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BIOENGINEERING ANNOUNCEMENTS
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March 5 - 9, 2007


Student Examination
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**Lina Nilsson
    Master’s exam
    Thursday, March 8 at 9 a.m. in Foege N403
    "The Cysteine Bond in the E. coli FimH Adhesin is Critical for Bacterial Adhesion Under Flow
        Conditions"
    Drs. Viola Vogel (advisor; Bioengineering affiliate), Wendy Thomas, and Evgeni Sokurenko
        (Microbiology)


Seminars
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**Candidate
    Monday, March 5 from 12:30 to 1:20 in the Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    Jesse Bloom, PhD candidate
    California Institute of Technology, Chemistry Department
    "Hidden Dimensions in Protein Evolution: Stability, Mutational Robustness, and Evolvability"

**Biomaterials (511)
    Thursday, March 8 from 3:30 to 4:20 in Benson 117
    Chee Ping Ng, Bioengineering senior fellow
        "Development of a Versatile Perfusable In Vitro 3-D Soft Tissue Culture Chamber"
    Lizzy Mayorga Szott, Bioengineering graduate student
        "Mechanisms of the Foreign Body Response to Low-Fouling Tetraglyme Films"

**Bioengineering (599D)
    Thursday, March 8 from 12:30 to 1:20 in the Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    Dr. Daniel Beard, associate professor
    Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Physiology
    "Mitochondrial Energetics in Cardiac Function and Dysfunction"

**Nanotechnology (599E)
    Tuesday, March 6 from 12:30 to 1:20 in Bagley 260
    Dr. Albena Ivanisevic, assistant professor
    Purdue University, Biomedical Engineering
    "Fabrication and Characterization of Biological and Chemical Architectures on Organic and
        Inorganic Surfaces"