The 1st Annual BME Symposium in Quantitative Biology and Physiology

Friday, October 1, 2004
Life Science and Engineering Building (24 Cummington Street) Rm. B01

Program

• 10:00 am – Ken Lutchen (BME Chair)
  Opening Remarks
• 10:10 am – Carlos Lopez
  Determination of Effective Neurotransmitter Diffusivities for Silicon Nanoporous Membranes
• 10:30 am – Finnegan Calabro
  Effects of Noise and Disparity on Transparent Motion Perception
• 10:50 am – Steve Meyers
  Characterizing Biodendrimers for Cardiac Applications
• 11:10 am – Roberto Reif
  Monte Carlo Simulation of Light Transport in Tissue
• 11:30 pm – Gilberto Grana
  Analyzing the Dynamics of Neuronal Connectivity in Auditory Cortex
• 11:50 pm – Tara Keck
  The Interactions Between Synaptic Inputs and Action Potentials and their Dependence on Spike Frequency
• 12:10 pm – Lunch
• 1:00 pm – Keynote – Dr. Tom Skalak, University of Virginia
  Complex Systems Bioengineering: Mutlicellular Simulations and Experiments for Understanding Tissue Assembly
• 2:00 pm – Mike Richards
  Three Dimensional Quantitative Elasticity Imaging
• 2:20 pm – Kurt Schoener
  Speckle Holography and Membrance Birefringence: Two Optical Methods for Noninvasive Detection of Action Potential Propogation
• 2:40 pm – Nora Tgavakekos
  Image Functional Modeling: Combining Lung Models with Imaging Modalities and Mechanics Measures