Seminars

2013-05-21 - Assoc. Prof. Suzie Pun, University of Washington - Dept. of Bioengineering
Suzie H. Pun received her Chemical Engineering Ph.D. degree in 2000 from the California Institute of Technology. She then worked as a senior scientist at Insert Therapeutics for 3 years before joining the Department of Bioengineering at University of Washington (UW). She is currently the Robert J Rushmer Associate Professor of Bioengineering, an Adjunct Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, and a member of the Molecular Engineering and Sciences Institute at UW. Her research focus area is in drug and gene delivery systems and she has published over 60 research articles in this area. For this work, she was recognized with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2006.

2013-05-28 - Asst. Prof. Irene Ann Chen, University of California, Santa Barbara - Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Irene Chen is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received a bachelor's degree in Chemistry and an MD-PhD in Biophysics from Harvard, where she worked with Jack Szostak on membrane biophysics. She received a Harold Weintraub graduate student award and the GE and Science Prize for young life scientists. She was a Bauer Fellow in systems biology at Harvard for postdoctoral research.

2013-06-04 - Asst. Prof. Kim Woodrow, University of Washington - Dept. of Bioengineering
Kim Woodrow is joined the Bioengineering faculty in 2009, coming from Yale University, where she has been a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering since 2006. She pursues research to develop delivery systems for reagents that can be used in diagnostic or therapeutic applications. Her research involves methods to design new biomaterials and employ biophysical and biomolecular techniques to characterize these materials in various biological systems. This research has the potential to impact the future of nanomedicine.

Woodrow received her bachelor's degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from Wells College in New York, and earned a master’s and doctoral degrees in chemical engineering from Stanford University.

Woodrow's recent awards include an NIH Cardiology Postdoctoral Training Fellowship, a L'Oreal USA Fellowship for Women in Science, an NIH Genomics and Proteomics Postdoctoral Training Fellowship, and an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

2013-10-01 - TBA - OPEN, -

2013-10-08 - TBA - OPEN, -

2013-10-15 - Igal Szleifer, Northwestern University - Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
The focus of our research is in the molecular modeling of biointerphases. Our work is aimed at the fundamental understanding of the properties of complex molecular systems that encompass problems at the interface between medicine, biology, chemistry, physics and materials science. Our group concentrates on the development and application of theoretical approaches that enable the study of the systems of interest at the molecular level. The results of these studies are then used in the design of optimal materials that interact with biological environments, Most of our projects are carried out in close collaboration with experimental collaborators. Our theoretical work has the dual purpose of: 1) the fundamental understanding of what are the molecular factors that determine the properties and behavior of the interactions between biological environments and synthetic systems, and 2) the ability to predict in a quantitative way experimental systems in order to use the theoretical approaches as a device tool for the engineer of new materials, such as biocompatible materials and drug carriers.

2013-10-22 - TBA - OPEN, -

2013-10-29 - Asst. Prof. Nathan Gianneschi, University of California, San Diego - Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry
The Gianneschi Group looks at the ability to control the assembly and morphology of nanoscale materials in response to specific biomolecular stimuli is expected to have a significant impact in targeted drug delivery and advanced sensor design. A set of strategies are being developed in our laboratories at UC San Diego to incorporate enzymes, proteins, peptides and nucleic acids into novel polymeric synthetic materials with the aim of programming morphology and function.

2013-11-05 - TBA - OPEN, -

2013-11-12 - TBA - OPEN - UW FACULTY ONLY, -

2013-11-19 - Prof. Richard McCreery, University of Alberta - Dept. of Chemistry

2013-11-26 - TBA - OPEN, -

2013-12-03 - TBA - OPEN - UW FACULTY ONLY, -