Delaware Biotechnology Institute

DBI Luncheon Seminars Series

Luncheon Seminar will be held on Thursday
In Delaware Biotechnology Institute Conference Room 102
from 12:00pm – 1:00pm
(Lunch begins at 11:45am)
Schedule

April 5

“Genetic ablation of Junctional Adhesion Molecule-A impairs survival after myocardial infarct”
Vesselina Cooke, Ph.D. Student
Advisor: Dr. Ulhas Naik, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
“The Development of the Tag and Target Drug Delivery System”
Peter Millili, Ph.D. Student
Advisors: Dr. Ulhas Naik, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences and Dr. Millicent Sullivan, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering

April 12

Gili Ben-Nissan, Research Associate
Weier Cui, Graduate Student
Advisor: Jung-Youn Lee, Assistant Professor - Plant & Soil Science

April 19

Andrew Bahrou, Graduate Student
Leongkeat Chan, Graduate Student
Advisor: Thomas Hanson, Assistant Professor - College of Marine & Earth Studies

April 26

Carolina Bianco, Graduate Student
Advisors: Abraham Lenhoff, Gore Professor of Chemical Engineering & Eric Kaler, Dean, College of Engineering
Emily McCusker, Ph.D. Student
Advisors: Anne Robinson, Associate Professor – Chemical Engineering & Eugene Mueller, Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Center For Critical Zone Research (CCZR)

Seminar Announcements

April 20

Michael F. Hochella, Jr., Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech Jointly sponsored with the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
CANCELLED

Nemours Seminars

All Seminars at 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. in the Lecture Hall unless otherwise noted.
Refreshments will be provided
For information call 302-651-6804
http://www.nemours.org/internet?url=no/rsch/art2512.html

April 2

12:00pm – 1:00pm, Lecture Hall
Spotlight on Nemours Research
Nemours Biomedical Research, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children
“Extracellular Stimuli Regulate Localized Levels of Axonal mRNAs”
Dianna Willis, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Fellow, Nemours Department of Biomedical Research

April 9

12:00pm – 1:00pm, Lecture Hall
Nemours Biomedical Research, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children
“The Stress and Strain of Maintaining Bone: Cytomechanics and Habituation”
Randall Duncan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biological Science, University of Delaware
Hosted by: Carolyn Schanen, M.D., PH.D. (schanen@medsci.udel.edu)

April 12 (Thursday)

12:00pm – 1:00pm, Lecture Hall
Nemours Biomedical Research, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children
“RNA Interference in Peripheral Nerve Axons”
Alexander Murashov, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physiology, East Carolina University Show of Medicine, Greenville, NC
Hosted by: Jeffery Twiss, M.D., Ph.D. (twiss@medsci.udel.edu)

April 16

12:00pm – 1:00pm, Lecture Hall
Nemours Biomedical Research, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children
“Dynamic Mutations and RNA-Mediated Disease”
Maurice S. Swanson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL
Hosted by: Vicky Funanage, Ph.D. (vfunanag@nemours.org)

April 23

12:00pm – 1:00pm, Lecture Hall
Nemours Biomedical Research, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children
“TBA”

April 30

12:00pm – 1:00pm, Lecture Hall
Spotlight on Nemours Research
Nemours Biomedical Research, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children
“The Science of Inhaled Therapeutics”
David Geller, M.D., Physician, Department of Research Administration, Nemours Clinic, Orlando, FL
Hosted by: Thomas Shaffer, Ph.D. (tshaffer@nemours.org)

College of Engineering Seminars

http://www.engr.udel.edu/home/index.html

April 2

4:00pm – 5:00pm, Rodney Room, Perkins Student Center – UD Campus
"The New Face of Leadership in Higher Education: The important role of underrepresented groups in shaping the future"
Linda P.B. Katehi, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Reception following lecture – all are welcome
For more information contact Dana Brittingham dbritt@udel.edu or 831-8063

April 25

4:00pm – 5:00pm, 130 Sharp Nab – UD Campus
Inaugural Lecture, “Nanophotonics”
Dennis W. Prather, College of Engineering Alumni Professor
RSVP: 301-831-2401 or ddealex@udel.edu
Reception following in the DuPont Hall Lobby

Biological Sciences Spring Seminar Series

http://www.udel.edu/bio/
Refreshments will be available at 3:30pm

April 4

4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
“Mammalian Sperm – The Little Engines That Could”
Stuart B. Moss, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania - Center for Research of Reproduction & Women’s Health
Host: Dr. Deleon

April 18

4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
“Mucosal Mechanisms of Defense”
Charles Parkos, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. Naik

April 25

4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
“Metabolic Activation of the Constitutive Androstane Receptor during Fasting and Caloric Restriction”
Jeff L. Staudinger, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Hosted by: Dr. Farach-Carson

