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Department of Biological Sciences Seminar
http://www.udel.edu/bio/
Refreshments available at 3:30pm
September 5 Cancelled
4:00pm 318 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
“Problem-Based Learning: Why Don’t They Like It?”
Deborah Allen, Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences, UD
Hosted by Dr. P. DeLeon
September 12
4:00pm COLLINS ROOM, Perkins Student Center
“The Role of Cytoskeleton in Reactive Oxygen Species Production, Lung Injury and Repair”
Viswanathan Natarajan, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago
Hosted by Dr. V. Fomin
September 14
10:00am 318 Wolf Hall
“Lens differentiation: The role of transcription factors and extracellular matrix”
Dr. Melinda K. Duncan, Associate Professor, UD Departments of Biological Sciences and Animal and Food Sciences
Hosted by: Dr. Cindy Farach-Carson
Refreshments served at 9:30am
September 19
4:00pm 118 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
“Problem-Based Learning: Why Don’t They Like It?”
Deborah Allen, PhD, Associate Professor, UD Department of Biological Sciences
Hosted by: Dr. Patricia DeLeon
Refreshments served at 3:30pm
September 20
4:00pm 318 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
“Learning to Teach Science through Scientific Inquiry: A Performance Perspective”
Dr. Ajay Sharma
Refreshments served at 3:30pm
September 26
4:00pm 318 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
“The Stress and Strain of Maintaining Bone: Is That All There Is?”
Randall L. Duncan, Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences, UD
Hosted by Dr. E. Kmiec
September 28
4:00pm, 318Wolf Hall – UD Campus
“Endothelial Nitricoxide Regulation of Nos and RhoA/Rho-Kinase Signaling Pathways in the Corpus Cavernosum”
Arthur L. Burnett, M.D., F.A.C.S., Professor of Urology, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, The James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Refreshments served at 3:30pm
Materials Science & Engineering Seminars
September 5
10:00-11:00am Williamson Room, Perkins Student Center – UD Campus
“Soft Material Design at the Interfaces with Catalysis and Biology: From Nano- to Bio-Inspired Materials”
Zhibin Guan, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, University of California
September 12
10:00-11:00am Williamson Room, Perkins Student Center – UD Campus
“Measurement of the Viscoelastic Properties of Biological Tissues at High Frequencies”
Rodney Clifton, Ph.D., Division of Engineering, Brown University
September 19
10:00-11:00am Kirkwood Room, Perkins Student Center – UD Campus
“Dynamic Self-Assembly of Ordered Structures from a Capillary-Held Solution”
Zhiqun Lin, PhD, Department of Material Science and Engineering, Iowa State University
September 7
http://www.che.udel.edu/seminars.html
10:00am 102/103 Colman Lab – UD Campus
“Chemical Engineering Challenges for 2030: Meeting the demand for energy and chemicals in C02-constrained world”
Professor Joe Powell, Chemical Engineering, Shell Global Solutions US Inc.
September 28
http://www2.dupont.com/Our_Company/en_US/executives/pierce.html
10:00am, 102 Colburn Lab – UD Campus
“Theory & Empiricism in Metabolic Engineering: A View from the Trenches”
Dr. John Pierce, DuPont Bio-Based Technology
Biomedical Engineering Seminar
September 7
http://www.ece.udel.edu/
11:15am-12:15pm, DBI Room 102
“Experimental and Theoretical Analysis of Chemotactic Systems in Biology”
Pablo Iglesias, John Hopkins University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
For information contact Ryan Zurakowski at ryanz@udel.edu or (302) 831-0331
IABS International Scientific Workshop
September 17-19
Hotel duPont - Wilmington, Delaware
“New Cells for New Vaccines II: Focus on Respiratory Virus Diseases”
Program and Registration details: http://www/regonline.com/NewCellsforNewVaccines
Chemistry-Biology Interface Seminars
September 5
"Structure - Function Relationships for Methyl CpG Binding Protein 2"
12:15 - 1:15 pm, 221 Brown Lab – UD Campus
N. Carolyn Schanen: Head, Human Genetics Lab, Nemours Biomedical Research
September 12
12:15pm-1:15pm Gore Hall 116 – UD Campus
“Phosphoproteomics Identifies New Components Involved in Resistance to Bacterial Pathogens”
Dr. Scott C. Peck, Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri - Columbia
September 19
4:00pm, Memorial Hall Rm. 123 – UD Campus
“Synthesis and Applications of Conducting Polymer Nanofibers”
Professor Richard Kaner
September 21
4:00pm, Memorial Hall Rm. 123 – UD Campus
“Dynamics of Biomolecules in Heterogeneous Cellular Environments”
Professor Michael Feig
September 24
4:00pm, Memorial Hall Rm. 123 – UD Campus
“Molecular mechanism of phospholipid binding by lipid transfer protein Sec14p”Professor Tatyana Smirnova
September 26
4:00pm, Memorial Hall Rm. 123 – UD Campus
TBA
Professor Richard Cheng
Plant & Soil Sciences Seminars
http://ag.udel.edu/plsc/index.htm
September 6
2:00pm-2:50pm 132 Townsend Hall – UD Campus
“Conducting business under pressure: Examining stress management programs in Magnaporthe oryzae”
Nicole Donofrio, Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology, UD Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
September 12 Ornamentals Research Expo
4:30pm-8:00pm, University of Delaware Botanic Gardens - Newark, DE
Displays, Tours, Talks, a picnic dinner, and Plants for Industry Evaluation
Registration Required, Cost of $15
Registration Form: http://ag.udel.edu/extension/documents/OrnamentalsExpo2007.pdf
For more information contact Susan Barton Dept. of Plant and Soil Sciences Townsend Hall Newark DE 19716 or call 831-2531
September 13
2:00pm-2:50pm 132 Townsend Hall – UD Campus
“Time, the fourth dimension of soil formation and research updates from pedology lab”
Kyung-Soo Yoo, Assistant Professor Soil and Land Resources, UD Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
September 20
2:00pm-2:50pm 132 Townsend Hall – UD Campus
“Driving plant innate immunity: ‘R’ we there yet?”
