Delaware Biotechnology Institute

All Luncheon Seminars will be held on Thursdays
In Delaware Biotechnology Institute Conference Room 102
from 12:00pm – 1:00pm unless noted otherwise
(Lunch begins at 11:45am)
Events Schedule

October 5

"Can there be a science of ethics?"
Thomas Powers, Ph.D., DBI Faculty Research Fellow
Delaware Biotechnology Institute

October 12

TBA
Millicent Sullivan, Ph.D, Assistant Professor
UD Chemical Engineering

October 19

"Inhibitors of mammalian Target of Rapamycin (mTOR) as Transplantation Immunosuppressors and Anti-cancer Drugs: New Role for Protein Translation"
Leslie J. Krueger, PhD, FACMG
Head, Molecular Genetics, Cellular and Tissue Transplantation and
Director, Structural & Functional Genomics Diagnostics
Nemours Biomedical Research, Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children

October 26

"Mathematical Modeling for in Vitro Oncolytic Virus Experiments"
Ryan Zurakowski, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
UD Electrical & Computer Engineering

Biological Sciences Seminars

http://www.udel.edu/bio/

October 4

4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
Dr. Jill A. Macoska, Department of Urology Director - University of Michigan
“Lessons Learned Using An In Vitro Model that Mimics the Aging Prostate”

October 11

4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
Dr. John C. Kappes, University of Alabama - Center for Aids Research
“Lentiviral Vectors: Utility and Safety”

October 18

4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
Dr. David Burr, Chair, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine
“Anti-remodeling Therapies for Osteoporosis Alter the Properties of the Mineralized Bone Matrix”

October 25

4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
Dr. Michael J. Soares, Professor and Director - Institute of Maternal-Fetal Biology
Medicine University of Kansas Medical Center
“The Prolactin Family Hypoxia and Pregnancy-Dependent Adaptations”

Biochemistry Seminar

http://www.udel.edu/chem/seminar/sem-b.htm

October 13

4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab – UD Campus
Professor Henry Weiner
“Mechanistic insights from the crystal structure of aldehyde Dehydrogenase”
Host: Roberta Colman

Chemistry/Biochemistry Interface Seminar

http://www.udel.edu/chem/seminar/sem-cb.htm

October 3

12:30-1:30pm, 210 Brown Lab – UD Campus
Dr. Xinqio Jia, Dept of Materials Science and Engineering, UD
“Vocal Fold Tissue Engineering”

Analytical/Physical Chemistry Seminars

http://www.udel.edu/chem/seminar/sem-ap.ht

October 9

4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab
Dr. Charles McEwen
“ASAP,DART,DESI, DAPCI, DAPESI, GC/APCI-MS, and GC/APPI-MS; What can these acronyms do for you?”
Host: Burnaby Munson, bmunson@udel.edu

October 16

4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab
Professor Mei Hong
TBA
Host: Tatyana Polenova, tpolenov@chem.udel.edu

October 23

4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab
Professor Lisa Holland
“Bicelle liquid crystals: a vehicle for capillary separations”
Host: Sharon Neal, sneal@udel.edu

Organic/Inorganic Chemistry Seminars

http://www.udel.edu/chem/seminar/sem-io.htm

October 4

4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab – UD Campus
Professor Jindrich Kopecek
TBA
Host: Joel Schneider

October 18

4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab – UD Campus
Professor M. Christina White
TBA
Joel Schneider

October 25

4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab – UD Campus
Dr. Dan Appella
TBA
Host: Joel Schneider

Chemical Engineering Seminars

www.che.udel.edu/seminars

October 6

10:00am, 102/103 Colburn Laboratory – UD Campus
Refreshments are available at 9:45am
The Pigford Memorial Lecture
Dr. William Banholzer, Dow Chemical Company
“Personal Experience in the Application of Chemical Engineering and Selected
Research Topics at Dow”

October 20

10:00am, 102/103 Colburn Laboratory – UD Campus
Refreshments are available at 9:45am
Dr. Mauricio Futran & Dr. San Kiang, Bristol-Myers Squibb
“Emergence of Modeling in Pharmaceutical Process Development”

Materials Science & Engineering Seminar

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

October 9

2:00 -3:15pm, 130 Smith Hall – UD Campus
Robert Langer, MIT
“Advances in Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering”
Host: Xinqiao Jia

October 18

10:00 – 11:00am, 102 Colburn Lab – UD Campus
Paul Alivisatos, UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
“Hybrid-Nanorod Polymer Solar Cells”
Host: MRS Student Chapter

Nemours Seminars

http://nemours.org/internet?url=no/rsch/art2512.html
All meetings will take place in the Lecture Hall (Wilmington)
To register, please go to: https://medsci.udel.edu/symposia

October 2

Spotlight on Nemours Research
"Determinants of Local Protein Synthesis--La is on the Move in Regenerating Axons" Jeffery Twiss, MD, PhD, Head of the Neuroscience Research Laboratory

October 9

"Nuclear Receptors as Therapeutic Targets in Alzheimer's Disease"
Gary Landreth, PhD, Professor of Neurosciences and Neurology, Alzheimer Research Laboratory, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH

October 16

TBA

October 23

Nemours Research Core Open House
(PLEASE NOTE: Special Time: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.)

October 30

TBA
Kamin Johnson, PhD
Cosponsored by the Center for Pediatric Research.

October 13-14

Spoken Language Development in Children with Cochlear Implants

DPA Condensed Matter Seminar

October 17

2:00 PM, Bartol Conference Room - 215 Sharp Lab – UD Campus
Fred Mancoff, Technology Solutions Organization - Freescale Semiconductor Inc.
Magnetodynamics in Spin-Transfer Point Contact Oscillators: Phase-Locking
and Area-Dependent Properties"
Host: Sui-Tat Chui

DPA Colloquium

October 18

4:00 PM, 114 Purnell Hall – UD Campus
Albert Libchaber, Laboratory of Experimental Condensed Matter Physics -The Rockefeller University
"Physical Aspects of the Origin of Life Problem"
Host: Branislav Nikolic
Refreshments will be available in 225 Sharp Lab at 3:30 PM

Delaware State University Seminar

October 24

2:00pm, Delaware State University Baker Annex Building, Room 122
Dr. Sathy Naidu, Professor Emeritus - University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Institute of Marine Science
"Academic & Research Activities at the School of Fisheries & Sediment Dynamics & Contaminants in the Alaskan Arctic"
Contact: Dr. G. Ozbay for more information: gozbay@desu.edu

UD Philosophy Departmental Seminar

October 27

3:30pm, Gore Hall Room 104 – UD Campus
Alex Rosenberg, Ph.D., R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy- Duke
University
"Does the Genome Carry Information?"
For more information contact: Tom Powers, Assistant Professor - Philosophy & DBI Research Fellow
powers@dbi.udel.edu