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Journal Club (12/04): Mechanisms of Improved Cas9s Specificity

December 2nd, 2019 in News.

The next Seminar Series Journal Club hosted by QBP will be on Wednesday, December 4 at 12:00 in CILSE 106C. The journal club is formatted such that we will read a paper from each department seminar speaker prior to their talk. Our upcoming speaker is Dr. Taekjip Ha from JHU, and on Wednesday we will be reading his group's paper "Mechanisms of improved specificity of engineered Cas9s revealed by single-molecule FRET analysis" (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-018-0051-7).

 

As always, all are welcome to participate in this journal club. Please come join us for discussion and free lunch!

Journal Club (10/31): Quasi-integral Controller for Adapting Genetic Modules to Ribosomal Demand

October 30th, 2019 in News.

Our next QBP journal club will be tomorrow, October 31 at 12 pm in ERB 401. As always, the journal club is formatted such that we will read a paper from each department seminar speaker prior to their talk. This week we will be reading the paper “A quasi-integral controller for adaptation of genetic modules to variable ribosome demand" (https://scripts.mit.edu/~ddv/publications/Quasi-integralcontrol.pdf ) from Dr. Domitilla Del Vecchio. Please come join us for discussion and free lunch!

All are welcome.

Journal Club (10/03): Aligned Polymeric Nanofibres

October 1st, 2019 in News.

Our next QBP journal club will be this Thursday, October 3 at 1 pm in ERB 705. As always, the journal club is formatted such that we will read a paper from each department seminar speaker prior to their talk. This week we will be reading the paper “Guiding intracortical brain tumor cells to an extracortical cytotoxic hydrogel using aligned polymeric nanofibres" (https://www.nature.com/articles/nmat3878from Dr. Ravi Bellamkonda. Please come join us on Thursday for discussion and free lunch!

Journal Club (09/05): DNA-Stabilized Silver Nanoclusters as Dopamine Sensors

September 5th, 2019 in News.

Welcome back for a new semester!

Our next QBP journal club will be this Thursday (September 5) at 1 pm in ERB 705. As always, the journal club is formatted such that we will read a paper from each department seminar speaker prior to their talk. This week we will be reading the paper "DNA-Stabilized Silver Nanoclusters as Specific, Ratiometric Fluorescent Dopamine Sensors" from Dr. Sumita Pennathur. Please come join us on Thursday for discussion and free lunch!

Journal Club (12/12–TODAY!): Microfluidics

December 12th, 2018 in News.

Our next QBP journal club will be TODAY (Wednesday, 12/12) at 12 pm in CILSE 106B. The journal club is formatted such that we will read a paper from each department seminar speaker prior to their talk. This week we will be reading a paper about wearable microfluidic devices from John Rogers, the keynote speaker in the upcoming QBP/TRB symposium. Please come join us on Thursday for discussion and lunch!

Also, if you have suggestions for papers for the upcoming speakers, please send an email to jkays@bu.edu.

Journal Club (10/11): Tissue Repair and Regeneration

October 9th, 2018 in News.

Our next QBP journal club will be this Thursday (10/11) at 1 pm in ERB 203. The journal club is formatted such that we will read a paper from each department seminar speaker prior to their talk. This week we will be reading a paper about tissue repair and regeneration from Dr. Boris Hinz. Please come join us on Thursday for discussion and lunch!

Also, if you have suggestions for papers for the upcoming speakers, please send an email to jkays@bu.edu.

Journal Club (9/20): Microfabricated Systems for Cellular Analysis

September 17th, 2018 in News.

Our next QBP journal club will be this Thursday (9/20) at 12:00 in ERB 705. 

This week we will be reading a paper from Dr. Nancy Allbrighton, entitled "A microengineered collagen scaffold for generating a polarized cryptvillus architecture of human small intestinal epithelium". Please come join us on Thursday for discussion and lunch!

If you have suggestions for papers for the upcoming speakers, please send an email to jkays@bu.edu.

Welcome back!

September 13th, 2018 in News.

The Fall 2018 semester is upon us! :) Join us at the annual QBP Kick Off meeting on Friday, September 14th from 4–5 PM in ERB203Professor White will be giving an overview of the program for new students and also working out assignments for activities (i.e., journal club, monthly dinners, etc.). 

14th Annual Symposium in Quantitative Biology and Physiology and Translational Research in Biomaterials

January 9th, 2018 in News.

Trainee Group Photo

On December 15th, BU's Department of Biomedical Engineering the 14th Annual Symposium in Quantitative Biology and Physiology and Translational Research in Biomaterials. We were joined by Dr. Jef D. Boeke of the Institute for Systems Genetics at NYU Langone Medical Center, who presented a talk entitled "Writing Genomes". The event also included student speakers and a poster session presenting the latest work in biomedical engineering. Thank you all for attending!

Dr Boeke