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All Seminars at 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. in the Lecture Hall unless otherwise noted.
(Refreshments will be provided)
http://www.nemours.org/internet?url=no/rsch/art2512.html
For information call 302-651-6804
May 7
“New Insights into the Function of the RNA-Binding Protein HuD in CNS Development, Nerve Regeneration and Adult Synaptic Plasticity”
Nora Perrone-Bizzozero, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Hosted by: Jeffery Twiss, M.D., Ph.D. (twiss@medsci.udel.edu)
May 8
Nemours Biomedical Research, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children
“Language-specific vs. language-common perceptual cues for age identification”
Kyoko Nagao, Ph.D., Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Indiana University
Hosted by: H. Timothy Bunnell, Ph.D.
May 14
“Of Mice And Men: Extrapolating From Animal Models to Humans for Cancer Risk Assessment”
Samuel M. Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Pathology and Microbiology; Havlik-Wall Professor of Oncology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Hosted by: Robert L. Brent, M.D., Ph.D. DSc (rbrent@nemours.org)
May 21
“Acadian Usher Syndrome in Mice and Zebrafish”
Bronya J. B. Keats, Ph.D., Chairman, Department of Genetics; Professor of Genetics; Director of the Molecular and Genetic Center of Excellence, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
Hosted by: Thierry G. Morlet, Ph.D. (tmorlet@nemours.org)
May 24 (Thursday)
“Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Molecular Pathogenesis and Current Treatment Strategies”
presented by Ching H. Wang, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Neurology and Pediatrics, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA
host: Wenlan Wang, MD, PhD (wwang@nemours.org)
PLEASE NOTE: Special Day & Time: Thursday, May 24, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Memorial Day Holiday
http://www.udel.edu/chem/seminar/index.htm
May 2
4:00pm, 123 Memorial Hall – UD Campus
“Harnessing Guilty Ligands: Reactivity of d0 Metals with Redox-Active Ligands”
Professor Alan Heyduk
Email: aheyduk@uci.edu
Website: http://www.chem.uci.edu/faculty/aheyduk/
Hosted by: Klaus Theopold, theopold@udel.edu
May 9
4:00pm, 123 Memorial Hall – UD Campus
Professor John Chaput
Email: John.Chaput@asu.edu
Hosted by: Joel Schneider, schneijp@udel.edu
May 16
4:00pm, 123 Memorial Hall – UD Campus
Professor Glenn C. Micalizio
Email: Glenn.micalizio@yale.edu
Hosted by: Douglass Taber, taberdf@udel.edu
May 2
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
“Targeting Heparin Sulfate for Cancer Therapy”
Ralph Sanderson, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Hosted by: Dr. Carson
Refreshments will be available at 3:30pm
May 9
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
“George L. Gerton, Ph.D., Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Hosted by: Ms. Genevieve Griffiths, Graduate Student
Refreshments will be available at 3:30pm
May 7
http://www.udel.edu/chem/seminar/index.htm
4:00pm, 123 Memorial Hall – UD Campus
Professor Jose Jimenez
Email: jose.jimenez@colorado.edu
Website: http://cires.colorado.edu/jimenez/
Hosted by: Murray Johnston, mvj@udel.edu
Materials Science & Engineering Seminars
May 9
10:00am – 11:00am, 102 Colburn Lab – UD Campus
“Deconstructing the Cell-Biomaterial Interface: Lessons and Challenges in Vascular Tissue Engineering and Targeted Delivery”
Dr. Joyce Wong, Boston University
May 10
1:30pm – 2:30pm, 104 Colburn Lab – UD Campus
“Blinding Eye Diseases and Electrical Retinal Prosthesis”
Shih-Jen Chen, M.D., Department of Ophthalmology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital; National Yang-Ming University, School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
May 23
10:00am – 11:00am, 102 Colburn Lab – UD Campus
“Direct Integration of Conducting Polymers with Living Tissue for Biomedical Devices”
Dr. David Martin, University of Michigan
Chemistry-Biology Interface Seminar
May 9
12:15pm – 1:15pm, Brown Lab 221 – UD Campus
“Bioresponsive Materials for Step-Wise Drug and DNA Transport”
Dr. Millicent O. Sullivan, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
http://www.physics.udel.edu/event/
May 1
2:00pm, Bartol Conference Room, 215 Sharp Lab – UD Campus
“Engineering when Nanometers Count: Examples from Oxide Heteroepitaxy on Si(100) and Tunneling Devices for Molecular Electronics”
Brian G. Willis, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware
May 8
Condensed Matter & Materials Physics Seminar
2:00pm Bartol Conference Room, 215 Sharp Lab – UD Campus
“Berry phase effects on electronic properties”
Qian Niu, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin
Hosted by: Sui-Tat Chui
May 9
4:00pm, 104 Gore Hall – UD Campus
Vincent Harris, Northeastern University and IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished
“Ferrite Materials as Nanoparticles, Films, Crystals, and Metamaterials as Related to High Frequency Applications”
Hosted by Xiao
Refreshments will be at 3:30pm in Sharp 225 (Commons Room)
