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BIOENGINEERING ANNOUNCEMENTS
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April 23-27, 2007


Exams
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**Unmin Bae (EE)
    PhD final exam
    Thursday, April 26 at 8:30 a.m. in Foege N403
    "Ultrasound Elastography: Method and Clinical Application"
    Drs. Yongmin Kim (chair), John D. Sahr (EE), Satoshi Minoshima (Radiology and adjunct in
        Bioengineering), Shahram Vaezy, and James Hermanson (AA)

**Ismail B. Tutar (EE)
    PhD final exam
    Friday, April 27 at 3 p.m. in Foege N403
    "Intraoperative Dosimetry Analysis of Prostate Brachytherapy using Transrectal Ultrasound
        and X-Ray Fluoroscopy"
    Drs. Yongmin Kim (chair), Paul Cho (Virginia Mason), Kent Wallner (VA & UW Rad Onc),
        Sayan Pathak (affiliate in Bioengineering and EE), Linda Shapiro (Computer Science and
        Engineering), and John Zahorjan (Computer Science and Engineering)

**Lauren Shepherd
    Qualifying exam
    Friday, April 27 at 10 a.m. in Foege N530 (Auth Conference Room)
    "Herding Bacteria: An integrated microfluidic device for quantifying interpopulation variation in
        the chemotactic response"
    Drs. Albert Folch (chair), Daniel Schwartz (ChemE), Patrick Stayton, and Paul Yager
        (advisor)


Seminars
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**Biomaterials (511)
    Thursday, April 26, 3:30-4:20 p.m. in Benson 117
    Julia Apte (ChemE graduate student)
        "Surface Analysis of Model Peptides on SAMs"
    Jacqueline Callihan (Bioengineering graduate student)
        "Dynamics of Staphylococcus epidermidis Adhesion to Fibronectin under Fluid Shear"

**Nanotechnology (599F)
    Tuesday, April 24, 12:30-1:20 p.m. in Bagley 260
    Dr. Richard A. Gross, professor
    Polytechnic University Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences
        "Enzyme Catalysis Provides New Paradigms in Biomaterials Synthesis and Modification"

**Bioengineering (599O): NO SEMINAR
    [Normally Thursday, April 26, 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. in the Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege
        N130A)]

**Special Seminar
    Tuesday, April 24, 10:30 a.m. in the Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    Dr. Alan Hunt, associate professor
    University of Michigan Department of Biomedical Engineering & Center for Ultrafast Optical
        Science
    "Breaking the Diffraction Limit: Committing an Optical Misdemeanor for Nanomachining,
        Microfluidics, and Cell Biology"