Directions to the Delaware Biotechnology Institute www.dbi.udel.edu/maps.html
All programs are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
December 16 BioStrategy Partners
9:30am – 2:00pm, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
"Part 2: The Seven Deadly Sins Committed by Start Ups Seeking Funding"
This is the second part of a series of forums involving how to seek money from investor organizations and individuals. In this session, hear about the seven deadly sins committed by start up companies as they go out to gain institutional funding. Learn about seven problems venture capitalists look for that might kill your chances of being funded.
This event is made available for BioStrategy Partners members, their guests and invitees only. If you are interested in membership, you'll be able to find member advantages at www.biosp.com/member.php where you can also enroll.
Register on-line at: https://secure.dbi.udel.edu/registration/biosp.cgi
For further information, contact carolyn@biosp.com (215.348.9300)
For directions to the Delaware Biotechnology Institute http://www.dbi.udel.edu/directions.html
December 12 Current Topics in Plant Biology
Graduate Hosted Seminar Series
1:15-2:15pm, 132 Townsend Hall (UD Campus)
"Evolution of DNA Sequence Diversity in Maize"
Dr. Antoni Rafalski, DuPont Agricultural Genomics
Contact Nissan@dbi.udel.edu to schedule a meeting or for more information
December 12 Physics & Astronomy
4:00pm, 102 Gore Hall (UD Campus)
"Spin-Dependent Transport in Nanoscale Systems"
Yi Ji, Materials Science Division and Center for Nanoscale Materials Argonne
National Laboratory
December 12 Biological Sciences Seminars
CANCELLED
Dr. Lori Isom, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Michigan
December 8 Inorganic/Organic Chemistry Seminars
12:30pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
TBA
Ryan Mehl, Franklin and Marshall
Hosted by Professor Neal Zondlo, zondlo@udel.edu
December 8 DBI Luncheon Seminar Series
12:00pm, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
"Stochastic models for gene evolution and gene genealogies"
Dr. Anja Sturm, Assistant Professor
University of Delaware, Department of Mathematical Sciences
December 7 Analytical & Physical Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 210 Brown Laboratory (UD Campus)
"The Xe chemical shift in channels, cages, and other nanopores"
Professor Cynthia Jameson
University of Illinois at Chicago
Hosted by Professor Tatyana Polenova, tpolenov@chem.udel.edu
December 7 CCM Seminar
10:30-11:30am, 106 Center for Composite Materials (UD Campus)
"Evolution of Spinneret, Spigot and Web Architectures in Spiders"
Jonathan Coddington, SMITHSONIAN
Please Visit www.udel.edu/mse for more details
December 7 Biological Sciences Seminars
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall (UD Campus)
"Molecular Mechanisms ofADP-induced Platelet Activitaion"
Dr. Satya Kunapuli, Temple University
December 6 College of Marine Studies Seminars
1:00pm, 202 Cannon Lab, Lewes Campus - via ITV 206 Robinson Hall (UD Campus)
"Methane and sulfur cycling in brine pools and mud volcanoes along the north Gulf of Mexico continental slope."
Dr. Mandy Joye, University of Georgia- Institute of Marine Science
Host: Thomas Hanson
December 5 Biochemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
Wilson A. Francisco, Arizona State University
"Oxygen activation by metalloenzymes and bacterial metal transport"
Hosted by Professor Brian Bahnson, bahnson@udel.edu
December 5 Current Topics in Plant Biology
Graduate Hosted Seminar Series
1:15-2:15pm, 132 Townsend Hall (UD Campus)
"Regulation of developmental timing in Arabidopsis by trans-acting siRNAs"
Dr. Scott Poethig, University of Pennsylvania
Contact aleonard@udel.edu to schedule a meeting or for more information
December 2 Inorganic/Organic Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
TBA
Tom Rauchfuss, University of Illinois
Hosted by Professor Charles Riordan, riordan@udel.edu
December 2 Plant & Soil Science Seminar
1:25pm, 132 Townsend Hall
"Adopting technology on the Farm: When Does it Pay?"
Ag Program Leader Ed Kee, Cooperative Extension and
Farmer John Hastings, Laurel, Delaware
For more information contact kturner@udel.edu
December 2 Mechanical Engineering Seminar
12:15pm, 114 Spencer Lab (UD Campus)
TBA
Dr. Reggie Edgerton, UCLA
December 2 Chemical Engineering Seminars
10:00am, 102-103 Colburn Lab (UD Campus)
"The Flow, Aging and Memory of Soft Particle Pastes"
Roger T. Bonnecaze - University of Texas at Austin
Note: Refreshments available in 103 Colburn 15min. prior to seminar start time.
Informal reception will be held in honor of the Colburn, Gerster, Pigford, and Wohl Memorial Lecturers at 4:00 p.m. in the first-floor lobby of Colburn Laboratory on the day of the respective lectures.
December 1 Inorganic/Organic Chemistry Seminars
12:30pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
Roger M. Freidinger, Merck Research Laboratories, Retired
"Design and Synthesis of Novel Bioactive Peptides and Peptidomimetics"
Hosted by Professor Joel Schneider, schneijp@udel.edu
December 1 DBI Luncheon Seminar Seriess
12:00pm, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
"Carbon Nanotube Sensors as Molecular Scale Probes for Chemistry and Biology"
Dr. Balaji Panchapakesan, Assistant Professor – University of Delaware
NanoSelect-Sensors, Inc.
November 30 Special Seminar
4:00pm, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
“Leveraging Technology to Optimize Drug Discovery”
Dr. Stephen Brenner, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Reception to follow
November 30 Biological Sciences Seminars
2:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall (UD Campus)
"Fish Thrombocytes: Are they Megakaryocytes or Platelets?"
Dr. Pudur Jagadeeswaran, The University of Texas Health Science Center
November 29 Chemistry-Biology Interface Seminars
12:30pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
TBA
Dr. Eric Kmiec, Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware
November 28 Special Seminar
4:00p, Trabant University Center (UD Campus)
“Individuals, Communities and Global Patterns: Widening the Scope of Genomics”
Dr. Karin Remington, Venter Institute
Reception to follow
November 28 Biochemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
"Peroxiredoxin 6,a bi-functional protein with glutathione peroxidase and phospholipase A2 activities"
Aron B. Fisher, University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by Professor Brian Bahnson, bahnson@udel.edu
November 21 Nemours Research Seminar
12:00-1:00pm, Classroom 1 (refreshments provided)
TBA
Jeffrey Golden, MD, Associate Professor, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia,
Hosts: Carolyn Schanen, MD, PhD (schanen@medsci.udel.edu) &
Jeffery Twiss, MD, PhD (twiss@medsci.udel.edu)
Nemours Biomedical Research - Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
1600 Rockland Road, Wilmington, DE 19899
For information call 302-651-6803
November 21 Current Topics in Plant Biology
Graduate Hosted Seminar Series
1:15-2:15pm, 132 Townsend Hall (UD Campus)
"Roles of the Microtubule-based Motor Kinesins in Plant Cytokinesis"
Dr. Bo Liu, University of California Davis
Contact ktplants@udel.edu to schedule a meeting or for more information
November 18 Inorganic/Organic Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
Karl Scheidt, Northwestern University
"Lessons from Nature: Advances in the Development of New Polarity Reversal Reactions"
Hosted by Professor Joseph Fox, jmfox@udel.edu
November 18 Chemical Engineering Seminars
10:00am, 102-103 Colburn Lab (UD Campus)
"Molecular Design and Cellular Delivery of Oligonucleotides"
Charles M. Roth - Rutgers University
Note: Refreshments available in 103 Colburn 15min. prior to seminar start time.
Informal reception will be held in honor of the Colburn, Gerster, Pigford, and Wohl Memorial Lecturers at 4:00 p.m. in the first-floor lobby of Colburn Laboratory on the day of the respective lectures.
November 17 DBI Luncheon Seminar Series
12:00pm, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
"Cancer Nanotechnology: How Tiny Technology can Revolutionize Oncology"
Dr. Balaji Panchapakesan, Assistant Professor
University of Delaware, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
November 17 BRI/Particle Theory & Astrophysics Seminar
2:00pm, 217 Sharp Lab (UD Campus)
To Be Announced (Stellar Astrophysics)
Debra Wallace - Goddard Space Flight Center
November 16 Analytical & Physical Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 210 Brown Laboratory (UD Campus)
"Modeling of batch processes with in-situ spectroscopic and calorimetric measurements "
Paul Gemperline, East Carolina University
Hosted by Professor Steve Brown, sdb@udel.edu
November 16 Biological Sciences Seminars
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall (UD Campus)
"Temporal and Spatial Regulation of Transcription in Vivo and Chromatin Remodeling in Developing Mouse Lens"
Dr. Ales Cvekl, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Department of Molecular Genetics- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
November 14 Biochemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
"Coenzyme A-Disulfide Reductase and CoASH-Mediated Redox Control in Bacillus anthracis"
Dr. Al Claiborne, Wake Forest University
Hosted by Professor Colin Thorpe, cthorpe@udel.edu
November 14 Nemours Research Seminar (link to Nemours F05.pdf)
12:00-1:00pm, Classroom 1 (refreshments provided)
TBA
Paul E. Garfinkel, MS, Director of the Nemours Office of Human Subject Protection,
Nemours Children’s Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
Host: Wenlan Wang, MD, PhD (wwang@nemours.org)
Nemours Biomedical Research - Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
1600 Rockland Road, Wilmington, DE 19899
For information call 302-651-6803
November 14 College of Marine Studies Seminars
Monday 1:00pm, 202 Cannon Lab, Lewes Campus - via ITV 206 Robinson Hall (UD Campus)
Dr. Jenn Macalady, Penn State University- Institutes of the Environment, Geosciences
Host: Thomas Hanson
November 11 Inorganic/Organic Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
Blake Peterson, PennState
"Synthetic Mimics of Mammalian Cell Surface Receptors"
Hosted by Professor Joseph Fox, jmfox@udel.edu
November 11 David Norton Memorial Lecture
7:00pm, Clayton Hall (UD Campus)
"Darwin, Meaning, Truth and Morality"
Daniel C. Dennett, Prof. of Philosophy - Tufts University
November 11 CORE CENTERS OPEN HOUSE
9:00 – 11:30 AM, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
Open to Delaware’s academic community- all are welcome
An Overview of Life Science Core Facilities available at the University of Delaware and INBRE-affiliated Institutions
REGISTRATION required. If you want to learn more about how these instruments can be used in your research and meet your colleagues, please register for this open house at http://caffeine.dbi.udel.edu/openhouse/ or call Joann McCafferty at (302) 831-2173.
