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  2004 Seminars
 
 

January 2004

January 21

Anita Goel, M.D., Ph.D.
Research Fellow: Departments of Physics and Chemistry
Harvard University, Harvard-MIT Division of Health
Sciences and Technology (HST)
"SIngle-Molecule Dynamics of Molecular Machines that Replicate DNA"


January 28

Ricky K. Taira, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Radiology
UCLA
“Natural Language Processing Medical Reports”

 

February 2004

February 4

J.J. DiStefano III, Ph.D.
Professor of Computer Science, Medicine & Biomedical Engineering, UCLA
“Angiogenesis & Lymphangiogenesis in Cancer:
Some Basics, Models & Predictive Simulation Results
on Anti-Angio Drug Treatment"

 

March 2004

March 9

Dolores Bozovic, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Hudspeth Lab, Rockefeller University
"Mechano-Electrical Transduction and Amplification by Inner Ear Hair Cells"

 

March 17

Metin Akay, Ph.D.
Thayer school of Engineering, Dartmouth College
"Complexity of Respiratory Neural Networks During Maturation"

 

March 24

Jene Meiler Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington
"Bioinformatics Beyong the Human Genome Project"

 

March 30 Matthias Lutolf, Ph.D.
Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Department of Materials, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
"Synthetic Cell-Responsive Extracellular Microenvironments for Tissue Engineering"

 

April 2004

April 21

Genetha Anne Gray, Ph.D.
Technical Staff Memeber,
Department of Computational Sciences and Mathematics Research Sandia National Laboratories
"An Integrated Computational/Experimental Approach to the Transmembrane Protein Structure Determination Problem"

 

May 2004

May 19

Arion Chatziloannou, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor,
Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging
UCLA School of Medicine
"In-vivo Molecular Imaging of Small Animal Models "

 

June 2004

June 2

Srivatsa Rao , Ph.D.
Senior Executive Engineer and Group Leader,
Biochemicals Sensor Divion
Intelligent Optical Systems
"Microarray Technology: A Status Report"

 

September 2004

September 30

Lilit Yeghiazarian, Ph.D.,
Asst Researcher / Lecturer,
Department of Bioengineering, UCLA
“Directed Motion and Cargo Transport Through Propagation of Polymer Gel Volume Phase Transitions”

 

October 2004

October 7

Marvin Bergsneider, M.D.,
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery,
Division of Neurosurgery, UCLA School of Medicine,
“Is the Intracranial Compartment a Tuned Oscillator?
- Modeling Intracranial Pressure and Blood Flow Dynamics”

October 14 *

Gene Dantsker, Ph.D.,
Vice President, Technology, Nanostream Inc., Pasadena, CA
“Microfluidic High Throughput LiquidChromatography Systems”

October 21
Shantanu Sinha, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor, Radiological Sciences
“The Other “Phase” of MRI”
October 28

Fu-Wen Shen, Ph.D.
Department of Orthopaedics, Orthopaedic Hospital/UCLA
"Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polyethylene for Total Joint Replacement"

 

 

November 2004

November 4

John Zhang & James Lim
BMES Paper Competition Winners

 

November 11

NO SEMINAR

November 18 *

Neal Garrett, Ph.D. & Ichiro Nishimura, DDS, DMSc, DMD
Advanced Prosthodontics and Weintraub Center,
UCLA School of Dentistry
"Weintraub Center for Reconstructive
Biotechnology - Overview"

 

November 25

NO SEMINAR

 

December 2004

December 2

Zhen Lu
The J. Vernon Luck Orthopaedic Research Center Orthopaedic Hospital and Department of Orthopaedic Surgery David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
"Finite Element Analysis of the Effects of Stem Geometry, Surface Finish and Cement Viscoelasticity on the Long-term Stable Fixation of Total Hip Prosthesis "

 

December 9 *

David Wong, DMD, DMSc
Division of Oral Biology & Medicine
UCLA School of Dentistry
"UCLA Dental Research Institute: Cutting Edge Collaborative Oral Health Research"

 

 

*Joint Seminars hosted by The Department of Bionengineering, The Weintraub Center, and The Dental Research Institute

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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