The 8th Annual BME Symposium in Quantitative Biology and Physiology and Translational Research in Biomaterials

Friday, March 2nd, 2012
Engineering Research Building (ERB), 44 Cummington Street, Rm. 203

Program

• 12:00 pm – Lunch
• 1:00 pm – Opening Remarks
• 1:10 pm – Bobby Liu
  An optical method for detection and monitoring of apoptosis in cell cultures
• 1:30 pm – George Daaboul
  Single nanoparticle detection and characterization for biosensing applications
• 1:50 pm – David Hall
  Fragment-based druggability measures in drug targets
• 2:10 pm – Coffee Break and Poster Session
• 2:40 pm – Sam Polio
  A simplified approach to determining cellular traction forces via micropatterned substrates
• 3:00 pm – Kevin McHugh
  A porous poly(ε-caprolactone) tissue engineering scaffold for RPE transplantation
• 3:40 pm – Coffee Break
• 4:00 pm – Keynote – Dr. Warren Grill, Duke University
  Cellular and network mechanisms of deep brain stimulation
• 5:00 pm – Closing Remarks
• 5:10 pm – Poster Reception