DBI February 2008 Events
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Nemours Monday Research Seminar 12:00 pm
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Winter Classes End

Edward G. Jefferson Endowed Chair in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Candidate Seminar 4:00 pm

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Materials Science & Engineering Department 9:00 am
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Spring Classes Begin

Nemours Monday Research Seminar 12:00 pm

Dept. of Biological Sciences & Department of Mathematics Special Seminar 2:00 pm

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Department of Biological Sciences Spring Seminar 4:00 pm

Edward G. Jefferson Endowed Chair in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Candidate Seminar 4:00 pm

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DBI Luncheon Seminars Series 12:00 pm

Materials Science & Engineering Department 3:00 pm

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Chemical Engineering Department 10:00 am
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Nemours Monday Research Seminar 12:00 pm

Edward G. Jefferson Endowed Chair in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Candidate Seminar 4:00 pm

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Department of Biological Sciences Spring Seminar 4:00 pm
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DBI Luncheon Seminars Series 12:00 pm

Delaware State University Public Lecture 5:15 pm

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ECE Bioengineering Seminar 11:30 am
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Nemours Monday Research Seminar 12:00 pm

Physics & Astronomy Seminar 3:30 pm

Edward G. Jefferson Endowed Chair in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Candidate Seminar 4:00 pm

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Department of Biological Sciences Spring Seminar 4:00 pm

Chemistry-Biology Interface Seminar 12:15 pm

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DBI Luncheon Seminars Series 12:00 pm
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Edward G. Jefferson Endowed Chair in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Candidate Seminars

February 7

4:00pm DBI Room 102
“Advances in Transcriptional and Genomic Analysis Using Short-Read DNA Sequencing"
Blake Meyers, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Delaware Biotechnology Institute, Newark, DE
Reception immediately following

February 13

4:00pm DBI Room 102
“Integrated Protein Bioinformatics for Genomics, Proteomics and Systems Biology"
Cathy H. Wu, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Director of Protein Information Resource, Director of Bioinformatics Track, MS Degree in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center
Reception immediately following

February 18

4:00pm DBI Room 102
“Cell-signaling dynamics in space and time."
Boris N. Kholodenko, MS, PhD, D.Sc., Biophysics, Daniel Baugh Institute for Functional Genomics/Computational Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Reception immediately following

February 25

4:00pm DBI Room 102
"Now, What is Life"
Systems Biology of Homeodynamics: neuronal adaptive compensation"
James S. Schwaber, PhD, Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Daniel Baugh Institute for Functional Genomics/Computational Biology, Philadelphia, PA

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)

February 14

"Enhancing Extracellular Protein Secretion in E. coli by Translation Engineering "
Prateek Gupta, Graduate Student, Cornell University, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
"A new kinetic model reveals the synergistic effect of E-, P-, and A-sites on +1 programmed ribosomal frameshifting"
Pei Liao, BS, MS, Chemical Engineering Department, National Taiwan University, Graduate Student, Cornell University, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

February 21

"Genome-wide analysis for discovery of novel and regulated miRNAs in rice"
Dr. Dong-Hoon Jeong, Postdoctoral researcher, Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware
"Digging through the trash of the cell: the whole set of miRNA-target RNA pairs"
Dr. Marcelo A. German, Postdoctoral researcher, Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware

February 28

"Role of Syntaxin MtSYP132 in Medicago truncatula Nodule Formation."
Madhavi Avadhani, Post doctoral researcher, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware
"Marine viruses and their immeasurable diversity"
Sanchita Jamindar, M.S. student, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware

ECE Bioengineering Seminar Series

Please note that today's ECE Bioengineering Seminar has been cancelled due to the weather

February 22

11:30am DBI Room 102
"How protein materials balance strength, robustness and adaptability"
Prof. Markus J. Buehler, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: Sylvain G. Cloutier, cloutier@udel.edu

Nemours Monday Research Seminars

http://www.nemours.org

February 4

12:00pm – 1:00pm, Lecture Hall, Nemours Biomedical Research, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children
“Proteomics in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease”
Kelvin H. Lee, PhD, Gore Professor of Chemical Engineering, Delaware Biotechnology Institute, Newark, DE, Professor, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Host: Robert Mason (rmason@nemours.org)

