Kenneth R. Lutchen, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair

Boston University

Biomedical Engineering

"Integrating Mult-Scale Modeling with Imaging to Distill Integrated Structure-Function in Asthma"

David M. Eckmann, Ph.D., M.D.
Associate Professor

University of Pennsylvania

Anesthesiology and Critical Care,
Institute for Medicine and Engineering and
Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics

"Interfacial mechanics and vascular biology"

GRACE HOPPER LECTURE SERIES: FEATURING

Sangetta N. Bhatia, MD, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Application of Micro- and Nanotechnology Tools to Tissue Dysfunction"

Wu & Chen Auditorium

Levine Hall, 3330 Walnut Street

George A. Truskey, Ph.D.
Professor

Duke University

Department of Biomedical Engineering

"The Effect of Mechanical Stimulation on Skeletal Muscle Myloblast Differentiation"

 January 12, 2006   12:00 Noon

Drew Endy, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Biological Engineering Division

"Engineering Synthetic Biological Systems"

 January 19, 2006   12:00 Noon

Douglas Weibel, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Harvard University

Department of Chemistry

"Engineering Cell Ex Vivo"

 February 2, 2006   12:00 Noon

Farren Isaacs, Ph.D.

Research Fellow

Harvard Medical School

Department of Genetics

"Engineered Cellular Systems:  From Isolated Modules to Whole Genomes"

 February 16, 2006   12:00 Noon

Jennifer Elisseeff, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Johns Hopkins University

Department of Biomedical Engineering

"Tissue Engineering: From Biomaterials to Stem Cells"

 February 21, 2006   12:00 Noon

Sharon Gerecht-Nir, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Harvard-MIT Division of

Health Sciences and Technology

"Human Embryonic Stem Cells for Tissue Engineering"

 February 23, 2006   12:00 Noon

Shuvo Roy, Ph.D.

Co-Director, BioMEMS Laboratory

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Lerner Research Institute

Department of Biomedical Engineering

"Clinical BioMEMS: Overcoming the Challenges"

 February 28, 2006   12:00 Noon

Vasilis Ntziachristos, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Laboratory

Harvard University

Center for Molecular Imaging Research

"Bringing In-Vitro Assays to Life with Fluorescence Molecular Tomography (FMT)"

 March 2, 2006   12:00 Noon

Eric T. Lagally

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of California, Santa Barbara

California Nanosystems Institute

"High-Performance Integrated Microsystems for the Detection and Differentiation of Bacterial Pathogens"

 March 14, 2006   3:00 PM

Steven T. Kosak, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow,

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Basic Sciences Division

"Cellular Differentiation and the Genomic Organization of Gene Expression"

 March 16 , 2006   12:00 Noon

Leor Weinberger, Ph.D.

Research Associate

Princeton University

Department of Molecular Biology

"A Tale of Two Circuits: How HIV and Herpes achieve replicative diversity using simple transcriptional feedback circuits"

 April 3 , 2006   12:00 Noon

Joshua W. Shaevitz, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow,

University of California , Berkley

Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science

" Biological Motion from Angstroms to Microns: How Cells Move Themselves and Stuff Within Them Around "

 April 6, 2006   12:00 Noon

Ravi Bellamkonda, Ph.D.

Professor

Georgia Institute of Technology/Emory University

Department of Biomedical Engineering

"Spatio-temporally Controlled Interventions for Enhanced Regeneration of Peripheral and Spinal Nerves"

 April 11, 2006   3:00 PM

Suzanne Gaudet, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Cell Decision Processes Center

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Understanding TNF-induced cell death:  systems approaches to study network topology and dynamics"

 April 17, 2006   1:00 PM

Dmitry Rinberg, Ph. D.
Research Associate
Monell Chemical Senses Center

"Decoding the Olfactory Code in the Behaving Mouse"