[BNC-all] BNC Weekly Memo - Jan. 26, 2009

[Jeff Goecker]

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BNC News January 26, 2009  
ANNOUNCEMENTS 
SAVE THE DATE: 3rd Annual Birck Nanotechnology Center RESEARCH REVIEW will be held on Arpil 6, 2009. Specific details to follow. POSTER SESSION will be included [More]

Please read this if you did not attend one of the all-user meetings this week!
If you attended an all-user meeting, thank you for your participation!

Make-up Sessions:
Monday  Jan 26, 2009 
3:30 – 5:00 PM 
BMED 2001 
Tuesday, Jan 27, 2009
3:30 - 5:00 PM
MRGN 121
Please remember that you will need your Birck ID, and must arrive prior to the 3:30 PM start time of the meeting.   

If you do not attend a makeup
session, please use the following procedure to have your laboratory
and/or cleanroom access restored:

·         Download the presentation from nano.purdue.edu
·         Meet with your major professor and review all of the material in the presentation
·         Obtain Documentation to Demonstrate Receipt of Required Training from Mary Jo Totten or Nancy Black
·         Complete this document and return to Mary Jo Totten with required signatures.
·         Access to cleanroom and laboratories will be restored.

*IMPORTANT
NOTE: This document ensures that training required by law has been
performed. Falsification of the information on this document could
subject the user and/or major professor to civil or criminal liability.
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TOURS/VISITORS
Wednesday, 01.28.09, 10:30AM-4:30PM: EAFIT University, Colombia. Meetings with NCN and Birck.
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SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS
The
2009 Electronic Materials Conference and the 2009 Device Research
Conference will be held back-to-back at Penn State University, June
22-26.  Abstracts for EMC are due January 31st, 2009.  See the following website for details: http://www.tms.org/Meetings/Specialty/emc09/home.html.  The abstract deadline for DRC has not yet been announced.  The conference website is: http://drc.ee.psu.edu/. 

Friday,
01.30.09, 11:30AM, BRK 1001: "Probing Nanoscale Mechanical Properties
of Heterostructured Polymeric Materials," by Gregory Meyers, Dow
Chemical Company; a Purdue Scanning Probe Microscopy Users Group
Seminar; everyone is invited. FREE PIZZA PROVIDED AT 11:30AM; TALK BEGINS AT NOON.[More]

Friday,
01.30.09, 3:30PM, LILY 1-117: "A Rice SPX1 Domain Protein, OsSPX1, Acts
as a Negative Regulator of Pi-starvation Signaling in Plants," by Dr.
Huixia (Sylvia) Shou, Professor and Head, Department of Biotechnology;
Associate Director, Plant Science; Institute Zhejiang University,
Hangzhou, China. [More]
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OPPORTUNITIES
Research Assistant Professor Position Openings: University of Notre Dame; Center for Nano Science and Technology.
[More]

Post
Doctoral Research Positions; Department of Electrical Engineering,
Minwest Institute for Nanoelectronics Discovery (MIND), University of
Notre Dame. [More]
 
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LIFE ON THE OUTSIDE

Event: Serenity Hospice Foundation Golf Outing
"Please support our work with the terminally ill."
What: Fundraiser
Host: Janessa Drake
Start Time: Saturday, May 16 at 9:30am
End Time: Saturday, May 16 at 4:00pm
Where: The Elks
To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=118468515789
DON'T FORGET THE FOOD DRIVE! [More]
 
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BNC In the News
Nano-tetherball biosensor precisely detects glucose
Researchers
have created a precise biosensor for detecting blood glucose and
potentially many other biological molecules by using hollow structures
called single-wall carbon nanotubes anchored to gold-coated "nanocubes."
The
device resembles a tiny cube-shaped tetherball. Each tetherball is a
sensor and is anchored to electronic circuitry by a nanotube, which
acts as both a tether and ultrathin wire to conduct electrical signals,
said Timothy Fisher, a Purdue University professor of mechanical
engineering. [Read More]

New stretchable electrodes created to study stresses on cardiac cells 
Engineers
at Purdue and Stanford universities have created stretchable electrodes
to study how cardiac muscle cells, neurons and other cells react to
mechanical stresses from heart attacks, traumatic brain injuries and
other diseases.
The devices are made by
injecting a liquid alloy made of indium and gallium into thin
microchannels between two sheets of a plastic polymer, said Babak
Ziaie, a Purdue associate professor of electrical and computer
engineering. [Read More]
 
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