn more about their ongoing work and future research programs! Register here: tinyurl.com/bmeunite2026

Dr. Ciana López (Duke University): Helminth-inspired biomaterials to treat autoimmune disease

Dr. Christopher Panebianco (University of Pennsylvania): Leveraging biomaterials and developmental mechanobiology for spine regeneration

Dr. Fan Zhang (University of Washington): Building living tissues from the vascular tree up

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bmeunite.bsky.social @bmeunite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

We are excited to announce our 2026 cohort of BME UNITE Future Faculty Fellows! The BME UNITE seminar series is designed to showcase future faculty candidates from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds in BME. Register here: tinyurl.com/bmeunite2026

Names, photos, and institutions of 2026 BME UNITE Future Faculty Fellows. Text seminar details with link to presentation schedule.

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bmeunite.bsky.social @bmeunite.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We are excited to announce that applications are OPEN for the 2026 BME UNITE Future Faculty Fellows Program! Applications are due Thursday, July 23rd. Apply here: forms.gle/4DBixrXiJqDP....

Flyer promoting the BME UNITE Future Faculty Program for biomedical engineering (BME) postdoctoral scholars from marginalized groups who are on the academic job market. The flyer highlights four program components:

1) Get Feedback on Application Materials: Team up with current BME faculty to receive personalized feedback on application documents.

2) Present a 20-Minute Virtual Seminar:
Showcase your research accomplishments and share your future vision with hiring committee members.

3) Practice Your Chalk Talk: Receive feedback and guidance on presenting your research vision.

4) Become Part of the BME UNITE Network: Network with a national community of biomedical engineering faculty.

2026 program dates: Aug 17, Aug 31, Sept 14, Sept 28, and Oct 5.

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bmeunite.bsky.social @bmeunite.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Headed to BMES? Don't miss our stellar 2025 BME UNITE Fellows at the Meet The Faculty Candidate Forum! Visit Drs. @jfrancois-eng.bsky.social, Kara Peak, and Taj Yeruva at their posters on Saturday, Oct 11, from 12-2:30 PM in Exhibit Hall F, G & H. #BMES2025 #BMES #biomedicalengineering

BMES Meet the Faculty Candidate Forum Sat, Oct 11 12 - 2:30 PM Exhibition Hall F, G & H

Joshua François (Harvard): Poster I6
Kara Peak (UMN): Poster I9
Taj Yeruva (UMD): Poster K15

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bmeunite.bsky.social @bmeunite.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Don't miss the fourth and final BME UNITE Future Faculty Seminar on Monday, September 29th, at 1 pm EST. Come hear from Drs. Tahoura Samad, @karapeak.bsky.social and Claudia Varela to learn more about their science and future research programs! Register here: tinyurl.com/bmeunite25

Dr. Tahoura Samad (MIT): The search for new antimicrobials: hiding in plain sight

Dr. Kara Peak (University of Minnesota): What to expect when you're expecting: Interplay of biochemical and mechanical signaling in fetal-placental development

Dr. Claudia Varela (Boston University): Implantable devices and human-engineered culture models to biomechanically probe the infarcted heart

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bmeunite.bsky.social @bmeunite.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The third BME UNITE Future Faculty Seminar will be on Monday, September 15th, at 1 pm EST. Come hear from Drs. @jfrancois-eng.bsky.social, Joan Pulupa, and Amy Lee to learn more about their science and future research programs! Register here: tinyurl.com/bmeunite25

Dr. Joshua François (Harvard Medical School): Quantifying Single-Cell Responses to Irradiation in 3D

Dr. Joan Pulupa (Columbia University): Visualizing the 4-D Genome in Living Cells

Dr. Amy Lee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Establishing biobanking strategies and formulations for cell therapy scalability

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bmeunite.bsky.social @bmeunite.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The second BME UNITE Future Faculty Seminar will be on Monday, August 25th, at 1 pm EST. Come hear from Drs. Mattea Allert, Taj Yeruva, and Said Arévalo Alquichire, PhD to learn more about their science and future research programs! Register here: tinyurl.com/bmeunite25

Dr. Mattea Allert (University of Minnesota): Perspectives in Multi-Modal Modeling from Birth to Adulthood: A Journey from the Early Microbiome to Neurological Disease Mechanisms

Dr. Taj Yeruva (University of Maryland-College Park): Beyond the Barrier: Rethinking Mucus to Engineer Materials for Drug Delivery

Dr. Said Arevalo-Alquichire (Harvard Medical School): RUNX1-based therapeutics for the treatment of vitreoretrinal diseases

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bmeunite.bsky.social @bmeunite.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

The first BME UNITE seminar will be on Monday, August 11th, at 1 pm EST. Come hear from Drs. Julia Brisbane, Sindhuja Govindarajan, and @prnano9.bsky.social to learn more about their science and future research programs! Register here: tinyurl.com/bmeunite25

Dr. Julia Brisbane (Georgia Institute of Technology): Health Disparities in Biomedical Engineering Courses

Dr. Sindhuja Govindarajan (University of Pennsylvania): Engineering the Next Generation of Neuroimaging Tools

Dr. Patricia Nano (University of California - Los Angeles): Maps to Mechanisms: Probing Cell Fate with Atlases and Pertubation Screens of the Human Brain

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bmeunite.bsky.social @bmeunite.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

We are excited to announce our 2025 cohort of BME UNITE Future Faculty Fellows! The BME UNITE seminar series is designed to showcase future faculty candidates from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds in BME. Register here: tinyurl.com/bmeunite25

Names, photos, and institutions of 2025 BME UNITE Future Faculty Fellows. Text seminar details with link to presentation schedule.

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