October 6

Doris Taylor, Ph.D.

Bakken Professor and Director, Center for Cardiovascular Repair, Departments of Physiology and Medicine and Biomedical Engineering

University of Minnesota

Cell Based Cardiac and Vascular Repair:  Science or Science Fiction?

October 20
 

Michael Smolensky, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

 Chronotherapeutics:  Opportunities for Biomedical Engineering

October 27

John Doyle, Ph.D.

John G. Braun Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems, Electrical Engineering, and Bioengineering

California Institute of Technology

Robustness and Biological Complexity

November 3

Lonnie D. Shea, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Northwestern University

Directed Tissue Formation Using Inductive Scaffolds
 

November 10

Robert Tranquillo, Ph.D.

Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

University of Minnesota

Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering Based on Controlled Cell Remodeling of Biopolymers

November 17

Thomas C. Skalak, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering

University of Virgina

What are the Cellular and Molecular Role Players in Arteriolar Adaptation?  In vivo and Computational Systems Approaches