Professor Benjamín Castañeda has devoted his career to bringing life-saving technology to rural areas across the globe! #MyRochesterStory #URochesterResearch

Hope to see you at the #BME Open House TOMORROW - Friday, September 19th!

Thinking about graduate study? Amy Lerner, Associate Professor of #Biomedical #Engineering, is hosting a General Info Session on #MS degree programs on Tuesday, 9/23. Join us in person or on Zoom! events.rochester.edu/event/bme-ms... #BME #GradSchool #URochesterBME #MastersDegree #MS

🔷BME Seminar 📅Date: 9/25/25, 8:30 AM 🎓Presenter: Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, PhD 📜Title: “Optical Diagnostic, Neurophotonics, and Image-guided Surgical Techniques” 🔗Event Page: events.rochester.edu/event/bme-se... 🔗Flyer: www.hajim.rochester.edu/bme/assets/p... #UofRBME #optics #BME #Seminar

Thank you to everyone who joined us at our Ice Cream Social! 🍦We’re excited to welcome the incoming Class of 2029! 🎉 See our website for more info & photos! 🔗 www.hajim.rochester.edu/bme/news-eve... #Classof2029 #UofRBME #BME

Coming up on Sep 25th! Hearing and Balance Research Collective Guest Speaker, Dr. Melissa Caras (University of Maryland), presents: "The neural basis of expert sound perception". Join us! Event Page: events.rochester.edu/event/hearin... #otolaryngology @urneuroscience.bsky.social

🔹 RCBU Seminar 📅 Date: 9/23/25, 12:00 pm 🎓 Presenter: Zhe “Clark” Wu, Ph.D. 📜 “Experiences and Opportunities in Ultrasound Technology Translation” 🔗https://events.rochester.edu/event/rcbu-seminar-Wu-2025 #BME #Ultrasound #RCBU2025

#FluorescenceFriday Strand and branch pericytes surround the vessels of the retina👁️🔬 color=depth @flaumeye.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social

👥 Kaihua Chen James L. McGrath @alexisthescientist.bsky.social @brittae.bsky.social et al. 🏛️ @uofrbme.bsky.social @urochester.bsky.social @rittigers.bsky.social @unibe.ch @dukemedschool.bsky.social advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

This Thursday - 9/11!

✨Great video and info featuring our very own Dr's Cherice Hill and Alyson March! 👏👏

Meet the 1st year PhD students in @marcoslabur.bsky.social Meeting today. From right to left: Veronica Masztalerz (Optics), Chang Liu (Optics), Ellen Jiang (Optics), Terry Zhou (BME) #RochesterOptics @uofrbme.bsky.social @urengineering.bsky.social @urochester.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social Welcome!

🎉Please join us in officially welcoming Dr. Rebecca Irwin to the @UofR #BME Department! We’re thrilled to have her on board! 🔗 www.hajim.rochester.edu/bme/news-eve... #UofRBME #FacultyWelcome #BiomedicalEngineering

🎉 Congrats to #BME faculty Dr. Benjamín Castañeda who was recognized with an award by the Peruvian government for technological innovation! 🔗 www.hajim.rochester.edu/bme/news-eve... #Innovation #UofRBME #FacultyNews #INDECOPI @urengineering.bsky.social

Right here, right now ✨ Those are our incoming students, everybody! Find your friends and smile 📸

2of2) A method for analyzing recorded EEG brain waves from two such patients show evidence of their ability to understand speech without needing them to respond. doi.org/10.3389/fpsy... #URochesterResearch @uofrbme.bsky.social

📅 Save the Date! 🎉 The annual #UofRBME Department Picnic is happening 9/11/25 🌭🥗🏐☀️ Hosted by the UR BMES Student Chapter, this event is for all our BME students, staff, and faculty to gather, enjoy good food, and connect outside of the lab or classroom. 👉 Don’t forget to RSVP! lnkd.in/ez3WBKrq

Our hometown is in the running to be named one of the best places in the country to visit during the fall! 🍂 Vote for Rochester early and often in the USA Today reader's poll: 10best.usatoday.com/awards/roche...

