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News, a running list of past and upcoming program events


September 19 , 2009

Biomedical Engineering hosted a National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (GEM) Getting Ready for Advanced Degrees (GRAD) event.

Thank you to Texas Instruments, The University of Arizona College of Engineering, and the BIO5 Institute for their support of this event.

September 19, 2009 Keating Bioresearch Building Room 103

 

June 26 , 2009

BME Ph.D. Candidate Kevin Harkins will present his dissertation defense titled: “Biophysical Mechanisms of Diffusion-Weighted MRI Assessed Through Computational Modeling and Experiments in Bioreactor Cell Cultures”

Friday June 26 , 2009 9:00 am Medical Research Building Room 102

 

May 26 , 2009

BME Ph.D. Candidate Jennifer Elster will be presenting her dissertation defense titled: “Quantification and Tracking of Transplanted Satellite Cells

Tuesday May 26 , 2009 12:40 pm Keating Bioresearch Building Room 103

 

May 7, 2009

BME IDP Faculty and Students Spring 2009 picnic

The official flyer can be found here.

Thursday May 7, 2009
12-3:00 pm
Keating/Bio5 lawn east

 

April 21st, 2009

Alan Kehlet, Ph.D. Retired, NASA and Aerospace Industry Executive will present:
"Project Mercury: First Step to the Moon", the announcement can be found here

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
1:00 pm
Keating/Bio 5 103

 

April 6, 2009

BME Builder's Day 2009

2:00 pm Keating/Bio5 103

The announcement for the special Builder's Day Seminar by Kristen O’Halloran Cardinal, Ph.D. can be found here.

Thank you to everyone who participated

 

March 2nd , 2009

Special BME Seminar:

Monday, March 2nd, 2009, 1:00pm in Keating Bioresearch Building Room 103

"Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Nanotechnology"
Jennifer West, Department Chair and Cameron Professor of Bioengineering, Rice University

 

December 12, 2008

Special BME Master's Defense Seminar:

Friday, December 12th, 2008, 4:00pm in Keating 103

"A brief look at Protein structural changes as a measure of Cell Damage "
Omid Mahdavi, Biomedical Engineering student, University of Arizona

 

December 11, 2008

BME Program Fall Picnic

Thursday December 11th, 2008, 12-3 pm, lawn outside of Keating Bioresearch Building

flyer

 

December 4, 2008

BME Ph.D. Candidate Edward DeHoog will be presenting his dissertation defense titled: “Design of Multi Modality Fundus Cameras

Thursday, December 4, 2008 1:00 pm Keating Bioresearch Building Room 103

Snacks may be available.

 

October 27, 2008

BME ice cream social, northwest patio of the Keating building
3:00 pm, following the BME Seminar

Come and enjoy ice cream and socializing with fellow BME program members and affiliated labs

ice cream!

 

September 22nd 2008

"BME Data Blitz"

The research of several BME IDP faculty members was presented.
2:00-4:00 pm
Keating Bioresearch Building Room 103

 

September 18th 2008

A BME IDP member in the news recently (link to BIO5 article):

"Linda Powers: Detecting and Capturing Microbes"

 

August 28th 2008

Sangtae Ahn, Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California will present “Statistical Image Reconstruction Methods and Applications in Biomedical Imaging

12:00 pm Medical Research Building (MRB) Room 102

 

August 25th 2008

Sina Farsiu, Ph.D. from the Department of Ophthalmology at Duke University will present “Statistical Imaging, Restoration, and Analysis of Digital Images for Clinical and Industrial Applications

1:00 pm Keating Bioresearch Building Room 103

 

July 17th 2008

Special BME Seminar Ali Bilgin, Ph.D from the ECE and Radiology Departments at the University of Arizona will be presenting "Compressive Magnetic Resonance Imaging"

1:00 pm, Keating Bioresearch Building Room 103

 

June 27 , 2008

BME ice cream social, northwest patio of Keating building
3:30 pm

Come and enjoy ice cream and socializing with fellow BME program members and affiliated labs

ice cream!

 

April 21, 2008

BME Builder's Day and Poster Session

Monday, April 21st is the BME Builder's Day and Poster Session. The Poster
Session will take place at 1:00 pm, and our guest seminar will begin at 2:00
pm. Both will take place in Keating 103.
Please join us in our celebration!

Special BME Builder's Day Seminar:
National Institutes of Health: Perspective of a 2nd Year Post-doc
Joelle Sarlls, Ph.D., National Institutes of Health National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Section of Biophysics and Biomimetics

 

February 21, 2008

BME Ph.D. Candidate Renata Ramos will be presenting her dissertation defense titled: “Evaluation of the Effects of Cyclic Ocular Pulse on Conventional Outflow Tissues

Tuesday, February 26, 2008 1:00 pm MRB 102

Based upon past defenses, there is a high probability of snack availability.

 

January 11, 2008

BME Ph.D. Candidate Dominique Jennings will be presenting her dissertation defense titled: “Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Fluorescence Microscopy of Tumor Microvascular Permeability

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 9:00 a.m. MRB 102 

Delicious snacks will almost certainly be available.

 

December 14, 2007

BME Ph.D. Candidate Carlos Chang will be presenting his dissertation defense titled: “Development of In-vitro Three-Dimensional Microvascular Tissues

Monday, December 17, 2007 2:30 p.m. AHSC 5403 

Snacks will probably be available.

 

November 8, 2007

BME students and faculty in the news with exciting research, see following links to articles in the LA Times and AZ Star newspapers:

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-sci-robomoth7nov07,1,7817400.story

http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/209959

 

October 26, 2007

BME ice cream social, north patio of Keating building
3:30 pm

Come and enjoy ice cream and socializing with fellow BME program members and affiliated labs

ice cream!

 

October 2007

BME Master's candidate William Brands will be presenting his defense titled "Optical Studies of Collagen Crosslinking, Angiogenesis and Matrix Metalloproteinases." The presentation will be held in MRB 102 at 9am, Friday October 26th and will be part of the Fall 07 BME Seminar Series.

There's a good chance that snacks of some sort will be available..

A link to the presentation abstract:
http://bme.arizona.edu/Seminar/Speakers/F07Brands.php

A link to a map showing to location of the MRB building:
http://iiewww.ccit.arizona.edu/uamap/staticLarge/241.html

 

July 27, 2007

BME students and faculty are working with NASA on a project titled:
"Cell Culture Module - Effect of Microgravity on Wound Repair: In Vitro Model of New Blood Vessel Development (CCM-Wound Repair)"

Link to Nasa.gov page describing experiments scheduled to be launched on an upcoming shuttle flight:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/experiments/CCM-Wound-Repair.html

 

June 25, 2007

BME PhD candidate Alex Tumlinson will be presenting his defense titled "Ultra high resolution optical coherence tomography for in vivo colonoscopy in mice." The presentation will be held in Nursing 470 @ 10am, Monday June 25. Bagels and coffee are likely to be available.

A link to a map showing to location of the Nursing building:
http://iiewww.ccit.arizona.edu/uamap/staticLarge/203.html

 

June 2007

Biomedical Engineering has moved from Life Sciences North to a new building on campus, the Thomas W. Keating Bioresearch Building.

A selection of links about the new building:

 

Link to older BME news items