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BIOENGINEERING ANNOUNCEMENTS for May 29-June 2, 2006
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Special Announcement
Examinations
Departmental Seminars
Congratulations
General Information
Other Events


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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
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Pizza, beer, music, and great companionship will be found at the Bioengineering Move-In Party this Friday, June 2 from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Foege lobby. Everyone in the department is invited to bring their appetites, instruments, voices, and laughter to the celebration. Contact Anita Wahler at awahler@u.washington.edu with ideas or questions.


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EXAMINATIONS
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**Anna Tourovskaia
    PhD final exam
    Thursday, June 1 at 2 p.m.
    Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130)
    "Synaptogenesis-on-a-Chip: Assembly and Disassembly of Acetylcholine Receptor Clusters"
    Drs. Albert Folch (chair), Gerald Pollack, Michael Regnier, Marvin Adams  (Physiology and
         Biophysics), and Mark Cooper (GSR, Biology)

**Tim Strovas
    PhD final exam
    Wednesday, May 31 at 9 a.m.
    Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    "Multivariate Detection from Single Cells: Monitoring Metabolic Modules in Methylobacterium
        extorquens AM1"
    Drs. Mary Lidstrom (chair; adjunct in Bioengineering), Brad Cookson (Laboratory Medicine),
        Patrick Stayton, Paolo Vicini, and Elton Young (GSR; Biochemistry)

**Jeffrey Neil Anderl
    PhD final exam
    Thursday, June 1 at 10 a.m.
    Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    “PLGA Microsphere Formulations for Sustained Local Delivery of Vascular
        Endothelial Growth Factor: Considerations for Therapeutic Angiogenesis of
        Infarcted Myocardium”
    Drs. Patrick Stayton (chair), Charles Murry (Pathology; adjunct in Bioengineering),
        Allan Hoffman, Wayne Gombotz (Omeros Corporation; affiliate in Bioengineering),
        Robert Vernon (Benaroya Research Institute), and Selim Tuncel (GSR; Mathematics)


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DEPARTMENTAL SEMINARS
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**Bioengineering Seminar
    Thursday, June 1 from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m.
    Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    Dr. Buddy Ratner
    Darland Endowed Chair in Technology Commercialization, Professor of Bioengineering and
        Director, University of Washington Engineered Biomaterials (UWEB)
    “Remembering Biomaterials and Rethinking Biomaterials”

**Biomaterials Seminar (BIOEN 511)
    Thursday, June 1 from 3:30 to 4:20 p.m.
    Benson 117
    Dr. Scott Curtin
    Bioengineering Senior Fellow
    “Synthesis of Biodegradable Polymers for Tissue Engineering Scaffolds”

    Sirnegeda Techane
    Chemical Engineering Graduate Student
    “Functionalizing and Characterizing Gold Nanoparticles”

**Nanotechnology Seminar (BIOEN 599F)
    Tuesday, May 30 from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m.
    Bagley 260
    Dr. Mehmet Sarikaya, Director of NSF/UW-Materials Research Science & Engineering Center
        and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
    "Genetically Engineered Materials - Fundamentals and Applications in Materials and
        Medicine"


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CONGRATULATIONS
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**Suzanne Flanary and Angela Collie, graduate students in the Stayton/Hoffman Laboratory, were awarded STAR (Student Travel Achievement Recognition) Awards for their abstracts to the Society for Biomaterials 2006 Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The STAR awards are for outstanding student contributions and include a travel stipend of $250.

**Bioengineering BS graduate Kenneth Garbo Liu is one of two students receiving the College of Engineering Dean’s Medal for Academic Excellence on Thursday, June 1. Students were selected for academic excellence, research and industry experience, and campus and community involvement, based partly on faculty and staff recommendation letters. Drs. Patrick Stayton and Allan Hoffman were his capstone research supervisors.


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GENERAL INFORMATION
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**If you have departmental items you would like to display in the display cases in the Foege east entrance, please contact Chelsea Musick at cmusick@u.washington.edu. You can also contact her to have your budget number added to any of the three copiers in Foege.


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OTHER EVENTS
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**At the next BMES General Meeting, Dr. Richard Deyo (UW Medicine, Health Services) will talk about improvements to systems that allow unsafe or inefficacious medical devices to be used in healthcare. The meeting will be Thursday, June 1 at 5:30 p.m. in the Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130). Leah Lockyer will speak on the resources available from Kaplan Test Prep, as well.