DBI February 2007 Events
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February 5
7:00pm Education and Humanities Theater, DSU
College of Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Technology along with the HBCU-UP and CREOSA Programs
"Time and Einstein in the 21st Century: The Coolest Stuff in the Universe"
Dr. William D. Phillips
Laser Cooling and Trapping Group
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Co-winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics
Please see the attached flyer for the seminar.
February 15
7:30am – 9:00am, Delaware State University, Rm. 309, MBNA America Bldg.
"Developing neural prostheses and brain machine interfaces"
Melissa A. Harrington, Associate Professor - Department of Biological Sciences, and Director, Biomedical Research, DSU
Karen A. Moxon, Associate Professor – Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering, Drexel University
Go to http://www.desu.edu/dsu/directions.php for directions
To register: Simply R.S.V.P. to dsuresearch@desu.edu
All Seminars at 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. in the Lecture Hall unless otherwise noted.
(Refreshments will be provided)
February 5
“Regulated Ectodomain Shedding of the Amyloid Precursor Protein as a Therapeutic Target in Alzheimer’s Disease”
Presented by Samuel Gandy, M.D., Ph.D.
Paul C. Brucker, M.D., Professor of Neuroscience, Director, Farber
Institute for Neurosciences, Thomas Jefferson University, Phila., PA
Hosted by Jeffery Twiss, M.D., Ph.D. (twiss@medsci.udel.edu) & Carolyn Schanen, M.D., Ph.D. (schanen@medsci.udel.edu)
February 12
“Human Olfactory Neurons as a Window on the Brain: Insights Into the Neurobiology of Aging, Depression, and Neural Regeneration”
Presented by Nancy E. Rawson, Ph.D.
Associate Member, Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA
Hosted by Suzanne McCahan (smmccaha@nemours.org)
February 19
Spotlight on Nemours Research
“The Medial Efferent Olivocochlear System: Physiology and Clinical Applications”
Presented by Thierry G. Morlet, Ph.D.
Head of the Auditory Physiology & Psychoacoustics Laboratory
Center for Pediatric Auditory and Speech Sciences
February 26
“Advances in Use of Electrical Stimulation for Cerebral Palsy to Improve Strength and Mobility”
Presented by Samuel C. K. Lee, Ph.D.
Research Associate, Shriners Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, PA; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Biomechanics and Movement Science, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Hosted by Robert Akins, Ph.D. (rakins@nemours.org)
Department of Physics and Astronomy
http://www.physics.udel.edu/event/
Refreshments will be at 3:30pm in Sharp 225 (Commons Room)
February 7
4:00pm, 104 Gore Hall – UD Campus
“Breaking the Ionospheric Barrier: The Mileura Wide-field Array and the Return of Low Frequency Radio Astronomy”
Justin Kasper, Kavill Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, MIT
Hosted by: Matthaeus
February 14
http://www.physics.udel.edu/event/
COLLOQUIUM
4:00pm, 104 Gore Hall – UD Campus
"Discovery of new b elementary particles"
Petar Maksimovic, Johns Hopkins University
Hosted by: Branislav Nikolic
Contact: sherry@bartol.udel.edu for more information
February 21
4:00pm, 104 Gore Hall – UD Campus
“China and India: A new Sputnik? Federal funding for physical sciences research”
Steve Pierson, American Physical Society
Hosted by: Branislav Nikolic
February 28
4:00pm, 104 Gore Hall – UD Campus
“Complexity in Transition Metal Oxides”
Elbio Dagotto, Oak Ridge National Lab
Hosted by: Branislav Nikolic
February 7
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
“PTHrP induction of VSMC proliferation and neointima formation: A central role for 26S proteosome degradation of p27klp1”
Nathalie Fiaschi-Taesch, Ph.D., Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Pittsburg
Hosted by: Dr. Laverty
Refreshments will be available at 3:30pm
February 14
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
“A Molecular Switch Mechanism that Controls the Direction of Integrin Outside-In Signaling”
Dr. Xiaoping Du, University of Illinois at Chicago
February 21
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
“Transcriptional Control of Cell Type Specification in the Drosophila Eye”
Tiffany Cook, Ph.D., Department of Pediatric Ophthalmology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Hosted by: Dr. M. Duncan
Refreshments will be available at 3:30pm
February 28
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
“Progress in Liver-Based Gene Therapy”
Jayanta Roy-Chowdhury, M.B., B.S., Department of Medicine & Department of Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. Eric Kmiec
Refreshments will be available at 3:30pm
Materials Science & Engineering Seminars
http://www.mseg.udel.edu/
Refreshments will be provided.
