Bioengineering Seminar Schedule

Spring 2000

Thursday, January 27, 2000 110 Hallowell Building (University Park) & CG624E (Hershey Medical Center)

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Darrell Velegol
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Penn State University

“Determining Cell Traction Forces of 3T3 Fibroblasts on Collagen Gels”

Thursday, February 3, 2000 110 Hallowell (University Park) & CG624E (Hershey Medical Center)

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Qing Yang
Assistant Professor of Radiology, Hershey Medical Center

"A Challenge for MRI: Magnetic Susceptibility Contrast and Artifact"

February 10, 2000, 110 Hallowell Building (University Park) & CG624E (Hershey Medical Center)

Marjorie Rawhouser, Ph.D. Candidate

Thesis Defense

"A Systems Model to Study Volumetric Performance of Pusher-Plate Blood Pumps"

Thursday, February 17, 2000, 110 Hallowell Building (University Park) & CG624E (Hershey Medical Center)

2:30 p.m. - 3:30 pm
Barbara C. Sonies

Chief, Speech-Language Pathology Section, Rehabilitation Medicine Department, National Institutes of Health

"Applications of Real-time Ultrasound to Imaging and Modeling of the Oropharynx"

February 24, 2000 110 Hallowell Building (University Park) & CG624E (Hershey Medical Center)

2:30 p.m. - 3:30 pm

Naomi Chesler

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

The University of Vermont

"Ex vivo Artery Culture: Uses and Abuses"

March 2, 2000 110 Hallowell Building (University Park) & CG624E (Hershey Medical Center)

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Richard Magin

Professor and Head of Bioengineering

University of Illinois at Chicago

"Micocoil NMR: Theory and Applications"

March 16, 2000 110 Hallowell Building (University Park) & CG624E (Hershey Medical Center)

To Be Announced

March 23, 2000 110 Hallowell Building (University Park) & CG624E (Hershey Medical Center)

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Chris Deiderich

Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology

University of California, San Francisco.

"Thermal Therapy for Cancer and Benign Disease"

March 30, 2000 110 Hallowell Building (University Park) & CG624E (Hershey Medical Center)

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Andrew Webb

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

"Magnetic Resonance Imaging: From Single Neurons to Functional Brain Mapping"

April 6, 2000 110 Hallowell Building (University Park) & CG624E (Hershey Medical Center)

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Richard Waugh

Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology

Director of Biomedical Engineering

University of Rochester.

"Red Cell Membrane Stability: Implications for Circulation."

April 13, 2000 110 Hallowell Building (University Park) & CG624F (Hershey Medical Center)

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Tim Hall

Associate Professor of Radiology

University of Kansas Medical Center

April 20, 2000 110 Hallowell Building (University Park) & CG624F (Hershey Medical Center)

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Arne Voie

Spencer Technology

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