Monday, Wednesday, Friday – 10:10 to 11:00 a.m.
Please note: This schedule is tentative and subject to change.
Please check regularly for any updates.
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 |
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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 |
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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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 |
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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 |
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11/23 |
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11/26 |
Michael Kuchka, Ph.D. |
Biological Sciences |
Transcriptomics |
Genomics |
11/28 |
iBioSeminar by David Botstein, Ph.D. |
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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