The DBI Luncheon Seminar Series is a way for the faculty, and students to keep others apprised of their research.

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	Now Playing Luncheon Seminar, December 4, 2008 – Dr. Takeshi Tsuda, Nemours Cardiac Center, Molecular Cardiology Laboratory, Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Thomas Jefferson University, Jefferson Medical College

• Luncheon Seminar, November 20, 2008 – Dr. Chandra Kambhamettu, Associate Professor Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware
• Luncheon Seminar, November 6, 2008 – "Two Stones for One Bird: Redundant Repression Mechanisms Used by Tup1, the Global Repressor of Transcription in Bakers Yeast", Dr. Thomas Mennella, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Science, Delaware State University
• Luncheon Seminar, October 30, 2008 - "Regulation of Tumor Growth and Angiogenesis by Osteopontin in Various Cancers", Dr. Gopal Kundu, National Center for Cell Science, Pune, India
• Luncheon Seminar, October 23, 2008 - "Computational Photography for Bio-Imagery", Jingyi Yu, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware
• Luncheon Seminar, October 9, 2008 – "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
• Luncheon Seminar, May 15, 2008 – "TEM made easy through correlative confocal microscopy", Shannon Modla, "TBA", David A. Scheiblin
• Luncheon Seminar, May 8, 2008 – "Contributions from the modeling of arterial circulation to the simulation of wall shear rate in blood flow within large arterial vessels", David Johnson, "Regulation of Integrin Clustering: Models and Experiments", Erik Welf
• Luncheon Seminar, May 1, 2008 – "Sulfide:quinone oxidoreductase of Chlorobium tepidum: Two of the three orthologs are involved in anaerobic sulfide oxidation.", Leong-Keat Chan, Graduate Student College of College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment and Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, "The biological significance of low-molecular weight thiols in Chlorobium tepidum", Jennifer Hiras, Graduate Student College of College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment and Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware
• Luncheon Seminar, April 24, 2008 – "Biochemical Fate of Arsenic on Delaware Soils", Matt Ginder-Vogel, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Environmental Soil Chemistry group and the Center for Critical Zone Reseasrch, Ph.D. Standford University, Sanjai Parikh, Postdoctoral Research in the Environmental Chemistry group and the Center for Critical Zone Research, Ph.D. University of Arizona, Jennifer Seiter, Graduate Researcher in the Environmental Soil Chemistry group and the Center for Critical Zone Research, Ph.D. student
• Luncheon Seminar, April 18, 2008 – "The Secret Life of an Exotic Invader", Thimmaraju Rudrappa
• Luncheon Seminar, April 10, 2008 – “High-throughput Genomic Data Analysis In The Context Of Distributed Informational Systems (finding a needle in one million hay stacks - per second)”, Mihailo Kaplarevic, PhD, Bioinformatics Researcher, Delaware Biotechnology Institute
• Luncheon Seminar, March 27, 2008 – "Mutant Huntingtin is associated with DNA damage and the repair response.", Jennifer L. Illuzzi, Doctoral Pre-Candidate, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, "Investigating G-rich Oligonucleotides as a Therapeutic for Huntingtons Disease", Sarah Yerkes
• Luncheon Seminar, March 20, 2008 – "A Genome-Scale Model for Clostridium acetobutylicum.", Ryan S. Senger, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, "Tumor Suppressor Protein P53 Regulates Megakaryocytic Polyploidization and Adoptosis", Pani A. Apostolidis, PhD Candidate, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University
• Luncheon Seminar, March 13, 2008 – "Small RNA-directed Epigenetic Natural Variation in Arabidopsis", Jixian Zhai, PhD student, Plant and Soil Sciences Department, University of Delaware
• Luncheon Seminar, March 6, 2008 – "Insights into the Bacterial Ecology of Threatened Acropora spp. Corals in the Florida Keys", Dr. Shawn Polson, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware
• Luncheon Seminar, February 28, 2008 – "Role of Syntaxin MtSYP132 in Medicago truncatula Nodule Formation.", Madhavi Avadhani, Post doctoral researcher, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, "Marine viruses and their immeasurable diversity", Sanchita Jamindar, M.S. student, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware
• Luncheon Seminar, February 21, 2008 – "Genome-wide analysis for discovery of novel and regulated miRNAs in rice", Dr. Dong-Hoon Jeong, Postdoctoral researcher, Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, "Digging through the trash of the cell: the whole set of miRNA-target RNA pairs", Dr. Marcelo A. German, Postdoctoral researcher, Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware
• Luncheon Seminar, February 14, 2008 – "Enhancing Extracellular Protein Secretion in E. coli by Translation Engineering ", Prateek Gupta, Graduate Student, Cornell University, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | "A new kinetic model reveals the synergistic effect of E-, P-, and A-sites on +1 programmed ribosomal frameshifting", Pei Liao, BS, MS, Chemical Engineering Department, National Taiwan University, Graduate Student, Cornell University, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering