BioE Seminar Series ~ Fall 2007 to Spring 2008
Co-sponsored by CBIMMS and CBTE
4:15-5:15 PM, 203 Teer

SEMINAR	SPEAKER	DATE
Engineered Drug Therapies Enabled by Fabrication Processes from the Electronics Industry	Joe DeSimone, PhD Professor, Chemistry & Chemical Engineering UNC-Chapel Hill, NC	09/06/2007
Design and Testing of Novel Thermally Sensitive Liposomal Formulations for Treatment of Local Tumors: A New Paradigm for Drug Delivery	David Needham, PhD Professor, Mechanical Engineering Duke University, NC	09/20/2007
Regulating Skeletal Repair by Mechanical Stimulation	Elsie Morgan, PhD Asst. Prof., Biomedical, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering Boston University	10/04/2007
A new hypothesis for vulnerable plaque rupture due to stress-induced debonding around cellular microcalcifications in thin fibrous caps	Sheldon Weinbaum, PhD Professor, Mechanical Engineering City University of New York	10/18/2007
Forcing the issue: Mechanical stimulation and its influence on biological function	Roger Kamm, PhD Professor, Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology	10/01/2007
Gene Therapy – The Disappointing Past And The Search For A Future	Todd Giorgio, PhD Professor and Interim Chair, Biomedical Engineering Professor, Chemical Engineering Vanderbilt University	11/15/2007
Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering Based on Controlled Cell Remodeling of Biopolymers	Robert Tranquillo, PhD Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materails Sci. University of Minnesota	12/06/2007
Nanoparticle Superstructures: Self-Assembly and Directed Assembly of Nanoparticle Metamaterials	Nicholas A. Kotov, PhD Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering University of Michigan	01/24/2008
Engineering Active Interfaces Between Cells and Materials	Milan Mrksich, PhD Associate Director, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center at Northwestern Professor, Chemistry, The University of Chicago Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute	01/31/2008
Spatio-Temporal Modification of Natural Collagen Mediated by Collagen Mimetic Peptides for Multi-Functional Tissue Scaffolds	Michael Yu, PhD Asst. Professor, Material Science and Engineering Johns Hopkins University	02/14/2008
Tensegrity and Biological Design: Mechanical Engineering of Living Cells	Don Ingber, MD PhD Senior Associate in Pathology and Surgery Judah Folkman Professor in Vascular Biology, Childrens Hospital, Boston	02/28/2008
Strategies for the Vascularisation of 3-D Tissues	Michael Sefton, PhD Professor, Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering University of Toronto	03/20/2008
Forces, form, and function: Engineering of stem cell fate	Christopher Chen, MD PhD Skirkanich Associate Professor of Innovation in Bioengineering University of Pennsylvania	04/03/2008
Tissue Engineering: An Imperative for Tuning the Biointerface	Buddy Ratner, PhD KEWAUNEE LECTURESHIP Professor, Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering University of Washington	04/17/2008

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