Your source of monthly updates from the UC Davis Biomedical Engineering Student Association!

Meet your new BESA Officers (2023 - 2024)!
 

President - Hannah O'Toole

Vice President - Erika Wheeler

Treasurer - Prashant Khatiwada

Secretary - Arielle Yoo

Publicity Chairs - David (Yufei) Zhu, Silvia Noble Anbunesan

Program Advising Chair - Ben Mattison

Sacramento Social Chair - Erika Wheeler 

Davis Social Chairs - Tanner Henson, Evan Cirves, Ofleya Baghdasaryan

Outreach Chairs - Jared Lee-Kin, Ada Kanapskyte, Eden Winslow, Jessica Korte

Industry Outreach Chairs - David (Yufei) Zhu, Rajul Bains

Rec Sports (IM) Chair - Chieh-Te (Jack) Lin

Recruitment Chairs - Ada Kanapskyte, Allison Pickle, Sarah Brashear

Symposium Chairs - Allison Pickle, Jacob Roshgadol, Sarah Brashear

Alumni Seminar Chair - Alita D'Almeida

BESA Health Chairs - Neona Lowe, Roshni Shetty, Abigail Humphries, Kajetan Wysoczynski

GSA Representatives - Prashant Khatiwada, Evelyn Zarate-Sanchez, Arielle Yoo, Sarah Lind and Abigail Humpries

Upcoming Events

Neuroengineering & Medicine Seminar

The Center for Neuroengineering & Medicine is hosting the first seminar for this academic year on Wednesday, October 4th, 4:10 – 5:00pm, at the GBSF Auditorium.

Topic: Modeling Dynamics and How Neural Properties Explain Adaptation During Learning

Speaker: Samantha Santacruz, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Cockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin.

Please register at https://tinyurl.com/NeuroengOct23 

Check out https://neuroengineering.ucdavis.edu/events for the upcoming monthly seminar series details.

Upcoming QE? Practice in the BESA Student Seminar Series
The student seminar series is an amazing opportunity to practice your research presentations, particularly in preparation for the qualifying exam, in a low-key and friendly environment. Upper-year BESA students are able to provide useful and constructive feedback for students who are about to take their QE. If you are interested in presenting your research to your peers, please email our Program Advising Chair Ben Mattison (bsmattison@ucdavis.edu).

Announcements and Awards

Congratulations to Dr. Emilie Roncali and the Roncali Lab for being awarded an R01 grant. This is a 4-year award from the NIBIB that started in August 2023, for $3.1 M aiming at developing new AI-based methods for optical simulations applied to nuclear medicine. This is a new simulation framework that will be integrated into an opensource software already used by two thousands of users, which the Roncali lab  is actively developing as part of an international collaboration.

Publications

Check out these new publications from BMEGG students and faculty! 

1. Wang Y, Spencer BA, Schmall J, Li E, Badawi RD, Jones T, Cherry SR, Wang GB.
   High-temporal resolution lung kinetic modeling using total-body dynamic PET with time delay and dispersion corrections. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 64(7) 1154-1161, 2023.

2. Wang Y, Nardo L, Spencer BA, Abdelhafez Y, Li EJ, Omidvari N, Chaudhari AJ, Badawi RD, Jones T, Cherry SR, and Wang GB. Total-Body Multiparametric PET Quantification of 18F-FDG Delivery and Metabolism in the Study of COVID-19 Recovery. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, ahead of print, August 2023.

    

3. Zhou X, Bec J, Ehrlich K, Alfonso Garcia A, Marcu L. Pulse-sampling fluorescence lifetime imaging: evaluation of photon economy. Optica Letters, 48(17), 4578-4581, September 2023.

4. Loomis T, and Smith LR. Thrown for a Loop: Fibro-Adipogenic Progenitors in Skeletal Muscle Fibrosis. American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology, 325(4). September 2023.

5. Wohlgemuth RP, Brashear SE, and Smith LR. Alignment, cross-linking, and beyond: A collagen architect's guide to the skeletal muscle extracellular matrix. American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology, September 2023.

Know of more funding opportunities and want them featured in the next newsletter? Email them to David (ydazhu@ucdavis.edu) and Silvia (snoble@ucdavis.edu) before the first of each month.