BE Newsletter
Seminar Schedule
Special Events

 January 18, 2007   12:00 PM

Jeff Hasty, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

University of California, San Diego

Department of Bioengineering

“Engineered Gene Circuits ”

Skirkanich Hall

Berger Auditorium, Room 13

 February 1, 2007   12:00 PM

Simon Cherry, Ph.D.

Professor

University of California, Davis

Department of Biomedical Engineering

“In Vivo Molecular Imaging with Positron Emission Topography”

Skirkanich Hall

Berger Auditorium, Room 13

 February 8, 2007   12:00 PM

Patrick Stayton, Ph.D.

WRF Endowed Professor

University of Washington

Department of Bioengineering

"Smart Biohybrid Materials That Talk and Listen in Nanospace"

Skirkanich Hall

Berger Auditorium, Room 13

 February 15, 2007   12:00 PM

David Kaplan, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Director, Bioengineering and Biotechnology Center

Tufts University

“Bioengineering Fibrous Proteins to Control Cell and Tissue Function”

Skirkanich Hall

Berger Auditorium, Room 13

 March 1, 2007   12:00 PM

Anand R. Asthagiri, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

California Institute of Technology

Chemical Engineering

“Modularity and Crosstalk in Signaling Networks that Shape Multicellular Structures”

Skirkanich Hall

Berger Auditorium, Room 13

March 29, 2007   12:00 PM

GRACE HOPPER LECTURE

Angela Belcher, Ph.D.

Germehausen Professor of Materials Science and

Engineering and Biological Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“Genetic Control of the Synthesis and Assembly of Materials for

Electronics and Energy“

Skirkanich Hall

Berger Auditorium, Room 13

 April 9, 2007   12:00 PM

THE HERMAN P. SCHWAN

DISTINGUISHED LECTURE

Shuming Nie, PhD
Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Engineering

Director of Emory-Georgia Tech Nanotechnology Center

Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science &
Engineering, and Hematolog and Oncology

Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology

“Biomedical Nanotechnology for Molecular Imaging and Targeted Therapy”

Skirkanich Hall

Berger Auditorium, Room 13

 April 12, 2007   12:00 PM

David Piwnica-Worms, M.D. Ph.D.,

Professor,

Washington University Medical School, St. Louis

Departments of Radiology, Molecular Biology and Pharmacology

“Spectral Deconvolution and Real Time Imaging of Signal Transduction in Living Cells”

Skirkanich Hall

Berger Auditorium, Room 13

 April 19, 2007   12:00 PM

Lorena S. Beese, Ph.D.

James B. Duke Professor

Duke University

“An Integrated View of DNA Replication and Repair”

Skirkanich Hall

Berger Auditorium, Room 13

September 21, 2006   12:00 PM

Raimond Winslow, PhD
Professor

Johns Hopkins University

Department of Biomedical Engineering

"Multi-Scale Models of Cardiac Excitation-Contraction Coupling"

Skirkanich Hall

Berger Auditorium, Room 13

September 28, 2006   12:00 PM

Kevin Costa, Ph. D.
Associate Professor
Columbia University

Department o Biomedical Engineering

"TBA"

Skirkanich Hall

Berger Auditorium, Room 13

 October 19, 2006   12:00 PM

Joe Tien, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Boston University

Department of Biomedical Engineering

"Engineering Functional Microvessels In Vitro"

Skirkanich Hall

Berger Auditorium, Room 13

 November 9, 2006   12:00 PM

James Iatridis, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of

University of Vermont

Department of Mechanical Engineering

"The Roles of Mechanical Damage and Remodeling in Intervertebral Disc Degeneration"

Skirkanich Hall

Berger Auditorium, Room 13

 November 16, 2006   12:00 PM

Thomas Andriacchi, Ph.D.

Professor

Stanford University

Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Orthopaedic Surgery

"The Role of Walking Mechanics in the Initiation and Progression of Osteoarthritis at the Knee"

Skirkanich Hall

Berger Auditorium, Room 13

 November 30, 2006   12:00 PM

Steve Goldstein, Ph.D.

Professor

University of Michigan

Departments of Biomedical Engineering,

Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

"TBA"

Skirkanich Hall

Berger Auditorium, Room 13

 December 7, 2006   12:00 PM

Christopher Contag, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Stanford University

Departments of Pediatrics, Microbiology & Immunology, and Radiology

"Use of Imaging to Optimize Cell-based Therapies for Cancer presentation"

Skirkanich Hall

Berger Auditorium, Room 13