BME Seminars

About AUB

Founded in 1866, the American University of Beirut is a teaching-centered research university based on the American liberal arts model of higher education. AUB has over 8,000 students and 800 faculty members. The University encourages freedom of thought and expression and seeks to graduate men and women committed to creative and critical thinking, lifelong learning, personal integrity, civic responsibility, and leadership.

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AUB is accredited in the US by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and includes six faculties: Arts and Sciences, Medicine, Engineering and Architecture, Agricultural and Food Sciences, Health Sciences, and Business. AUB offers more than 130 programs leading to bachelor's, master's, MD, and PhD degrees. The main language of instruction is English.

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BME Seminars

Spring 2022 Talks

Talks and meetings are being held online on Mondays at 6:30 pm. To join our virtual talks, please use the meeting details below. For any further information, please email arij.daou@aub.edu.lb.

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86469832348?pwd=dzJDeWNJeVcyNTYyVXJGcjV6UmhnUT09
Meeting ID: 864 6983 2348
Passcode: 448512

Michael Long: Comparative neurobiology of vocal communication (Jan 24)

Jonathan Rubin: Decision-making dynamics in the basal ganglia: a theory and acomplication (Jan 31)

Matthew Kaufman: Linking computation and neurobiology in control of reaching (Feb 7)

David Freedman: Neural circuit mechanisms of cognition in artificial and biological neural networks (Feb 14)

Kathleen Cullen: Predictive coding of natural self-motion: Implications for perception and action (Feb 21)

Ed Boyden: Tools for analyzing and controlling biological systems (Feb 28)

Angela Koehler: Attenuating transcription in Cancer (Mar 07)

Bart Bolsterlee: Application of diffusion tensor imaging to study skeletal muscle structure in health and disease (Mar 14)

Tagpo Niepa: Controlling microbial dynamics using substrate conductive biointerfaces and nanomaterials (Mar 18)

Ruth Anne Eatock: Biophysical specializations in the vestibular inner ear may serve rapid stabilization of vision and balance (Mar 21)

Richard Mooney: From song to synapse: The neurobiology of vocal communication (Apr 04)