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BIOENGINEERING ANNOUNCEMENTS
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February 26 – March 2, 2007


Congratulations
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Dr. Wendy Thomas received official notice of an NSF CAREER award that will provide five years' funding for research entitled "Mechanically Activated Biological Adhesion."


Student Examinations
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**Annabel Tsai
    General exam
    Tuesday, February 27 at 2 p.m.
    Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    "Identification of Gene Expression Changes Leading to Differential Angiogenesis as a
       Function of Biomaterial Pore Size"
    Drs. Cecilia Giachelli (advisor), Buddy Ratner (advisor), Marta Scatena, Tom Horbett, and
        Kristi Morgansen (GSR; Aeronautics & Astronautics)

**Justin Shaffer
    Qualifying exam
    Monday, February 26 at 9 a.m.
    Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    "Quantification of the Effects of Bronchial Thermoplasty on Airway Microstructure Proteins"
    Drs. Joseph Anderson (chair), Patrick Stayton, Stephen Hauschka (Biochemistry and adjunct
        in Bioengineering), and Samantha Harris (advisor)

**Eric Sussman
    Qualifying exam
    Monday, February 26 at 3 p.m.
    Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    "Strategies to Enhance Integration of Synthetic Corneas"
    Drs. Thomas Horbett (chair), Lara Gamble, Tueng Shen (Ophthalmology and adjunct in
        Bioengineering), and Buddy Ratner (advisor)

**Rebecca Penkala
    Qualifying exam
    Thursday, March 1 at 10 a.m.
    Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    "The Role of Pleiotrophin Expression in Foreign Body Capsule Formation and Angiogenesis"
    Drs. Joan Sanders (chair), Thomas Horbett, Samantha Harris, Stephen Kim (advisor; Surgery
    and adjunct in Bioengineering), and Cecilia Giachelli (advisor)


Seminars
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**Biomaterials (511)
    Thursday, March 1 at 3:30 p.m.
    Benson 117
    Sirnegeda Techane, Chemical Engineering graduate student
        "Functionalization and Characterization of Gold Nanoparticles"
    Phuong-Cac Nguyen, Chemical Engineering visiting scientist
        "Oligonucleotide Immobilisation via a Patterned Propanal Plasma Polymer"

**Bioengineering (599D)
    Thursday, March 1 at 12:30 p.m.
    Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    Dr. Matt O’Donnell
    UW Frank and Julie Jungers Dean of Engineering & Professor of Bioengineering
    "Optoacoustics: Can Ultrasound Become the Preferred Modality for Molecular Imaging?"

**Nanotechnology (599E)
    Tuesday, February 27 at 12:30 p.m.
    Bagley 260
    Dr. Metin Sitti, assistant professor
    Carnegie Mellon University Department of Mechanical Engineering
    "Micro- and Nanoscale Robotics"

**Candidate Seminar
    Monday, February 26 at 12:30 p.m.
    Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    Dr. Jeff Hasty, associate professor
    University of California, San Diego Department of Bioengineering
    "Engineered Gene Circuits"

**Special Seminar (hosted by Dr. Pat Stayton)
    Friday, March 2 at 12:30 p.m.
    Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    Dr. Marc McKee
    McGill University, Montreal, Canada
    "Molecular Determinants of Skeletal, Dental and Pathologic Mineralization"