Refreshments provided
November 11 Plant & Soil Science Seminar
1:25pm, 132 Townsend Hall
"Modeling Competition Between Dehalococcoides ethenogenes and Other Tetrachloroethene-Respiring Bacteria for Growth Substrates: Implications for Contaminant Fate and In Situ Bioremediation."
Jennifer Becker, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
For more information contact kturner@udel.edu
November 11 Chemical Engineering Seminars
10:00am, 102-103 Colburn Lab (UD Campus)
"Process modeling dynamics and control, nonlinear model predictive control, state estimation and process identification, particle technology"
James B. Rawlings - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Note: Refreshments available in 103 Colburn 15min. prior to seminar start time.
Informal reception will be held in honor of the Colburn, Gerster, Pigford, and Wohl Memorial Lecturers at 4:00 p.m. in the first-floor lobby of Colburn Laboratory on the day of the respective lectures.
November 10 POSE Seminar
11:00am, 203 Robinson Hall (UD Campus)
"Turbulent Transfer at the Air-Sea Interface: A Review of Recent Advances"
Dr. Christopher W. Fairall, Physical Science Division - NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory
(Refreshments will be served following the seminar)
November 10 DBI Luncheon Seminar Series
12:00pm, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
"Optoacoustic arrays for high frequency ultrasound imaging"
Dr. Takashi Buma, Assistant Professor
University of Delaware, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
November 9 CCM Seminar
10:30-11:30am, 106 Center for Composite Materials (UD Campus)
"Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Thermo-Responsive Block Copolymers"
Shu Yang, UPENN
Please Visit www.udel.edu/mse for more details
November 9 Biological Sciences Seminars
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall (UD Campus)
"DNA-K at the Interface between Nonhomologous End-joining and Homologous Recombination"
Jac Nickoloff, Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine
November 9 Analytical & Physical Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 210 Brown Laboratory (UD Campus)
"Characterization of Drug Metabolism Using Chemometric Methods"
Sarah C. Rutan, Virginia Commonwealth University
Hosted by Professor Steve Brown, sdb@udel.edu
November 8 College of Marine Studies Seminars
1:00pm, 202 Cannon Lab, Lewes Campus - via ITV 206 Robinson Hall (UD Campus)
Dr. Beverly Pierson, University of Puget Sound- Biology Department
Host: Thomas Hanson
November 8 Chemistry-Biology Interface Seminars
12:30pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
"Molecular Pharmacology & Chemistry Program"
Derek Tan, Ph.D., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
November 7 Biochemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
"Role of malonyl-CoA in the hypothalamic control of food intake and energy expenditure"
M. Daniel Lane, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Hosted by Professor Hal White, halwhite@udel.edu
November 7 Graduate Plant and Soil Science Seminar Series
2:30 – 4pm, 101 Allen Lab (UD Campus)
"Whole genome transcriptional analyses using massively parallel signature sequencing (MPSS)."
Dr. Blake Meyers, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Plant & Soil Science
November 7 Biochemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
"Role of malonyl-CoA in hypothalamic control of food intake and energy expenditure"
M. Daniel Lane, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
November 7 Nemours Research Seminar
12:00-1:00pm, Classroom 1 (refreshments provided)
"Understanding the Mechanism and Treatment of ALS Using RNA"
Zuoshang Xu, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
Host: Wenlan Wang, MD, PhD (wwang@nemours.org)
Nemours Biomedical Research - Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
1600 Rockland Road, Wilmington, DE 19899
For information call 302-651-6803
November 4 Inorganic/Organic Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
Thomas P. Fehlner, University of Notre Dame
"Molecular Expression of Quantum Cellular Automata. Surface Bound Mixed-Valence Complexes as Field Switchable Charge Containers"
Hosted by Professor Svilen Bobev, sbobev@udel.edu
November 4 Plant & Soil Science Seminar
1:25pm, 132 Townsend Hall
"Live Cell Imaging of the Plant Secretory Pathway"
Professor Chris Hawes, Oxford Brookes University
For more information contact kturner@udel.edu
November 3 BRI/Particle Theory & Astrophysics Seminar
2:00pm, 217 Sharp Lab (UD Campus)
To Be Announced (Stellar Astrophysics)
Eric Jensen - Swarthmore College
November 2 Analytical & Physical Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 210 Brown Laboratory (UD Campus)
“Homo- and hetero-nuclear correlation solid-state NMR spectroscopy; applications to heterogeneous catalysts and nanoscale materials”
Professor Marek Pruski, Iowa State University
Hosted by Professor Tatyana Polenova, tpolenov@chem.udel.edu
November 2 UD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Seminar
10:00am, Allen Lab Conference Room (UD Campus)
"Avian Influenza Srveillance in Migratory Birds"
Dr. Bjorn Olsen, Department of Biology and Environmental Science, University of Kalmar, and Department of Infectious Diseases, Kalmar County Hospital in Kalmar, Sweden
"How Can 60 Years of Bird Banding Help us Today? The Ottenby Bird Observatory Example"
Johan Stedt, Warden, Ottenby Bird Observatory in Sweden
Sponsored by the Department of Animal & Food Sciences and University of Delaware
Refreshments will be served
November 2 DBI Luncheon Seminar Series
12:00pm, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
"The Beginning of the End, Fungal Telomeres"
Dr. Chuck Staben, Associate VP for Research
University of Kentucky
November 2 Biological Sciences Seminars
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall (UD Campus)
"The Ubiquitin Superfamily in Arabidopsis: New Member, New Function."
Scott Saracco, Research Associate- University of Wisconsin
November 1 Chemistry-Biology Interface Seminars
12:30pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
“Overcoming Multidrug Resistance Using Cyclic Enones with Glutathione S-Transferase: Working at the Chemistry/Tumor Cell Biology Interface”
Dr. Donald J. Creighton, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry -Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County
October 31 Nemours Research Seminar
12:00-1:00pm, Classroom 1(refreshments provided)
“Familial Chondrocalcinosis and the Role of ANKH in the Pathological Calcification of Cartilage”
Charlene J. Williams, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, Associate Director of Research, Division of Rheumatology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Host: Vicky L. Funanage, PhD (vfunanag@nemours.org)
Nemours Biomedical Research - Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
1600 Rockland Road, Wilmington, DE 19899
For information call 302-651-6803
October 31 Biochemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
“Regulation of Platelet Integrin Function”
Joel S. Bennett, M.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Hosted by Professor Brian Bahnson, bahnson@udel.edu
October 28 POSE Seminar
3:30pm, 203 Robinson Hall(UD Campus)
"The WindField over the Middle Atlantic BightContinental Shelf as a Resource for OffshoreElectricPowerGeneration "
Dr.Richard Garvine, POSE Harrington Professor
Graduate College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware
October 28 Mechanical Engineering Seminar
12:15pm, 114 Spencer Lab (UD Campus)
"A Hierarchical Material Model Integrating Multi-Scale Phenomena in Composites"
Dr. Assimina A. Pelegri, Rutgers University
October 27 DBI Luncheon Seminar Series
12:00pm, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
"How plants communicate using the underground information superhighway”
Dr. Harsh Bais, Assistant Professor
University of Delaware, Department of Plant & Soil Sciences
October 27 BRI/Particle Theory & Astrophysics Seminar
2:00pm, 217 Sharp Lab (UD Campus)
"FUSE Observations of White Dwarfs and Hot Subdwarfs"
Pierre Chayer - Johns Hopkins University
October 26 CCM Seminar
10:30-11:30am, 106 Center for Composite Materials (UD Campus)
“Oxide Semiconductors for Flexible Electronics”
Dr. Peter Carcia, DUPONT
Please Visit www.udel.edu/mse for more details
October 26 Bartol Research Institute (BRI) Seminars
4:00pm, 104 Gore Hall (UD Campus)
"Milagro: Continuously Exploring the Panoramic View of the Very High Energy Sky"
Brenda Dingus - Los Alamos National Laboratory
October 26 Biological Sciences Seminars
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall (UD Campus)
“Chemical Mutagenesis in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells”
Dr. Jay Vivian, Institute of Maternal-Fetal Biology- Dept. of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine University of Kansas Medical Center
October 26 Analytical & Physical Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 210 Brown Laboratory (UD Campus)
Professor Clare Grey, Department of Chemistry - SUNY-Stony Brook
“NMR studies of disorder and motion in lithium-ion batteries, fuel cells and soil minerals”
Hosted by Professor Tatyana Polenova, tpolenov@chem.udel.edu
October 25 Chemistry-Biology Interface Seminars
12:30pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
“Structures and Mechanisms of Two Nudix Hydrolases”
Dr. Albert S. Mildvan, Dept. of Biological Chemistry - Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
October 25 College of Marine Studies Seminars
1:00pm, 202 Cannon Lab, Lewes Campus - via ITV 206 Robinson Hall (UD Campus)
Dr. Raleigh Hood, Horn Point Lab & Dr. Chris Brown, NOAA
Host: David Hutchins
October 24 Biochemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
“Enzymology of Biofilm Formation and Quorum-Sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa”
Peter Tipton, University of Missouri-Columbia
Hosted by Professor Brian Bahnson, bahnson@udel.edu
October 24 Nemours Research Seminar
12:00-1:00pm, Nemours Lecture Hall(refreshments provided)
