Date |
Lecturer |
Department/Institution |
Topic |
Focus |
08/29/11 |
Vassie Ware, Ph.D. |
Biological Sciences |
Course Goals and Expectations |
Introduction |
08/31/11 |
Dena Davis, J.D., Ph.D. |
Religion |
Life, The Universe, and Everything |
Bioethics |
09/02/11 |
Selected Faculty |
Biological Sciences, Materials Science & Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering |
Challenges and Controversies in Bioethics, Science, and Engineering |
Panel discussion with faculty and students |
09/05/11 |
Labor Day – no class |
09/07/11 |
R. Michael Burger, Ph.D. |
Biological Sciences |
Information Processing in the Nervous System |
Neuroscience |
09/09/11 |
R. Michael Burger, Ph.D. |
Biological Sciences |
Advances in Neurological Medicine |
Neuroscience |
09/12/11 |
John Nyby, Ph.D. |
Biological Sciences |
Drugs, The Brain, and Behavior |
Neuroscience |
09/14/11 |
Ryan Wynne, Ph.D. |
Biological Sciences, St. Thomas Aquinas College, NY |
Drugs and Behavior |
Neuroscience |
09/16/11 |
Neal Simon, Ph.D. |
Biological Sciences |
Drug Development: From Discovery to Approval |
Neuroscience |
09/19/11 |
Vassie Ware, Ph. D. |
Biological Sciences |
Stem Cells: An Introduction |
Stem Cell Biology |
09/21/11 |
Susan Perry, Ph.D. |
Chemical Engineering/Bioengineering |
Tissue Engineering and the Brain |
Tissue and Cell Neuroengineering |
09/23/11 |
Sabrina Jedlicka, Ph.D. |
Materials Science & Engineering/Bioengineering |
Neuroengineering |
Tissue and Cell Neuroengineering |
09/26/11 |
EXAM 1 |
09/28/11 |
Ned Heindel, Ph.D. |
Chemistry |
Physiological Testing: Point-of-Care Diagnostic Devices |
Chemistry and Biology Interfaces |
09/30/11 |
Neal Simon, Ph.D. |
Biological Sciences |
Stress-related Disorders |
Physiology |
10/03/11 |
Candice Klingerman |
Biological Sciences |
Energy Balance and Reproduction |
Physiology |
10/05/11 |
Barry Bean, Ph.D. |
Biological Sciences |
Fertilization and Reproductive Technologies |
Physiology
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10/07/11 |
M. Kathryn Iovine, Ph.D. |
Biological Sciences |
Bone Growth and Development |
Physiology |
10/10/11 |
Pacing Break – no class |
10/12/11 |
Bryan Berger, Ph.D. |
Chemical Engineering/Bioengineering |
Bioengineering and Biophysics Applications in Physiology |
Physiology |
10/14/11 |
Linda Lowe-Krentz, Ph.D. |
Biological Sciences |
Cardiovascular Disease |
Physiology |
10/17/11 |
Linda Lowe-Krentz, Ph.D. |
Biological Sciences |
Cellular Biomechanics |
Cell biology and mechanobiology |
10/19/11 |
Michael Kuchka, Ph.D. |
Biological Sciences |
“This is getting really old” |
Aging |
10/21/11 |
EXAM 2 |
10/24/11 |
iBioseminar lectures:
-John McKinney
-Graham Hatfull
with introduction by Vassie Ware, Ph.D. |
Biological Sciences |
Introduction to mycobacteria, their phages and tuberculosis |
Microbiology |
10/26/11 |
Amy Camp, Ph.D. |
Biological Sciences |
Bacterial Communication |
Microbiology |
10/28/11 |
Xuanhong Cheng, Ph.D. |
Materials Science & Engineering/Bioengineering |
Microdevices for Clinical Diagnostics: Monitoring HIV Progression |
Engineered Biomedical Systems |
10/31/11 |
Vassie Ware, Ph.D. |
Biological Sciences |
Antibiotics and Drug Development |
Infectious Disease |
11/02/11 |
Amber Rice, Ph.D. |
Biological Sciences |
Why Don’t These Drugs Work Anymore? |
Infectious Disease and Evolution |
11/04/11 |
Amber Rice, Ph.D. |
Biological Sciences |
Emerging Diseases |
Infectious Disease |
11/07/11 |
Kristen Jellison, Ph.D. |
Civil & Environmental Engineering |
Preventing Water-borne Diseases |
Environmental Biology & Engineering |
11/09/11 |
Amy Camp, Ph.D. |
Biological Sciences |
Biofuels |
Environmental Microbiology |
11/11/11 |
Matthias Falk, Ph.D. |
Biological Sciences |
Gap Junction Internalization: a potential mechanism for direct virus spreading? |
Cell Biology |
11/14/11 |
EXAM 3 |
11/16/11 |
Jutta Marzillier, Ph.D. |
Biological Sciences |
Human Genome and Genomics in Medicine |
Genomics |
11/18/11 |
Daniel Lopresti, Ph.D. |
Computer Science & Engineering |
Bioinformatics: Genes and Genomes |
Computer Science and Genomics |
11/21/11 |
Brian Chen, Ph.D. |
Computer Science & Engineering |
Bioinformatics: Proteins |
Computer Science and Proteomics |
11/23/11 |
Thanksgiving Break
No Classes |
11/25/11 |
11/28/11 |
Michael Kuchka, Ph.D. |
Biological Sciences |
Transcriptomics |
Genomics |
11/30/11 |
Robert Skibbens, Ph.D. |
Biological Sciences |
Cell Division and Cell Cycle |
Cancer |
12/02/11 |
Robert Skibbens, Ph.D. |
Biological Sciences |
Cell Division and Cancer |
Cancer |
12/05/11 |
John Glod, M.D., Ph.D. |
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey |
Cancer Stem Cells and Clinical Trials |
Cancer |
12/07/11 |
Linda Lowe-Krentz, Ph.D, |
Biological Sciences |
Oncogenes and Cancer |
Cancer |
12/09/11 |
Vassie Ware, Ph.D. |
Biological Sciences |
Concluding Remarks |
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