Bioengineering Seminar Schedule

Fall 2000

Thursday, Aug. 24, Room 110 Hallowell Building (Univ Park) & CG623 (HMC)

2:30-3:30 pm

Herbert H. Lipowsky, Ph.D.

Department of Bioengineering, Penn State

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

Thursday, August 31, Room 110 Hallowell Building (Univ Park) & CG623 (HMC)

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Chen Dong, Ph.D.

Department of Bioenigneering, Penn State

"What does bioengineering do in cancer biology?"

Friday, September 8, Room 110 Hallowell Building (Univ Park) & CG623 (HMC)

2:30 - 3:30

Christopher Jacobs

Department of Orthopedics, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Penn State

"Cellular Mechanotransduction in Bone"

Transmit from Hershey Medical Center

Thursday, September 14 , Room 110 Hallowell Building (Univ Park) & CG623 (HMC)

Richard Waugh, Ph.D.

Department of Bioengineering, University of Rochester, New York

"Micromechanical Approaches to the Study of Cell Adhesion and Membrane Stability"

Friday, September 22, Room 110 Hallowell Building (Univ Park) & CG623 (HMC)

Doug Daum

Guidant Corporation

"The Future of Cardiac Rhythm Devices"

Thursday, Sepetember 28, Room 110 Hallowell Building (Univ Park) & CG623 (HMC)

Anne Milasincic Andrews, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
The Pennsylvania State University

"Tools to Probe Brain Chemistry"

Thursday, October 5 , Room 110 Hallowell Building (Univ Park) & CG623 (HMC)

Lars Larson, General Clinical Research Center, Penn State

"Regulation of muscle contraction from the whole muscle to the molecular level in health and disease"

Thursday, October 12, Room 110 Hallowell Building (Univ Park) & CG623 (HMC)

NO SEMINAR DUE to BMES Annual Fall Meeting

Thursday, October 19, Room 110 Hallowell Building (Univ Park) & CG623 (HMC)

Harvey Borovetz, University of Pittsburgh

"Bioengineering Initiatives at the University of Pittsburgh"

Transmitted from Hershey Medical Center

Thursday, October 26, Room 110 Hallowell Building (Univ Park) & CG623 (HMC)

Patrick Rouche

"Neuro-cortical Microelectrodes"

Thursday, November 2, Room 110 Hallowell Building (Univ Park) & CG623 (HMC), 2:30 PM

David Antonetti
Assistant Professor
Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Penn State University College of Medicine

“Is Vascular Permeability Mediated by Dynamic Regulation of Tight Junctions?”

Thursday, November 9, Room 110 Hallowell Building (Univ Park) & CG623 (HMC)

Thursday, November 16, Room 110 Hallowell Building (Univ Park) & CG623 (HMC)

Richard Magin, University of Illinois

"MRI Microcoils"

Thursday, November 23, Room 110 Hallowell Building (Univ Park) & CG623 (HMC)

No Seminar - Thanksgiving Holiday

Thursday, November 30, Room 110 Hallowell Building (Univ Park) & CG623 (HMC)

Virginia Huxley, Univ Mo, Columbia, Mo

Thursday, December 7, Room 110 Hallowell Building (Univ Park) & CG623 (HMC)

Student Presentations