“Frizzled Receptors in Health and Disease”
Presented by Jeremy Nathans, M.D., Ph.D., Professor
Depts. of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Neuroscience, and Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baltimore, MD
Host: Wenlan Wang, M.D., Ph.D. (wwang@nemours.org)
Nemours Biomedical Research - Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
1600 Rockland Road, Wilmington, DE 19899
For information call 302-651-6803
October 21 Inorganic/Organic Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
Joseph P Sadighi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“New Small Molecule Transformations Catalyzed by Low-Coordinate Copper Complexes”
Hosted by Professor Klaus Theopold, theopold@udel.edu
October21 POSE Seminar
3:30pm, 203 Robinson Hall(UD Campus)
"TheDisintegration of theLow-ModeInternalTide"
Dr.Karl Helfrich,Senior Scientist
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
October 21 Mechanical Engineering Seminar
12:15pm, 114 Spencer Lab (UD Campus)
"Composites-In-Fire: Structural Integrity and Residual Strength"
Dr. George A. Kardomateas, Georgia Tech
October 20 DBI Luncheon Seminar Series
12:00pm, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
"Cell Adhesion Molecules: significance in cardiovascular and cancer biology"
Dr. Ulhas Naik, Associate Professor- University of Delaware, Department of Biological Sciences
October 20 BRI/Particle Theory & Astrophysics Seminar
2:00pm, 217 Sharp Lab (UD Campus)
"How Flux Warps Geometry: The Supergravity Background of BPS M-branes"
Tasneem Zehra Husain - Harvard University
October 19 Bartol Research Institute (BRI) Seminars
4:00pm, 104 Gore Hall (UD Campus)
"Cosmic Ray Studies with Space Based Experiments"
Eun-Suk Seo - University of Maryland
October 19 Biological Sciences Seminars
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall (UD Campus)
“Mechanical Signal Transduction in Bone Cells”
Dr. Janet Rubin, Professor of Medicine- Emory University School of Medicine, Veterans Affair Medical Center
October 19 Analytical & Physical Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 210 Brown Laboratory (UD Campus)
“Expanding Boundaries of Solid-State NMR Methodology: from Paramagnetic Complexes to Protein Misfolding into Amyloid”
Dr. Yoshitaka Ishii, Department of Chemistry- University of Illinois at Chicago
Hosted by Professor Tatyana Polenova, tpolenov@chem.udel.edu
October 18 College of Marine Studies Seminars
202 Cannon Lab, Lewes Campus - via ITV 206 Robinson Hall (UD Campus)
Dr. Kay Bidle, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences- Rutgers University
Host: Eric Wommack
October 17 Nemours Research Seminar
12:00-1:00pm, Nemours Lecture Hall (refreshments provided)
“Diagnosis and Treatment of Post Transplant Lymphoproliferative
Disorder in Children: 35 Years of PTLD—Where Have We Come?”
Thomas Gene Gross, M.D., Ph.D. - Chief, Div. of Hematology, Oncology and Bone Marrow Trans., Children’s Hospital, & Associate Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics,
The Ohio State University Medical School, Columbus, OH
Host: Leslie J. Krueger, Ph.D. (lkrueger@nemours.org)
Nemours Biomedical Research - Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
1600 Rockland Road, Wilmington, DE 19899
For information call 302-651-6803
October 17 Biochemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
“Improving the efficacy of nucleoside analog prodrugs”
Arnon Lavie, University of Illinois at Chicago
Hosted by Professor Brian Bahnson, bahnson@udel.edu
October 14 Inorganic/Organic Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
Brian Goodall, Rohm and Hass
“Challenges and Advances in the Catalytic Copolymerization of Olefins with Polar Monomers”
Hosted by Professor Klaus Theopold, theopold@udel.edu
October 14 POSE Seminar
3:30pm, 203 Robinson Hall (UD Campus)
"Observational Estimates of Volume and Freshwater Fluxes Leaving the Arctic Ocean through Nares Strait"
Dr. Andreas Münchow, Associate Professor - Graduate College of Marine Studies
University of Delaware
October 14 Plant & Soil Science Seminar
1:25pm, 132 Townsend Hall
"Methylation Filtration: Genes, Transposons and Beyond"
Dr. Pablo Rabinowicz of TIGR, The Institute for Genomic Research
For more information contact kturner@udel.edu
October 14 Mechanical Engineering Seminar
12:15pm, 114 Spencer Lab (UD Campus)
Dr. Dawn M. Elliot, University of Pennsylvania
October 13 DBI Luncheon Seminar Series
12:00pm, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
"Mechanotransduction: Cellular mechanisms involved in the control of bone formation by the mechanical environment"
Dr. Randall Duncan, Faculty
University of Delaware, Biological Sciences
October 12 Analytical & Physical Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 210 Brown Laboratory (UD Campus)
“The Development and Application of Pulsed High-Frequency EPR Spectroscopy Methods for the Investigation of Photosystem II Reaction Centers”
Dr. Korrulu Lakshmi, City University of New York- College of Staten Island
Hosted by Professor Tatyana Polenova, tpolenov@chem.udel.edu
October 12 CCM Seminar
10:30-11:30am, 106 Center for Composite Materials (UD Campus)
“Electronic structure and effects of chemical modification in prototypical "molecular wire" systems”
Dr. Steven Robey, NIST
Please Visit www.udel.edu/mse for more details
October 12 Biological Sciences Seminars
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall (UD Campus)
“Telomeres, Telomerase and Chaperones in Prostate Cancer Progression”
Dr. Shawn Holt, Dept. of Pathology, Dept. of Human Genetics, Dept. of Pharmacology and Toxicology; Massey Cancer Center Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University
October 11 Chemistry-Biology Interface Seminars
12:30pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
“Crystallographic Analysis of Nickel Binding
to the Bacterial Periplasmic Transporter NikA”
Dr. Juan C. Fontecilla - CAMPS, Grenoble, France
Laboratoire de Cristallographie et Cristallogenèse des Protéines
October 11 Complex Fluids Seminar Series
2:00pm – 1:30pm, 366 Colburn Lab (UD Campus)
"Thixotropy & Modeling"
Professor Jan Mewis (KU Leuven, Belgium)
October 10 Biochemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
“The Role of Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase in the Control of Energy Metabolism”
Richard Hanson, Case Western
Hosted by Professor Hal White, halwhite@udel.edu
October 7 Inorganic/Organic Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
“Progress toward the Synthesis of the Eunicellin Diterpenes”
Matt McIntosh, University of Arkansas
Host: Joseph Fox
October 7 BioStrategy Workshop
10:00am - 2:30pm, LIMR Wynnewood, PA directions at www.limr.org
“Building a Partnership for Corporate Success”
BioStrategy Partners would like to invite youto a workshop hosted by: The Lankenau Institute For Medical Research (LIMR)
Topic: Building a Partnership For Commercial Success – recommended for the earliest stage Life Sciences companies to provide information on looking forward – what to consider now for future licensing, partnering and strategic alliance decisions. For-warned is for-armed and it’s never too early to understand the important dynamics in readiness for the most important decision a young company can make in its development.
Interested in attending? Contact 215.348.9300 or e-mail carolyn@biosp.com
October 7 College of Agriculture & Plant & Soil Sciences Seminar
2:00 pm, 101 Allen Laboratory
“Processes Governing the Largest Mass Poisoning in History: Arsenic in Drinking Water of Asia”
Scott E. Fendorf, Ph.D., UD, 1991
2005 UD Presidential Citation for Outstanding Achievement Award Recipient
Associate Professor, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences
Stanford University
Reception Immediately Following Seminar
October 7 Mechanical Engineering Seminar
10:15-11:15 106 Center for Composite Materials
"Autonomous Structures: Adding Some Intelligence to Smark Structures"
Jack Vinson Lecture- Dr. Daniel Inman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
October 7
10:00am, 102-103 Colburn Lab (UD Campus)
"Drug Stability in Amorphous Solids: Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations"
Bradley D. Anderson - University of Kentucky
Note: Refreshments available in 103 Colburn 15min. prior to seminar start time.
Informal reception will be held in honor of the Colburn, Gerster, Pigford, and Wohl Memorial Lecturers at 4:00 p.m. in the first-floor lobby of Colburn Laboratory on the day of the respective lectures.
October 7 BRI/Fluids and Plasmas Seminar
2:30pm, 217 Sharp Lab (UD Campus)
"Models of Random Magnetic Fields and Some Implications for Turbulence Structure and Particle Transport in the Heliosphere"
Piyanate Chuychai - Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware
October 6 BRI/Particle Theory & Astrophysics Seminar
2:00pm, 217 Sharp Lab (UD Campus)
To Be Announced
Takemichi Okui - Boston University
October 6 DBI Luncheon Seminar Series
12:00pm, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
“A systems view of pharmacogenomics”
Dr. Sylvia Nagl, Director
Cancer Systems Biology & Bioinformatics at the Department of Oncology, Royal Free Hospital and the University College Medical School- LONDON
October 5 Computational Biology Afternoon Tea (CBAT)
3:00pm, Thomas Jefferson University Solis-Cohen Auditorium, Jefferson Alumni Hall, 1020 Locust Street Philadelphia, PA
“Mechanistic Systems Biology ModelingApproachto Preclinical Cardiac Drug Safety Assessment”
G. Scott Lett, Ph.D., President - The BioAnalytics Group LLC, Hightstown, NJ
For directions and campus map please visit http://www.tju.edu/main/direct.cfm
Contact Dr. James Schwaber at (215) 503-7823 to meet with the candidate
Support for this seminar series provided by the Daniel Baugh Institute for Functional Genomics/Computational Biology in the Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology at TJU, the School of Engineering and the Delaware Biotechnology Institute at UD, a NIGMS National Program of Excellence in Biomedical Computing Grant, and the Greater Philadelphia Bioinformatics Alliance.
