Fall 2009–Spring 2010 BME Seminars
September 3, 2009
David Vining, MD
Professor & Medical Director of the Image Processing and Visualization Laboratory
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY AND BEYOND - THINKING OUTSIDE THE COLON
3:30pm, BME 3.204 and MSB B.627
September 10, 2009
Tejal Desai, PhD
Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
Professor, Department of Physiology
Co-Chair, UCSF/UC Berkeley joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering
University of California, San Francisco
ENGINEERING TOPOGRAPHICAL CUES FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING AND THERAPEUTIC DELIVERY
3:30pm, BME 3.204 and MSB B.627
September 17, 2009
Joydeep Ghosh, PhD
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
LOCATING A FEW USEFUL CLUSTERS IN LARGE BIOLOGICAL DATASETS: A TALE OF TWO VIEWPOINTS
3:30pm, BME 3.204 and MSB B.627
October 1, 2009
Kathryn Uhrich, PhD
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Rutgers University
POLYMER THERAPEUTICS: FROM POLYMERDRUGS TO POLYMERIC MICELLES
3:30pm, BME 3.204 and MSB G.520
October 15, 2009
Agrahara Bharatkumar, MD
Chief, VISN 12 Medical Imaging
Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
CARDIAC IMAGING WITH DUAL SOURCE CT
3:30pm, BME 3.204 and MSB B.623
November 5, 2009
Hongrui Jiang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
LIQUID MICROLENSES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
3:30pm, BME 3.204 and MSB B.623
November 19, 2009
Anthony Guiseppi-Elie, ScD, FAIMBE
Dow Chemical Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Professor, Department of Bioengineering
Director, C3B Laboratories
Clemson University
Guest Editor, NanoBiotechnology
ENGINEERING THE ELECTRODE-TISSUE INTERFACE WITH ELECTROCONDUCTIVE HYDROGELS
3:30pm, BME 3.204 and MSB B.623
December 3, 2009
Molly Shoichet, PhD
Professor, Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research
Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
Department of Chemistry
University of Toronto
NEURAL TISSUE ENGINEERING STRATEGIES
2:00 - 3:30pm, BME 3.204 and MSB B.623
February 11, 2010
Arjun G. Yodh, PhD
James M. Skinner Professor of Science, Department of Physics and Astronomy and Department of Radiation Oncology, and Director of the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter
University of Pennsylvania
Seminar Title: Tissue Imaging and Monitoring with Diffuse Optics
1:30-2:30pm, BME 3.204
March 4, 2010
Gregg E. Trahey, PhD
Professor, Biomedical Engineering Department
Duke University
Seminar Title: Radiation Force Elastography of Cardiovascular Tissues
3:30pm, BME 3.204 and MSB B.623
March 11, 2010
George A. Truskey, PhD
Professor, Biomedical Engineering Department
Duke University
Seminar Title: Engineering Endothelial Progenitor Cells for Vascular Repair
3:30pm, BME 3.204 and MSB B.623
March 25, 2010
Rebecca Carrier, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Northeastern University
Seminar Title: Mechanistic Studies and Modeling of Compound Transport in Oral Drug Delivery
3:00pm, BME 3.204 and MSB B.623
April 1, 2010
Stephen Quake, PhD
Lee Otterson Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics
Stanford University
Seminar Title: Precision Measurement in Biology
3:30pm, BME 3.204 and MSB B.623
April 15, 2010
Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, PhD
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Washington University
Seminar Title: Bioactive Drug Delivery Systems for the Treatment of Nerve Injury
3:30pm, BME 3.204 and MSB B.623
April 29, 2010
Maryellen L. Giger, PhD
Professor of Radiology, Committee on Medical Physics, College Chair, Committee on Medical Physics, Vice-Chair for Basic Science Research, Department of Radiology
The University of Chicago Medical Center
Seminar Title: Computer-Aided Diagnosis & Quantitative Image Analysis of Breast Cancer
3:00pm, BME 3.204 and MSB B.623
