DBI December 2007 Events
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Nemours Monday Research Seminar 12:00 pm
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Department of Biological Sciences Special Seminar 10:00 am
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Last Day of Classes for Fall Semester

Materials Science & Engineering Seminar 10:00 am

Department of Biological Sciences Seminar 4:00 pm

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CMET 10:30 am

DBI Luncheon Seminar Series 12:00 pm

Plant and Soil Sciences Seminar 2:00 pm

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CCZR Seminar 10:00 am

Chemical Engineering Seminar 10:00 am

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Nemours Monday Research Seminar 12:00 pm
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DBI Luncheon Seminar Series 12:00 pm
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Final Examinations End
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Nemours Monday Research Seminar 12:00 pm
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Materials Science & Engineering Seminar 9:00 am

CMET 11:00 am

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Christmas Eve
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Christmas Day
University Closed
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Winter Break
University Closed
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Winter Break
University Closed
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Winter Break
University Closed
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Winter Break
University Closed

DBI Luncheon Seminar Series

12:00pm – 1:00pm, DBI Room 102
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Lunch provided at 11:45am

December 6

"Elucidating cellular physiology by mass spectrometry and quantitative flux analysis"
Dr. Maciek Antoniewicz, Assistant Professor – University of Delaware, Department of Chemical Engineering

December 13

“The survival of Listeria monocytogenes in German Sausage”
Dr. Clytrice Watson, Assistant Professor – Delaware State University

Center for Critical Zone Research Seminar

December 7

10:00am DBI Room 102
“Environmental Behavior of Engineered Nanomaterials"
Baoshan Xing, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Department of Biological Sciences Seminar

http://www.udel.edu/bio/

December 4 Special Seminar

10:00am 318 Wolf Hall - UD Campus
"Molecular Diagnostics in Cervical Cancer"
Balasubramanyam Nagarajan, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology, Cancer Institute, Chennai, India
Host: Dr. Ulhas Naik

December 5

4:00pm 318 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
“Cellular and Molecular Basis of Platelet Biogenesis”
Ramesh A. Shivdasani, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School
Hosted by J. C. Kostyak
Refreshments available at 3:30pm

Materials Science & Engineering Seminar

December 5

http://www.mseg.udel.edu/
10:00-11:00am Kirkwood Room, Perkins Student Center – UD Campus
“Tailoring the Nanometer-Scale Structure and Properties of Dilute Semiconductor Alloys”
Rachel S. Goldman, University of Michigan

December 20

9:00am-10:00am CCM 106 – UD Campus
“Methods for Modifying Proton Exchange Membranes (PEM) Using the Sol-Gel Process”
Lisa C. Klein, PhD Rutgers University

Plant and Soil Sciences Seminar

December 7

http://ag.udel.edu/plsc/index.htm
10:00am DBI Room 102
“Environmental Behavior of Engineered Nanomaterials”
Baoshan Xing, Professor, Department of Plant, Soil & Insect Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Nemours Monday Research Seminars

http://www.nemours.org

December 3

12:00pm – 1:00pm, Lecture Hall, Nemours Biomedical Research, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children
“The Emotional Amygdala: Clues from Conditioned and Unconditioned Fear”
Jeffrey B. Rosen, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Host:  Carolyn Schanen, MD, PhD (schanen@medsci.udel.edu)

December 10

12:00pm – 1:00pm, Lecture Hall, Nemours Biomedical Research, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children
“Sunday Driver: Linking Vesicular Axonal Transport and Nerve Regeneration”
Valeria Cavelli, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Host: Jeffery Twiss, MD, PhD (twiss@medsci.udel.edu)

December 17

12:00pm – 1:00pm, Lecture Hall, Nemours Biomedical Research, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children
"TBA"
Cynthia M. vanGolen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Delaware State
University, Dover, DE
Host: Robert Mason, PhD (rmason@nemours.org)

Chemical Engineering Seminar

December 7

10:00am 102 Colburn Lab - UD Campus
"Clarifying some basic consequences of confinement for fluids"
Professor Thomas Truskett, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
http://www.che.utexas.edu/
Refreshments available at 9:45am

Center for Molecular and Engineering Thermodynamics (CMET)

December 6

10:30am 366 Colburn Laboratory - UD Campus
"The NIST Center for Neutron Research"
Dan Neumann, NIST -- Leader, Neutron Condensed Matter Science

December 20

11:00 a.m. 366 Colburn Laboratory - UD Campus
“Orientation Distribution and Transitions in Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystalline Materials”
Rajesh Goyal