(Tea served at 2:45 P.M.)
October 5 Analytical & Physical Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 210 Brown Laboratory (UD Campus)
“Adsorption of Amines on Silicon and Germanium Surfaces”
Professor C. M. Greenlief, University of Missouri, Columbia
Host: Andrew Teplyakov
October 5 Biological Sciences Seminars
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall (UD Campus)
“The Gonad as a Model for Studying Organogenesis, Sexual Dimorphism, and Germ Cell Development”
Mark Van Doren, Ph.D., Department of Biology- Johns Hopkins University
October 4 College of Marine Studies Seminars
1:00pm, 202 Cannon Lab, Lewes Campus - via ITV 206 Robinson Hall (UD Campus)
Dr. Thomas Miller, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
Center for Environmental Science Scale and fish recruitment
October 3 Biochemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
“Biophysical Approaches to Metalloendonuclease Structure and Function “
Dr. Cynthia M. Dupureur, University of Missouri -St. Louis
Host: Eugene Mueller
September 30 Chemical Engineering Seminars
10:00am, 102-103 Colburn Lab (UD Campus)
Wohl Lecture - "Drug-Delivering Integrated Therapeutic Systems"
Alexandra Navrotsky - University of California at Davis
Note: Refreshments available in 103 Colburn 15min. prior to seminar start time.
September 29 CCM Seminar
10:30-11:30am, 106 Center for Composite Materials (UD Campus)
"Silicon Carbide for a New Era of Electronics: Interfacial Issues"
Lisa Porter, CMU
Please Visit www.udel.edu/mse for more details
September 29 BRI/Particle Theory & Astrophysics Seminar
2:00pm, 217 Sharp Lab (UD Campus)
"The Evolutionary Status of Be Stars"
Ginny McSwain - Yale University
September 29 DBI Luncheon Seminar Series
No Seminar
September 28 Bartol Research Institute (BRI) Seminars
4:00pm, 104 Gore Hall (UD Campus)
Colloquium To Be Announced
Jim Drake - University of Maryland
September 28 Physics&Astronomy - Bartol Research Institute Colloquium
4:00pm, 104 Gore Hall (UD Campus)
"A Fermi Mechanism for Energetic Electron Production during Magnetic Reconnection"
James Drake, Department of Physics- Institute for Physical Science and Technology University of Maryland
September 28 Biological Sciences Seminars
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall (UD Campus)
"Surface Science Meets Neuroscience "
Dr. Tom Beebe, Professor- UD Chemistry and Biochemistry
September 27 College of Marine Studies Seminars
1:00pm, 202 Cannon Lab, Lewes Campus - via ITV 206 Robinson Hall (UD Campus)
Dr. Ronald Kneib, University of Georgia-Athens
Marine Institute Populations, individuals, genes and the structure of estuarine landscapes.
September 25-27 Bio Human Resources Conference
Crowne Plaza Times Square Manhattan, New York City
"HR Biotech - The Future is Here"
BIO's human resources conference features a lineup of panel and plenary sessions on topics such as compensation, leadership, retention and other unique challenges of HR in a biotech setting. Early registration deadline is September 13, 2005. Discounted room rate deadline is September 2, 2005.
Register now by going to http://www.bio.org/hr/reg
Current information on registration, program and sponsorships is on our website or contact Ellen Fernandes, Director HR and Administration, at 202-962-9200 or hrconference@bio.org
September 23 Mechanical Engineering Seminar
12:15pm, 114 Spencer Lab (UD Campus)
University of Duisburg, Germany
September 23 Chemistry&Biochemistry Colloquia
4:00pm, 205 Gore Hall (UD Campus)
TBA
Prof. Tim Hughbanks, Texas A&M University
Host: Joseph Fox
September 23 College of Marine Studies Seminars
1:00pm, 202 Cannon Lab, Lewes Campus - via ITV 206 Robinson Hall (UD Campus)
"Deliberate stable isotope additions to elucidate carbon and nitrogen flows in coastal ecosystems"
Dr. Jack Middelburg, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Center for Estuarine and Marine Ecology
Host: George Luther
September 22 DBI Luncheon Seminar Series
12:00pm, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
"Avian Pulmonary Surfactant: Research Explorations and Applications"
Dr. Sabrina Brougher, Assistant Professor
Delaware State University, Biological Science
September 21 Technology Breakfast Series
7:30am - 9:30am, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
Sponsored by the Small Business Development Center
For more information contact: barrywil@udel.edu
September 19 Chemistry&Biochemistry Colloquia
4:00pm, 205 Gore Hall (UD Campus)
"Regulation of Gene Expression by Small Molecules"
Peter B. Dervan, California Institute of Technology
Host: Brian Bahnson
September 16 Mechanical Engineering Seminar
12:15pm, 114 Spencer Lab (UD Campus)
"Characterizing the Mechanical Behavior of Materials for MEMS and Nanocrystalline Metals"
Dr. Kevin Hemker, Johns Hopkins University
September 16 Chemistry&Biochemistry Colloquia
4:00pm, 205 Gore Hall (UD Campus)
"Recent Advances in Catalysis with Dirhodium Compounds "
Michael P. Doyle, University of Maryland
Host: Professor Joe Fox, jmfox@udel.edu
September 16 Chemical Engineering Seminars
10:00am, 102-103 Colburn Lab (UD Campus)
"Direct Oxidation of Hydrocarbon Fuels in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells"
Eric Stuve - University of Washington
September 15 DBI Luncheon Seminar Series
12:00pm, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
"Application of Cloned Single-Molecule Arrays to Genome-Wide Expression Analysis"
Dr. Gary Schroth, Solexa, Inc.- Director, Expression Applications R&D
Contact: Grace Wingfield (wingfiel@dbi.udel.edu) for more information or to schedule a meeting
September 14 Bioscience Breakfast
DBI Conference Room 102
7:30 am Breakfast and Networking
8:00 am to 9:00 am Presentations
To register or have a display table contact lifesciences@dbi.udel.edu
September 14 Chemistry&Biochemistry Colloquia
4:00pm, 205 Gore Hall (UD Campus)
Bennett Lecture ~ GC, MS, and Me
Burnaby Munson, University of Delaware
http://www.udel.edu/MassSpec/munson/munson.htm
Host: Charles Riordan, riordan@udel.edu
September 14 Materials Science&Engineering Seminars
10:30am, 106 Center for Composite Materials (UD Campus)
"Nanostructure Synthesis of (almost) Anything on Anything by Buffer-Layer-Assisted Growth"
John Weaver, University of Illinois at U-C
September 14 Biological Sciences Seminars
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall (UD Campus)
"Neural Mosaicism and Diversity Produced by Non-pathological Aneuploidy"
Dr. Jerold Chun, Department of Molecular Biology, Scripps Institute
Host: Deni Galileo
September 13 Chemistry-Biology Interface Seminars
12:30pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
"Smart Biohybrid Materials That Talk and Listen in Nanospace"
CBI Students Guest Speaker: Dr. Patrick Stayton
Department of Bioengineering - University of Washington
September 13 College of Marine Studies Seminars
4:00pm, 202 Cannon Lab, Lewes Campus - via ITV 206 Robinson Hall (UD Campus)
"The beaches are dancing: long-term "Rock 'n' Roll" variation"
Dr. Art Trembanis, Department of Geology - University of Delaware
Host: Chris Sommerfield
September 12 Biochemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
"Proteins and Multivalent Peptides"
Indraneel Ghosh, University of Arizona
Host: Neal Zondlo
September 12 Nemours Research Seminar
12:00-1:00pm, Nemours Lecture Hall
Liquid Ventilation: From the Bench to the Bedside"
Thomas H. Shaffer, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Physiology & Pediatrics, Temple University
School of Medicine; Professor of Pediatrics, Thomas Jefferson
Medical School; Associate Director, Nemours Biomedical Research;
Director, Nemours Center for Pediatric Research COBRE Grant,
Nemours Office of Technology Transfer, & Nemours Res. Lung Center
September 9 Mechanical Engineering Seminar
12:15pm, 114 Spencer Lab (UD Campus)
Dr. Zoubeida Ounaies, Texas A&M University
"Multifunctional Performance of Carbon Nanotube-Polyer Composites"
September 9 POSE Seminar
3:30 pm, 206 Robinson Hall/202 Cannon Lab
Dr. Dana Veron, Assistant Professor, Atmospheric Physics Rutgers University
"Improving the representation of cloud-radiation interactions in climate models"
September 9 Chemistry&Biochemistry Colloquia
4:00pm, 205 Gore Hall (UD Campus)
John Koh, University of Delaware
TBA
http://www.udel.edu/chem/koh/Kohgroup.html
September 9 Chemical Engineering Seminar
10:00am, 103 Colburn Lab (UD Campus)
Professor Christian Lastoskie - University of Michigan
"Stochastic Process Modeling in Biology and the Environment"
September 9 Plant&Soil Sciences Seminar
1:25pm, 132 Townsend Hall (UD Campus)
Dr. Jun Kwak, University of Maryland
"From genomics to cellular dynamics: Genetic Dissection of ABA and Ca2+ Signaling in Arabidopsis Guard Cells"
September 7 Chemistry&Biochemistry Colloquia
4:00pm, 205 Gore Hall (UD Campus)
Tatyana Polenova, University of Delaware
"Proteins and Materials in the Solid State: NMR Studies of Structure and Function"
http://www.udel.edu/chem/polenova/ssnmr.html
September 7 Biological Sciences Seminar
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall (UD Campus)
Dr. Ardythe McCracken, Foundation Professor
Biology Department of the University of Nevada
"Intracellular Protein Quality Control and Disease: Which Way to the Recycle Bin?"
