Seminars

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 A. Woodrow is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington since January 2010. In 2006-2009 she was a postdoctoral fellow in Biomedical Engineering at Yale University in the group of Prof. W. Mark Saltzman. She completed her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Stanford in 2006. Prof. Woodrow’s research interests focus on the application of engineered biomaterials in mucosal biology, where her lab works on the design and synthesis of biomaterials for applications in mucosal infections and mucosal immunity. Prof. Woodrow is an NIH-funded investigator, the recipient of the Creative and Novel Ideas in HIV Research (CNIHR) award from the Office of AIDS Research, a recipient of a grant from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and was awarded a 2012 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award.

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, -