DBI May 2008 Events
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DBI Luncheon Seminars Series 12:00 pm
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Chemical Engineering Department 10:00 am
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Nemours Monday Research Seminar 12:00 pm
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CMET 10:30 am
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DBI Luncheon Seminars Series 12:00 pm
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Nemours Monday Research Seminar 12:00 pm
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Nemours Wednesday Special Seminar 12:00 pm

Chemistry-Biology Interface Seminar 12:15 pm

Distinguished Speaker Lecture Series 3:30 pm

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DBI Luncheon Seminars Series 12:00 pm
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Nemours Monday Research Seminar 12:00 pm
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Spring Classes End

Bioscience Breakfast 7:30 am

Materials Science Seminar 10:00 am

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Spring Finals Begin
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Memorial Day - University Closed
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Spring Finals End
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Commencement

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)

May 1

"Sulfide:quinone oxidoreductase of Chlorobium tepidum: Two of the three orthologs are involved in anaerobic sulfide oxidation."
Leong-Keat Chan, Graduate Student College of Marine and Earth Studies and Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware
"The biological significance of low-molecular weight thiols in Chlorobium tepidum"
Jennifer Hiras, Graduate Student College of Marine and Earth Studies and Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware

May 8

"Contributions from the modeling of arterial circulation to the simulation of wall shear rate in blood flow within large arterial vessels"
David Johnson
"Regulation of Integrin Clustering: Models and Experiments"
Erik Welf

May 15

"TEM made easy through correlative confocal microscopy"
Shannon Modla
"TBA"
David A. Scheiblin

Bioscience Breakfast

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May 21

7:30am-9:00am, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute.
A networking event bringing together bioscience-focused individuals to foster collaboration and growth of the Delaware bioscience community

Nemours Monday Research Seminar

http://www.nemours.org

May 5

12:00pm – 1:00pm, Lecture Hall, Nemours Biomedical Research, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children
"Disrupting a Delicate Balance: Signaling in the Postnatal Testis Following Toxicant-Induced Injury"
Mary L. Hixon, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Biology and Medicine, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI
Host: Kamin Johnson, PhD kjohnson@nemours.org

May 12

12:00pm – 1:00pm, Lecture Hall, Nemours Biomedical Research, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children
"Chemical Rescue of Nuclear Mutations, Rickets, Thyroid Resistance and Anti-androgen Withdrawal"
John T. Koh, PhD, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Host: Carolyn Schanen, MD, PhD (schanen@medsci.udel.edu)

May 19

12:00pm – 1:00pm, Lecture Hall, Nemours Biomedical Research, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children
“Novel Radiation Delivery Strategies in the Management of Advanced Cancers"
Mansoor M. Ahmed, PhD, Weis Center for Research, Geisinger Clinic
Host: A. K. Rajasekaran, PhD (araj@medsci.udel.edu)

Nemours Wednesday Special Seminar

May 14

12:00pm – 1:00pm, Lecture Hall, Nemours Biomedical Research, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children
"Astrocyte Dysfunction in Neurodegeneration - A Target for Therapy Development"
Jeffrey D. Rothstein MD, PhD, Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Host:  Wenlan Wang, MD, PhD

Chemical Engineering Department

May 2

10:00am 102 Colburn Lab - UD Campus
"Engineering Biology to Solve Everyday Problems"
Dr. Brian Baynes, Codon Devices

Chemistry-Biology Interface Seminar

May 14

12:15pm - 1:15pm Brown Lab, Room 219 - UD Campus
"Of Megakaryocytes and Platelents"
Dr. E. Terry Papoutsakis, Eugene DuPont Chair, UD Department of Chemical Engineering and Delaware Biotechnology Institute

Distinguished Speaker Lecture Series

May 14

3:30pm 208 Gore Hall - UD Campus
"Saving the Digital World"
Dr. Francine Berman
Refreshments after in Smith Hall 102A

Materials Science Seminar

May 21

10:00am - 11:00am Sharp Lab 100 - UD Campus
"TBA"
Dr. Sarah Kurtz, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Center for Molecular and Engineering Thermodynamics

May 7

10:30am 366 Colburn Laboratory - UD Campus
"Self-Assembled Morphologies in Binary Mixtures of Phospholipids as Revealed by SANS: Bicelles, Ribbons and Vesicles, oh my...""
Paul Butler, National Institute for Standards and Technology