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University of Kentucky - The Graduate School - Center for Biomedical Engineering

Fall 2007 Seminar Series

WGRL Room 19, Friday 3:00 PM (* unless otherwise noted)

Month Day Details
August 31 Introduction to CBME, Drs. David Puleo & Abhijit Patwardhan
September 7 Sarah Pachtman, M.S., recent CBME graduate and UKMC medical student, “MRI iron detection in the Alzheimer’s brain using voxel-based relaxometry”
  14 Megan Boone, Assistant Director and liaison to the College of Engineering with the Stuckert Career Center,. “Aspects of Professional Development”
  21 Joseph Zwischenberger, MD, Chairman, Dept. of Surgery, UK, “Artificial lungs: A new inspiration"
  28 Thomas Dziubla, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, UK, "Polymer drug delivery systems for the treatment of vascular oxidative stress"
October 5

Dongfang Wang, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept. of Surgery, UK, "Recent progress on artificial organs in Dr. Zwischenberger’s Laboratory"

  12

Andrea Gobin, Assistant Professor, Dept. o fBioengineering, U of L, “TBA”

  19* Gill Heart Cardiovascular Research Day, Lexington Convention Center, 9:00 am to 8:00 pm. Presentations by Robert Califf, Steve Nissen, Daniel Rader and Eric Olson. Students are encouraged to attend and present posters at http://www.mc.uky.edu/CVRC/ (click on GHI Research Day).
  26 Jane Grande-Allen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. o f Bioengineering, Rice University, “Heart valves, proteoglycans and tissue engineering”
November 2 Karen Esser, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept. of Physiology, UK, “ Clock genes and skeletal muscle structure and function”
  9 David Powell, Ph.D., MRI Physicist, MRISC, UK, “Research application of diffusion, tensor imaging and spectroscopy in magnetic imaging"
  16 Sergio Mendes, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept. o f Physics & Astronomy, U of L, “Photonics for the investigation of biofilms”
  30 Ken Campbell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physiology, UK, “TBA”
December 7 BME 699 Student presentation, “The Future of Fracture Fixation”

*NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATION, DAY AND/OR TIME