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BME Seminar Series - 2008


12/8/2008"Structural Basis for Activation and Inactivation Gating in K+ Channels"
  Eduardo Perozo Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Institute of Molecular Pediatric Sciences
The University of Chicago
  Hosted By: Dr. David Yue
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11/24/2008"Gene Set Analysis as a Tool for Cross-Platform Integration in Genomics"
  Giovanni Parmigiani Ph.D.
Professor, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University
  Hosted By: Dr. Raimond Winslow
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11/21/2008"Synthetic biology: from programming bacteria to programming stem cells"
  Ron Weiss Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
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11/10/2008"How the songbird keeps time: Localizing clocks in the brain"
  Michale Fee Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
  Hosted By: Dr. Xiaoqin Wang
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11/3/2008"Putting Nanostructures to Work for Biomedical Research"
  Younan Xia Ph.D.
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University
  Hosted By: Hai-Quan Mao
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10/29/2008"Mesenchymal Stem Cells: A Paradigm for Understanding Adult Stem Cells and Building Blocks for Tissue Engineering"
  Mark F. Pittenger Ph.D.
Principal, Pearl LifeSciences Partners
  Hosted By: Dr. Jennifer Elisseeff
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10/27/2008Multi-spectral Optical Imaging of Skin and Skin Lesions
  Atam P. Dhawan Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology
  Hosted By: Dr. Nitish Thakor
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10/20/2008"Neuroprosthetic Design for Restoring Motor Function after Spinal Cord Injury"
  Justin C. Sanchez Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Director, Neuroprosthetic Research Group, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida
  Hosted By: Dr. Nitish Thakor
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10/13/2008"Decoding Ca2+ at a Ca2+ cocktail party-How calmodulin listens as it regulates Ca2+ channels"
  David T. Yue Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
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10/6/2008"Encoding task performance, rules, and objectives in auditory and prefrontal cortex"
  Shihab A. Shamma PhD
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland
  Hosted By: Eric D. Young, PhD
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9/29/2008Sensing by touch: Contact-mediated signaling in embryos and chips
  Andre Levchenko PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
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9/15/2008Useful signals from motor cortex
  Andrew B. Schwartz PhD
Professor of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh Systems Neurophysiology Lab
  Hosted By: Dr. Reza Shadmehr
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6/27/2008"Taking Image Science to Task in Image-Guided Interventions"
  Jeffrey H Siewerdsen PhD
Senior Scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute, Princess Margaret Hospital
Associate Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto
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6/20/2008"Design and synthesis of functional biomaterials and vaccine delivery vessels"
  David A. Putnam PhD
Associate Professor, Cornell University, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  Hosted By: Jennifer H. Elisseeff, PhD
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6/13/2008Self-Assembly of Hierarchically Ordered Peptide-Based Structures for Regenerative Medicine Applications
  Ramille Capito PhD
Research Assistant Professor Materials Science and Engineering Northwestern University

6/10/2008Sialic Acid Glycoengineering: Perspectives on the First 6 Million Years
  Kevin J. Yarema Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
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6/6/2008Likelihood Analysis of Diffusion Weighted MRI
  Bennett Landman MS
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
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6/4/2008Enhanced Polymeric Nanoparticles for Gene Delivery
  Jordan J. Green Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate, Langer Lab, MIT
  Hosted By: Jennifer H. Elisseeff, PhD
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5/21/2008Of Bacteria, Brains and Hearts: Integrative Systems Biology in the New Century
  Andre Levchenko PhD
Associate Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering Johns Hopkins University
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5/2/2008Neural Circuits Involved with Saccade Adaptation
  Yoshiko Kojima Ph.D
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington and Washington National Primate Research Center
  Hosted By: Reza Shadmehr, PhD
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4/4/2008Adult Mesenchymal Stem Cells: New Logics, New Therapies
  Arnold I Caplan PhD
Professor of Biology, Director Skeletal Research Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
  Hosted By: Jennifer H. Elisseeff, PhD
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4/3/2008Metaphase Spindle Architecture and Molecular Motor Coordination Revealed by Model Driven Computer Vision
  Ge Yang PhD
The Scripps Research Institute, Department of Cell Biology
  Hosted By: Dr. Denise Montell and Dr. David Yue
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3/7/2008Engineered Boundary Conditions Direct Cardiac Myogenesis and Contractility
  Adam Feinberg PhD
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
  Hosted By: Elliot McVeigh, PhD
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2/29/2008New frontiers in atherosclerotic lesion characterization with MRI
  Dan Herzka PhD
Senior Member, Research Staff, Philips Research North America
  Hosted By: Elliot McVeigh, PhD
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2/22/2008Advances in super-resolution optical imaging technologies
  Suliana Manley PhD
Adjunct Scientist, National Institutes of Health, NICHD Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch
  Hosted By: Elliot McVeigh, PhD
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2/20/2008Optical Imaging for Point of Care Diagnostics
  Rebecca Richards-Kortum PhD
Department of Bioengineering, Rice University
  Hosted By: Elliot McVeigh, PhD
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1/28/2008Engineering Immunotherapy through Biomaterials: From Stem Cells to Vaccines
  Krishnendu Roy PhD
Associate Professor and General Dynamics Faculty Fellow, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
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