February 11

12:00pm – 1:00pm, Lecture Hall, Nemours Biomedical Research, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children
“The Emerging Discipline of Computational Medicine”
Raimond L. Winslow, PhD, Director, Institute for Computational Medicine and Center for Cardiovascular Bioinformatics & Modeling, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine & Whiting School of Engineering, Baltimore, MD
Host: Michael Bober, MD, PhD
(mbober@nemours.org)

February 18

12:00pm – 1:00pm, Lecture Hall, Nemours Biomedical Research, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children
“Tuning the Infant Speech Bias”
Athena Vouloumanos, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY
Host: Timothy Bunnell, PhD (tbunnell@nemours.org)

February 25

12:00pm – 1:00pm, Lecture Hall, Nemours Biomedical Research, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children
“Profiling Prostate Cancer Progression Using Metabolomics and Proteomics Strategies: Early Leads and Pointers”
Arun Sreekumar, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Michigan Center for Translational Pathology and Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI
Hosted by: A.K. Rajasekaran, PhD (araj@medsci.udel.edu)
Refreshments will be provided

Chemical Engineering Department

February 15

10:00am 102 Colburn Lab - UD Campus
"The Road to Low-Cost and High-Efficiency Solar Cells via Self-Assembled Nanomaterials"
Professor Hugh Hillhouse, Department of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University
Refreshments available at 9:45am

Materials Science & Engineering Department

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

February 8

9:00am Center for Composite Materials 106 - UD Campus
"Dynamics and thermodynamics on the nanoscale"
Michael Mackay, PhD, Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, Michigan State University
Refreshments available at 8:45am

February 14

3:00pm Kirkbride Hall, Room 205 - UD Campus
"Microstructure and Properties of Organic Molecular Semiconductors"
David Martin, PhD, University of Michigan
Refreshments available 2:45pm

Delaware State University Public Lecture

http://www.desu.edu

February 21

5:15pm - 6:45pm Education and Humanities Theater, DSU Main Campus, Dover DE
"Chemistry's Essential Tensions"
Dr. Roald Hoffmann, Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters at Cornell University, 1981 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

Dept. of Biological Sciences & Department of Mathematics Special Seminar

February 11

2:00pm Gore 217 - UD Campus
"Reconstructing the Genomic Architecture of Ancestral Mammals"
Dr. Glenn Tesler, Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego, CA
Hosted by Dr. David Usher and Dr. Louis Rossi

Department of Biological Sciences Spring Seminar Series

February 13

4:00pm 318 Wolf Hall - UD Campus
“Insights into the Nanoworld of Modern Biological Atomic Force Microscopy”
Dr. Elizabeth Adams, Delaware Biotechnology Institute
Host: Dr. Randy Duncan
Refreshments served at 3:30pm

February 20

4:00pm 318 Wolf Hall - UD Campus
“From Silica to Cells: Capturing Flowing Objects on Stick Surfaces"
Maria M. Santore, PhD, Professor of Polymer Sciences and Chemical Engineering, Department of Polymer science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts
Host: Dr. Randy Duncan
Refreshments served at 3:30pm

February 27

4:00pm 318 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
“From Signaling Cell Fates to the Cell Biology of Differentiation”
Stephen DiNardo, PhD, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Hosted by: Dr. Erica Selva
Refreshments served at 3:30pm

Chemistry-Biology Interface Seminar

February 27

12:15pm - 1:15pm Brown Lab, Room 219 - UD Campus
"New Twists on Histone Acetylation by Transcriptional Regulators"
Professor Ronen Marmorstein, The Wistar Institute, University of Pennsylvania

Physics & Astronomy Seminar

http://www.physics.udel.edu

February 25

3:30pm Sharp Laboratory
Atomic, Molecular and Optics
"Excitation and Interaction of Rydberg Atoms for Quantum Logic"
Mark Saffman, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Host: Marianna Safronova