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Events for April 27, 2012
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Fri, Apr 27, 2012
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid. Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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USC Physical Sciences in Oncology Center
Fri, Apr 27, 2012 @ 11:45 AM - 01:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Mingming Wu, Associate Professor, Biological and Environmental Engineering Department, Cornell University
Talk Title: Microfluidics for Cancer Cell Chemotaxis
Abstract: The emerging field of micro-technology has opened up new possibilities for exploring cellular chemotaxis in real time and space, and at single cell resolution. Cancer cell chemotaxis plays important roles in cancer metastasis, where cancer cells break away from the primary tumors, migrate through the interstitial space, and establish secondary tumors at foreign sites. It is known that cells of many cancer types metastasize to lymph nodes. Despite its clinical importance, the physical and molecular cues that cancer cells use to navigate and migrate around lymph nodes are far from understood. In this talk, I will present efforts from my lab (biofluidics.bee.cornell.edu) in studying cancer cell migrating in well defined chemokine gradients, slow fluid flows (i.e. engineered interstitial flow), and biomatrix stiffness. We use microfluidic 3D in vitro model to provide physiologically realistic, 3D, microenvironment for cells, advanced imaging systems to follow cancer dynamics within a lymphoidal like environment. Using a malignant breast cancer cell line (MDA-MB-231) as a model system, we found that cancer cell migration is tightly controlled by the chemokine gradients, the compliance of the 3D biomatrix, and the intersitial fluid flows.
Biography: Mingming Wu received her PhD in Physics from the Ohio State University in the United States in 1992, and was a postdoctoral researcher in Ecole Polytechnique, France in year 1992 and University of California at Santa Barbara in 1993- 1995. In year 1996, she joined the physics department at Occidental College in Los Angeles as an assistant/associate professor. Since 2003, she is an adjunct associate professor in the engineering college at Cornell University. Her current research interests are: Bio-inspired engineering, microfluidics and quantitative imaging. Her role in the PS-OC center is to use advanced imaging, as well as micro-fabrication techniques to explore dynamic processes in cancer metastatic cascades.
Host: Center for Applied Molecular Medicine
More Information: USC-PSOC_MonthlySeminar.pdf
Location: Clinical Science Center (CSC) - Harkness Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kristina Gerber
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Senior Design Expo
Fri, Apr 27, 2012 @ 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Student Activity
Join students, faculty, staff and industry partners at the 4th annual KIUEL Senior Design Expo to recognize the capstone projects of Viterbi seniors! Learn how you can apply your current classes to future engineering projects and support the hard work of your fellow students, as well as vote for your favorite project.
To learn more about the Senior Design Expo and KIUEL, visit viterbi.usc.edu/kiuelAudiences: Undergrad
Contact: Christine D'Arcy
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Integrated Systems Seminar Series
Fri, Apr 27, 2012 @ 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Kenneth K. O, University of Texas Dallas
Talk Title: Sub-millimeter Wave CMOS Integrated Circuits and Systems
Host: Hossein Hashemi
More Information: Seminar_Speaker_kenneth O_2012_4_27.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Hossein Hashemi