Materials Science & Engineering Seminars

http://www.mseg.udel.edu/

April 4

10:00am – 11:00am, Colburn Lab 102 – UD Campus
“Collagen mimetic peptide’s triple helical propensity driven affinity to collagen and its tissue scaffold functionalization”
Dr. Michael (Seungju) Yu, Departments of Materials Science and Engineering, John Hopkins University

April 18

10:00am – 11:00am, 102 Colburn Lab – UD Campus
“Design of Polishing Consumables for 65 nm Feature Sizes and Beyond”
Dr. David James, Rohm & Haas

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

http://www.physics.udel.edu/event/

April 4

4:00pm, 116 Gore Hall – UD Campus
“Animating the Glowing Magnetospheres of Massive Stars”
Rich Townsend, Bartol Research Institute, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Delaware
Refreshments will be available in 225 Sharp Lab at 3:30pm
Gore Hall is wheelchair accessible. Please request disability accommodations by April 3: phone 831-3361; fax 831-1637; e-mail sherry@bartol.udel.edu

April 10

4:00pm, 215 Sharp Laboratory, Bartol Conference Room – UD Campus
"Scrutinizing the Science of Global Warming"
Nir Shaviv, Hebrew University, Israel

April 11

4:00pm, 104 Gore Hall – UD Campus
“Connecting the cosmos with quarks: the promise of precision cosmology”
Licia Verde, University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by: Branislav Nikolic
Refreshments will be at 3:30pm in Sharp 225 (Commons Room)

April 24

4:00pm, 104 Gore Hall – UD Campus
“The discovery of small neutrino masses, Swann Lecture”
Takaaki Kajita, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo
Hosted by: Tom Gaisser
Refreshments will be at 3:30pm in Sharp 225 (Commons Room)

Biological Sciences Arnold M. Clark Memorial Lecture

April 11

http://www.udel.edu/bio/
5:00pm – 6:30pm, Room 130 Sharp Hall – UD Campus
“Vitamin A Deficiency and Global Mortality”
Dr. Alfred Sommer, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Reception follows beginning at 6:30pm, Blue and Gold Club – UD Campus
Hosted by: Dr. Eric Kmiec, Department of Biological Sciences

University of Delaware Chapter of Sigma Xi Event

http://www.udel.edu/sigma-xievents.html

April 12

3:30pm Wolf Hall, Room 100 – UD Campus
“Sustainable Industry in a Changing Society”
John B. Carberry, E.I. DuPont Experimental Station, Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer, 2007-2008

April 20

12:00pm Rodney Room, Perkins Student Center – UD Campus
“Teaching Evolution Better: Problem Concepts in Evolution”
Eugenie Scott, National Center for Science Education
Co-sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute program at UD, the Department of Biological Sciences, and the College of Arts & Sciences
Light refreshments will be provided

April 20

3:45pm 100 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
“Why Scientists Accept Evolution and Not Intelligent Design”
Eugenie Scott, National Center for Science Education
Co-sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute program at UD, the Department of Biological Sciences, and the College of Arts & Sciences

Innovative Technologies Breakfast (ITB)

April 19

7:30am – 9:00am, Room 309, MBNA America Building, Main Campus, Delaware State University
“A Mineral Physicist’s View of the Earth’s Interior: Pressure and Temperature Effects in Mineral Physics”
Gabriel Gwanmesia, Ph.D., Director of Physics Graduate Program, Department of Physics & Pre-Engineering, Delaware State University, and Robert C. Liebermann, Ph.D., (Distinguished Service Professor), Director of Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences (COMPRES), Department of Geosciences, The University at Stony Brook, New York
A Continental Breakfast is provided
RSVP to erjackson@desu.edu and type “ATTENDING” on the subject line
For information email erjackson@desu.edu or call 302-857-6810
For directions: http://www.desu.edu/dsu/direction.php

Analytical/Physical Seminars

http://www.udel.edu/chem/seminar/index.htm

April 2

4:00pm, 123 Memorial Hall – UD Campus
Professor Rod Wasylishen
Email: Roderick.Wasylishen@Ualberta.ca
Website: http://www.chem.ualberta.ca/faculty_staff/faculty/wasylishen.html
Hosted by: Cecil Dybowski, dybowski@chem.udel.edu

April 9

4:00pm, 123 Memorial Hall – UD Campus
Professor Peter Chen
Email: pchen@spelman.edu
Website: http://www.spelman.edu/academics/programs/chemistry/chen.shtml
Hosted by: Sharon Neal, sneal@udel.edu

April 16

4:00pm, 123 Memorial Hall – UD Campus
“Driving forces and mechanism of polyglutamine aggregation: Insights from theory, stimulation, and experiment”
Professor Rohit Pappu
Email: pappu@biomed.wustl.edu
Website: http://lima.wustl.edu
Hosted by: Douglas Doren, doren@udel.edu