September 6 Nemours Research Seminar
12:00-1:00pm, Nemours Lecture Hall
Dr. Paul J. Higgins, The Albany Medical College, Center for Cell Biology&Cancer Research
"Transcriptional Profiling of Human Tumor Progression Genes?"
Host: Carolyn Schanen, M.D., Ph.D. (schanen@medsci.udel.edu)
For more information call: 302-651-6804
September 2 Computer&Information Sciences Seminar
9:30am, 102A Smith Hall (UD Campus)
Arunabha (Arun) Sen, Department of Computer Science and Engineering- Arizona State University
September 2 Inorganic/Organic Chemistry Seminar
4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab (UD Campus)
Patrick Walsh, University of Pennsylvania
"Catalytic Asymmetric C-C and C-O Bond-Forming Reactions"
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/chem/faculty/walsh/Walsh2/
August 2005
July 2005
July 25 Nemours Research Seminars
12:00-1:00pm, Nemours Lecture Hall
Grace M. Hobson, PhD, Head of the Neurogenetics Research Laboratory
Spotlight on Nemours Research, “The Splice of Life: RNA Processing and Genetic Disease” For more information call: 302-651-6803
July 20 Technology Breakfast Series
7:30am - 9:30am, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
Sponsored by the Small Business Development Center
For more information contact: barrywil@udel.edu
July 13 Chemical Engineering Seminar
9:30am, Colburn Lab Room 366
Christian Fischer, Laboratoire de Technologie des Composites et Polymères
(LTC)
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
"Dynamic Properties of Sandwich Structures with Integrated Shear Thickening
Fluids" (STFs)
July 13, DEDO-DBI Bioscience Breakfast
DBI Conference Room 102
7:30 am Breakfast and Networking
8:00 am to 9:00 am Presentations
July 12 Biological Sciences Special Seminar
10:00am, Wolf Hall 318 (UD Campus)
Dr. Carlisle Landel, Ph.D., Director of the Transgenic and Gene Targeting Facility
at the Kimmel Cancer Center of Thomas Jefferson University
“Mouse Sperm Cryopreservation: Theory, Practice and Genetics”
July 11 Nemours Research Seminars
12:00pm-1:00pm, Nemours Lecture Hall in Wilmington, Delaware
via Video Conference at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute, Room 278
Paul J. Higgins, Ph.D., the Albany Medical College Center for Cell Biology & Cancer Research, Albany, New York
“Transcription Profiling of Human Tumor Progression Genes”
Call Nemours for more information: 302-651-6804
Call DBI for more information: 302-831-4888
July 8 CytoViva 150 Seminar
9:30am, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
CytoViva Seminar and Demonstration
Hosted by UD-DBI Bio-Imagining Center, Dr. Kirk Czymmek
For more information contact: 831-3449
June 2005
June 27 Nemours Research Seminars
12:00-1:00pm, Nemours Lecture Hall
Maria Jasin, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York
Host: Grace Hobson, PhD (ghobson@nemours.org)
For more information call: 302-651-6803
June 27 NanoSelect, Inc. Candidate Seminars
11:00 – 12:00pm, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
Prerna Sonthalia - Research Associate from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health/Centers for Disease Controlin in Cincinnati, OH
“Application of Diamond Thin-Film Electrodes for the Electrochemical Detection of Trace Metal Ions”
Refreshments will be provided
June 24 NanoSelect, Inc. Candidate Seminars
11:00 – 12:00pm, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
Xin (Jack) Yu, Ph.D. - University of Connecticut, Analytical Chemistry
“Electrochemical Immunosensor for Cancer Biomarker
Proteins Based on Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Forests”
Refreshments will be provided
June 21 NanoSelect, Inc. Candidate Seminars
11:00 – 12:00pm, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
Ravi Mosurkal - Sr. Research Scientist from Natick Soldier Center in Natick, MA
“Nanocrystalline TiO2 based Dye-sensitized Solar Cells”
Refreshments will be provided
June 20 Catalano Ph.D Defense
1:00pm, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
Christina Catalano, Plant & Soil Sciences- Sherrier Lab
"Symbiosome Membrane Specialization in Medicago truncatla Root Nodule”
June 20 Nemours Research Seminars
12:00-1:00pm, Nemours Lecture Hall
Gianluca Gallo, PhD, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia
“The Role of RhoA-kinase and Myosin II in Axon Extension and Retraction”
Host: Jeffery Twiss, MD, PhD (twiss@medsci.udel.edu)
For more information call: 302-651-6803
June 19-22 BIO 2005 Philadelphia
You’re Invited to join the world’s leading biotechnology executives, scientists, policymakers, and journalists for the BIO 2005 Annual International Convention www.bio.org
June 17 Biological Sciences Special Seminar
Professor D. Balasubramanian, Director of Research from the L. V. Prasad Eye Institute in Prasad, India will be presenting:
“Molecular and Cellular Approaches to Understand and Treat Some Eye Diseases”
Hosted by Dr. Melinda Duncan
Refreshments served at 1:30 p.m.
June 16 Plant & Soil Sciences Seminar
10:00am, 132 Townsend Hall (UD Campus)
Dr. Alfred E. Hartemink, ISRIC-Wageningen University
“Soil fertility research in tropical and temperate regions – achievements and differences”
June 15 Biological Sciences Special Seminar
2:00 pm, Wolf 318
Dr. Andor Kiss, Department of Animal Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Lens Crystallins from the Giant Antarctic Toothfish”
Hosted by: Melinda Duncan
June 14 Special Seminar
10:00 - 11:00am, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
Professor Satoshi Naito, Graduate School of Agriculture
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
"S-Adenosylmethionine-induced translation arrest induces mRNA degradation:
Feedback regulation of MET biosynthesis in Arabidopsis"
For more information contact 831-6161
June 13 Nemours Research Seminars
12:00-1:00pm, Nemours Lecture Hall
Gerry Grnoert, University of California—Davis
Host: Mary Theroux, MD (mtheroux@nemours.org)
For more information call: 302-651-6803
June 8 TJU CBAT Seminars
3:00pm, TJU Bluemle Life Sciences Building, Room 105
Thomas Knudsen, Ph.D., University of Louisville
"Birth Defects Database"
Directions to Thomas Jefferson University:
http://www.tju.edu/main/direct.cfm
For more information: www.dbi.tju.edu/CBAT
Host: Dr. Greg Gonye, TJU
June 7 Boyer Symposium
9:00am - 5:00pm, UD Clayton Conference Center
"Marine and Terrestrial Molecular Bioscience: New Frontiers"
Symposium featuring internationally recognized scholars to honor John S.Boyer, E.I. du Pont Professor of Marine Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Delaware who is retiring from the faculty.
Visit the symposium web site for registration and for more information:
www.ocean.udel.edu/boyersymposium/
Contact: UD College of Marine Studies at (302) 831-2841 or info@cms.udel.edu
Sponsored by: UD College of Marine Studies, the Delaware Sea Grant College Program, and the Delaware Biotechnology Institute
June 6 Nemours Research Seminars
12:00-1:00pm, Nemours Lecture Hall
Wenlan Wang, MD, PhD, Musculoskeletal Inherited Disease Research Laboratory
Spotlight on Nemours Research, “Cell Death in Spinal Muscular Atrophy”
For more information call: 302-651-6803
May 2005
May 25 Technology Breakfast Series
"Patents and Trademarks"
7:30am - 9:30am, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
Sponsored by the Small Business Development Center
For more information contact: barrywil@udel.edu
May 20 Genome Browser Training (link to Genome Browser attachment)
8:30am, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
Learn to use three major Genome Browsers (Ensembl, NCBI Map Viewer, and UCSC Genome Browser)
Registration is free with completion of surveys
General Public Registration & Survey
DBI Residents Registration & Survey
Visit www.openhelix.com for a suite of on-line tutorials on a number of bioinformatics tools.
