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For this RFP, sporadic FTD is defined as FTD that develops without an identified known causal gene mutation. Projects must have clear relevance to sporadic FTD; studies using <em>GRN</em>, <em>MAPT</em>, or <em>C9orf72</em> models must explain how their findings will inform sporadic FTD beyond known genetic causes.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe program will fund its fourth annual cohort and seeks bold, rigorous, collaborative, and catalytic projects that broaden foundational knowledge of FTD and spur diagnostic and therapeutic advances. Responsive topics include basic biology; computational, AI, and data-driven approaches; biomarker discovery and validation; neuroimaging; proteinopathies; neuroinflammation and non-neuronal cells; environmental factors; novel risk factors and disease pathways; and innovative experimental models. Investigators from outside traditional FTD research fields are encouraged to apply, provided the team includes sufficient expertise in FTD biology.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Duration</strong>: 2 years<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Funding</strong>: up to $500,000<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Eligibility: </strong>Applicants can be based at eligible nonprofit academic or research institutions worldwide, including public or private universities and related research institutions; certain governmental agencies with active biomedical research programs may also apply. The PI must hold a PhD, MD, or related research doctorate and be an <strong>independent investigator </strong>as defined by the host institution. Early-career and newly independent investigators are strongly encouraged. Multidisciplinary collaborations are welcome, but one corresponding PI and one submitting institution must be designated. Institutions may submit multiple proposals, provided each is led by a different PI. Current Kissick Family Foundation FTD grantees may not apply as PIs or co-investigators.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>How to Apply</strong>: Applicants must first submit a letter of intent through the <a href=\"https://milken.smapply.io/prog/ftd_grant_program/\">SPARC</a> online grant portal. <strong>LOIs can be maximum 750 words</strong> and should include the project title and PI name, indicate the scientific priority area, and present a succinct description of the proposed research approach. LOIs must be single-spaced, use a legible font of at least 11 points, and have one-inch margins.. Projects that are in scope and that propose rigorous, innovative research studies with significant potential to further our understanding of sporadic FTD may be invited to submit a full proposal; notifications will be sent around mid-December. Full proposals would be due in February and require an institutional letter of commitment; for this letter, please contact the <a href=\"mailto:[email protected]?subject=Kissick%20Family%20Foundation%20FTD%20request%20for%20proposals\">Research Office</a>. Eventual awardees may be notified as early as June 2027.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Deadline, Letter of Intent: </strong>04 November 2026, 11:59 p.m. ET<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Further information</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>An <strong>online information session</strong> will be held on 13 October 2026 at 17:00 Swiss time; <a href=\"https://milkeninstitute-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/pkUaoNaURZujsWbcjIQ-uQ\">registration</a> is required.</li>\r\n\t<li>More information about the call is available <a href=\"https://sciencephilanthropy.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/MI-KissickFamilyFoundationRFP-2.pdf\">here</a></li>\r\n\t<li>The online portal can be found <a href=\"https://milken.smapply.io/prog/ftd_grant_program/\">here</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nFor any other questions, please contact the <a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">Research Office</a>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-30T15:42:19", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-30T15:43:02", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "", "organizer": "", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]?subject=Kissick%20Family%20Foundation%20-%20FTD%20request%20for%20proposals\">Research Office</a>", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/122002/", "category": { "id": 16, "code": "PROP", "fr_label": "Appel à proposition", "en_label": "Call for proposal", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/140/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72524, "title": "[CANCELLED] MechE Colloquium: Engineering Net-Zero Transport: From Future Fuels to Carbon and Emissions Management", "slug": "cancelled-meche-colloquium-engineering-net-zero-tr", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/cancelled-meche-colloquium-engineering-net-zero-tr", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33763/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33763/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33763/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-13", "end_date": "2026-10-13", "start_time": "12:00:00", "end_time": "13:00:00", "description": "<strong>Abstract: </strong>Transport systems underpin modern society, yet remain among the most challenging sectors to decarbonise. Achieving net-zero transport requires coordinated action across energy carriers, carbon flows and mitigation of other pollutants. This talk presents a multiscale engineering framework for sustainable mobility, organised around three complementary pathways: <u>f</u>uel development (F), <u>g</u>reenhouse-gas management (G) and mitigating <u>h</u>armful emissions beyond CO<sub>2</sub> (H). First, using solar-driven CO<sub>2</sub> conversion as an example, I will show how the precise transport of light, heat and fluids enables the coordinated design of materials, devices and systems, maximising solar-to-fuel conversion efficiency. Second, I will explore on-board carbon capture for road and maritime transport, together with distributed carbon-removal networks that use existing vehicles, ventilation systems and transport infrastructure. Third, I will discuss particulate matter generated by brake and tyre wear, illustrating how materials engineering can balance filtration efficiency, pressure drop and energy demand. Finally, the talk considers how techno-economic assessment and the interplay between technology, business and policy can move laboratory innovations towards industrial deployment.