February 1
9:15am – 10:15am, 106 Center for Composite Materials – UD Campus
“The Sensitivity Limit of Nanowire Bio-Sensors”
Professor Xuan Gao, Harvard University
February 2
9:15am – 10:15am, 106 Center for Composite Materials – UD Campus
“Strategies for Creating Hierarchical and Biomimetic Nanostructures by Tailoring Nanoparticles Self-Assembly”
Professor Alamgir Karim, National Institute of Standards and Technology
February 5
9:15am – 10:15am, 106 Center for Composite Materials – UD Campus
“3D Photonic Crystals in Materials Science”
Professor Florencio Garcia-Santamaria, Research Assistant, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
February 7
9:15am – 10:15am, 106 Center for Composite Materials – UD Campus
“Design of Nanomaterials for Medical Imaging and Thermoelectric Applications”
Dr. Oded Rabin, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
http://www.udel.edu/chem/seminar/index.htm
February 7
4:00pm, 123 Memorial Hall – UD Campus
“Enabling Photovoltaic Materials: Rational Syntheses and Properties of Transparent Conductors”
Professor Kenneth Poeppelmeier
Email: krp@northwestern.edu
Website: http://www.chem.northwestern.edu/~peoppel/Director.html
Hosted by: Svilen Bobev, bobev@udel.edu
February 21
4:00pm, 123 Memorial Hall – UD Campus
“Energy challenges, Fuel Cells and Synthesis of Nano-particles of Ordered Intermetallic Compounds”
Professor Francis J. DiSalvo
Email: fjd3@cornell.edu
Website: http://www.chem.cornell.edu/fjd3/home.html
Hosted by: Svilen Bobev, bobev@udel.edu
February 28
4:00pm, 123 Memorial Hall – UD Campus
“New Palladium-Catalyzed Carboetherification and Carboamination Reactions for the Stereoselective Synthesis of Heterocycles”
Professor John P. Wolfe
Email: jpwolfe@umich.edu
Website: http://www.umich.edu/~wolfelab/
Hosted by: Joseph Fox, jmfox@udel.edu
February 9
http://www.engr.udel.edu/home/index.html
11:00am – 12:30pm, 102 Colburn Lab – UD Campus
“NH3-SCR for Aftertreatment of Vehicle Emissions: Catalytic Mechanism, Detailed Kinectics and Monolith Converter Model”
Enrico Tronconi
http://www.udel.edu/chem/seminar/index.htm
February 9
4:00pm, 123 Memorial Hall – UD Campus
“Analysis and design of membrane proteins and protein mimetics”
Dr. William DeGrado
Email: wdegrado@mail.med.upenn.edu
Website: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/chem/faculty/degrado/degrado.html
Hosted by: Roberta Colman, rfcolman@udel.edu
February 16
4:00pm, 123 Memorial Hall – UD Campus
“TBA”
Dr. Wei-Jen Tang
Email: wtang@uchicago.edu
Website: http://tang.bsd.uchicago.edu/
Hosted by: Roberta Colman, rfcolman@udel.edu
http://www.udel.edu/chem/seminar/index.htm
February 12
4:00pm, 123 Memorial Hall – UD Campus
“From Correlation to Qubits: New Experiments in Solid-State NM”
Professor Leonard Mueller
Email: Leonard.mueller@ucr.edu
Website: http://chem.ucr.edu/index.html?main=faculty&facsort=profile&faculty=mueller
Hosted by: Tatyana Polenova tpolenov@chem.udel.edu
February 26
4:00pm, 123 Memorial Hall – UD Campus
Professor Lee Penn
Email: penn@chem.umn.edu
Website: http://www.chem.umn.edu/groups/penn
Hosted by: Douglas Doren, doren@udel.edu
February 16
http://www.che.udel.edu/seminars.html
10:00am – 11:00am, 102 Colburn Lab – UD Campus
“Protein Switches”
Dr. Marc Ostermeier, John Hopkins University
Chemistry-Biology Interface Seminars
February 21
12:15pm – 1:15pm, Brown Lab 221 – UD Campus
“Role of PAPK1, a Member of CKI Family, in Developmental Cell Patterning and Cell-To-Cell Communications in Plants”
Dr. Jung-Youn Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware
February 28
12:15pm – 1:15pm, Brown Lab 221 – UD Campus
“Interfacing Chemistry and Biochemistry with Atomic Force Microscopy”
Dr. Elizabeth Adams, Bioimaging Associate Scientist, Delaware Biotechnology Institute