Your story starts here 🐝 Welcome to Rochester, Yellowjackets! #URochester2029

@cvsuor.bsky.social Summer Picnic at Genesee River Park @urochester.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social #RochesterOptics @urengineering.bsky.social @rittigers.bsky.social; #VisionScience #SummerVibes 👀🧠😎🌞🍔🌭🏐🤾🌳

Congratulations to all the team members at Strong Memorial Hospital, ranked the No. 1 hospital in Upstate and Western NY by US News and World Report! // @urmed.bsky.social

Thrilled to have been selected for the @cvsuor.bsky.social pilot award with additional support from @flaumeye.bsky.social. Our collaboration with Wojtovich lab will study mitochondria survival and anatomy in the diabetic retina. @urochester.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social

THE ROC IS A TOP CITY FOR COLLEGE GRADS: A new study puts Rochester in the top 25 cities in the U.S. for new college graduates looking for their first job, based on hiring, salary, and affordability #ROC www.adpresearch.com/youve-gradua...

#MelioraWeekend is just around the corner! We're looking forward to seeing alumni, students, families & friends at the BME Open House on Friday, September 19. (Goergen Hall-2nd floor, 3:30pm) #MelioraWeekend2025 #Meliora #URAlumni #BiomedicalEngineering events.rochester.edu/event/melior...

#URochesterResearch by @schalleklab found that when photoreceptor cells in the retina are damaged, the brain’s immune cells respond, and neutrophils are not recruited to help despite passing through nearby blood vessels via eLife 👉 elifesciences.org/articles/98662 @cvsuor.bsky.social

Dynamic Sholl analysis is a way to characterize the complexity cell process remodeling over time. Here SchallekLab is using it to show microglia dynamism in the living eye using #adaptiveoptics #Optica @cvsuor.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social bit.ly/4kMNErh

In a Rochester story spanning four decades on campus, Stephen Dewhurst reflects on the life-changing research he's seen here, from the development of LASIK eye surgery to the first vaccines for cancer. #MyRochesterStory #URochesterResearch

Brunch, hiking & transitions with the team yesterday 🥯🌿💦, with welcomes & a farewell. Bittersweet but energizing. Grateful for the ideas we share in the lab & the memories we make outside of it @marcoslabur.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @urengineering.bsky.social #StonyBrookSP #NewYorkState

In #Copenhagen 🇩🇰 for #IEEE embs.org Conference. Presenting our work on #CornealBiomechanics #OpticalCoherenceElastography #CollagenOrganization #Keratoconus #Myopia @marcoslabur.bsky.social @io-csic.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social 👁️

🔹 BME PhD Defense Seminar 📅 Date: 7/23/25, 9:00 am 🎓 Presenter: Sam Walker, PhD Candidate 🧪 Supervised by: Drs. Jim McGrath, and Jonathan Flax 📜 Title: “The Development of Extracellular Vesicle Biomarker Signatures for Antitumor Immune Responses ” 🔗 Event Page: events.rochester.edu/event/bme-ph...

🎉 Congratulations to Professor Jannick Rolland, recipient of the 2025 Hajim School Lifetime Achievement Award! www.hajim.rochester.edu/about/lifeti... @urengineering.bsky.social

OUT NOW from Jannick Rolland in Measurement: Automated and highly precise surface wetting contact angle measurement with optical coherence tomography based on deep learning model doi.org/10.1016/j.me... #URochesterResearch @urengineering.bsky.social

💡FIREFLIES💡 were alive last night. Long-exposure reveals secrets of their patterning. Bioluminescence is one of the most captivating forms of signaling for life on our planet. @uofrbme.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @urochester.bsky.social @thisisroc.bsky.social

Due to the heat advisory today, the #UofRBME Pizza Picnic has been rescheduled to Wednesday, June 25th. All current #UofRBME grad students, faculty and staff are invited to join us! events.rochester.edu/event/bme-pi... #BME #biomedicalengineering #GradStudents #PicnicVibes

🎉 Congratulations to BME alumna Melisanda Feliz ’22, ’23 (MS) on receiving a Fulbright U.S. Student Grant! She’ll head to La Rioja, Spain as a teaching assistant! 🔗 tinyurl.com/uofrbme-2025-06-18 #Fulbright #UofRBME #BMEproud #Alumni @urengineering.bsky.social

