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BIOENGINEERING ANNOUNCEMENTS
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February 5-9, 2007

Student Examination
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**Jinnan Wang
Tuesday, February 6, 9:30 a.m.
Foege N403
General exam
"Technical developments for microvascular MRI and its application in scleroderma disease
staging"
Drs.Chun Yuan (chair; Radiology and adjunct in Bioengineering), Qiang Fu (GSR,
Atmospheric Sciences), Stephen Schwartz (Pathology and adjunct in Bioengineering),
Shahram Vaezy, and Paolo Vicini

Seminars
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**Biomaterials (511)
Thursday, February 8, 3:30 - 4:20 p.m.
Benson 117
Jennifer Patterson, Bioengineering graduate student
"Angiogenic and Osteoinductive Hydrogel Scaffolds for Bone Regeneration"
Marisa Sylvester, Bioengineering graduate student
"Design and characterization of a surface coating for reduction of fibrous encapsulation
around implants"

**Bioengineering (599D)
Thursday, February 8, 12:30 - 1:20 p.m.
Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
Dr. Eberhard Fetz
UW Physiology & Biophysics
Associate director for neuroscience, Washington National Primate Research Center
"Recurrent brain-computer interfaces"

**Nanotechnology (599Y)
Tuesday, February 6, 12:30 - 1:20 p.m.
Bagley 260
Dr. Markus Raschke
UW Chemistry
"Optics on the nanoscale: imaging and spectroscopy with optical antennas"