Contact: events@dbi.udel.edu or call 302-831-4888
May 18 DEDO-DBI Bioscience Breakfast
DBI Conference Room 102
7:30 am Breakfast and Networking
8:00 am to 9:00 am Presentations
May 17 CMS Invitational Seminar Series
2:00pm, 202 Canon Lab, Sharp Campus, Lewes, DE
via ITV 206 Robinson Hall, Newark
Dr. Kathy Coyne- University of Delaware, College of Marine Studies
"Molecular approaches to the investigation of harmful algae"
May 17 Chemistry–Biology Interface Seminars
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Update on Research of Graduate Students in the CBI Program: Kelley Kearns and Zach Britton
May 16 Nemours Research Seminars
12:00-1:00pm, Nemours Lecture Hall
Vicky L. Funanage, PhD, Director of Nemours Biomedical Research and Musculoskeletal Inherited Disease Research Laboratory
Spotlight on Nemours Research, “Leptin Regulation of Lung Surfactant Production”For more information call: 302-651-6803
May 16 Biochemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Andy LiWang – Texas A&M University
May 13 Chemical Engineering Seminars
10:00am, 102/103 Colburn Lab, UD
Kookheon Char - Seoul National University
Refreshments at 9:45
May 13 Analytical & Physical Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Jory Yarmoff – University of California, Riverside
“Adatom and Nanostructure Electronic Properties Measured by Ion-Surface Charge Exchange”
May 13 2nd Annual CBER Research Day
9:00am - 4:00pm, Center for Composite Materials, UD
Keynote lecture at 10:00am featuring Dr. Steven Kautz, University of Florida
For a detailed schedule of events contact:
Kurt Manal, Director Center for Biomedical Engineering Research
302-831-4463 or manal@udel.edu
May 12 CMS Special Seminar
1:00pm, 206 Robinson Hall, UD and via ITV 202 Cannon Lab
Dr. Yu-Heng Tseng, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (DOE)
"Modeling geophysical flow over complex topography-the applications in
coastal ocean modeling and atmospheric boundary layer"
May 12 DBI Luncheon Seminars
12:00pm, 102 DBI
Christian Felton – TBA
Advisor: Dr. Vincent Fondong, DSU
Lunch is available at 11:45am
May 11 Inorganic/Organic Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Chris Schafmeister – Dept. of Chemistry, University of Pittsburg
May 11 Biological Sciences Seminars
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall, UD
Alex J. London, Ph.D., Asst. Professor Philosophy, Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics, Carnegie Mellon University
“Beyond the Impossible and the Vacuous: Defining Ethically Acceptable Tradeoffs in Risks and Benefits in Clinical Research”
Refreshments at 3:30pm
May 10 CMS Invitational Seminar Series
2:00pm, 202 Canon Lab, Sharp Campus, Lewes, DE
via ITV 206 Robinson Hall, Newark
Dr. Barbara Campbell- University of Delaware, College of Marine Studies
TBA
May 10 Chemistry–Biology Interface Seminars
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Update on Research of Graduate Students in the CBI Program: Pumtiwitt Rancy and Egor Trilisky
May 10 Bioimaging Center Seminar
12:30-1:30, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
Dr. Jing Li, Dow Chemical Company
"SPM Technologies and Applications"
May 9 Biochemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
W. David Wilson – Dept. of Chemistry, Georgia State University
“Drug Design And Molecular Recognition Of The DNA Minor Groove: Compound, DNA and Solvent Interactions”
May 9 Nemours Research Seminars
12:00-1:00pm, Nemours Lecture Hall
Carolyn Price, PhD, Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati,
Host: Wenlan Wang, MD, PhD (wwang@nemours.org)
For more information call: 302-651-6803
May 6 Analytical & Physical Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 101 Brown Lab, UD
Thomas P. Beebe, Jr. – Dept. of Chemistry, University of Delaware
Colloquium – “Surface Chemistry meets Neuroscience”
May 6 CMS Invitational Seminar Series
Joint Seminar with POSE
3:30pm, 202 Cannon Lab, Sharp Campus, Lewes, DE
via ITV 206 Robinson Hall, Newark
Dr. Mark Baskaran, Wayne State University, Department of Geology - Detroit,
Michigan
"Role of colloidal and particulate matter in thorium scavenging in the
Canada Basin of the Arctic Ocean"
May 5 DBI Luncheon Seminars
12:00pm, 102 DBI
Jennifer Foster – “Bone stromal cytokines modulate the adhesion of LNCaP and its derivative, C4-2B4, to bone endothelium”
Lynnelle Thorpe – "The Role of CD44 in Prostate Cancer"
Advisor: Dr. Carlton Cooper, Biological Sciences
Lunch is available at 11:45am
May 4 Biological Sciences Seminars
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall, UD
Renato V. Iozzo, M.D. Professor, Department of Pathology, Anatomy & Cell Biology
Director, Electron Microscopy, Thomas Jefferson University
“Roles of Perlecan’s Tail in Tumor Angiogenesis”
Refreshments at 3:30pm
May 4 Inorganic/Organic Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
W. Robert Scheidt – University of Notre Dame
“Nuclear Resonance Vibrational Spectroscopy – A New Probe for Iron in Biology”
May 3 Chemistry–Biology Interface Seminars
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
CBI Students Guest Speaker
Dr. David R. Evans – Dept. of Biochemistry, Wayne State University School of Medicine
May 3 CMS Invitational Seminar Series
12:00pm, 202 Cannon Lab, Sharp Campus, Lewes, DE
via ITV 206 Robinson Hall, Newark
Dr. Joe Eastman- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ohio University -
Athens, Ohio "The nature of Antarctic fish biodiversity"
May 2 Biochemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Michael Brenowitz – Albert Einstein College of Medicine
“Exploring RNA folding from global and local perspectives”
May 2 Nemours Research Seminars
12:00-1:00pm, Nemours Lecture Hall
James R. Hildebrand, III, PharmD, Director of Clinical Pharmacology, Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
For more information call: 302-651-6803
April 2005
April 29 Chemical Engineering Seminars
10:00am, 102/103 Colburn Lab, UD
Rich Rocheleau - Hawaii Natural Energy Institute
Refreshments at 9:45
April 28 DBI Luncheon Seminars
12:00pm, 102 DBI
Cheryl Casper – "Modifying electrospun fibers for potential use in biomaterial applications"
Danielle Rockwood – "Electrospinning of a biodegradable polyurethane for tissue engineering scaffolds"
Advisor: Dr. John Rabolt, Materials Science & Engineering
Lunch is available at 11:45am
April 27 Biological Sciences Seminars
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall, UD
Madilyn Fletcher, Ph.D., Professor of Marine and Biological Sciences
Director, Baruch Institute of Marine & Coastal Sciences, University of South Carolina
“Bacterial Colonization of Surfaces: An Illustration of Microbial Diversity in the Environment”
Refreshments at 3:30pm
April 27 Inorganic/Organic Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 101 Brown Lab, UD
Svilen Bobev – Dept. of Chemistry
Colloquium
April 26 CMS Invitational Seminar Series
2:00pm, 202 Cannon Lab, Sharp Campus, Lewes, DE
via ITV 206 Robinson Hall, Newark
Dr. Russ Hill- University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute- Baltimore
"Bacterial symbionts of marine invertebrates as sources of novel bioactive
compounds"
April 26 Chemistry–Biology Interface Seminars
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Update on Research of Graduate Students in the CBI Program: Marguerite McDonald and Christopher Gillespie
April 25 Biochemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 101 Brown Lab, UD
Paul Englund – Johns Hopkins University
Colloquium
April 25 Nemours Research Seminars
12:00-1:00pm, Nemours Lecture Hall
D. Gail McCarver, MD, Departments of Pediatrics and Pharmacology/Toxicology, Co-Director, Birth Defects Research Center, Medical College of Wisconsin
Host: Robert L. Brent, MD, PhD, DSc (rbrent@nemours.org)
April 22 POSE Seminar
4:00pm, 203 Robinson Hall, UD
Dr. Richard P. Mied, Naval Research Laboratory
"Eddy Generation in the Tidal Potomac River"
April 22 Analytical & Physical Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Jean Futrell – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
“Tandem Mass Spectrometry Studies of Collision-Induced Dissociation of Model Protonated Peptide Ions”
April 21 DBI Luncheon Seminars
12:00pm, 102 DBI
Gili Ben-Nissan- TBA
April Leonard- TBA
Ruchira Mitra- TBA
Advisor: Dr. Jung-Youn Lee, Plant & Soil Sciences
Lunch is available at 11:45am
April 21 CMS Invitational Seminar Series
12:00pm, 202 Cannon Lab, Sharp Campus, Lewes, DE
via ITV 206 Robinson Hall, Newark
Dr. Andre Droxler- Rice University, Department of Earth Science- Houston
"Origin of modern atolls: a direct response to sea level fluctuations in the
last 3 million of years: revisiting Darwin's Theory on atoll and barrier
reef formation."
April 20 Biological Sciences Seminars
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall, UD
Peter J. Sims, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
"The Phospholipid Scramblase Gene Family in Apoptosis, Cancer, & Obesity: What hath God wrought?"