@marcoslabur.bsky.social publication alert 📣 #FrontMed. Scleral #collagen organization after MMP digestion & repair by Collagen Mimetic Peptide. Modeling changes in #myopia & potential therapy. Collaboration #StuartTherapeutics, #TeliasLab #BuckleyLab @flaumeye.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social

🍕🎉 The BME Pizza Picnic is happening on June 23rd! All current #UofRBME graduate students, faculty, and staff are invited to join us at Genesee Valley Park. The fun starts at 4pm. Hope to see you there! 🔗 events.rochester.edu/event/bme-pi... #BME #biomedicalengineering #GradStudents #PicnicVibes

🔹 BME PhD Defense 🎓 Siladitya Khan, PhD Candidate 📅 6/24/25, 2pm 📜 “Rheological Sensing with Acoustic Radiation Force Induced Ultrasound Spectroscopy” 🔗 events.rochester.edu/event/khan-b... #BME #URochesterResearch #biomedicalengineering #PhDStudents #UofRBME @urengineering.bsky.social

Our #UofRBME students are at #MPSWorldSummit 2025 in Brussels🌍presenting cutting-edge tissue chip research & connecting with global leaders. Stop by if you can!👋 🔗 mpsworldsummit.org #Microphysiological #URochesterResearch @urochestersmd.bsky.social @urengineering.bsky.social @urochester.bsky.social

22degree Moon Halo A vivid shot from Feb Physical basis unknown. Optical theories posit that hexagonal crystals with refractive index n=1.309 may deviate moonbeams to create a 22deg ring via Snell's Law AKA: moon ring winter halo @cvsuor.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social

New from Ed Lalor in PLOS One: Breaking brain recordings into shorter parts (5–15 sec) helps speech models work better. This is because shorter parts are more stable, making predictions more accurate than using long recordings. doi.org/10.1371/jour... #URochesterResearch @uofrbme.bsky.social

OUT NOW from Jannick Rolland: Beam interaction and targeted optimization methods for AR waveguide design in Optics Express. doi.org/10.1364/OE.5... #URochesterResearch @uofrbme.bsky.social

👏 Dr. Laurel Carney has been named the 2025 David T. Blackstock Mentorship Award from the Acoustical Society of America (@asa-news.bsky.social‬)! Honored for her outstanding #mentorship in #acoustics & #hearing research. 🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/uofrbme-carney-blackstock #facultyawards #Meliora!

Jupiter Bowl: as an outlet for creativity and deepen my roots in woodworking, I began wood turning this past winter. This one -a spalted maple- has a striking resemblance to the stormy skies of Jupiter @cvsuor.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social

🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Dalecki on receiving the Joseph H. Holmes Pioneer Award from American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM)! Her groundbreaking work in diagnostic #ultrasound continues to inspire. 👏🔬 🔗 www.hajim.rochester.edu/bme/news-eve... @urengineering.bsky.social

Vessels of the brain🧠 are enveloped by alpha-smooth muscle actin that have a rubber-band like appearance. These bands contract or dilate based on the neural load. @urneuroscience.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social #FluorescenceFriday

Sneak Peek of the class #Vision & the #Eye that I taught this semester👁️ @urochester.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social: phenomenal guest speakers, hands-on, discussions, labs…Awsome students #RochesterOptics @uofrbme.bsky.social @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social @urengineering.bsky.social; A real treat🙏👀

New study by #BiomedicalEngineering & @urneuroscience.bsky.social Prof. Laurel Carney and team shows the brain uses broad inhibition—not just rhythm cues—to hear tones in noise. A step toward understanding how we make sense of sound in complex settings: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

✨️It's a wrap for the #URBME graduation ceremony! Congratulations again, #Classof2025! 🎓👏👏 📷Here are a few moments from today’s celebration while we wait for the professional photos (coming soon!). photos.app.goo.gl/aW86d2z8NAwD... #BMEGrad #UR2025 #BiomedicalEngineering #Meliora!