May 11
http://www.che.udel.edu/seminars.html
10:00am, 102 Colburn Lab – UD Campus
“What Are Cells ‘Thinking’? (And How Might We Think About This…?) A Quantitative Systems Approach to Understanding How Signaling Networks Govern Cell Behavior”
Dr. Doug Lauffenburger, MIT
May 11
http://www.udel.edu/chem/seminar/index.htm
4:00pm, 123 Memorial Hall – UD Campus
“TBA”
Professor Feng Gai
Email: gai@sas.upenn.edu
Website: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/chem/faculty/gai/gai.html
Hosted by: Junghuei Chen, junghuei@udel.edu
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Colloquium
May 14
http://www.udel.edu/chem/seminar/index.htm
4:00pm, 205 Gore Hall – UD Campus
“TBA”
Professor Sharon Neal, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware
Email: sneal@udel.edu
Website: http://www.udel.edu/chem/sneal/sln_rsrch/sln_home.htm
Hosted by: Charles Riordan, riordan@udel.edu
May 1
www.superarray.com
12:00pm – 1:00pm, the Lecture Hall (3rd Floor), Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
“PCR Array Technology”
Dr. Timothy Steppe, SuperArray Bioscience Corporation
Sponsored by Dr. Katia Sol-Church, Biomolecular Core Laboratory
For information contact Dr. Sol-Church at 302-651-6705 or email: ksolchur@nemours.org
Department of Chemical Engineering, Arthur B. Metzner Symposium
May 14
http://www.che.udel.edu/seminars.html
8:30am, Clayton Hall – UD Campus
Miscellaneous speakers
Reception following at 4:30pm
Registration and information: https://www.che.udel.edu/forms/metzner/metzner-web.pdf
Center for Catalytic Science & Technology Seminar
May 1
http://www.che.udel.edu/ccst/seminars.html
10:00am, 240 Colburn Lab – UD Campus
“Atomistic Scale Simulations on the Reactive Dynamics of Fuel Cell and Metal Oxide Catalysis: An Overview of ReaxFF Reactive Force Field Applications”
Adri Van Durin, Director of Force Field and Simulation Technology, Material and Process Simulation Center, California Institute of Technology
The 7th Annual Cardiac Research Symposium
May 30
8:00am – 3:30pm, The Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware
Various sessions and speakers
For details and registration: http://www.pedseducation.org/conferences/
Presented by Nemours Cardiac Center & Nemours Biomedical Research
May 2
10:10am-11:00am, 102A Smith Hall – UD Campus
“Combining mathematical modeling and text-mining to aid real-life biological research”
Professor Andrey Rzhetsky, Columbia University
The Jerzy L. Nowinski Lecture (1975-2007)
May 4
11:00am, 104 Gore Hall – UD Campus
“Mechanics of Robust and Reversible Adhesion: Bottom-up Designed Hierarchical Adhesion Structures in Biology”
Dr. Huajian Gao, Division of Engineering, Brown University
Sponsored by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware
Refreshments will be served
May 4
3:00pm, 203 Robinson Hall – UD Campus
“Lower atmosphere input to the surface North Atlantic; Not just a drop in the ocean!”
Tom Church, College of Marine and Earth Studies, University of Delaware
May 11
3:00pm, 206 Robinson Hall – UD Campus
“Time-series mapping of surface currents in the Pacific Northwest”
Mike Kosro, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University
May 25
3:00pm, 203 Robinson Hall – UD Campus
“Eddy generation in the tidal Potomac River”
Richard P. Mied, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
4th Annual Center for Biomedical Engineering Research (CBER) Day
May 11
9:30am – 10:30am, Poster Session, 2nd floor Spencer Lab – UD Campus
10:45am – 11:45am, Keynote lecture, 106 Center for Composite Materials – UD Campus
Dr. Steven Stanhope, Director Physical Disabilities Branch, National Institutes of Health
12:30pm – 2:45pm, Podium presentations, 106 CCM – UD Campus
3:00pm – 4:00pm, BIOMS Seminar, 106 CCM – UD Campus
Dr. Li Li, Louisiana State University
College of Marine and Earth Studies Special Seminar
May 15
4:00pm-5:00pm, 206 Robinson Hall – UD Campus
“Dissolved organic matter in coastal ecosystems: advances in understanding its production and degradation”
Dr. Michael Wetz, University of North Carolina
Hosted by: Dr. David Kirchman
Also available at Cannon Laboratory Room 202, Lewes, Delaware
Refreshments prior to seminar
May 17
4:00pm-5:00pm, 206 Robinson Hall – UD Campus
“The Role of Dissolved Organic Phosphorus in the Sargasso Sea Phosphorus Cycle”
Dr. Michael Lomas, Associate Research Scientist, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
Hosted by: Dr. David Kirchman
Also available at Cannon Laboratory Room 202, Lewes, Delaware
Refreshments prior to seminar
http://www.che.udel.edu/cmet/seminars.html
May 9
10:00am, 366 Colburn Lab – UD Campus
“Nanoporous Carbon Membranes for CO2 Capture”
Clare Anderson, University of Melbourne, Australia
May 23
11:00am, 366 Colburn Lab – UD Campus
“Structure, Rheology and Applications of Aggregating Suspensions in Two Dimensions”
Jan Vermant, Department of Chemical Engineering, K. U. Leuven - Belgium
May 31
10:00am, 366 Colburn Lab – UD Campus
“Nanoparticle Formation by Flash NanoPrecipitation using Block Copolymer Directed Self-Assembly”
Robert Prud’homme, Princeton University
Bioscience Breakfast