Exams
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**Bertrand C.W. Tanner
    PhD final exam
    Tuesday, November 13, at 2 p.m. in Foege S110
    "Spatial coupling between sarcomeric proteins controls Ca2+-sensitive contraction in muscle:
        a complementary research approach integrating theory with experiments"
    Drs. Mike Regnier (chair), Tom Daniel (Biology and BioE adjunct), Paolo Vicini, Don
        Martyn, and Greg Terman (GSR; Anesthesiology)

**Alan G. Goodman
    PhD final exam
    Monday, November 19, at 10 a.m. in the Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    "P58IPK, the cellular eIF2alpha kinase inhibitor, promotes viral mRNA translation and limits
        host death during influenza virus infection"
    Drs. Michael Katze (chair; Microbiology and BioE adjunct), Wendy Thomas, Suzie Pun, Adam
        Geballe (Medicine), Evgeni Sokurenko (Microbiology), and Karol Bomsztyk (GSR;
        Medicine)


Seminars
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**Nanotechnology Seminar (BIOEN 518)
    Tuesday, November 13, from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. in Bagley 260
    Dr. Philip LeDuc, associate professor, Carnegie Mellon University
    Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Biological Sciences
    "Nano- and Micro-technology for Linking Mechanics to Biochemistry in Molecular and Cellular
        Behavior"

**Faculty Brown Bag Talk for Undergrads
    Wednesday, November 14, from 1:30 to 2:20 in Foege N230
    Dr. Marta Scatena

**Science in Medicine Lecture
    Wednesday, November 14, from noon to 1 p.m. in HSC Hogness Auditorium
    Dr. Wendy Thomas, UW Bioengineering
    "How Mechanical Forces Activate a Nanoadhesive"

**Biomaterials Seminar (BIOEN 511)
    Thursday, November 15, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Benson 117
    Matthew Leung, MSE graduate student
        "3D Chitosan-Alginate porous scaffolds for feeder-independent self-renewal of human
            embryonic stem cells"
    Lizzy Mayorga Szott, Bioengineering graduate student
        "Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Fibrinogen Adsorbed to
             Low-Fouling Tetraglyme Surfaces"

**Biomechanics Seminar (ME 598C)
    Thursday, November 15, from 3:30 to 4:20 p.m. in MEB 238
    Dr. Michael Chang, UW Rehabilitation Medicine
    "Development of Personalized Extracorporeal Shock Wave Treatments"

“It’s a Small World” (nanotechnology at the UW and MIT)
Sponsored by: UW Nanotech & Nanoscience Student Association and MIT Club of Puget Sound
Thursday, November 15, 6:30 to 9 p.m. in the Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
Schedule 6:30: reception with light dinner; 7: webcast of MIT faculty discussing nanoscale
      research in biomechanics, soldier technologies, and electricity generation; 8:30: protein
      structure and engineering talk by Dr. Francois Baneyx, UW Center for Nanotechnology
      director, ChemE and BioE adjunct
RSVP to Aileen Wu (aileenwu@u.washington.edu) ASAP; space is limited