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Biography: </strong>Dr Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao (<a href=\"https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/elvis.cao\">https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/elvis.cao</a>) is currently an Assistant Professor at Imperial College London, holding joint appointments in Mechanical Engineering and the Grantham Institute. Cao leads the Laboratory for Integrated Green Harvesting & Transport, the LIGHT Lab, which seeks to engineer the physical systems for a sustainable future. Before joining Imperial, Cao was a Schmidt Science Fellow at MIT, where he pursued integrated carbon capture and utilisation under the guidance of Professor Ted Sargent. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University, his MEng in Materials Engineering from McGill University, and dual bachelor’s degrees in Energy and Power Engineering and English Literature from Xi’an Jiaotong University. He has published more than 30 first- or corresponding-author papers in journals including <em>Joule</em>, <em>Matter</em>, <em>Device</em> and <em>Advanced Materials</em>. Cao was named one of MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35 globally in 2024 and was previously recognised in Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy for North America. His other honours include the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s German Chancellor Fellowship, the Activate Fellowship, the MIT Climate & Energy Prize, the Global Young Investigator Award in Separation Science, and the Carbon Capture Future Star Award, among others.", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-04T10:07:53", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-30T13:59:39", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "MED 0 1418", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MED%200%201418", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/61360740951", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<a href=\"https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/elvis.cao\">Prof. Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao</a>, <a href=\"https://www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/\">The Grantham Institute for Climate Change</a>, <a href=\"https://www.imperial.ac.uk/natural-sciences/\">Faculty of Natural Sciences</a>, <a href=\"https://www.imperial.ac.uk/\">Imperial College London</a>", "organizer": "<a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/zhengmao.lu\">Prof. Zhengmao Lu</a>", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">Institute of Mechanical Engineering</a>", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "MechE Colloquium: Engineering Net-Zero Transport: From Future Fuels to Carbon and Emissions Management", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121715/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/232/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/270/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72022, "title": "Financial Flexibility under Non-Exclusive Lending", "slug": "financial-flexibility-under-non-exclusive-lending", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/financial-flexibility-under-non-exclusive-lending", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33315/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33315/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33315/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-09", "end_date": "2026-10-09", "start_time": "11:00:00", "end_time": "13:15:00", "description": "<p>This paper studies optimal financial flexibility in debt issuance. A borrower raises funds for an initial investment and may need financing after observing a private liquidity shock. Under non exclusive lending, new lenders price only their claims, so additional borrowing dilutes existing debt and leads to excessive leverage. The optimal simple debt contract is an endogenous debt limit. It captures the intertemporal commitment–flexibility tradeoff: more borrowing today fi nances investment but increases dilution incentives, requiring tighter limits on future borrowing. Richer clauses, including performance-sensitive debt and contingent prepayment provisions, re store the exclusive-lending benchmark by compensating existing lenders when new financing is raised.</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-06-03T15:01:15", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-30T13:50:47", "link_label": "Paper", "link_url": "https://yunzhihu.web.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/14825/2026/08/draft-v4.pdf", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "UNIL, Extranef, room 126", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<a href=\"https://yunzhihu.web.unc.edu/\">Yunzhi Hu - The University of North Carolina</a>", "organizer": "", "contact": "[email protected]", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120962/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/112/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/3/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/116/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/105/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72518, "title": "Secouons-nous les eaux - Performance", "slug": "secouons-nous-les-eaux-performance-2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/secouons-nous-les-eaux-performance-2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33780/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33780/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33780/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-14", "end_date": "2026-10-14", "start_time": "12:00:00", "end_time": "13:00:00", "description": "<div class=\"BCX2 Ltr OutlineElement SCXW196505929\">The <a href=\"http://hydromondes.org/\">Hydromondes</a> collective invites the EPFL community <strong>to explore the relationship between science and the bodies of water</strong> that surround us, in an artistic and festive setting.