Biomedical Engineering Student Association Newsletter October 2019 |
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Your source for monthly updates on BMEGG events and news! |
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October BESA Events BMEGG BBQ Thursday, Oct. 3 from 5-9 p.m. at Putah Creek Lodge Bring some of your favorite dessert to share for the dessert competition for your chance of winning some BESA swag! (Pro-tip: small bites are key.) Family and significant others are welcome. BESA Apple Hill Trip Saturday, Oct. 12 Join us on a trip to Apple Hill for cider and donuts and more! Look out for an email with more details coming soon. BESA Coffee Hour Friday, Oct. 25 from 2-3 p.m. in GBSF 2202 Come along for coffee and conversation with Dr. Randy Carney and Dr. Sanjeevi Sivasankar. As always, this is a great chance to learn about the research going on in our grad group and hear how some of the faculty got to where they are today. BMEGG Halloween Lunch TBD in the GBSF Lobby Join us for lunch and some Halloween treats and be sure to wear a costume for your chance at winning this year's costume contest. Stay tuned for the time and date! |
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Other Events 5th Annual Liver Research Day Wednesday, Oct. 9 from 8:00 a.m. - 3:45 p.m. GBSF 1005. Free. Register here. UC Davis Health 2nd Annual Research Expo Wednesday, Oct. 23 from 9 a.m. - noon Betty Irene Moor Hall, Room 1000, 2570 48th St, Sacramento. Free. Register here. Vet School Annual Halloween Party Friday, Oct. 25 from 9:00 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. Parkside Bar in Downtown Davis (330 G St, Davis, CA 95616) Join vet students and other grad students for this annual Halloween party, featuring a live DJ, a costume contest with prizes, and a free well drink with your ticket. Sign up here, and follow the instructions to pay; tickets are $20 before the event and $25 at the door. Student Seminar Series If you are interested in presenting your research to your peers, please email Amy Becker at aebecker@ucdavis.edu. |
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Announcements Congratulations to all the PhD students who recently defended! Over the past couple months, many BMEGG students have successfully defended their theses, including: Michael Fong, Fan Wu, Jennifer Price, Allison Hsia, Armaun Emami, Anita Rajamani, and Divya Kernik. We're very excited for all of the recent graduates as they transition to new positions in industry and academia! Congratulations to Jackie Woods for receiving the 2019 BMEGG Outstanding Graduate Student Award! Jackie is a student in Dr. Kent Leach's lab who is working to direct mesenchymal stem/stromal cell (MSC) behavior by loading osteo-inductive substrates and biomolecules within MSC spheroids to guide their bone-forming potential. She has 8 publications and an impressive track record of mentorship, participation in BESA, and scientific communication outreach. Congratulations also to Kevin Campbell, Divya Kernik, and Dovin Kiernan, the other nominees for this year's award, who have also made outstanding contributions to research, teaching, mentoring, and community outreach. Send in nominations for the keynote speaker at the 2020 BMEGG Research Symposium Anyone is welcome and encouraged to send in a nomination for the keynote speaker at this year's symposium (Friday, May 29, 2020 from 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. at the UC Davis Conference Center). We're looking for someone with outstanding research, and we are placing a special emphasis on their dedication to mentorship, outreach, and career development. If anyone comes to mind, please fill out this Google form by the end of next week (Friday, Oct. 11)! Fellowships and funding opportunities |
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Publications Bailey KA, Moreno E, Haj FG, Simon SI, Passerini AG. Mechanoregulation of p38 activity enhances endoplasmic reticulum stress-mediated inflammation by arterial endothelium. FASEB J. E-published 2019 Sept 7. doi: 10.1096/fj.201900236R. PMID: 31499005. Li C, Alfonso-Garcia A, McMasters J, Bec J, Weyers B, Uyesaka L, Griffiths L, Panitch A, Marcu L. Simultaneous intraluminal imaging of tissue autofluorescence and eGFP-labeled cells in engineered vascular grafts inside a bioreactor. Methods and Applications in Fluorescence. 2019 Sep 20. 7(4):044003. doi: 10.1088/2050-6120/ab4342. Robinson J, Coughlin G, Hori A, Cho R, Mackey E, Turan Z, Patriarchi T, Tian L, Gradinaru V. Optical dopamine monitoring with dLight1 reveals mesolimbic phenotypes in a mouse model of neurofibromatosis type 1. eLife. 2019 Sept 23. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.48983. Whitehead J, Kothambawala A, Kent Leach J. Morphogen Delivery by Osteoconductive Nanoparticles Instructs Stromal Cell Spheroid Phenotype. Adv. Biosys. 2019 Oct 1. DOI: 10.1002/adbi.201900141. |
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BIM 290 Thursdays at 9 a.m. GBSF 1005 - Oct. 3: Kathryn Uhrich, PhD, Professor of Chemistry and CNAS Dean, UC Riverside. "Polymeric Bioactives: Polymers from Bioactives and as Bioactives"
- Oct. 10: Rachel Entwistle, Director or Program Management at HeartFlow, Inc.
- Oct. 24: Moriel Vandsburger, PhD, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley
Applied Statistics for Translational Researchers "My data aren't normal – Now what?" - Sacramento: Wednesday, Oct. 9 from 12-1 p.m. Center for Health and Technology, 4610 X St., Room 1341. Register here.
- Davis: Wednesday, Oct. 16 from 12-1 p.m. GBSF 4202. Register here.
Neuroengineering and Medicine Wednesday, Oct. 9 from 4:10-5 p.m. 1003 Kemper Hall - Rich Ivry, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley. "Systems Interactions in Human Sensorimotor Learning"
Pharmacology Tuesdays at 4 p.m. GBSF 1005 Oct. 15, Zixi (Jack) Cheng, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Central Florida.
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Radiology Grand Rounds Tuesday, Oct. 8 from 12-1 p.m. Medical Education Building, Room 1222 4610 X St., Sacramento Ramit Lamba, MBBS MD, Professor of Radiology, School of Medicine, UC Davis, "Iodinated Contrast in CT: Update & Advances"
Cancer Biology Thursdays from 9-10 a.m. UC Davis Cancer Center, 4501 X Street - Oct. 10: Amina Zoubeidi, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Vancouver Prostate Centre
Physiology and Membrane Biology Fridays at 4 p.m. Tupper Hall 2133/2135 - Oct. 11: Eamonn Dickson, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Physiology & Membrane Biology, UC Davis
MMI 291 Fridays at 12:10 p.m. GBSF 1005 - Oct. 4: Joseph DeRisi, PhD, Co-President, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics, UCSF
- Oct. 11: Gregory Barton, PhD, Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
- Oct. 18: Erin Leigh DiCaprio, Assistant Specialist in Cooperative Extension, Food Science and Technology, UC Davis
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It's been another great start to the school year. The new BMEGG students were able to hear from a wide variety of professors during orientation, and also learn about BESA and life as a BMEGG student in general. Special thanks to Christal Wintersmith and Dr. David Hawkins for the effort that went into this. |
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Among other orientation week social activities, we had a very well attended ice cream social. Thanks to everyone who stopped by, and be on the lookout for coffee hours with faculty coming up in the near future! |
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