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BIOENGINEERING ANNOUNCEMENTS
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May 21-25, 2007


Exams
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**Marilyn Nourse
    PhD final exam
    Wednesday, May 23, at 10 a.m. in the Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    "Control of Endothelial Cell Differentiation and Proliferation for Vascular Tissue Engineering"
    Drs. Chuck Murry (chair), Ceci Giachelli, Marta Scatena, Pat Stayton, and Eric Feigl (GSR;
        Physiology and Biophysics)

**Alicia Moreno-Gonzalez
    PhD final exam
    Friday, May 25, at 1 p.m. in the Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    "Mechanical Properties of Myocardium Following Cardiomyocyte Transplantation into
        Infarcted Hearts and Investigations of the Role of Troponin C Ca2+ Binding Kinetics in
        Skeletal Muscle Contraction"
    Drs. Michael Regnier (chair), Charles E. Murry, Samantha Harris, L. Fernando Santana
        (Physiology and Biophysics), Albert M. Gordon (Physiology and Biophysics), and Kenneth
        A. Krohn (GSR; Radiology)

**Bo Zhuang
    Master’s final exam
    Tuesday, May 22, at 2 p.m. in Foege N403
    "Real-Time 3D Ultrasound Scan Conversion in a Multi-Core Processor"
    Drs. Yongmin Kim (advisor), Ravi Managuli (Bioengineering affiliate), and Xingde Li


Seminars
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**Biomaterials (511)
    Thursday, May 24, 3:30 to 4:20 p.m. in Benson 117
    Victoria Rodriguez, Bioengineering graduate student
        "Stabilization of the Near-Infrared Dye Indocyanine Green via Encapsulation within
            Polymeric Micelles"
    Ester Kwon, Bioengineering graduate student
        "Lytic Peptides for Non-Viral Gene Therapy"

**Nanotechnology (599F)
    Tuesday, May 22, 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. in Bagley 260
    Dr. Stanislaus S. Wong, associate professor
    State University of New York Department of Chemistry
    "Chemical Strategies in Nanoscience"

**Bioengineering (599O)
    Thursday, May 24, 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. in the Bioengineering Seminar (Foege N130A)
    Trevor Fowler, Bioengineering undergraduate student
        "Proof of Concept System for Robotically Assisted, Ultrasound Image-Guided HIFU
            Surgery"
    Zuotian Tatum, Bioengineering undergraduate student
        "Developing Poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) Hydrogel as Phantom for High-Intensity
            Focused Ultrasound Dosimetry"


Dates to remember
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The department is sponsoring the annual Rushmer lecture on June 7, celebrating graduation on June 8, and honoring Dr. Yongmin Kim's tenure as chair on June 12. See the attached Bulletin for more information.