Spring 2008 Bioengineering Seminar Series
Thursdays, 12:00 p.m., 2240 Digital Computer Lab
(unless otherwise noted)

More Seminars to be announced soon.

• February 14th
  Gabriel Popescu, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “Quantitative phase imaging: watching cells dance”
  Poster
  
  
• February 28th
  Dan Xie
  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioengineering, UIUC
  &
  Ji-Hye Seong
  Ph.D. Candidate, School of Molecular & Cellular Biology, UIUC
  Poster
  
  
• March 6th
  George Vasmatzis, Ph.D.
  Senior Associate Consultant - Division of Experimental Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota,Assistant Professor of Laboratory Med/Pathology - Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Adjunct Assistant Professor - Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Senior Associate Consultant (Joint Appointment) - Division of Biomedical Informatics, Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic
  “Practical insights into heterogeneity and progression of prostate cancer from molecular profiling”
  Poster
  
  
• March 13th
  Tay Netoff, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
  "Dynamical Approaches to Understanding Epilepsy"
  Poster
  
  
• March 20th
  no seminar (Spring Break March 15-23)
  
  
• March 27th
  Lauterbur Memorial Seminar
  
  
• April 3rd
  Graduate Student Seminars
  
  
• April 10th
  Tomasz Tkaczyk, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas
  
  
• April 17th
  Kevin Eggan, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
  “Using reprogramming and embryonic stem cells to interrogate neurodegeneration”
  
  
• April 24th
  Cheng Dong, Ph.D.
  Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Penn State University, University Park, PA
  “Inflammation and Cancer: How are they linked?”