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nOn stage: </div>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Marin Schaffner, ethnologist</li>\r\n\t<li>Jeanne Mermet, engineer </li>\r\n\t<li>Gabriel Cotte, hydrologist </li>\r\n\t<li>Clémence Mathieu, illustrator </li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"BCX2 Ltr OutlineElement SCXW196505929\"><br>\r\nThe event, which could be called a “festive gathering,” is a mix of performance, lecture, and debate. It consists of three parts: <br>\r\n </div>\r\n\r\n<ol>\r\n\t<li>The first part presents <strong>the scientific, artistic, and sensory content</strong> developed by the Hydromondes collective to put ourselves in the shoes of Lake Geneva—a living entity—in order to understand the paths water takes through our bodies, through the pipes and faucets at EPFL, and more broadly throughout the region.<br>\r\n\t </li>\r\n\t<li>The second part is an opened <strong>discussion</strong> with the audience to gather testimonies, questions, and reflections on the issue of water stewardship, particularly in light of current and future socioeconomic challenges and climate disruptions.<br>\r\n\t </li>\r\n\t<li>The third part gets us <strong>moving</strong> to “stir up our waters,” drawing our attention to the health of Lake Geneva and all bodies of water. A mix of texts, live drawings (using water from Lake Geneva), and music turns this moment into a festive gathering.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"BCX2 Ltr OutlineElement SCXW196505929\">---<br>\r\n<strong>The <a href=\"http://hydromondes.org/\">Hydromondes</a> Collective</strong><br>\r\nFor the past two years, the Hydromondes collective has been developing a research-creation project on Lake Geneva as a living entity, engaging with scientists, managers, activists, and artists from the Lake Geneva region to attempt to paint a dynamic portrait of this lake on which we depend—particularly through the waters that flow through us. The collective employs sensory cartography, creates drawings and texts, and composes music. On June 12 and 13, 2026, the Lake Geneva Bioregional Assemblies took place at the Vidy Theater, during which Hydromondes brought together a myriad of Franco-Swiss collectives to create a cross-border community dedicated to the care of the waters.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe collaboration between the collective and <a href=\"http://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1277309&LanCode=37\">Nathalia Capellini,</a> a historian at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and instructor in the EPFL’s SHS program, gave rise to the performance *Le Léman Cyborg*, presented on May 7, 2026, as part of the *Culturelles de printemps* festival. Nathalia Capellini’s course titled “Infrastructures” had fueled the project. This collaboration between the collective and the academic community will therefore continue for the Culturelles in October 2026, with a more participatory format—somewhere between an artistic presentation and a town hall meeting—in a playful atmosphere.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>>>> Free admission; <a href=\"http://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/ffSBMqP21Y\">light refreshments provided upon registration</a></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"BCX2 Ltr OutlineElement SCXW196505929\"> \r\n<figure class=\"image\"><a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/campus/art-culture/fr/les-culturelles/les-culturelles-dautomne-2026/\"><img alt=\"Programme complet des Culturelles\" height=\"182\" src=\"https://www.epfl.ch/campus/art-culture/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/LES_CULTURELLES_1920x1080_programme_complet.png\" width=\"600\"></a>\r\n\r\n<figcaption>© 2026 EPFL, Laura Persat</figcaption>\r\n</figure>\r\n</div>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-03T16:58:47", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-29T18:00:01", "link_label": "Inscription à la collation", "link_url": "https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/ffSBMqP21Y", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "Hall MED", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MED%200%2094.22", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/1/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Collectif <a href=\"https://hydromondes.org/\">Hydromondes</a> ; Marin Schaffner, ethnologue ; Jeanne Mermet, ingénieure ; Gabriel Cotte, hydrologue et Clémence Mathieu, dessinatrice ", "organizer": "<a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/campus/art-culture/fr/les-culturelles/\">Festival Les Culturelles</a> (Pôle Culture VPI)", "contact": "<a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/veronique.mauron\">Véronique Mauron Layaz</a>", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "Léman, corps aquatique, performance", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121705/", "category": { "id": 9, "code": "MANIF", "fr_label": "Événements festifs et culturels", "en_label": "Cultural events", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/2/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/4/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/5/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/21/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/22/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/79/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/145/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72572, "title": "Participatory