• 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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