Events: February 2012

Shulamit Levenberg, Wyss Institute Visiting Scholar, will participate in the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Topics in Bioengineering lecture series. She is Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion, Israel. She is conducting interdisciplinary research in tissue engineering and stem cells focusing on vascularization of engineered tissues and engineering stem cell microenvironments.

Radhika Nagpal, Platform Co-Leader & Founding Core Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute and Associate Professor of Computer Science at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will present several ongoing projects, all of which tackle the problem of understanding and designing self-organizing multi-agents systems.

James C. Weaver, Research Associate at the Wyss Institute discusses the complexities of sponge skeletal systems from their fracture-resistant mechanical properties to their rapid rates of biosynthesis making them far exceed modern architectural engineering capabilities.