Events

Robert P. Marzec of the Department of English at Purdue will present "Biodiversity, Climate Change, and Reconnecting with the Natural World" on Thursday, July 27th, at 6:00 p.m. at the Lafayette Brewing Company, 622 Main Street, Lafayette.

Andrea L. Kasinski of the Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University will present a talk on "Exploring the Essential Dark Matter of the Genome" on Thursday, May 25th.

Briony Horgan of Purdue's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science, will be this month's featured speaker at Science on Tap.

Dr. Ximena Bernal of Purdue's Department of Biological Sciences, will be this month's Science on Tap speaker on Thursday, March 30, at 6:00 p.m. at the Lafayette Brewing Company.

Elsje Pienaar, PhD, a Research Investigator with Chemical Engineering and Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Michigan will present a research seminar entitled "Computational systems pharmacology in infectious disease pathogenesis and treatment: tuberculosis as a case study" on Wednesday, January 25th, at 9:30 a.m. in MJIS 1001.

Matias Zanartu, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering; Principal Investigator of the AC3E Research Center; and Lab Director of the Voice Production Laboratory at the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile, will give a special research seminar on Tuesday, January 17th, at 12:00 noon in MJIS 2001. The seminar is entitled: "Modeling biomechanical, aero-acoustic, and auditory feedback mechanisms of vocal hyperfunction."

Igor Efimov, PhD, FAIMBE, FAHA, FHRS, Alisann and Terry Collins Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at The George Washington University, Washington DC will present a seminar entitled "Conformal Electronics: Future of Implantable Devices" on Wednesday, December 7, at 9:30 a.m. in MJIS 1001.

Andrew J. Saykin, Psy.D., the Raymond C. Beeler Professor of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Director of the Indiana Alzheimer Diseases Center and Director of the Center for Neuroimaging at the Indiana University School of Medicine will present a seminar on Wednesday, November 30th, at 9:30 a.m. in MJIS 1001 entitled "Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease: Advances in
Neuroimaging, Biomarkers and Genetics."

David K. Wood, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at University of Minnesota will be this week's presenter for the BME seminar series. His seminar, entitled "Engineering Microsystems for Advanced In Vitro Models of Pathology" will be at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, November 16, in MJIS 1001.

Stephanie Willerth, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria will present a seminar entitled "Tools for engineering personalized neural tissue" on Wednesday, November 9 at 9:30 a.m. in MJIS 1001.