- Luncheon Seminar, December 13, 2007 “The survival of Listeria monocytogenes in German Sausage” Dr. Clytrice Watson, Assistant Professor Delaware State University
- Luncheon Seminar, December 6, 2007 "Elucidating cellular physiology by mass spectrometry and quantitative flux analysis", Dr. Maciek Antoniewicz, Assistant Professor University of Delaware, Department of Chemical Engineering
- Luncheon Seminar, November 29, 2007 "Endothelial Function in Chronic Kidney Disease", David G. Edwards, Professor University of Delaware, Department of Health, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences
- Luncheon Seminar, November 17, 2007 “UD Center for Spintronics and Biodetection”, Dr. John Xiao, Professor, University of Delaware, Department of Physics & Astronomy
- Luncheon Seminar, November 1, 2007 “Proactive care of a complex disease - integrating clinical medicine with machines - Heart Failure as a Model Disease”, Mitchell Saltzberg, M.D., F.A.C.C., Medical Director of Heart Failure & Co-Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program Christiana Care Health Services
- Luncheon Seminar, October 25, 2007 “RNAVLab: A unified environment for computational RNA structure analysis based on grid computing technologies”, Dr. Michela Taufer, Assistant Professor, University of Delaware, Department of Computer & Information Sciences
- Luncheon Seminar, October 11, 2007 “Mechanisms underlying salt sensitivity of blood pressure”, Dr. William Farquhar, Assistant Professor University of Delaware, Department of Health,
Nutrition & Exercise Science
- Luncheon Seminar, October 4, 2007 "Chronic Kidney Disease and Acute Coronary Syndrome: a Clinical Management Conundrum", Claudine Jurkovitz, MD, MPH, Director of Operations Christiana Care Health System, Center for Outcomes Research
- Luncheon Seminar, September 20, “Biomimetic Approaches for Vocal Fold Tissue Regeneration”, Dr. Xinqiao Jia, Assistant Professor University of Delaware, Department of Materials Science & Engineering
- Luncheon Seminar, September 7, 2007, "Experimental and Theoretical Analyses of Chemotactic Systems in Biology," Pablo Iglesias, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD
- Luncheon Seminar, August 2, 2007 - “Use of Olfactory Mucosa as a Source of Adult Stem Cells for Spinal Cord Injury Repair,” Dr. Carlos Lima, Neuropathologist Hospital de Egas Moniz, Lisbon-Portugal , Wayne State University- Detroit, USA
- Luncheon Seminar, May 17, 2007 “Self assembling peptide scaffolds for in-vitro bone tissue engineering applications,“ Aysegul Altunbas, Ph.D. Student
Advisor: Darrin Pochan, Associate Professor - Materials Science Engineering
Note: Sound Difficulties for 4 Minutes at the Beginning of Talk
- Luncheon Seminar, May 10, 2007 "Purification and Characterization of the Complex Between Glutathione S-Transferase pi and c-Jun N-Terminal Kinase", Yu-Chu (Angel) Huang, Biochemical Research Associate
"Interface Residues of Glutathione S-Transferase pi Play a Key Role in the Electrostatic Interactions Between Subunits" Anastasia Fuzyalova, Ph.D. Student
Advisor: Roberta Colman, Willis Harrington Professor - Chemistry/Biochemistry
- Luncheon Seminar, May 3, 2007
“Soil Viruses: Are They Killers Underfoot?” Sharath Srinivasiah, Ph.D. Student
Advisor: Eric Wommack, Associate Professor Plant & Soil Sciences
“Bacillus Subtilis Arabidopsis Interactions The Rooty Way” Thimmaraju Rudrappa, Post Doctoral Researcher
Advisor: Harsh Bais, Assistant Professor - Plant & Soil Sciences
- Luncheon Seminar, April 26, 2007
"Folding and stability of a b-barrel integral membrane protein in nonionic surfactants" Carolina Bianco, Graduate Student
Advisors: Abraham Lenhoff, Gore Professor of Chemical Engineering & Eric Kaler, Dean, College of Engineering
"Understanding differences in GPCRs of the same subtype" Emily McCusker, Ph.D. Student
Advisors: Anne Robinson, Associate Professor Chemical Engineering & Eugene Mueller, Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry
- Luncheon Seminar, April 19, 2007
"Tellurite resistant marine bacteria" Andrew Bahrou, Graduate Student
"Genetics and Physiology of Anaerobic Sulfur Metabolism in the Green sulfur Bacterium Chlorobium tepidum" Leongkeat Chan, Graduate Student
Advisor: Thomas Hanson, Assistant Professor - College of Marine & Earth Studies
- Luncheon Seminar, April 12, 2007
"Targeting Mechanism and functional analysis of an Arabidopsis Plasmodesmal Associated Protein Kinase" Gili Ben-Nissan, Research Associate
“The Isolation of Putative Plasmodesmal Associated Protein Kinase 1 Effector Mutants” April Leonard, Graduate Student
Advisor: Jung-Youn Lee, Assistant Professor - Plant & Soil Science
- Luncheon Seminar, April 5, 2007
“Genetic ablation of Junctional Adhesion Molecule-A impairs survival after myocardial infarct” Vesselina Cooke, Ph.D. Student
Advisor: Dr. Ulhas Naik, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
“The Development of the Tag and Target Drug Delivery System” Peter Millili, Ph.D. Student
Advisors: Dr. Ulhas Naik, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences and Dr. Millicent Sullivan, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
- Luncheon Seminar, March 29, 2007
“A Fixation with Crustaceans: Investigating the effects of fixation on the ultrastructure of blue crab exoskeleton with electron microscopy” Shannon Modla, Research Associate
Delaware Biotechnology Institute
- Luncheon Seminar, March 22, 2007
“Novel Thalidomide Analog Inhibits Tumor-Induced Angiogenesis in Mouse Model” Michael Dumas, Undergraduate
“Interactions of RhoC and IGF-1 in Prostate Cancer Metastasis to Bone” Karla Boyd, Undergraduate
Advisor: Carlton Cooper, Assistant Professor - Biological Sciences
- Luncheon Seminar, March 15, 2007
“Gene Repair in Spinal Muscular Atrophy using Single-stranded Oligonucleotides” Darlise Dimatteo, Research Associate
Advisor: Eric Kmiec, Professor - Biological Sciences
- Luncheon Seminar, March 9, 2007
"Notes from a Trip with the NIH "Roadmap" Dr. Steven Stanhope, Founding Director of the Physical Disabilities Branch at the National Institutes of Health
- Luncheon Seminar, March 8, 2007
“Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Device for Monitoring Molecular Overexpression in Cancer Cells” Ning Shao, Ph.D. Student
Advisor: Balaji Panchapakesan, Assistant Professor - Electrical & Computer Engineering
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