DBI September 2006 Events
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Labor Day
University Closed
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Biological Sciences Seminar 4:00 pm

Department of Physics Seminar 4:00 pm

Organic/Inorganic Chemistry Seminar 4:00 pm

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Center for Catalytic Science & Technology 1:30 pm

Biological Sciences Seminar 4:00 pm

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Chemical Engineering Seminar 10:00 am

Delaware Neuroscience Gathering 2:00 pm

Biochemistry Seminar 4:00 pm

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Nemours Seminar
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Chemistry/Biochemistry Interface Seminar 12:30 pm
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Bioscience Breakfast 7:30 am

Biological Sciences Seminar 4:00 pm

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Plant & Soil Sciences 4:00 pm
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Organic/Inorganic Chemistry Seminar 4:00 pm
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Analytical/Physical Chemistry Seminar 4:00 pm

Nemours Seminar

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Chemistry/Biochemistry Interface Seminar 12:30 pm
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Materials Science and Engineering 10:00 am

Biological Sciences Seminar 4:00 pm

Organic/Inorganic Chemistry Seminar 4:00 pm

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DBI Luncheon Seminar 11:30 am
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Analytical/Physical Chemistry Seminar 4:00 pm
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Chemistry/Biochemistry Interface Seminar 12:30 pm
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Biological Sciences Seminar 4:00 pm
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DBI Luncheon Seminar 12:00 pm
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Core Centers Open House 9:30 am

Chemical Engineering Seminar 10:00 am

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Delaware Neuroscience Gathering

September 8, 2006

2:00-5:00 PM at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute

Bioscience Breakfast

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7:30am – 9:00am, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
7:30 am Breakfast and Networking
8:00 am to 9:00 am Presentations

DBI Luncheon Seminar Series

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

September 21

New Faculty Welcome Reception and Building Orientation (begins at 11:30am)

September 28

“Discovering atomic force microscopy (AFM), from molecules to cells”
Elizabeth Adams, Ph.D., Bioimaging Associate Scientist
Delaware Biotechnology Institute 

Core Centers Open House

September 29

9:30am – 12:30pm, Conference Room 102, Delaware Biotechnology Institute
An Overview of Life Science Core Facilities available at the University of Delaware and INBRE-affiliated Institutions
Open to all members of Delaware’s life science community - Registration required
For more information or to register visit:  https://secure.dbi.udel.edu/registration/openhouse/

Plant & Soil Sciences

http://ag.udel.edu/plsc/events/calendar.php

September 14

Ornamentals Research Expo
4:00pm-7:30pm, Townsend Hall – UD Campus
Ornamentals Research Expo - UD and DE Cooperative Extension invite you to the UD Botanic Gardens - Townsend Hall; Ornamental Displays, Tours of UDBG, Research plots and Picnic Dinner, Plants for Industry Evaluation.
$15.00 covers cost of picnic dinner
Registration form and schedule: http://ag.udel.edu/extension/
Contact Susan Barton 302-831-2531 for additional information

Biological Sciences Seminars

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

September 6

4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
Triantafyllos Chavakis, National Cancer Institute
"Vascular Biology Related Functions of Junctional Adhesion Molecule-C"  

September 7

4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
Thomas Lee Bauer II, M.D., Thoracic Surgeon, Helen F. Graham Cancer Center
“Thoracic Malignancies from the Bedside to the Bench and Back”

September 13

4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
Gail Prins, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Regulation of Prostate Development and Morphogenesis: Relationship to Prostate Carcinoma"

September 20

4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
James L. Sherley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Mechanisms of Genetic Fidelity in Adult Stem Cells"

September 27

4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall – UD Campus
Pamela J. Green, University of Delaware
"Elucidating the Small RNA Component of the Transcriptome"

Biochemistry Seminar

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

September 8

4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab – UD Campus
Professor Eugene Mueller
“Pseudouridine Synthases: Re-examining a Mechanism that Seemed Settled”
Host: Charles Riordan
Colloquium (205 Gore)

Chemistry/Biochemistry Interface Seminars

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

September 12

12:30-1:30pm, 210 Brown Lab – UD Campus
Dr. Jun O. Liu, Dept. of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences - John Hopkins School of Medicine
“Signal Transduction, Angiogenesis and cell proliferation”

September 19

12:30-1:30pm, 210 Brown Lab – UD Campus
Dr. Andres J. Garcia, Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience - Georgia Institute of Technology
“Engineering cell-biomaterials Interfaces: Can You Hear Me Now?”

September 26

12:30-1:30pm, 210 Brown Lab – UD Campus
Dr. Deni Galileo, Dept. of Biological Sciences, UD
TBA

Analytical/Physical Chemistry Seminars

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

September 18

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

September 25

4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab
Professor Dor Ben-Amotz
TBA
Host: Tatyana Polenova, tpolenov@chem.udel.edu

Organic/Inorganic Chemistry Seminars

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

September 6

4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab – UD Campus
Professor Neal Zondlo
“Design of Tunable Proteins: Control of Protein Structure by Phosphoryation, by Electronics, and by Stereoelectronic Effects”
Host: Charles Riordan
Colloquium (205 Gore)

September 15 FRIDAY

4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab – UD Campus
Professor Karl Wieghardt
TBA
Host: Klaus Theopold
Colloquium (205 Gore)

September 20

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

Chemical Engineering Seminars

www.che.udel.edu/seminars

September 8

10:00am, 102/103 Colburn Laboratory – UD Campus
Refreshments are available at 9:45am
Dr. Lee Lynd, Dartmouth College
“Microbial Cellulose Utilization: Fundamentals and Biotechnology”

September 29

10:00am, 102/103 Colburn Laboratory – UD Campus
Refreshments are available at 9:45am
Dr. James Dumesic, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Catalytic Production of Fuels from Biomass-derived Oxygenated Hydrocarbons”

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

September 11

"Activity-Dependent Plasticity and Transplant-Mediated Repair in the Injured Spinal Cord"
Professor John D. Houle, Drexel University College of Medicine

September 18

"Gene Therapy Targets for Heart Failure"
Walter J. Koch, PhD, FAHA, W.W. Smith Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Director, Center for Translational Medicine; Vice Chairman for Research, Department of Medicine; Head, George Zallie & Family Laboratory for Cardiovascular Gene Therapy, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA
Cosponsored by the Center for Pediatric Research.

Department of Physics Seminars (DPA)

http://www.physics.udel.edu/event/

September 6

4:00 PM, 103 Gore Hall
COLLOQUIUM Featuring:
Daicar - Bata Prize, For the best paper in Physics and Astronomy
Henry Glyde, Origins of the Daicar-Bata prize
Sasikumar Palaniyappan, Ultrastrong field ionization of Nen+ rescattering and the hole of the magnetic field
V. Nefer Senoguz, Reheat temperature in supersymmetric hybrid inflation models
Liviu P. Zarbo, Nonequilibrium spin hall accumulation in ballistic semiconductor nanostructures
Daicar - Bata Prize, For the highest GPA in Physics and Astronomy
Meijun Lu, Best TA Award 2005-2006
Md Tareque Aziz
Refreshments will be served after the colloquium

Center for Catalytic Science & Technology (CCST)

http://www.che.udel.edu/ccst/

September 7

Dr. Lee Lynd – Dartmouth College
"The Role of Biomass in America's Energy Future"
1:30 pm, 106 Composites Manufacturing Science Laboratory – UD Campus
Refreshments will be available in the lobby at 1:15 pm
http://www.che.udel.edu/ccst/Lynd_ccst_abstract.pdf

Materials Science and Engineering

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

September 20

10:00 – 11:00am, 102 Colburn Lab – UD Campus
Kennett Evans-Lutterodt, Brookhaven National Labs NSLS
“Micro-diffraction at NSLS and Kinoform hard x-ray optics”
Host: Bob Opila