April 30

4:00pm, 123 Memorial Hall – UD Campus
“Controlling Membrane Organization: Effects of pH, Ions and Composition”
Professor Jennifer Hovis
Email: jhovis@purdue.edu
Website: http://www.chem.purdue.edu/hovis/
Hosted by: Douglas Doren, doren@udel.edu

Chemistry-Biology Interface Seminars

April 4

12:15pm – 1:15pm, Brown Lab 221 – UD Campus
“Signal Transduction and Protein Phosphorylation”
Dr. Natalie G. Ahn, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder

April 25

12:15pm – 1:15pm, Brown Lab 221 – UD Campus
“Acetylation of Transcription Factors Regulates Cellular Growth”
Dr. Richard G. Pestell, Director, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

Inorganic/Organic Seminars

http://www.udel.edu/chem/seminar/index.htm

April 4

4:00pm, 123 Memorial Hall – UD Campus
Professor Daniel J. Mindiola
Email: mindiola@indiana.edu
Website: http://mindiola.chem.indiana.edu/
Hosted by: Klaus Theopold, theopold@udel.edu

April 18

4:00pm, 123 Memorial Hall – UD Campus
Professor Brad Wayland
Email: wayland@sas.upenn.edu
Hosted by: Klaus Theopold, theopold@udel.edu

POSE Seminars

April 5

1:30pm, 203 Robinson Hall – UD Campus
“Frontal Interactions North of Cape Hatteras in Winter”
Glen Gawarkiewicz, WHOI

April 6

3:00pm, 203 Robinson Hall – UD Campus
“Ocean surface waves and air-sea momentum flux”
Professor Tetsu Hara, University of Rhode Island

April 13

3:00pm, 203 Robinson Hall – UD Campus
“Delaware Bay Benthic Mapping Project: Implications for the Bay’s Habitats and Resources”
John Madsen, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Delaware

April 20

3:00pm, 203 Robinson Hall – UD Campus
“Internal Tides and Ocean Mixing: A Subject for Lunatics”
Emil Petruncio, Commander, USN, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis

April 27

1:30pm, 206 Robinson Hall – UD Campus
“Variability of River Discharge and Salinity along the Middle Atlantic Bight”
Michael M. Whitney, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Colloquium

http://www.udel.edu/chem/seminar/index.htm
Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm

April 11

4:00pm, 205 Gore Hall – UD Campus
“The beauty of Chrome – new chemistry of a colorful metal”
Professor Klaus Theopold, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware
Email: theopold@udel.edu
Website: www.udel.edu/theopold/theopold.html
Hosted by: Charles Riordan, riordan@udel.edu

April 27

4:00pm, 205 Gore Hall – UD Campus
“Selective Organic and Organometallic Reactions in Water-Soluble Host-Guest Supramolecular Systems”
Professor Robert G. Bergman, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Email: rbergman@berkeley.edu
Website: http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/rgbgrp/
Hosted by: Joseph Fox, jmfox@udel.edu

Biochemistry Seminars

http://www.udel.edu/chem/seminar/index.htm

April 13

4:00pm, 123 Memorial Hall – UD Campus
“TBA”
Dr. Gary Gilliland
Email: ggillila@cntus.jnj.com
Hosted by: Roberta Colman, rfcolman@udel.edu

April 20

4:00pm, 123 Memorial Hall – UD Campus
“TBA”
Professor Michael E. Harris
Email: michael.e.harris@case.edu
Website: http://www.maresearch.org/harris.htm
Hosted by: Eugene Mueller, emueller@udel.edu

Chemical Engineering Seminar

April 20

http://www.che.udel.edu/seminars.html
10:00am, 102 Colburn Lab – UD Campus
“The mechano-dynamics of leukocytes: rolling, stopping, and crawling”
Dr. Daniel Hammer, University of Pennsylvania

Women in Science & Engineering Seminar

April 26

4:00pm, Purnell Hall Rm. 116 - UD Campus
"Science in the New Millennium Our Grand Challenge"
Dr. Donna Nelson, Professor of Chemistry - University of Oklahoma
Reception immediately following - All are welcome
For more information contact Dr. Sandra Carberry at carberry@cis.udel.edu

Center for Molecular and Engineering Thermodynamics Seminar

April 23

http://www.che.udel.edu/cmet/seminars.html
11:00am, 366 Colburn Lab – UD Campus
“Polyelectrolyte Colloid Soluble Complexes and Coacervates”
Ayse Basak Kayitmazer, University of Massachusetts Amherst

University of Delaware Seminar

April 26

4:00pm, 116 Purnell Hall – UD Campus
“Science in the New Millennium: Our Grand Challenge”
Dr. Donna Nelson, Professor of Chemistry, University of Oklahoma
Reception immediately following