Exams
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**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 Bioengineering adjunct), Wendy Thomas, Suzie
        Pun, Adam Geballe (Medicine), Evgeni Sokurenko (Microbiology), and Karol Bomsztyk
        (GSR; Medicine)

**Annabel Tsai
    PhD final exam
    Tuesday, November 20, at 2:30 p.m. in the Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    "Engineering biomaterials to control foreign body response: giant cell formation and host
        response to porous materials"
    Drs. Ceci Giachelli (co-chair), Buddy Ratner (co-chair), Marta Scatena, Tom Horbett, and
        Kristi Morgansen (Aeronautics & Astronautics)

**Canxing Xu
    Qualifying exam
    Tuesday, November 20, at 3 p.m. in Foege N230
    "Semi-Automatic Cochlear Implant Electrode Localization"
    Drs. Jay Rubinstein (chair), Shahram Vaezy, Satoshi Minoshima (Radiology and
        Bioengineering adjunct), and Yongmin Kim (advisor)

**Lauran Madden
    Qualifying Exam
    Wednesday, November 21, at 10 a.m. in the Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    "Mechanisms of Troponin I Truncation Following Myocardial Infarction and Clinical
        Implications"
    Drs. Charles Murry (chair), Jeffrey Chamberlain (Neurology), Michael Regnier, and Buddy
        Ratner (advisor)


Seminar
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**Nanotechnology Seminar (BIOEN 518)
    Tuesday, November 20, from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. in Bagley 260
    Dr. Vinayak P. Dravid, Materials Science & Engineering, Northwestern University
    "Seeing and Sensing the Invisible: Emerging Nanostructures and Devices for Bio-nano-
        medicine"

(No ME598C, BioE faculty brown bag, or BIOEN511 this week. Happy Thanksgiving!)