BE Newsletter
Seminar Schedule
Special Events

 September 25th, 2008                                          12:00 PM                                            337 Towne Building

     Victor Barocas, Ph.D.

     Professor of Biomolecular Engineering

     University of Minnesota

    "Multiscale, Image-Based Analysis of Bioengineered Tissue Mechanics"

 October 3rd , 2008                                            1:30 PM                                               Heilmeier Hall, Towne Building

Joint Bioengineering, Electrical & Systems Engineering, and Nanodevice Seminar

     Harold Weinstock
     Air Force Office of Scientific Research

    "Superconductivity and Biomagnetism"

 October 16th, 2008                                          12:00 PM                                               337 Towne Building

     Sridhar Raghavachari, Ph.D.

     Assistant Professor of Neurobiology

     Duke University

    "The Spatial Dimensions of Excitatory Synaptic Transmission"

 October 30th, 2008                                          12:00 PM                                               337 Towne Building

     Gerhard Hummer, Ph.D.

     Chief

     Theoretical Biophysics Section

     Laboratory of Chemical Physics

     National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

    "Simulation of Protein-Protein Binding: from Encounter Complexes to Multi-Protein Assemblies"

 November 6th, 2008                                          12:00 PM                                               337 Towne Building

     Richard Fries, P.E.

     Manager, Corporate Reliability Engineering

     Baxter Healthcare

    "Reliability Engineering and Medical Device Failures"

 November 13th, 2008                                          12:00 PM                                               337 Towne Building

    Sui Huang, M.D., Ph.D.

    Associate Professor

    Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics

    University of Calgary

    "Dynamics of Multipotency & Cell Fate Decisions - Stem cells Flip-flopping Before Commitment"

 November 20th, 2008                                          12:00 PM                                               337 Towne Building

     Elise Morgan, Ph.D.

     Assistant Professor

     Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedic Surgery

     Boston University

    "Regulating Skeletal Repair by Mechanical Stimulation"  

 January 22nd, 2009                                         12:00 PM                                               337 Towne Building

    Edward Boyden, Ph.D.

     Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering

     Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    "Optical Brain Control: Analyzing and Engineering Normal and Pathological Neural Circuit Dynamics"

 January 29th, 2008                                          12:00 PM                                               337 Towne Building

     Al Rehemtulla, Ph.D.

     Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology

     University of Michigan

     "Imaging Signaling Pathways in Animal Models "

 February 5th, 2009                                          12:00 PM                                               337 Towne Building

     George Georgiou, Ph.D.

     Professor of Biomedical Engineering

     Cockrell Family Regent's Chair in Engineering

     University of Texas, Austin

     "Engineering the Next Generation of Protein Therapeutics"

 February 19th, 2009                                         12:00 PM                                               337 Towne Building

    Brian W. Pogue, Ph.D.

    Professor of Engineering

    Dean of Graduate Studies

    Dartmouth University

    "Image-Guided Optical Spectroscopy of Tumors in Vivo"

 February 26th, 2009                                         12:00 PM                                               337 Towne Building

    Jeff Gore , Ph.D.

    Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow

    Physics Department

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    "Games Microbes Play: The Game Theory Behind Cooperative Sucrose Metabolism in Yeast"

 March 5th, 2009                                          12:00 PM                                               337 Towne Building

    CANCELED

     Bill Hlavacek, Ph.D.

     Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group

     Los Alamos National Laboratory

     "Rule-based Modeling and Its Use to Study Aggregation Phenomena Involved in Cell Signaling"

 March 18th, 2009 - WEDNESDAY                         12:00 PM                                           337 Towne Building

     David W. Colby, Ph.D.

     Postdoctoral Scholar

     University of California, San Francisco

     "From Misfolded Molecules to Mouse Models: Engineering Approaches to Neurological Disease"

 March 26th, 2009                                          12:00 PM                                               337 Towne Building

     Warren Grill, Ph.D.

     Professor of Biomedical Engineering

     Duke University

     "Deciphering the Mechanisms of Action of Deep Brain Stimulation"

 April 2nd, 2009                                         12:00 PM                                               337 Towne Building

    Julie Biteen, Ph.D.

    Postdoctoral Scholar

    Department of Chemistry

    Stanford University

    "Nanophonotonics: From in Vivo Single-Molecule Superresolution Imaging to Plasmon-Enhanced Silicon Quantum Dots"

 April 9th, 2009                                          12:00 PM                                               337 Towne Building

     Charlie Brooks, Ph.D.

     Warner-Lambert/Parke Davis Professor

     Chemistry & Biophysics

     University of Michigan

     "Virus capsid: principles of design, dynamics and assembly"

 April 16th, 2009                                         12:00 PM                                               337 Towne Building

    Arjun Raj, Ph.D

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Department of Physics

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    "Nature, Nurture or Just Dumb Luck: From Single Molecules to Cell Fate"

 April 23rd, 2009                                          12:00 PM                                               337 Towne Building

     Clark Hung, Ph.D.

     Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

     Columbia University

    "Physiologic Loading for Cartilage Repair Strategies"

 April 30th, 2009                                          12:00 PM                                               337 Towne Building

     Yale Cohen , Ph.D.

     Associate Professor of Otorhinolaryngology

     University of Pennsylvania

    "Vocalization ProcessingFeatures,
Categories, and Decisions"

 May 28 th, 2009                                          12:00 PM                                               337 Towne Building

     Kim A. Woodrow , Ph.D.

     Posdoctoral Fellow

     Department of Biomedical Engineering

     Yale University

    "Polymeric Nanoparticles for Delivering RNA Interference"

* TUESDAY*, June 2nd , 2009                        12:00 PM                                               337 Towne Building

     Dirk R. Albrecht, Ph.D.

     Postdoctoral Fellow

     Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior

     The Rockefeller University

    "Quantitative Behavior in Engineering Microenvironments: from Cells to Worms"