Refreshments at 3:30pm
April 20 Laboratory Equipment & Gases Symposium
9:00am - 4:00pm, DBI Main Conference Room 102
Presented by Keen Compressed Gas
Seminars & Product Displays throughout the day on the industry's latest
topics
Register today- diacono@rr.keengas.com or call 302-594-4563 ext. 3505 (ask
for Denise)
April 20 Inorganic/Organic Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Justine Roth – Dept. of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University
“Mechanistic Insights to Metal-Mediated Dioxygen Activation from Oxygen-18 Isotope Effects”
April 19 Chemistry–Biology Interface Seminars
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
CBI Students Guest Speaker
Dr. Patrick S. Stayton – Dept. of Engineering, University of Washington
April 18 Biochemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
T. Joseph Kappock – Dept. of Biochemistry, Washington University in St. Louis
“Acidophile Enzymes Pass the Acid Test”
April 18 Nemours Research Seminars
12:00-1:00pm, Nemours Lecture Hall
Kersti K. Linask, PhD. University of South Florida, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Research Institute, Florida
Host: Andy Tsuda, MD (ttsuda@nemours.org)
For more information call: 302-651-6803
April 16 Chemistry–Biology Interface Seminars
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Gregory A. Grant - Dept. of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology,
Washington Univ., St. Louis
"The Role of "Molecular Hinges" in the Cooperative Allosteric Regulation of D-3-Phosphoglycerate Dehydrogenase"
April 15 Analytical & Physical Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Giuseppe Petrucci – University of Vermont
“Photoelectron resonance capture ionization for aerosol mass spectrometry: Heterogeneous chemistry on atmospheric organic particles”
April 15 POSE Seminar
4:00pm, 203 Robinson Hall, UD
Dr. Chris Sommerfield, Graduate College of Marine Studies, University of
Delaware
"Historical Morphological Change in the Delaware Estuary
April 14 DBI Luncheon Seminars
12:00pm, 102 DBI
Bryan Berger – “Investigating the Roles of Protein and Surfactant Interactions in Membrane Protein Crystallization”
Raymond Chen – “Application of PHANToM device and deformable model in Computer Aided Virtual Environment (CAVE)”
Advisors: Dr. Abraham Lenhoff- Professor, Chemical Engineering
Dr. Ken Barner- Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lunch is available at 11:45am
April 14 Chemical Engineering Seminars
Pigford Memorial Lecture
10:00am, 102/103 Colburn Lab, UD
Adam Heller - University of Texas at Austin
Refreshments at 9:45
April 13 Biological Sciences Seminars
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall, UD
Laura E. Lillien, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept. of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh
“Progenitor diversity in the CNS”
Refreshments at 3:30pm
April 13 Inorganic/Organic Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Donald M. Kurtz, Jr. – University of Georgia
“Non-Heme Iron Enzyme Scavengers of Superoxide, Hydrogen Peroxide and Nitric Oxide”
April 12 Chemistry–Biology Interface Seminars
Update on Research of Graduate Students in the CBI Program: Zach Britton and Kelley Kearns
April 12 Nemours Research Seminars
1:00pm-2:30pm, Nemours Lecture Hall
Spotlight on Nemours Research
Nelly Mauras, MD, Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Nemours Children’s Clinic, Florida
For more information call: 302-651-6803
April 11 Biochemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Ramin Shiekhatter – The Wistar Institute
April 9 Chemistry–Biology Interface Seminar
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Tracey R. Holoman, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Maryland
April 8 Analytical & Physical Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Philip Grandinetti – Ohio State University
April 8 Chemical Engineering Seminars
10:00am, 102/103 Colburn Lab, UD
Paulette Clancy - Cornell University
Refreshments at 9:45
April 7 DBI Luncheon Seminars
12:00pm, 102 DBI
Leongkeat Chan – “Application of in vitro transposon mutagenesis to study sulfur oxidation in Chlorobium tepidum”
Ying Shao – “Identification of the direct interaction between L-type voltage sensitive calcium channel alpha 1C, beta subunits and ahnak protein using fluorescence resonance energy transfer”
Advisors: Dr. Thomas Hanson, Marine Studies
Dr. Cindy Farach-Carson, Biological Sciences
Lunch is available at 11:45am
April 6 Biological Sciences Seminars
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall, UD
John Schimenti, Ph.D., Professor of Genetics, Biomedical Sciences
Director, Center for Vertebrate Genomics, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
“Mouse Genome Mutagenesis Technologies and Mutants with Genomic Instability and Infertility”
Refreshments at 3:30pm
April 6 Inorganic/Organic Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 101 Brown Lab, UD
Steve Buchwald – Dept. of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Colloquium - Transition Metal-Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Heteroatom Bond-Forming Processes: Progress, Applications and Mechanistic Studies”
April 6 TJU CBAT Seminars
3:00pm, TJU Bluemle Life Sciences Building, Room 105
Michael Ochs, Director of Bioinformatics Fox Chase Cancer Center
"Cellular Signaling, Genetics, and Disease: Overcoming the Dimensionality of
High-Throughput Data"
Directions to Thomas Jefferson University:
http://www.tju.edu/main/direct.cfm
For more information: www.dbi.tju.edu/CBAT
Host: Dr. Greg Gonye, TJU
April 5 Condensed Matter Seminars
2:00pm, 217A Sharp Lab, UD
Paul Kögerler, Ames Laboratory and Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Iowa State University
“Magnetic Molecules”
April 4 Biochemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Joanne Yeh – Brown University
April 4 Nemours Research Seminars
12:00-1:00pm, Nemours Lecture Hall
Leslie J. Krueger, PhD, Head of the Molecular Genetics, Cellular and Tissue Transplantation Laboratory
Spotlight on Nemours Research, “Global Profiling Versus Molecular Targeting: A Geneticist’s Dilemma”
For more information call: 302-651-6803
March 2005
March 31 DBI Luncheon Seminars
12:00pm, 102 DBI
Cheng Lu - "Deep profiling of small RNAs in Arabidopsis by MPSS"
Fred Souret - "Analysis of AtXRN4 RNA substrates reveals its role in
degrading selected miRNA targets"
Advisor: Dr. Pamela Green, Plant & Soil Sciences, Marine Studies
Lunch is available at 11:45am
March 30 Inorganic/Organic Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Kevin Shaughnessy – University of Alabama
“Homogeneous Catalysis in Alternative Solvents: Catalyst Development and Mechanistic Studies”
March 28 Nemours Research Seminars
12:00-1:00pm, Nemours Lecture Hall
Christine E. Beattie, PhD, Ohio State University, Center for Molecular Neurobiology, Department of Neuroscience
“A Zebrafish Model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy”
Host: Wenlan Wang, MD, PhD (wwang@nemours.org)
For more information call: 302-651-6803
March 26 Chemistry–Biology Interface Seminars
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, 212 Brown Lab, UD
Presentations by Graduate Students in the Interface Program:
Sara Lawrence - Second Rotation (Melinda Duncan's Lab),
Jason Smith (Anne Robinson's Lab)
March 25 Analytical & Physical Chemistry Seminars
4:00 pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Paul D. Ellis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
“25Mg and 67Zn NMR Spectroscopy of Proteins. A Low Temperature Solid State NMR Experiment”
March 24 DBI Luncheon Seminars
12:00pm, 102 DBI
Erik Welf – "A reaction diffusion model for integrin clustering”
Dan Zak – "Structured modeling of mammalian transcription networks"
Advisor: Dr. Babatunde Ogunnaike, Chemical Engineering
Lunch is available at 11:45am
March 23 Biological Sciences Seminars
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall, UD
William Holloman, Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Cornell University: Weill Medical College
“Clues to the Action of a Breast Cancer Gene from Studies on Obscure Fungus”
Refreshments at 3:30pm
March 23 Inorganic/Organic Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Pat Holland – Dept. of Chemistry, University of Rochester
“Breaking Bonds with Three-Coordinate Iron in Synthetic Compounds and Nitrogenase”
March 22 Chemistry–Biology Interface Seminars
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
CBI Students Guest Speaker
Dr. Paul L. Fox – Professor of Molecular Medicine, Dept. of Cell Biology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
March 21 Biochemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Zhongmin Alex Ma – Mount Sinai School of Medicine
“Regulation of Insulin Secretion by Ca2+-independent Phospholipase A2”
March 19 Chemistry–Biology Interface Seminars
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Joseph M. Fox, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry
March 18 Marine Studies POSE Seminars
4:00pm, 203 Robinson Hall, UD Campus
Anna Nikolopoulos, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
“Circulation over the continental slopes”
March 17 DBI Luncheon Seminars
12:00pm, 102 DBI
Bryan Berger – "Investigating the Role of Surfactants in Membrane Protein Stability and Recovery"
Damien Thevenin – "Roles of Transmembrane Interactions in Structure, Folding and Function of Adenosine A2A Receptor"
Advisor: Dr. Clifford Robinson, Chemistry/Biochemistry
Lunch is available at 11:45am
March 16 Biological Sciences Seminars
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall, UD
Ed Gelmann, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center
“Genetic Changes that Initiate Prostate Cancer”
Refreshments at 3:30pm
March 16 DEDO-DBI Bioscience Breakfast
DBI Conference Room 102
7:30 am Breakfast and Networking
8:00 am to 9:00 am Presentations
Speakers are as follows:
Mr. Robert Barker, Director, Corporate Relations & Career Management, Graduate & Executive Programs, University of Delaware
Mr. John Dascher, Capitol Resources Director, Delaware Economic Development Office
Contact Loretta English at loretta.english@state.de.us for more information
March 15 Chemistry–Biology Interface Seminars
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, 212 Brown Lab, UD
Presentations by Graduate Students in the Interface Program:
Sara Lawrence - Second Rotation (Melinda Duncan's Lab),
Jason Smith (Anne Robinson's Lab)
March 14 Biochemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Hiroshi Hiasa – University of Minnesota
“DNA Topoisomerases: Essential Function and Lethal Targets”
March 14 Nemours Research Seminars
12:00-1:00pm, Nemours Lecture Hall
Kathleen E. Sullivan, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Host: Carolyn Schanen, MD, PhD (schanen@medsci.udel.edu)
For more information call: 302-651-6803
March 11 Chemical Engineering Seminars
Colburn Memorial Lecture
10:00am, 102/103 Colburn Lab, UD
Michael Graham - University of Wisconsin-Madison
"DNA Dynamics in a Microchannel: Theoretical and Multiscale Simulation Studies of Relaxation, Diffusion and Shear-Induced Migration"
Refreshments at 9:45
