Bioengineering Seminar Schedule

Fall 1999

Thursday, Aug. 26, Room 110 Hallowell Building (Univ Park) & CG624F (HMC),

2:30-3:30 pm

Herbert H. Lipowsky (PSU-BioE)

"An overview of Bioengineering at Penn State and Orientation for New Students"

Thursday, Sept. 2, Room 110 Hallowell Building (Univ Park) & CG624F (HMC)

2:30-3:30 pm.

Roger Gaumond (PSU-BioE)

"Malaysia polytechnic development project: A medical electronics curriculum"

Thursday, Sept. 9, Room 110 Hallowell (Univ Park) & CG624E (HMC)

2:30-3:30 pm

Kullervo Hynynen (BWH-Harvard)

"Noninvasive MRI Guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery"

Tuesday, Sept. 14, 108 Wartik (Univ Park) and Lecture Room D (HMC)

11:15am-12:30pm

Scott Diamond (U PENN)

"Protein and Gene-based Cardiovascular Therapeutics: An Engineering Obstacle Course"

Co-Sponsored by BioE, ChemE and BTD/LSC

Friday, Sept. 17, 110 Hallowell Building (Univ Park) & CG624F (HMC)

2:30-3:30 pm

Steve Cowin (City College NYC)

"Mechanotransduction in Bone"

Tuesday, Sept. 21, 108 Wartik (Univ Park) and Lecture Room D (HMC)

11:15am-12:30pm

Roger Kamm (MIT)

"Pulmonary Mechanics at the Cellular Scale"

Co-Sponsored by BioE, ChemE and BTD/LSC

Sept. 24, 110 Hallowell Building (Univ Park)

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Joeseph Stitt (PSU-BioE)

Ph.D. Thesis Defense
"A Comparison of Chemosensory Electrophysiology and Feeding Behavior in Manduca Sexta"

Thursday, Sept. 30, 110 Hallowell Building (Univ Park) & CG624F (HMC)

2:30-3:30 pm

Arnold Fontaine (PSU-ARL)

"In vitro assessment of prosthetic valve function: potential for thrombus formation and blood element damage"

Tuesday, Oct. 5, 108 Wartik (Univ Park) and Lecture Room D (HMC)

11:15am-12:30pm

Keith Gooch (U PENN)

"Tissue-Engineering Microvascular Networks or Gene Therapy"

Co-Sponsored by BioE, ChemE and BTD/LSC

Thursday, Oct. 14, 110 Hallowell (Univ Park) & CG623 (HMC)

2:30-3:30 pm

Andrew Webb (U. Illinois)

"MRI at the Beckman Institute: from functional brain mapping to single cell spectroscopy"

Friday, Oct. 22, 110 Hallowell Building (Univ Park) & CG623 (HMC)

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Mitch Litt (U Penn)

"A System for Cell Growth and Tissue Culture in Simulated Microgravity"

Thursday, Oct. 28, 108 Wartik (Univ Park) and Lecture Room D (HMC)

2:30-3:30 pm

Gladius Lewis (Memphis, TN)

"Effect of sterilization method on properties of biomedical polymers: Acrylic bone cement and ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene"

Co-sponsored by Bioengineering and Engineering Science and Mechanics

Thursday, Nov. 4

To Be Announced

Thursday, Nov. 11, 110 Hallowell Building (Univ Park) & CG623 (HMC)

2:30-3:30 pm

Lars Olson (Marquette University)

"Redox mechanisms of endothelial cells: extracellular and intracellular kinetics"

Tuesday, Nov. 16, 108 Wartik (Univ Park) and Lecture Room D (HMC)

11:15am-12:30pm

Robert Tranquillo (U. Minnesota)

"Characterizing the Correlation Between Cell Traction and Cell Migration in Tissue-Equivalents"

Co-Sponsored by BioE, ChemE and BTD/LSC

Thursday, Dec. 2, 110 Hallowell (Univ Park) & CG623 (HMC)

2:30-3:30 pm

Kim Fosten (VA Polytech)

"Autocrine/Paracrine Cell Interactions: A Mammary Epithelial Model System"

Thursday, Dec. 9, 110 Hallowell (Univ Park) & CG623 (HMC)

Bioengineering Grad Student Research Progress Reports

For additional information, contact Ms. Brenda Bixler, Bioengineering Program, Tel: 814.865.1407 or E-Mail: bsb1@psu.edu