Biosciences in the 21st Century
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Monday, Wednesday, Friday – 10:10 to 11:00 a.m.

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2012

Lecturer

Department/Institution

Topic

Focus

08/27

Vassie Ware, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

Course Goals and Expectations

Introduction

08/29

Dena Davis, J.D., Ph.D.

Religion

Bioethics

Bioethics

08/31

Selected faculty panel

Biological Sciences

Challenges and controversies in bioethics, science, and engineering

Panel discussion with faculty and students

09/03

Labor Day – no class

09/05

R. Michael Burger, Ph.D.

Biological  Sciences

Information processing in the nervous system

Neuroscience

09/07

R. Michael Burger, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

Advances in neurological medicine

Neuroscience

09/10

Julie Haas, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

The ever-changing brain

Neuroscience

09/12

Neal Simon, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

Diseases of the nervous system

Neuroscience

09/14

John Nyby, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

Drugs, the brain, and behavior

Neuroscience

09/17

Ryan Wynne, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences
St. Thomas Aquinas College, NY

Drugs and behavior

Neuroscience

09/19

Vassie Ware, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

Stem Cells:  An introduction

Stem Cell Biology

09/21

Susan Perry, Ph.D.

Chemical Engineering / Bioengineering

Tissue engineering and the brain

Tissue and cell neuroengineering

09/24

Sabrina Jedlicka, Ph.D.

Materials Science & Engineering / Bioengineering

Neuroengineering

Tissue and cell neuroengineering

09/26

Yevgeny Berdichevsky, Ph.D.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Brain machine interfaces

Neuroengineering

09/28

EXAM 1

10/01

Robert Kruklitis, MD, Ph.D.

Pulmonary Medicine, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Asthma:  Background and treatment advances

Physiology

10/03

Neal Simon, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

Sex differentiation

Physiology

10/05

Joshua Slee, doctoral candidate

Biological Sciences

Cardiovascular disease

Physiology

10/08

Pacing Break – no class

10/10

Ned Heindel, Ph.D.

Chemistry

Physiological testing:  Point-of-Care diagnostic devices

Chemistry and Biology interfaces

10/12

M. Kathryn Iovine, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

Bone growth and development

Physiology

10/15

Bryan Berger, Ph.D.

Chemical Engineering / Bioengineering

Bioengineering applications in bone physiology

Physiology

10/17

iBioSeminar by Sangeeta Bhatia, Ph.D.
(ibioseminars.org)

Health Sciences & Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Engineering Tissue Replacements

Physiology

10/19

Michael Kuchka, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

Aging:  This is getting really old

Physiology

10/22

EXAM 2

10/24

Jeffrey Sands, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

Viruses:  Structure, replication and evolution – 2012

Infectious Disease

10/26

Amber Rice, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

Emerging diseases

Infectious Disease

11/05

Vassie Ware, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

Antibiotics and drug development

Infectious Disease

11/07

Amber Rice, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

Why don’t these drugs work anymore?

Infectious Disease and Evolution

11/09

Murray Itzkowitz, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

Mate preferences and the relationship to diseases

Sexual selection and evolution

11/12 Garry Morefield, Ph.D. President, VaxForm,
Bethlehem, PA
Immune responses and vaccine development Infections Disease

11/14

Jutta Marzillier, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

Human genome and genomics in medicine

Genomics

11/16

Brian Chen, Ph.D.

Computer Science & Engineering

Bioinformatics:  Proteins

Computer Science & Proteomics

11/19

Daniel Lopresti, Ph.D.

Computer Science & Engineering

Bioinformatics:  Genes and Genomes

Computer Science & Genomics

11/21

Thanksgiving  Break
No Classe
s

11/23

11/26

Michael Kuchka, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

Transcriptomics

Genomics

11/28

iBioSeminar by David Botstein, Ph.D.
(ibioseminars.org)

Director, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University

Fruits of the genome sequences

Genomics

11/30

Robert Skibbens, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

Cell division and cancer

Cancer

12/01 EXAM 3

12/03

Linda Lowe-Krentz, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

Oncogenes and cancer

Cancer

12/05

Anastasiya Thévenin, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

Cancer testing and drug delivery

Cancer

12/07

Vassie Ware, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

Concluding Remarks

 

 

 

 
     
 

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