Spring 2008 Seminar Series
 

January 25           Krystyn Van Vliet, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chemomechanics of Cell-Material Interactions  (Host:  Muhammad Zaman)

 

February 1           Mariah Hahn, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, Toward Rational Scaffold Design for Tissue Engineering Vascular Graft Applications  (Host:  Christine Schmidt)

 

February 8           Adela Ben-Yakar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor and IGERT Faculty, Department of Mechanical Engineering, TITLE TBA

 

February 15         James Tunnell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor and IGERT Faculty, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Optical Spectroscopy and Imaging in Early Cancer Detection  

 

February 22         Laura Niklason, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology and Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, Prospects for Human Vascular Tissue Engineering?  (Host:  Christine Schmidt)

 

February 29         Jason Haugh, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Kinetic and Spatial Analysis of Intracellular Signal Transduction Networks (Host:  Muhammad Zaman)

 

April 4                    Charles A. Cain, Ph.D., Professor and Founding Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Michigan, Histotripsy:  Controlled Mechanical Sub-Division of Soft Tissues by High Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound  (Host:  Stanislav Emelianov)

 

April 11                 Glen Kwon, Ph.D., Professor, School of Pharmacy, The University of Wisconsin, Polymeric Micelles for Combination Drug Delivery  (Host:  Nicholas Peppas)

 

April 18                 Erin Baker, IGERT Trainee, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Correlation Between Extracellular Matrix Stiffness, Intracellular Viscoelastic Properties, and Invasive Ability of Cancer Cells  (Advisor: Muhammad Zaman)

 

Martin Gran, IGERT Trainee, Department of Chemical Engineering, Metal-polymer Composites as Externally-Controlled Intelligent Therapeutic Systems  (Advisors:  Nicholas Peppas and Malcolm Brown)

 

April 25                 Jennifer Brodbelt, Ph.D., Professor and IGERT Faculty, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Photodissociation Mass Spectrometry of Biological Molecules

 

May 2                    Eduardo Juan, Ph.D., P.E., Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez, Acoustical Guidance of Indwelling Tubes and Catheters (Host:  Nicholas Peppas)