The 7th Annual BME Symposium in Quantitative Biology and Physiology and Translational Research in Biomaterials

Friday, February 4, 2011
Engineering Research Building (ERB), 44 Cummington Street, Rm. 203

Program

• 12:00 pm – TRB Poster Session
• 1:00 pm – Opening Remarks
• 1:10 pm – Benjamin Kraus
  Time and distance dependence of rat hippocampal neuron responses
• 1:30 pm – Brandon Zerbe
  Relationship between hot spots from alanine scanning and small compound screening
• 1:50 pm – Kimberly Zubris
  Paclitaxel-loaded expansile nanoparticles for the treatment of breast cancer
• 2:10 pm – Katherine Calabro
  Variations in the optical scattering properties of skin in murine animal models
• 2:30 pm – Coffee Break, TRB Poster Session
• 3:00 pm – Keynote – Dr. David Kaplan, Stern Family Endowed Professor of Engineering, Tufts University
  Silk proteins for new biomedical materials
• 4:30 pm – Margo Monroe
  Multiplex, rapid, point of care device to quantify specific antibody
• 4:50 pm – Rachel Stewart
  Development of a cationic contrast agent for determining cartilage health
• 5:10 pm – Closing Remarks