Modelling for Energy Scenarios and Transition Pathways", "slug": "participatory-modelling-for-energy-scenarios-and-t", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/participatory-modelling-for-energy-scenarios-and-t", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33821/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33821/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33821/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-12", "end_date": "2026-10-12", "start_time": "17:00:00", "end_time": null, "description": "<p>Thesis Directors: Prof. C. R. Binder Signer, Dr M. Duygan<br>\r\nCivil and Environmental Engineering doctoral program<br>\r\nThesis Nr. 11896<br>\r\n<br>\r\nTo take part in the public defense, please contact directly the speaker <br>\r\n<br>\r\nPlease register via the Google Form here:<br>\r\n<a href=\"https://forms.gle/e6UF2Sr9LdcgNLUn7\">https://forms.gle/e6UF2Sr9LdcgNLUn7</a></p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-14T11:31:53", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-29T16:45:17", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "GR A1 455", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==GR%20A1%20455", "url_online_room": "https://youtu.be/bw1XDjuY5_c", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "<strong>Jaïr Kees Evert Karel CAMPFENS</strong>", "organizer": "", "contact": "<strong>Jaïr Kees Evert Karel CAMPFENS</strong>", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "EDCE", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121786/", "category": { "id": 12, "code": "SOUTE", "fr_label": "Soutenances de thèses", "en_label": "Thesis defenses", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/4/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72720, "title": "MechE Colloquium: Biomechanics and fluid dynamics of freshwater insects across walking, swimming, and flight", "slug": "meche-colloquium-biomechanics-and-fluid-dynamics-o", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/meche-colloquium-biomechanics-and-fluid-dynamics-o", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33937/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33937/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33937/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-11-03", "end_date": "2026-11-03", "start_time": "12:00:00", "end_time": "13:00:00", "description": "<strong>Abstract: </strong>Many animals, including humans, can transition between multiple modes of locomotion between diverse environments (e.g., the transition from walking to swimming). Bimodality is common, but trimodality—that is, the ability to successfully navigate between aerial, aquatic, and terrestrial environments—is relatively rare. Multimodality is also challenging to achieve in engineered devices, vehicles, and robots; however, several animals are capable of regularly (and easily) traversing environmental boundaries. In this talk, we will outline several of the general adaptations that living organisms use to locomote between land, air, and water. We will then present recent work on the biomechanics and fluid dynamics of trimodal aquatic insects. These insects exhibit hybrid walking-swimming gaits when transitioning from land to shallow water; they also leverage surface tension, buoyancy, fluid drag, and aerodynamic forces to take off into flight directly from the water surface. They also display underwater agility, using their legs as paddles to propel themselves rapidly as they seek prey and/or escape from predators. They also have interesting morphological features to enable these transitions, including superhydrophobic wings and hemelytra, as well as dense setae lining the metathoracic legs. These bristle-like features create shape-morphing appendages for efficient swimming, and are also used to lever the insect’s body off the deforming water surface during takeoff. In this talk, we will present data from all three locomotor modes and discuss their implications for both fundamental biology and ecology as well as bioinspired engineering and technology development.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Biography: </strong>Dr. Margaret L. Byron is currently the Martin W. Trethewey Early Career Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Penn State University, and is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the Beckman Young Investigator Award, and the American Chemical Society Doctoral New Investigator Award. She earned her B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 2010 and her MS/PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California Berkeley in 2012/2015. She works at the interface of biology, physics, and engineering, with interests including the fluid dynamics of animal locomotion and the transport of irregularly shaped inertial particles in turbulent flows (including sediment, aggregates, and microplastics). 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Zoom is mainly for students on remote campuses; please notify <a class=\"text-link\" href=\"mailto:[email protected]\" target=\"_blank\">Fiorella Ghisays</a> in advance and join using your full name.<br>\r\nIf attending in person, have your sheet signed after the talk and keep the original, as no copy is retained.