DBI October 2008 Events
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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Biology Fall Seminar 4:00 pm

Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium 4:00 pm

Frank M. Hoopes Memorial Lecture 5:45 pm

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Chemical Engineering Lecture 9:00 am

Chemical Engineering Lecture 10:00 am

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Delaware Membrane Protein Symposium 8:30 am

Nemours Monday Research Seminar 12:00 pm

Department of Physics and Astronomy Seminar 2:30 pm

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Biology Fall Seminar 4:00 pm

Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium 4:00 pm

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DBI Luncheon Seminar 12:00 pm
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Life Science In-Service Day 8:30 am
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Nemours Monday Research Seminar 12:00 pm
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Chemistry-Biology Interface Seminar 12:15 pm

Biology Fall Seminar 4:00 pm

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Nemours Monday Research Seminar 12:00 pm
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Chemistry-Biology Interface Seminar 12:15 pm
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DBI Luncheon Seminar 12:00 pm
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Department of Physics and Astronomy Seminar 2:00 pm
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Chemistry-Biology Interface Seminar 12:15 pm

Biology Fall Seminar 4:00 pm

Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium 4:00 pm

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DBI Luncheon Seminar 12:00 pm
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Chemical Engineering Lecture 10:00 am

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)

October 9th

"Development of Cardiovascular Prosthetics Using Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering"
Dr. Robert Akins, PhD, F.A.H.A., Head, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Research, A.I. duPont Hospital for Children

October 23

"Computational Photography for Bio-Imagery"
Jingyi Yu, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware

October 30

"Regulation of Tumor Growth and Angiogenesis by Osteopontin in Various Cancers"
Dr. Gopal Kundu, National Center for Cell Science, Pune, India

Life Science In-Service Day

October 10

Delaware Biotechnology Institute
The in-service day is designed for middle and high school science teachers, and will run from 8:30-3:00.
Lunch will be served, and there is no charge to participate, but registration is required.
For more information, and to register, go to: https://secure.dbi.udel.edu/registration/check.cgi

Delaware Membrane Protein Symposium

October 6th

8:30am, Clayton Hall, UD Campus
Delaware Membrane Protein Symposium
Registration required - http://www.che.udel.edu/cobre/symposium.html
Event is free

Chemical Engineering Lecture Series

For the most current information, go to: http://www.udel.edu/chem/seminar/index.html

October 3rd

9:00 - 10:00am, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute, UD Campus
"Challenges in the Development of Biotherapeutics: An Industrial Perspective"
Dr. Arnab Kapat, Director, Reliance Institute of Life Sciences
http://www.rellife.com

October 3rd

10:00am, 102 Colburn Lab, UD Campus
"Colloid Science - The Pointy End of Nanotechnology"
Dr. Thomas W. Healy, The University of Melbourne
Refreshments will be available at 9:45am; cups will not be provided

October 31st

10:00am, 102 Colburn Lab, UD Campus
"On the Catalytic Activity and Stability of Atomically Dispersed Gold in Cerium or Iron Oxide for the Water-gas Shift Reaction"
Dr. Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, Tufts University
Refreshments will be available at 9:45am; cups will not be provided

Nemours Monday Research Seminars

http://www.nemours.org

October 6th

12:00 - 1:00pm, Lecture Hall, Nemours Biomedical Research, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children
"Signal Transduction of Angiotensin II in Mediating Vascular Remodeling"
Satoru Eguchi, MD, PhD, FAHA, Associate Professor of Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Center, Temple University School of Medicine
Hosted by Andy Tsuda, MD (ttsuda@nemours.org)
Refreshments will be provided

October 13th

12:00 - 1:00pm, Lecture Hall, Nemours Biomedical Research, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children
"The Fusion Protein OTTMAL Induces Transcriptional R-Loop Formation And Genomic Instability"
Gunhild Sommer, PhD, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Medical university of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Hosted by Jeffrey Twiss, MD, PhD (twiss@medsci.udel.edu)
Refreshments will be provided

October 20th

12:00 - 1:00pm, Lecture Hall, Nemours Biomedical Research, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children
"From Gene to Treatment: The Example of Familial Dysautonomia"
Susan A. Slaugenhaupt, PhD, Associate Professor for Neurology, Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusettes General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Hosted by Grace Hobson, PhD

Frank M. Hoopes Memorial Lecture

October 1st

5:45 pm Reception, 6:30 pm Speaker
Featuring: Dr. John T. McDevitt, Professor of Chemistry, University of Texas
"Next Generation Saliva Diagnostics Based on Nano-Bio-Chip Sensor Systems"
John H. Ammon Medical Education Center, Stanton Campus of Christiana Care, Newark

Department of Physics and Astronomy

October 1st

Colloquium
4:00pm, 103 Gore Hall, UD Campus
"Quantum Networks of Atoms"
Dr. Chris Monroe, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland and NIST

October 6th

Seminar
2:30pm, 215 Sharp Lab, UD Campus
"On the mass loss, evolution, and fate of the most massive stars"
Dr. Jorick Vink, Armaugh Observatory

October 8th

Colloquium
4:00pm, 103 Gore Hall, UD Campus
"Nothing Amuses More Harmlessly Than Computation..."
Dr. Michael Klein, University of Pennsylvania, Laboratory for the Research on the Structure of Matter"

October 28th

Seminar
2:00pm, 215 Sharp Lab, UD Campus
"Probing Single-Atom Magnetization Curves by Spin-Polarized STM"
Dr. Focko Karl Meier, Cornell University

October 29th

Colloquium
4:00pm, 103 Gore Hall, UD Campus
"The Credibility Crunch in Cosmic Rays"
Dr. Simon Swordy, University of Chicago, Particle Astrophysics

Biology Fall Seminar Series

October 1st

4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall, UD Campus
"RHO GTPASES in Cell Adhesion and Leukocte Transendothelial Migration"
Dr. Keith Burridge, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy
Hosted by: Dr. Ulhas Naik
Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm

October 8th

4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall, UD Campus
"DNA Topoisomerases I and DNA Replication"
Yves Pommier, M.D., PhD, Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Center for Cancer Research, NCI
Host: Dr Daniel Simmons

October 15th

4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall, UD Campus
"Growth Factor Regulation of Articular Cartilage"
Janet E. Price, PhD, Associate Professor of Cancer Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Hosted by: Dr. Kenneth van Golen
Refreshments served at 3:30

October 29th

4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall, UD Campus
"The Role of A-Kinase Anchoring Protein 121 (AKAP121) in the Expression of the Steroidogenic Acute Regulatory (StAR) Protein and Steroidogenesis"
Douglas M. Stocco, Executive Vice President for Research, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Chemistry-Biology Interface Seminars

October 15th

12:15 - 1:15pm, 219 Brown Lab, UD Campus
"Glycosylation and Glycoproteins"
Dr. Michael Betenbaugh, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, John Hopkins University

October 22nd

12:15 - 1:15pm, 219 Brown Lab, UD Campus
Presentations by 3 First-Year Students
Brian J. Grindel, Daniel R. Hess, Stephanie H. Scott

October 29th

12:15 - 1:15pm, 219 Brown Lab, UD Campus
"Acquisition by Sperm of GPI-linked Proteins from Reproductive Lumenal Fluid"
Dr. patricia A. DeLeon, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware