An NSF Expedition in Computing
Mind in Vitro

Seminars

Upcoming Events

Mar
27

MiV Seminar: Vickie Webster-Wood, Carnegie-Mellon University - "Understanding and implementing biological intelligence through bioinspired and biohybrid robotics"

  • March 27, 2026
  • Friday, 4:15 PM
  • 4100 LuMEB
Apr
3

MiV Seminar: Kon-Well Wang, University of Michigan - "Embodying Programmability and Mechano-Intelligence in Adaptive Metastructures"

  • April 3, 2026
  • Friday, 4:15 PM
  • 4100 LuMEB
Apr
10

MiV Seminar: Woodrow Shew, University of Arkansas - "Origins and functions of the cortical timescale repertoire: a temporal RG approach" - April 10, 2026

  • April 10, 2026
  • Friday, 4:15 PM
  • 4100 LuMEB
Apr
17

MiV Seminar: Hyun Youk, UIUC, "When dynamics compute the future: predictability in a generalized cellular automaton of communicating cells"

  • April 17, 2026
  • Friday, 4:15 PM
  • 4100 LuMEB
Apr
24

Boxuan Zhao, UIUC

  • April 24, 2026
  • Friday, 4:15 PM
  • 4100 LuMEB
May
1

Rob Wood, Harvard University

  • May 1, 2026
  • Friday, 4:15 PM
May
8

Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania

  • May 8, 2026
  • Friday, 4:15 PM
  • 4100 LuMEB
Aug
28

Orit Peleg, University of Colorado Boulder

  • August 28, 2026
  • Friday, 4:15 PM
  • 4100 LuMEB
Oct
2

Abhishek Battacharjee, Yale University

  • October 2, 2026
  • Friday, 4:15 PM
  • 4100 LuMEB
Oct
16

Jason MacLean, University of Chicago

  • October 16, 2026
  • Friday, 4:15 PM
  • 4100 LuMEB
Oct
23

Rhonda Dzakpasu, Georgetown

  • October 23, 2026
  • Friday, 4:15 PM

Past Seminars

Folding Intelligent Machines: Exploiting Geometry and Mechanics of Origami to Build Intelligence in the Mechanical Domain

Folding Intelligent Machines: Exploiting Geometry and Mechanics of Origami to Build Intelligence in the Mechanical Domain

Suyi Li

Virginia Tech

March 6, 2026
Information Flow at Biological Interfaces: Microphysiological Models of Neuroinflammation and Cancer Cell Migration

Information Flow at Biological Interfaces: Microphysiological Models of Neuroinflammation and Cancer Cell Migration

Bumsoo Han

UIUC

February 20, 2026
Activity in Chromatin Remodeling Motors Controls Nuclear Mechanics and tumor cell migration in 3D environments

Activity in Chromatin Remodeling Motors Controls Nuclear Mechanics and tumor cell migration in 3D environments

Paul A. Jamney, PhD

University of Pennsylvania - Institute for Medicine and Engineering, Center for Engineering Mechanobiology

December 9, 2025
Ethics of biologically inspired AI - what is most likely to go wrong?

Ethics of biologically inspired AI - what is most likely to go wrong?

Anthony Jack

Case Western Reserve University

December 5, 2025
Optoelectronics On and In Tissue for Cardiac Modulation

Optoelectronics On and In Tissue for Cardiac Modulation

Cunjiang Yu

UIUC

November 21, 2025
Autonomous Laboratory for Accelerating Biotherapeutic Discovery

Autonomous Laboratory for Accelerating Biotherapeutic Discovery

Arvind Ramanathan

Argonne National Lab

October 17, 2025
Adaptive Biomolecular Networks: From Emergent Living Computation to Cybergenetic Cell Therapy

Adaptive Biomolecular Networks: From Emergent Living Computation to Cybergenetic Cell Therapy

Mustafa Khammash

ETH Zurich

September 5, 2025
Unlocking the Gut's Brain with Ingestible Bioelectronics

Unlocking the Gut's Brain with Ingestible Bioelectronics

Shriya Srinivasan

Harvard University

August 29, 2025
Neuronal cultures, a fascinating toolbox: from complex systems and neuroengineering to medicine

Neuronal cultures, a fascinating toolbox: from complex systems and neuroengineering to medicine

Jordi Soriano-Fradera

University of Barcelona

September 20, 2024
Biohybrid Robotics

Biohybrid Robotics

Shoji Takeuchi

University of Tokyo

June 11, 2024
The connectome multiplex

The connectome multiplex

Sepideh Sadaghiani

UIUC

April 12, 2024
Identifying the roles of cortical oscillations and learning during cognitive behavior

Identifying the roles of cortical oscillations and learning during cognitive behavior

Howard Gritton

UIUC

February 16, 2024
Investigating animal locomotion using biorobots and neuromechanical simulations

Investigating animal locomotion using biorobots and neuromechanical simulations

Auke Iljspeert

EPFL

February 9, 2024
Computing in Vitro: an in Silico Perspective

Computing in Vitro: an in Silico Perspective

Jim Smith

University of Wisconsin-Madison

November 1, 2023
Acid degradable lipid nanoparticles efficiently deliver mRNA to the liver, lung, spleen and multiple other organs

Acid degradable lipid nanoparticles efficiently deliver mRNA to the liver, lung, spleen and multiple other organs

Niren Murthy

UC Berkeley

May 5, 2023
On motor intelligence for continuum soft robots

On motor intelligence for continuum soft robots

Cosimo Della Santina

TU Delft

April 28, 2023
An Introduction to Neuronal Criticality

An Introduction to Neuronal Criticality

Karen Dahmen and John Beggs

Karen Dahmen: UIUC, John Beggs: Physics and Indiana University, Physics

April 14, 2023
Machine Sentience: Can Robots be truly self-aware?

Machine Sentience: Can Robots be truly self-aware?

Hod Lipson

Columbia

March 31, 2023
Lessons from looking to biology for robots

Lessons from looking to biology for robots

Mark Yim

UPenn

March 3, 2023
Harnessing biological actuation and flows in engineering and medicine

Harnessing biological actuation and flows in engineering and medicine

Selman Sakar

Institutes of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering, EPFL

January 20, 2023
The Robotics Part of Micro and Nano Robots

The Robotics Part of Micro and Nano Robots

Brad Nelson

ETH Zurich

December 2, 2022