<br>\r\n ", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-22T15:48:04", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-29T15:50:23", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "SV 1717", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/68746410793", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Invited Speaker and Student Speaker", "organizer": "Institute of Bioengineering", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]?subject=EPFL%20BioE%20Talks%20Series\">Fiorella Ghisays</a>, Institute of Bioengineering", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": "https://memento.epfl.ch/public/upload/files/BioEngineeringTalkMemento_u0lzmcg.jpg", "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121882/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/5/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/111/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/434/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72194, "title": "Neuro-X seminar: Prof Tim O'Shea - Engineering astrocytes to promote wound repair and modulate foreign body responses in the CNS", "slug": "neuro-x-seminar-prof-tim-o-shea-engineering-astroc", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/neuro-x-seminar-prof-tim-o-shea-engineering-astroc", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33474/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33474/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33474/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-09", "end_date": "2026-10-09", "start_time": "11:00:00", "end_time": "12:00:00", "description": "<p>Astrocytes are the predominant glial cells in the mammalian central nervous system (CNS) and play essential roles in maintaining neural circuit activity and tissue homeostasis. In response to CNS insult, including traumatic injury or implantation of a medical device, astrocytes undergo a conserved, temporally regulated reprogramming that reshapes their prioritized functions to protect adjacent neural tissue. The nature and extent of astrocyte reprogramming critically influences outcomes after CNS insult. For example, regeneration after traumatic CNS injury in adult mammals is limited by local responding astrocytes lacking sufficient self-renewal capacity. By contrast, the CNS of neonate (newborn) mammals possesses exceptional parenchymal repair capacity owing to immature astrocytes with elevated proliferative and migratory potential. In the context of an implanted medical device, the spatial extent of astrocyte reprogramming and how impacted astrocytes respond to any further device micromotion, latent infection, or other persistent device-derived stimuli, dictates device performance and longevity. Engineering astrocyte responses to promote targeted functional gains while preserving key capabilities of healthy neural tissue astrocytes will be critical to enabling effective neural regeneration therapies and improving long-term performance of implanted devices. In this talk, I will outline our emerging understanding of how adult astrocytes adaptively reprogram in response to CNS injury and implanted foreign bodies, drawing insights from innovative astrocyte-specific transcriptomic bioassays. I will also provide an overview of biomaterial and cell-grafting strategies that we are exploring to direct astrocyte responses in preclinical models of stroke, spinal cord injury, and foreign body responses.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Bio:</strong><br>\r\n<strong>Dr. Timothy O’Shea, PhD</strong> is an Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Engineering department at Boston University (BU). Tim grew up in Brisbane, Australia and completed a Bachelor of Medical Engineering (First Class Honours) and a Masters in Engineering Management at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) before moving to the US for graduate school. He completed his PhD study in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics within the collaborative Health Sciences and Technology program of the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where we conducted PhD thesis research with Institute Professor Robert Langer. As a Postdoctoral Fellow in Neurobiology at UCLA, he worked with Professors Michael Sofroniew (Neurobiology) and Timothy Deming (Bioengineering) developing and testing novel bioengineering tools to study biological mechanisms involved in CNS injury and repair as well as the CNS foreign body response to implants. Since Fall 2020 he has been leading the Glia Engineering Lab at BU where he has received numerous awards including the Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) from NIH and grants from several spinal cord injury research foundations such as Craig H Neilsen, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Bryon Reisch, and Wings for Life.</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-07-01T12:06:17", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-29T15:26:49", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "B1-6", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==B1%206%20272.043", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62394730036?pwd=jz0K4NPrEtbqswaGBRIOJ0Kf64PwYm.1", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<a href=\"https://www.bu.edu/eng/profile/timothy-oshea-ph-d/\">Tim O'Shea</a>", "organizer": "<a href=\"http://people.epfl.ch/mark.anderson\">Mark Anderson</a>", "contact": "<a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/niels.lion?lang=en\">Niels Lion</a>", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121206/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/19/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/111/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/392/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72580, "title": "Collective Figurations of Baukultur", "slug": "collective-figurations-of-baukultur", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/collective-figurations-of-baukultur", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33828/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33828/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33828/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-21", "end_date": "2026-10-22", "start_time": "09:00:00", "end_time": "17:00:00", "description": "<strong>Collective Figurations of Baukultur</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\nArchitectural representation has often dissociated its production from its product, trapped in loops of identification, reproduction and mimesis which have only increased under technocapitalism. Today, our cities and environments are measured to the detail and seemingly overrepresented through proliferating digital twins, predictive models and simulations, indicators and benchmarks. These operative visualizations which reduce the world to computable data, no longer merely describe reality: they organize, mobilize, and activate matter. They function as automated, asignifying spatial infrastructures, while progressively dispensing with a symbolic mediation increasingly deemed unnecessary and, just as often, a problematic source of ambiguity.