UW Bioengineering  

BIOEN 509 Archive Center


BIOEN 509** is a weekly seminar offered every winter and spring quarter. The seminar features lecturers from within the Department, across the country, and around the world speaking on a variety of topics relevant to the field of Bioengineering.

**This course has also been offered as 599J, 599D and 599I in the past.


For a current schedule, please visit http://courses.washington.edu/bioetalk/.

Spring Quarter 2009

Date
Speaker Title

04.02.09

Xiahou Gao
Asst Prof Bioeng UW

Luminescent Q-dots for molecular imaging andtraceable drug delivery

Video

04.09.09

Michael Mackey
Prof, Physiology McGill Univ and Walker Ames Scholar UW

Molecular distributions in bacteria with bursting transcription and/or translation

Video

04.16.09

Hong Qian
Assoc Prof, Applied Math, UW

Biochemical signaling and its energy cost: protein phophorylation, enzyme cooperativity, and kinetic proofreading

Video

04.23.09

Paolo Provenzano
DOD-CDMRP Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin

Regulation of carcinoma progression by the mechanical properties and organization of the extracellular matrix

Video

04.30.09

Stephane Evoy
Prof Chemistry, U of Alberta

Bacteriophage-Derivitized Biosensors for the Specific Detection of Pathogenic Bacteria

Video

05.07.09

John Kulman
Assistant Member, Research Division, Puget Sound Blood Center.

Integration of mammalian cell protein expression with a full thermostable SPR biosensor

Video

05.14.09

Marta Scatena
Research Associate Professor, Bioengineering, UW

Endothelial Cells and Vascularization of Tissue Engineered Constructs

Video

05.22.09

Christopher J.L. Murray
Professor, Global Health, UW

The challenge of cross-population comparability of health measurement

Video

05.28.09

Gerald Pollack
Professor of Bioengineering, UW

Water, energy, and life: fresh views from the waters edge

Video

06.04.09

David Burns
Prof Chemistry, McGill Univ, Montreal

Womb to Tomb Metabolic Assessment by Biospectroscopy and Ultrasound

Video

Winter Quarter 2009

Date
Speaker Title

01.08.09

Albert Folch
Associate Prof Bioeng UW

Neuroscience on a chip

Video

01.15.09

Alex Veress
Asst Prof, Mech Eng UW

Coupled modeling of the left ventricle and the systemic ciruclatory system

Video

01.22.09

Adrienne Fairhall
Asst Prof, Physiology,UW

Adaptive neural coding

Video

01.29.09

Satoshi Minoshima
Prof Radiology UW

Neuroimaging of axonal transport

Video

02.05.09

Ken Krohn
Prof Radiology UW

Oxygen for cells

Video

02.12.09

Eric Shea-Brown
Asst Professor, Appl Math UW

When does feedback destroy the precision of nerual spike train times? Some first steps

Video

02.19.09

Blake Hannford
Professor, EE UW

When to stop: What is the limit of safe tissue manipulation in surgery?

Video

02.22.08

Kim Woodrow
Postdoc, Yale U

Polymeric Nanoparticles for Delivering TNS Interference

Video

03.05.09

Tania Wu
Asst Prof, OHSU Portland

Elucidating Molecular-scale dynamic signaling in neurons using single-particle quantum dot technologies

Video

03.13.09

Todd McDevitt
Asst Prof Bioeng ,Georgia Tech

Engineering pluripotent stem cell technologies

Video

Spring Quarter 2008

Date
Speaker Title

04.03.08

Elmar Fuchs, Ph.D.
Scientist, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Graz Technical University, Austria

"Dynamics of the Floating Water Bridge"

Presentation Slides (.pdf) / Video

04.10.08

Thomas Irving, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology, Physics
Illinois Institute of Technology

"What Can X-Ray Fiber Diffraction Tell Us About Regulation in Muscle?"

Presentation Slides (.pdf) / Video

04.17.08

James Glazier, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics; Adjunct Biology, Informatics
Indiana University

"Multi-Cell Modeling of Biological Development Using the GGH Mode and CompuCell3D"

Presentation Slides (.ppt) / Video

04.24.08

Stephen Hauschka, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry; Adjunct Bioengineering, Biology
University of Washington

"Muscle Gene Regulation & Applications to Gene Therapies"

Presentation Slides (.ppt) / Video

05.01.08

Deborah Nickerson, Ph.D.
Professor of Genome Sciences
University of Washington

"Genetic Mapping in Humans and Complex Trait Analysis"

Video

05.08.08

Charles Murry, MD, Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology, Bioengineering
University of Washington

"Engineering our Way to Cardiac Repair and Regeneration"

Video

05.15.08

Jay Rubinstein, MD, Ph.D.
Professor of Otolaryngology, Bioengineering
University of Washington

Psychophysical Measures of Spectral and Temporal Sensitivity in Cochlear Implant Users: Signal Processing, Learning, and Clinical Outcomes

Video

05.22.08

John Linehan, Ph.D.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Medicine
Northwestern University

"Medical Device Innovation"

Video

05.29.08

Pierre Mourad, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurologic Surgery; Adjunct Pediatric Dentistry University of Washington

"Transcutaneous Acoustic Palpation (TAP) for Localizing Sources of Pain"

Video

03.13.08

Thomas Daniel, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology; Adjunct Bioengineering
University of Washington

MIMO (Multiple Input, Multiple Output) Animals: Enigmas of Controllers in Biological System

Video

Winter Quarter 2008

Date
Speaker Title

01.10.08

Adam P. Arkin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Bioengineering
University of California, Berkeley

"Appreciating the Designs of the Blind Watchmaker: How characterization and creation are creating a new biological engineering science."

