Biomedical Engineering Seminars

Graduate Seminars
Spring Semester 2008

Mondays 3:35-4:30 PM
Hasselmo Hall 2-101

The following Seminars are sponsored by the
Department of Biomedical Engineering.

DATE	SPEAKER
January 28	Prof. Matthew Chafee University of Minnesota, Neuroscience "Cellular basis of spatial cognition in the primate cerebral cortex"
January 30	Dr. Alan Dorval BME Faculty Candidate Duke University, Biomedical Engineering "Deep brain stimulation that regularizes neural activity treats motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease."
February 4	Prof. Rob Sweet University of Minnesota, Urologic Surgery "Applications of Virtual Reality and Robotic Technology in Surgical Education"
February 6	Dr. Eric Darling BME Faculty Candidate Duke University Medical Center, Orthopaedic Research Laboratory "Investigations of single-cell, mechanical biomarkers via atomic force microscopy"
February 11	Prof. Jan Stegemann Rensselaer, Biomedical Engineering "Biomaterials and Decision Support for Tissue Engineering"
February 13	Dr. Shai Ashkenazi BME Faculty Candidate University of Michigan, Biomedical Engineering "Optoacoustic Devices for High Resolution Ultrasound Imaging"
February 18	No Seminar
February 20	Dr. Paul Yoo BME Faculty Candidate Duke University, Biomedical Engineering "A Neuroprosthetic Approach to Restoring Urinary Function Following Spinal Cord Injury"
February 25	Canceled Prof. Kinam Park Purdue University, Biomedical Engineering "Drug-Eluting Stents: Quo Vadis"
February 27	Dr. Andrea Armani BME Faculty Candidate California Institute of Technology, Chemical Engineering "Biophotonics: Resonant Detection of Single Molecules"
March 3	Prof. Xiaochuan Pan University of Chicago, Radiology "An Overview of Modern Computed Tomography – Principle and Applications"
March 5	Prof. Simon Giszter BME Faculty Candidate Drexel University College of Medicine, Neurobiology and Anatomy "Robotic and Brain Machine Interface approaches to motor adaptation, rehabilitation and recovery of function after spinal cord injury in a rat model"
March 10	Prof. Peter J. Butler Penn State, Bioengineering "Toward single molecule mechanobiology"
March 12	Dr. Ian White BME Faculty Candidate University of Missouri-Columbia, Biological Engineering "A new optofluidic ring resonator biosensor for the study of disease at the molecular level"
March 17	"Spring Break" No seminar
March 24	Karyn Kunzelman Superior Surgical Solutions
March 31	TBA
April 2	Prof. Alena Talkachova BME Faculty Candidate SUNNY Upstate Medical Univeristy, Pharmacology
April 7	Prof. Elliot Chaikof Emory University/Georgia Institute of Technology
April 9	Dr. Jong-Hoon Nam BME Faculty Candidate University of Wisconsin, Physiology
April 14	Canceled Prof. Daniel Hammer University of Pennsylvania, Bioengineering
April 16	Dr. Jonathan Liu BME Faculty Candidate Stanford University "Dual-axes confocal microscopy for quantitative molecularly-targeted cancer detection"
April 21	Prof. Raimond Winslow Johns Hopkins University, Biomedical Engineering "Integrative Modeling of the Cardiac Myocyte and theCritical Role of Calcium Signaling"
April 23	Dr. Robert Rennaker BME Faculty Candidate University of Oklahoma, Dept. of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering "Development of a Distributed Neural Interface System"
April 28	Prof. Thomas Skalak University of Virginia, Biomedical Engineering "Vascular Assembly and Arteriolar Remodeling"
April 30	Prof. Farid Mitri BME Faculty Candidate Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Physiology and Biomedical Engineering "Radiation Force Vibro-acoustography and some of its Applications for Characterization and Imaging Biological Tissues"
May 5	Prof. Mehmet Toner Harvard University, Surgery
May 12	Prof. Robert Guldberg Georgia Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering "EPIC-mCT Analysis of Articular Joint Development and Degeneration"
May 14	Dr. Hubert Lim Hannover Medical University, Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology "Deep brain stimulation for hearing restoration: Translating a scientific concept into a clinical device" This seminar will be held from 9:30 - 10:30a.m. instead of the normal time.