Exams
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**Kristen Lloyd Helton
    PhD Final Exam
    Tuesday, October 2, at 1 p.m.
    Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    "Preconditioning Saliva to Measure Small Analytes in a Microfluidic Biosensor"
    Drs. Paul Yager (chair), Pat Stayton, John Berg (Chemical Engineering), Robert Synovec
        (Chemistry), and Kenneth Izutsu (GSR; Oral Biology)

**Victoria Blythe Rodriguez
    Master’s Final Exam
    Friday, October 5, at 11 a.m.
    Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    "Stabilization of the near-infrared dye indocyanine green"
    Drs. Suzie Pun (primary advisor), Xingde Li (co-advisor), and Shahram Vaezy


Seminars
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**Nanotechnology Seminar (BIOEN 518)
    Tuesday, October 2, from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. in Bagley 260
    Dr. Teri W. Odom, associate professor, Chemistry, Northwestern University
    "Multiscale Patterning of Plasmonic Metamaterials"

**Biomaterials Seminar (BIOEN 511)
    Thursday, October 4, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Benson 117
    Jason Tung (Bioengineering graduate student)
    "Mimicking cell-cell inductive signals on biomaterial surfaces for control of stem cell
         differentiation"
    Chris Barnes (Chemical Engineering graduate student)
    "ToF SIMS analysis of decellularized tissues"