01.17.08

Herbert M. Sauro, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Bioengineering
University of Washington
“Cellular Network Modularity, Engineering and Software Developments”
01.24.08

David A. Mankoff, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Radiology; Adjunct Medicine, Bioengineering
University of Washington

"Imaging as a Cancer Biomarker: Helping to Guide Cancer Therapy Using PET Imaging"
01.31.08

Michael MacCoss, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Genome Sciences
University of Washington

"Differential Protein Profiling in Complex Mixtures Using Shotgun Proteomics: Current Status and Future Needs"

02.07.08

William S. Kerwin, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor, Department of Radiology
University of Washington

"Challenges and Strategies for Imaging Inflammation in Atherosclerosis"
02.14.08

Eric J. Seibel, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Adjunct Bioengineering
University of Washington

"3D Optical Imaging of Epithelial Cells for Early Cancer Detection"

02.21.08

Shahram Vaezy, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering
University of Washington

"High Intensity Focused Ultrasound: Benchtop to Bedside"
02.28.08

Andrew D. McCulloch, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Bioengineering
University of California, San Diego

“Cardiac Systems Biology and Multi-Scale Modeling”

03.06.08

Chun Yuan, Ph.D.
Professor of Radiology; Adjunct Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering
University of Washington

"Quantitative Information from MRI and its Use in Basic and Clinical Research"

03.13.08

Ted S. Gross, Ph.D.
Professor and Sigvard T. Hansen, Jr. Endowed Chair
Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine; Adjunct Bioengineering University of Washington

“The Future of Bone Mechanotransduction, or, What in the World Are Those Osteocytes Doing?

 

Spring Quarter 2007

Date
Speaker Title

03.29.07

Tueng T. Shen, MD, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology
Director, Refractive Surgery Center

"Intraocular Drug Delivery for Cataract Surgery"

04.05.07

Bernhard H. Weigl, Ph.D., MSc
Group Leader, Diagnostic Development Teams, PATH
Affiliate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, UW

“Global Health Technology Development and Introduction - Examples and Challenges”
04.12.07
Wendy Thomas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering
“From Single Molecules to Many Cells: How Mechanical Forces Regulate Adhesion”
04.19.07

Andre Dittmar, Ph.D.
Director of the Department of Biomedical Microsensors and Microsystems
CNRS LPM-Laboratory of INSA Lyon, France

"Micro sensors, wearable devices, home care, for continuous monitoring of vital signs and emotional reactivity"

04.26.07
No Seminar  
05.03.07

Conrad H. Smits
Chief Operating Officer, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Philips Medical Systems
Latham, NY

"MRI: where to go after 3T?"
05.10.07

Xiaohu Gao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering

“Quantum Dot Nanotechnology for Cancer Research”
05.17.07

Kareen Kreutizger, Bioengineering Graduate Student

Jennifer Patterson, Bioengineering Graduate Student

“Engineering Troponin C as a Potential Therapeutic Tool for Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Diseases”

"Angiogenic and Osteoinductive Hydrogel Scaffolds for Bone Regeneration"

05.24.07

Trevor Fowler, Bioengineering Undergraduate Student

Zuotian Tatum, Bioengineering Undergraduate Student

“Proof of Concept System for Robotically Assisted, Ultrasound Image-Guided HIFU Surgery”

“Developing Poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) Hydrogel as Phantom for High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Dosimetry”

05.31.07
Yongmin Kim, Ph.D.
Simpson Endowed Chair, Professor and Chair
Department of Bioengineering
“Joys and Tribulations of Being the Chair of UW Bioengineering”

 

Winter Quarter 2007

Date
Speaker Title

01.04.07

Sayan Pathak, Ph.D.
Senior Analyst, Bioinformatics
Allen Institute for Brain Science

"Image informatics for gene expression pattern exploration in mouse brain"

01.11.07

Paolo Vicini, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Bioengineering
University of Washington

"Modeling and Simulation Approaches to Personalized Medicine and Therapy Development: A Software Development Perspective"
01.18.07
Valerie Daggett, Ph.D.
Professor, Medicinal Chemistry
University of Washington
"Realistic computer simulations to address biological problems"
01.25.07

Daniel Ratner, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston Medical Center

"Engineering Tools for the Burgeoning Field of Glycomics: Carbohydrate Synthesis, Microarrays, and Glycoproteomics"

02.01.07
Farren Isaacs, Ph.D.
Research Fellow, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
"Design, Synthesis and Control of Genetic and Genomic Systems"
02.08.07

Eberhard E. Fetz, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics
Core Staff Member, Washington National Primate Research Center

"Recurrent brain-computer interfaces"
02.15.07

James Bassingthwaighte, MD , Ph.D.
Professor of Bioengineering and Radiology

"The Physiome Project: Computational integration of knowledge to improve cardiovascular health care"
02.22.07
Jennifer Reed , Ph.D.
Faculty Fellow, Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego
"Development and Applications of Escherichia coli Metabolic Models"
03.01.07

Matt O’Donnell, Ph.D.
Frank and Julie Jungers Dean of Engineering
Professor of UW Bioengineering

“Optoacoustics: Can Ultrasound Become the Preferred Modality for Molecular Imaging?”
03.08.07
Daniel Beard , Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin
"Mitochondrial energetics in cardiac function and dysfunction"