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BIOENGINEERING ANNOUNCEMENTS
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April 30-May 4, 2007


Exams
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**Jennifer Foley
    PhD final exam
    Wednesday, May 2 at 10 a.m. in the Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    "Design and Development of Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging Microfluidic Assay"
    Drs. Paul Yager (advisor), Dave Castner, Clement Furlong, Bruce Finlayson, and Mark
        Cooper (GSR)

**Joe McGonigle
    PhD final exam
    Friday, May 4 at 1 p.m. in the Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    "Engineering Angiogenesis Using the OPG/RANKL/RANK Molecular Triad"
    Drs. Marta Scatena and Ceci Giachelli (co-chairs), Roberto Nicosia (Pathology), Pat Stayton,
        Allan Hoffman, and Susan Woods (GSR; Nursing)

**Brian Kidd
    General exam
    Wednesday, May 2 at 9 a.m. in Foege N403
    "How a Protein Changes its Shape: understanding the structural basis for allosteric
        regulation"
    Drs. Wendy Thomas (chair), David Baker (Biochemistry and adjunct in Bioengineering),
        Valerie Daggett (Medicinal Chemistry and adjunct in Bioengineering), Evgeni Sokurenko
        (Microbiology), Paolo Vicini, and Gail Anderson (GSR; Pharmacy)

**Asanka Dewaraja
    Qualifying exam
    Wednesday, May 2 at 1.30 p.m. in Foege N230
    "Real Time Tumor Margin Identification for Skin Cancer During Mohs Surgery using High
        Frequency Ultrasound"
    Drs. Xingde Li (chair), Paul Yager, Mika Sinanan (Surgery), and Kirk Beach (advisor; Surgery
        and adjunct in Bioengineering)

**Katie McKenzie
    Qualifying exam
    Thursday, May 3 at 10 a.m. in the Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    "A Synthetic Lateral Flow Assay: Substitution of antibodies with molecularly imprinted
        polymers for protein recognition"
    Drs. Lara Gamble (chair), Patrick Stayton, Patrick Duffy (SBRI), and Paul Yager (advisor)



Seminars
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**Biomaterials (511)
    Thursday, May 3 from 3:30 to 4:20 p.m. in Benson 117
    Erasmo Lopez (ME graduate student)
        "A Strategy to Improve Tissue-Engineered Autologous Urinary Bladder Development"
    Dr. Guilin Jiang (Bioengineering senior fellow)
        "SIMS Imaging of Biomaterials"

**Nanotechnology (599F)
    Tuesday, May 1 from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. in Bagley 260
    Dr. Joe Tien, assistant professor
    Boston University Department of Biomedical Engineering
    "Microstructured Gels for Microvascular Tissue Engineering"

**Bioengineering (599O)
    Thursday, May 3 from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. in the Bioengineering Seminar Room (N130A)
    Conrad H. Smits, chief operating officer, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
    Philips Medical Systems, Latham, New York
    "MRI: where to go after 3T?"

**Special Seminar
    Friday, May 4 at 11 a.m. at South Lake Union (815 Mercer, Blue Flame Auditorium)
    Dr. Rodney Dilley
    Cardiac Program manager, Australian Tissue Engineering Centre, Fitzroy, Australia
    Research fellow, University of Melbourne, Department of Surgery, St. Vincent’s Hospital
    "Cardiac Tissue Engineering in vivo Generates a Vascularised Contractile Tissue for
        Transplantation"


Other
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**Dr. Suzie Pun will be one of five UW faculty speaking at the Office of Research's Early Career Award Recognition Symposium on Friday, May 4 at 2:30 p.m. in Turner Auditorium (HSB D-209). Her talk will be last, at 4:20. The title is "Synthetic Gene Delivery Systems for Non-Dividing Cells."

The next BMES General Meeting is this Wednesday, May 2, at 5:30 p.m. in the Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A). Dr. Hubert Vesselle, director of the Nuclear Medicine Division of Radiology at the UW, will give a talk titled "PET/CT in Cancer Management." BMES officer elections will also be held.