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BIOENGINEERING ANNOUNCEMENTS
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January 29 – February 2, 2007


Student Examinations
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**Kenneth Hawkins
    Tuesday, January 30, 11 a.m.
    Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    PhD final exam
    "Designing the Diffusion Immunoassay (DIA): How properties of the analyte affect DIA
        performance"
    Drs. Paul Yager (chair), Michael Regnier, Albert Folch, Petrie Rainey (Laboratory Medicine),
        Lloyd Burgess (Chemistry), and Mehran Mesbahi (GSR; Aeronautics and Astronautics)


Seminars
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**Biomaterials (511)
    Thursday, February 1, 3:30 - 4:20 p.m.
    Benson 117
    Rob Burk, Bioengineering graduate student
        "Effect of Extracellular Matrix on Non-Viral Gene Delivery Vehicles"
    Floyd Karp, Bioengineering graduate student
        "Investigation of the Foreign Body Response to an Implanted Biosensor by In Situ
            Application of Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy"

**Bioengineering (599D)
    Thursday, February 1, 12:30 - 1:20 p.m.
    Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    Dr. Farren Isaacs, research fellow
    Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
    "Design, Synthesis and Control of Genetic and Genomic Systems"

**Nanotechnology (599Y)
    Tuesday, January 30, 12:30 - 1:20 p.m.
    Bagley 260
    Dr. Li Tan, assistant professor
    Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience, University of Nebraska
    "Using Solid Mechanics to Assist the Engineering of Nanostructures"

**Special Seminar
    Thursday, February 1, 3 p.m.
    Foege N403
    Dr. Uwe Morgner, professor
    Quantum Optics Institute and Laser Center, Leibniz University of Hannover
    "Broadband Laser Light Sources for Scientific, Commercial, and Biomedical Applications"
    Website: http://www.iqo.uni-hannover.de/morgner/index.html
    (Dr. Morgner made the world’s shortest pulse laser a few years ago.)


Congratulations
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Dr. Xiaohu Gao received an NSF CAREER award, which will be active from February 1, 2007 through January 31, 2012. The title of the project is “Novel Nanotechnology for Multiplexed Analysis of Genes and Proteins with PCR-like Sensitivity.”