<br>\r\nDigital twins, predictive models and simulations, indicators and benchmarks are a constitutive part of an expanding culture of immediacy (Kornbluh, 2024), where the critique of mediation carried out by the likes of Theodor Adorno or Henri Lefebvre is resolved not through its impossible disappearance, but through its naturalization. Subsumed within the environmental interface of capital and technology (Hörl 2017), mediation is subsequently desocialized and depoliticized.<br>\r\nHowever, without collective figurations, there is no possibility of common horizons, and our capacity to bring about democratic and inclusive transformations of our cities and territories falters. In the SNSF project Infrastructural Baukultur, ALICE (Atelier de la Conception de l'Espace) is exploring ways to leverage the constructed nature of all representations in the co-design of our cities. As part of this project, the aim of this two-day course is to focus on the theoretical and historical frameworks of this question.<br>\r\nDuring the 1980s, as the cultural and literary critic Fredric Jameson developed a spatial analysis of the historical stages of capitalism, he arrived (not uncritically) at the work of MIT urban theorist Kevin Lynch, particularly The Image of the City (1960). If Lynch had suggested that urban alienation was directly proportional to the impossibility of creating an (individual) mental image of the city, Jameson went further, contending that our \"incapacity to map socially (is) as crippling to political experience as the analogous incapacity to map spatially is for urban experience.\" From there, he went on to develop the idea of cognitive mapping as an aesthetic strategy, arguing that, even when the structural coordinates of individual and social life become unrepresentable, they can still find figures and figurations through which to express themselves in allegorical, i.e. distorted and symbolic, ways.<br>\r\nLater on, feminist scholars Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti described figurations as \"materialistic mappings of situated, i.e., embedded and embodied, social positions\" (Braidotti 2011), noting that even if \"figures pertain to graphic representation and visual forms in general, (they) do not have to be representational and mimetic, (...) they do have to be tropic, performative images that can be inhabited, condensed maps of contestable worlds. (…) The chip, seed, or gene is simultaneously literal and figurative. We inhabit and are inhabited by such figures that map universes of knowledge, practice and power\" (Haraway 1997). Departing from these premises and mirroring Jameson's journey, this time back into architecture and urban design, this course seeks to construct, historically and theoretically, the concept of figuration as an allegorical and material practice capable of mapping contestable and individually inaccessible realities, a tropic and political instrument that short circuits equivalences and unsettles certainties. From there, it will encourage a critical debate around a series of interrelated questions at the core of architectural practice and academia today.<br>\r\nHow does design research connect with the fields of architectural history, theory and practice? What challenges are posed to collective figuration by an unrepresentable capitalism, fragmented habitats, and infrastructured perceptions? Can a critical understanding of the abstract, ideological nature of operative representations help us repoliticize urban production? Can we trace alternative genealogies of architectural, urban, and landscape representation that reveal forms of agency and collectivity capable of overcoming the traps of immediacy? Can space, both as an abstraction and as a lived, grounded experience, become a translation device within inter-, intra-, and transdisciplinary processes?<br>\r\nTo this end, the course will begin with an introductory session that develops a common framework by articulating, both historically and conceptually, the notion of figuration and its role within design methods, in contrast to the operational visualizations of environmentality. This framework will orient the subsequent lectures and discussions with our four invited speakers:<br>\r\n<br>\r\n• <strong>Anna Kornbluh, </strong>Professor of English at University of Illinois Chicago and author of Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism (2024), will offer us a critical reflection on the political consequences of our contemporary regime of aesthetic and technological immediacy.<br>\r\n• <strong>Marc Schoonderbeek</strong>, Associate Professor of Architecture and Head of the Borders and Territories research group at TU Delft, will discuss the multilayered role of representation within design research strategies.<br>\r\n• <strong>Marina Otero Verzier</strong>, architect and researcher, leading the Data Mourning Clinic at Columbia University GSAPP, will delve into the tension between digital custodianship and the unsustainable practices of the data storage industry through the lens of Tuvalu's digital twin.<br>\r\n• <strong>Ignacio Farías</strong>, Professor of Urban Anthropology, Director of the Georg Simmel Center for Urban Studies and Co-Director of the Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, will present his ongoing work on spatial figures within urban transformation processes.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nInterested participants are invited to submit, by October 9, a short abstract (max. 300 words) outlining their approach to the subject, which will be developed into a short essay during the seminar. Assessment for the course will be based on the essay, completion of the reading assignments, and active participation in the sessions. 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