Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Events for February
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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Feb 04, 2013 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Megan L. McCain, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University
Talk Title: From Womb to Doom: Mechanical Regulation of Cardiac Tissue Assembly in Morphogenesis and Pathogenesis
Host: Norberto Grzywacz
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Feb 11, 2013 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Stacey D. Finley, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Talk Title: Of Mice and Men: Computational Models to Investigate Anti-angiogenic Cancer Therapies Targeting the VEGF Pathway
Host: Norberto Grzywacz
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Grodins Keynote Lecture
Thu, Feb 14, 2013 @ 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dennis Discher , University of Pennsylvania
Talk Title: ââ¬ËSelfââ¬â¢ versus ââ¬ËForeignââ¬â¢ and Soft versus Stiff: Cell-cell and Cell-Matrix-Nuclear mechanisms in survival and differentiation
Biography: Dennis E. Discher is the Robert D. Bent chaired Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering--Bioengineering Section. He received a Ph.D. jointly from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco in 1993 for studies in cell and molecular biophysics, and was a US National Science Foundation International Fellow at the University of British Columbia until 1996. He has coauthored more than 150 publications with over 12,000 citations that range in topic from matrix effects on stem cells and biochemical physics of protein folding to self-assembling polymers applied to disease, with papers appearing in Cell, Science, Journal of Cell Biology, and Nature Physics. Additional Honors and Service include a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the US National Science Foundation, the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award from the Humboldt Foundation of Germany, and membership on the Editorial Board for Science.
Current web page: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/directory/profile.php?ID=25
Host: Department of Biomedical Engineering
More Information: BME Grodins Keynote Lecture FLYER 2013.pdf
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Feb 18, 2013 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Talk Title: NO SEMINAR, President's Day (Holiday)
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
USC Physical Sciences and Oncology Center Monthly Seminar Series
Fri, Feb 22, 2013 @ 11:45 AM - 01:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Donald Ingber M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Vascular Biology, Harvard Medical School, Professor of Bioengineering, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Founding Director, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
Talk Title: Can Cancer Be Reversed by Engineering the Tumor Microenvironment?ââ¬Â
Abstract: This presentation will summarize studies carried out by my research group over the past thirty years that are based on the belief that cancer is a disease of developmental control, and that the production of cancer stem cells, epithelial-mesenchymal transitions, angiogenesis and unrestrained cell growth that drive tumor formation and metastatic progression result from abnormal alterations of the tissue microenvironment that feed back to influence gene expression. This view is supported by the finding that cancer cell growth, differentiation and apoptosis can be influenced by altering non-genetic environmental factors, such as extracellular matrix and mechanical forces, and by theoretical and experimental studies which suggest that regulatory stimuli must simultaneously perturb multiple genes in the genome-wide gene regulatory network to induce cell fate switching. The lecture will review this work, and present more recent experimental findings that support the possibility of developing cancer-normalizing therapeutics.
Biography: USC was selected to establish a $16 million cancer research center as part of a new strategy against the disease by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and its National Cancer Institute. The new center is one of 12 in the nation to receive the designation. During the five-year initiative, the Physical Sciences-Oncology Centers will take new, nontraditional approaches to cancer research by studying the physical laws and principles of cancer; evolution and the evolutionary theory of cancer; information coding, decoding, transfer and translation in cancer; and ways to de-convolute cancer's complexity. As part of the outreach component of this grant, the Center for Applied Molecular Medicine is hosting a monthly seminar series.
Host: USC Physical Sciences in Oncology Center
Location: Clinical Science Center (CSC) - Harkness Auditorium #250
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kristina Gerber
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
BME
Fri, Feb 22, 2013 @ 12:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Anita Shukla, NIH Ruth Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Bioengineering, Rice University
Talk Title: Designer Surfaces: From Treating Traumatic Injury to Directing Cell Behavior
Host: Norberto Grzywacz
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 100C
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Feb 25, 2013 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ian Y. Wong, Ph.D., Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fellow Center for Engineering in Medicine, Department of Surgery Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
Talk Title: Biosystems Engineering and the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Cancer
Host: Norberto Grzywacz
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.