March 11 Marine Studies POSE Seminars
4:00pm, 203 Robinson Hall, UD Campus
Chris Sommerfield, University of Delaware
“Historical morphological change in the Delaware Estuary”
March 11 Analytical & Physical Chemistry Seminars
4:00 pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Jack Saltiel, Florida State University
“Conformer Specific Photochemistry in the Vitamin D Field”
March 10 DBI Luncheon Seminars
NO SEMINAR
March 9 Inorganic/Organic Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Christian Wolf, Dept. of Chemistry, Georgetown University
“1,8-Diheteroarylnaphthalenes: A New Class of Compounds for Stereoselective Sensing and Solid State Synthesis”
March 9 Biological Sciences Seminars
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall, UD
Beth Stronach, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
“Jun Kinase Signaling in Development and Homeostasis”
Refreshments at 3:30pm
March 8 Chemistry–Biology Interface Seminars
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Dr. Thomas E. Hanson – College of Marine Studies, Delaware Biotechnology Institute
March 7 Biochemistry Seminar
4:00pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Amnon Kohen – Dept. of Chemistry, University of Iowa
“H-tunneling and enzyme dynamics: Studies of dihydrofolate reductase and thymidylate synthase”
March 7 Nemours Research Seminars
12:00-1:00pm, Nemours Lecture Hall
Mark Lively, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
For more information call: 302-651-6803
March 5 Chemistry–Biology Interface Seminars
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, 212 Brown Lab, UD
Update on Research of Graduate Students in the Interface
Jennifer Brosius (Roberta F. Colman's Lab),
Steven L. Swann (John Koh's Lab)
March 4 Chemical Engineering Seminars
10:00am, 102/103 Colburn Lab, UD
Umit Ozkan - Ohio State University
"Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Lower Alkanes"
Refreshments at 9:45
March 4 Marine Studies POSE Seminars
4:00pm, 203 Robinson Hall, UD Campus
Joseph Atkinson, University of Buffalo
“Introduction of the oceanography of the Great Lakes”
March 4 Analytical & Physical Chemistry Seminars
4:00 pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Linda Nicholson, Cornell University
“Dynamics, Thermodynamics, and Protein Function”
March 4 Mechanical Engineering Seminar
10:00am, 106 Center for Composite Materials, UD
Dr. Silvia S. Blemker, Bioengineering Department, Stanford University
“Three-dimensional Modeling of Complex Muscle Architecture and Geometry”
Refreshments will be served
March 3 DBI Luncheon Seminars
12:00pm, 102 DBI
Robel Kahsay- “Identification and Topology prediction of Transmembrane Proteins Using Hidden Markov Model (TMMOD)”
Rishi Khan- “From gene lists to literature searches to testable hypotheses: Making sense of it all through cutoff meta-analyses and attribute enrichment tests”
Advisors: Dr. Guang Gao, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Lunch is available at 11:45am
March 2 Biological Sciences Seminars
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall, UD
Darrin Pochan, Ph.D., Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware
“Materials Construction through Biomolecular and Biomimetic Self-Assembly”
refreshments at 3:30pm
March 2 Inorganic/Organic Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Eric Meggers – University of Pennsylvania
“Rapid access to unexplored chemical space with metallo-organic compounds: Discovery of picomolar protein kinase inhibitors”
March 1 Chemistry–Biology Interface Seminars
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Update on Research of Graduate Students in the CBI Program:
Chad Blamey: “Structure of Calcium and Integrin Binding Protein: Insights into Redox-Regulated Function
Ann Snellinger: TBA
February 2005
February 28 Biochemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Frank Jordan - Rutgers
Communication between subunits in complex systems: the pyruvate dehydrogenase multienzyme complex
February 28 Nemours Research Seminars
12:00-1:00pm, Nemours Lecture Hall
Hugh Calkins, M.D., FACC, FAHA - Professor of Medicine & Pediatrics and Director of the Arrhythmia, Service and Clinical Electrophysiology Laboratory
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
“Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia: The Johns Hopkins Experience”
Hosted by Carolyn Schanen, M.D., Ph.D. (schanen@medsci.udel.edu)
For more information call: 302-651-6803
February 26 Chemistry–Biology Interface Seminars
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Arne Stenlund - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
(Introduced by Daniel Simmons)
"Analysis of Papillomavirus Initiator Complexes Reveals and Transition Between Activities Required for Initiation"
February 25 Marine Studies POSE Seminars
4:00pm, 203 Robinson Hall, UD Campus
Dr. Bruce Lipphardt, Associate Research Scientist, College of Marine Studies, UD
“Surface Current Response to Winds in Monterey Bay”
February 25 Analytical & Physical Chemistry Seminars
4:00 pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Cai Chengzhi, University of Houston
“Biomolecular nanoarrays on protein-resistant monolayers on silicon surfaces”
February 25 Mechanical Engineering Seminar
10:45am, 106 Center for Composite Materials, UD
Peter Barrance-Center for Biomedical Engineering Research University of
Delaware
"Magnetic Resonance Imaging Based Modeling to Explore the Links between
Ligament Injuries, Reconstructive Surgeries, and Osteoarthritis in the Knee"
Refreshments will be served
February 24 DBI Luncheon Seminars
12:00pm, 102 DBI
Luciana Ferrara- "Gene repair reaction activates ATM and stalls DNA
replication in mammalian cells"
Tim Schwartz- "DNA double strand breaks stimulate gene repair activity in
mammalian cells"
Advisor: Dr. Eric Kmiec, Biological Sciences
Lunch is available at 11:45am
February 24 Plant Biology Interface
11:00am-12:30pm, 233 Townsend Hall, UD
CANCELLED
February 23 Physics & Astronomy
4:00 PM, 104 Gore Hall, UD
M.H.W. Chan, Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University
“Can a solid be superfluid?”
February 23 Biological Sciences Seminars
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall
Elena Pasquale, Ph.D., Professor of Developmental Neurobiology, The Burnham Institute
“Regulation of Dendritic Spines by the EphA4 Receptor: A New Form of Neuroglial Crosstalk?"
Refreshments at 3:30pm
February 23 Inorganic/Organic Chemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 101 Brown Lab, UD
Richard Schrock – Dept. of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Colloquium - Catalytic Reduction of Dinitrogen at a Single Molybdenum Center”
February 23 Plant Biology Interface
11:00am-12:30pm, 233 Townsend Hall, UD
Mike Scanlon, University of Georgia
“Genetic and Genomic Analyses of Leaf Development and Meristem Function”
Reception to follow
February 22 Condensed Matter Seminars
2:00pm, 217A Sharp Lab, UD
A.A. Kiselev, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University
“Zeeman effect: fundamental phenomenon and a practical tool for nanophysics (and newest quantum information technology)”
February 22 Chemistry–Biology Interface Seminars
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
CBI Students Guest Speaker
Dr. Julia M. Ross – University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Dept. of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
“The Role of Bacterial Adhesion in Cardiovascular Infections”
February 21 Nemours Research Seminars
12:00-1:00pm, Nemours Lecture Hall
Robert F. Rogers, Ph.D., Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering UD
“What Does the Brain Know About Respiratory Effort? (Signal Processing in the Respiratory Control System)”
Hosted by Jeffery Twiss, M.D., Ph.D. (twiss@medsci.udel.edu)
For more information call: 302-651-6803
February 19 Chemistry–Biology Interface Seminars
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Thomas P. Beebe - Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry,
"Probing Ligand-Receptor Binding with the Atomic Force Microscope"
February 18 Analytical & Physical Chemistry Seminars
4:00 pm, 101 Brown Lab, UD
Jillian Buriak, University of Alberta, Canada
Colloquium – “Functionalization and Nanoscale Patterning of Semiconductor Surfaces”
February 18 Marine Studies POSE Seminars
4:00pm, 203 Robinson Hall, UD Campus
Andreas Münchow, University of Delaware
“Freshwater flux estimates through the Canadian Archipelago”
February 18 Mechanical Engineering
10:00am, 106 Center for Composite Materials, UD
Dr. Ahmet Erdemir, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Lerner Research Institute
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
“Multi-Modality in Predictive Biomechanical Simulations”
February 17 Plant Biology Interface
11:00am-12:30pm, 233 Townsend Hall, UD
Andy Pereria, Plant Research International – Netherlands
“Gain-of-function mutagenesis for gene function discovery in plants”
Reception to follow
February 16 Biological Sciences Seminars
4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall
Nancy Colburn, Ph.D., Chief, Gene Regulation Section Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Chair, NCI Cancer Prevention Faculty National Cancer Institute, Frederick
"Molecular Targets for Cancer Prevention: AP-1, NFkappaB, and eIF4A"
Refreshments at 3:30pm
February 15 Plant Biology Interface
11:00am-12:30pm, 233 Townsend Hall, UD
Erin Connolly, University of South Carolina
“Iron Uptake and Homeostasis in Arabidopsis”
Reception to follow
February 14 Biochemistry Seminars
4:00pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Zucai Suo – Dept. of Biochemistry, The Ohio State University
“Mechanism of DNA Lesion Bypass by A Y-Family DNA Polymerase”
February 14 Nemours Research Seminars
12:00-1:00pm, Nemours Lecture Hall
Linda M. S. Resar, M.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Oncology
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
“HMG-I/Y & C: A Family of Oncogenes Important in Human Cancer”
Hosted by Wenlan Wang, M.D., Ph.D. (wwang@nemours.org)
For more information call: 302-651-6803
February 14 Mechanical Engineering Seminar
10:00am, 102 DuPont Hall, UD
Dr. Jonathan Dingwell, The Department of Kinesiology and Health Education , University of Texas at Austin
“Using Nonlinear Dynamics to Study Biomechanics Across Multiple Time Scales”
Refreshments will be served
February 12 Chemistry–Biology Interface Seminars
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, 214 Brown Lab, UD
Thomas Brand - Dept. of Cell & Molecular Biology,
Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
(Introduced by Melinda Duncan)
"Popeye genes - Molecular Characterization of a Novel Family of Transmembrane Proteins with Preferential Expression in Muscle Cells"
February 11 Marine Studies POSE Seminars
4:00pm, 203 Robinson Hall, UD Campus
John Wilkins, Rutgers University
“An ocean model for the Martha’s Vineyard costal observatory”
February 11 ECE Distinguished Lecturer Series
3:00 - 4:30pm, 116 Gore Hall, UD
Prof. H. J. Siegel, Departments Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Colorado State University
“An Introduction to Research Issues in Heterogeneous Parallel
