UCLA | Department of Bioengineering

2006 Seminars

January
Jan. 18	Andrea M. Kasko Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of Colorado at Boulder “Rational Design of Materials for Biological Applications”
Jan. 19	Renny T. Franceschi, Ph.D. Professor of Dentistry Department of Periodontics/Prevention/Geriatrics University of Michigan School of Dentistry Ann Arbor, MI “Gene Therapy Approaches for bone Regeneration”
Jan. 23	Chia-en Cheng, Ph.D. Postdoctoral fellow "Modeling Molecular Recognition: from Small Ligands to Large Biomolecular Systems"
Jan. 25	Hyun Joon Kong, Ph.D. Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard UniversityCambridge, MA "Functionalizing Hydrogels to Regulate Cellular Phenotype"
Jan. 30	Mohamed E.H. El-Sayed, Ph.D.* Senior Postdoctoral Fellow University of Washington, Department of Bioengineering "Therapeutic and Diagnostic Applications of Novel “Smart” Nano-Polymer"

February
Feb. 1	Sophie Pautot, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow University of California, Berkeley Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology "Bio-Mimicking Substrates for Real Time Study of Neuro-Synaptic"
Feb. 6	Karen Christman* Postdoctoral Fellow University of California, Los Angeles Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry "Biomaterial for Tissue Engineering and Bionanotechnology"
Feb. 8	Cliff Wang* Postdoctoral Fellow University of California, San Francisco Department of Microbiology and Immunology "The Dynamic Genome of Lymphocytes"
Feb. 13	Catherine Shachaf * Post Doctoral Scholar Stanford University, Division of Medical Oncology "MYC Inactivation, Tumor Dormancy and Tumor Regression”
Feb. 15	Gabriel Kreiman, Ph.D. Whiteman Science Fellow Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Neural coding for visual pattern recognition”
Feb. 22	Alec Chengcheng Zhang, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research “Hematopoietic Stem Cells: Novel Surface Markers and New Growth Factors for their Expansion”
Feb. 23	Frank J. Grunthaner, Ph.D. Senior Research Scientist Jet Propulsion Laboratory “The Quest for Signs of a Second Genesis (Using Lab-on-a-chip Technology)" *MicroDevice Lab, in situ Instruments, Astrobiology and Life Detection*

March

Mar.1

David Eddington, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies
Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard-MIT

“Microfluidics for Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering”

June

June 6

Edward Dauer, M.D.
Research Associate Professor
Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology
University of Miami
Director of Radiology, Florida Medical Center Hospital

"Positron Emission Tomography (PET) - Basic Physics and Clinical Use"

*Joint Seminars hosted by The Department of Bionengineering and The Weintraub Center.


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