{"id":5993,"date":"2025-10-30T15:26:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/?p=5993"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:30:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:30:29","slug":"mhet-musculoskeletal-health-arc-november-invited-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/2025\/10\/30\/mhet-musculoskeletal-health-arc-november-invited-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"MHet (Musculoskeletal Health) ARC November Invited Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>November 19<sup>th<\/sup> \u00a08:30 \u2013 10:00AM<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/em><\/strong><em>Breakfast provided, Lecture starts at 9:00am<\/em><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ritu Raman<span>, PhD<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Eugene Bell Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering <br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/strong><strong>MIT, Cambridge MA <\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/evanscenteribr\/files\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-30-at-3.27.04\u202fPM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"192\" class=\"wp-image-5996 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/files\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-30-at-3.27.04\u202fPM.png 418w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/files\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-30-at-3.27.04\u202fPM-243x300.png 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 156px) 100vw, 156px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;<\/strong><strong><em>Tissue Engineering Biological Actuators for Regenerative Medicine and Biohybrid Robotics<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>&#8220;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All voluntary movement in humans and many other biological creatures is powered by skeletal muscle, controlled by peripheral nerves, and supplied by blood vessels. These tissues work together to form biological actuators that can efficiently generate dynamic forces while adapting their form and function to changing environmental stimuli.\u00a0 The Raman Lab develops biofabrication tools to build multicellular and functional models of vascularized and innervated muscle. Tissue engineering such biological actuators enables understanding and treating diseases that limit human mobility, and powering \u201cbiohybrid\u201d robots that dynamically sense and adapt to their environments. This talk will discuss our work towards:<\/p>\n<p>1) Developing \u201c4D\u201d biofabrication tools that pattern dynamic forces within engineered tissues, advancing fundamental understanding of how exercise mediates assembly, maturation, and repair in the neuromuscular system;<\/p>\n<p>2) Creating predictive design frameworks and fabrication methodologies to deploy adaptable and sustainable muscle-actuated robots;<\/p>\n<p>3) Building platforms that enable scalable and reproducible fabrication of multicellular living systems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/RamanLab.mit.edu\">RamanLab.mit.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Kilachand Center for Life Sciences &amp; Engineering<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>Room 101<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>610 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>Charles River Campus<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Join Zoom Meeting<\/strong> <br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bostonu.zoom.us\/j\/5784986119?omn=99565063294\">https:\/\/bostonu.zoom.us\/j\/5784986119?omn=99565063294<\/a><br \/>\nMeeting ID: 578 498 6119<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 19th \u00a08:30 \u2013 10:00AMBreakfast provided, Lecture starts at 9:00am Ritu Raman, PhD Eugene Bell Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering MIT, Cambridge MA &#8220;Tissue Engineering Biological Actuators for Regenerative Medicine and Biohybrid Robotics&#8221; All voluntary movement in humans and many other biological creatures is powered by skeletal muscle, controlled by peripheral nerves, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1607,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1607"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5993"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6001,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5993\/revisions\/6001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}