Dr. Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
Center for Critical Zone Research Seminar
September 27
2:00pm-2:50pm 132 Townsend Hall – UD Campus
“The Role of Siderophores in the Biogeochemical Cycling of Transition Metals”
Owen Duckworth, Assistant Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry, Dept of Soil Science, North Carolina State University
Environment Energy Ethics Conference
September 21-23
Clayton Hall, University of Delaware
Science and Responsibility for the 21st Century
www.dbi.udel.edu/ethics/EEEpapers.html
Sponsored by: Thomas M. Powers & Dr. Mark Greene, UD Department of Philosophy
Contact: organizereee@dbi.udel.edu for more information
Department of Physics & Astronomy Seminars
http://www.physics.udel.edu/event/
September 4
2:00pm DPA Conference Room 215 Sharp Lab – UD Campus
“Charge and Spin Transport in Graphene Nanostructures”
Michael S. Fuhrer, Department of Physics and Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials, University of Maryland at College Park
Host: Branislav Nikolic
September 5
4:00pm 104 Gore Hall – UD Campus
“Fundamental symmetries, atomic clocks, and magic wavelengths”
Marianna Safronova, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Delaware
Refreshments available in 225 Sharp Lab at 3:30pm
September 11
2:00pm DPA Conference Room 215 Sharp Lab – UD Campus
“Cation and Anion Doping of Nanostructured Titania for Visible Light Photocatalysis”
S. Ismat Shah, Materials Science and Engineering and Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware
September 12
4:00pm 104 Gore Hall – UD Campus
“Mesoscopic Spin Hall Effect in Pictures”
Branislav Nikolic, UD Department of Physics & Astronomy
September 18
2:00pm 215 Sharp Lab – UD Campus
“Biomimetic Approaches for Vocal Fold Tissue Regeneration”
Xinqiao Jia, Assistant Professor, UD Department of Materials Science and Engineering
September 26
4:00pm 104 Gore Hall – UD Campus
Daicar – Bata Prizes
“Origin of the Daicar-Bata Prize”
Special Guest: Eva Daicar
Refreshments available at 3:30pm
Nemours Monday Research Seminars
http://www.nemours.org
Refreshments will be provided
For information call 302-651-6804
September 10
12:00pm – 1:00pm, Lecture Hall, Nemours Biomedical Research, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children
“Protein Kinase C and Regulation of Uterine Smooth Muscle Contraction”
Victor Fomin, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biology Sciences, University of Delaware
Hosted by Vicky Funanage, PhD (vfunanag@nemours.org)
September 18
8:45am-12:00pm 3rd Floor Lecture Hall, Nemours
“Research Statistics”
John Gaughan, PhD, Department of Physiology, Temple University School of Medicine;
“Patent Law – What You Need to Know”
George A. Frank, PhD, Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP, Philadelphia, PA
Phone: 302-651-6837 Email: tshaffer@nemours.org or cschanen@nemours.org
September 24
12:00pm – 1:00pm, Lecture Hall, Nemours Biomedical Research, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children
“Eye-gaze Behavior of Normal Listeners When Presented with Alaryngeal Speech”
Paul M. Evitts, PhD, CCC-SLP, Assistant Professor, Department of Communicative Disorders, West Chester University, West Chester, PA
Hosted by Linda Vallino, PhD (lvalino@nemours.org)
Computer Information Sciences Seminars
September 5
1:25pm-2:25pm 102A Smith Hall – UD Campus
“Introducing Natural Language Program Analysis”
Professor Lori Pollock
September 10
10:10am-11:10am 102A Smith Hall – UD Campus
“Magnets: Towards high-speed ubiquitous Internet Access”
Dr. Roger Karrer Eth, Zurich
September 12
1:25pm-2:25pm 102A Smith Hall – UD Campus
“Optimizing Recursive Matrix Multiplication with a Classifier Learning System”
Professor Xiaoming Li
September 17
10:30am-11:30am 102A Smith Hall – UD Campus
“TBA”
Ramesh Raskar, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Cambridge, MA
September 17
2:30pm - 3:20pm 102A Smith Hall – UD Campus
“Effectively Realizing the Intended Message of an Information Graphic”
Seniz Demir
September 19
10:10am-11:10am 102A Smith Hall – UD Campus
“Mining, Analyzing and Verification of Biomelecular Network from Large Biomedical Literature Databases”
Professor Xiaohua (Tony) Hu
September 19
11:15am-12:05pm 102A Smith Hall – UD Campus
“SCTP in Context of Transport Layer Mobility”
Lukasz Budzisz Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya (UPC)
September 19
1:25pm-2:25pm 102A Smith Hall – UD Campus
“Topaz: Extending Firefox to Accommodate the Grid FTP Protocol”
Professor Michela Taufer
September 26
1:25pm - 2:30pm 102A Smith Hall – UD Campus
“TBA”
Nursing Research Lecture Series
September 26
1:20-2:20pm, 114 McDowell Hall – UD Campus
“Neurological and Neuroendocrine Correlates of High-Risk Behavior of Women in Prison,” by Kathleen Brewer-Smyth, Assistant Professor, UD School of Nursing
Series is supported by NIH grant under IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) program of the National Center for Research Resources
For more information: 302-831-8375
DBI Luncheon Seminar Series