Mondays 1:30pm - 2:30pm

• September 15 – AZ Health Sciences Center 5403
  Michael Caplan, PhD, Harrington Department of Bioengineering, Arizona State University
  “Uses for Kinetic Mass Balances in Bioengineering”
  
• September 22 – AHSC 5403
  Brooke McGuire, Dissertation Defense for Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering
  “Mathematical Modeling of Oxygen Transport in Skeletal Muscle Under Conditions of High Oxygen Demand”
  Host: Dr. Timothy Secomb, 626-4513
  
• September 29 – AHSC 5403
  Brent Vernon, PhD, Harrington Department of Bioengineering, Arizona State University
  “In situ Gelling Materials for Drug Delivery and Tissue Reconstruction”
  
• October 8 (Wednesday) – Electrical & Computer Engineering Room 512
  12 noon – 1:00 pm
  Nimmi Ramanujam, PhD, Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin at Madison
  "Sources of Optical Contrast in Breast Cancer"
  
• October 13 – AHSC 5403
  Eric R. Craine, PhD, Western Research Company, Inc.
  “A Small Research Company Environment”
  
• October 16 (Thursday) – AME Room S212
  3:30 – 5:15 pm
  Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering Seminar
  Jim Jara-Almonte, PhD, Abbott Laboratories
  “Microtechnology in the Hospital”
  
• October 20 – AHSC 5403
  Stuart K. Williams, PhD, and Cindy Smith, Biomedical Engineering Program, University of Arizona
  “A BioAssembly Tool (BAT) for Regenerative Medicine”
  
• October 27 – AHSC 5403
  E. Duco Jansen, PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University
  "In Vivo Bioluminescence Imaging: In Vivo Imaging of Gene Expression, Tissue Transplants and Sublethal Thermal Tissue Injury"
  
• November 3 – AHSC 5403
  Sponsored by NIH Cardiovascular Biomedical Engineering Training Grant
  Robert Dennis, PhD, Mechanical Engineering & Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan
  "Functional self-organized cardiac and skeletal muscle engineered in vitro"
  Host: Dr. Stuart Williams, 626-4707
  
• November 6 (Thursday) – AME Room S212
  3:30 – 5:15 pm
  Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering Seminar
  Mark A. Shannon, PhD, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  “Molecular Nano-Gates for Attoliter Bio Chemical Analysis”
  
• November 11 – No Seminar
  
• November 17 – AHSC 5403
  Sponsored by NIH Cardiovascular Biomedical Engineering Training Grant
  William R. Wagner, PhD, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine; Departments of Surgery, Chemical Engineering & Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh
  “Flexible, Biodegradable Scaffolds for Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering”
  Host: Dr. Stuart Williams, 626-4707
  
• November 24 – AHSC 5403
  Vicki Chandler, PhD, Regents’ Professor, Plant Sciences and Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of Arizona
  "Violations of Mendel’s laws: Epigenetic regulation of gene expression"
  
• December 1 – AHSC 5403
  Stan Lindstedt, PhD, Regents’ Professor, Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Comparative Muscle Physiology
  "Muscles as Adaptable Locomotor Springs: Clinical Interventions"
  
• December 8 – AHSC 5403
  Art Gmitro, PhD, Optical Sciences and Radiology, University of Arizona
  "RAD-GRASE: A Novel Sequence for MR Imaging"