Biomedical Engineering Student Association Newsletter August 2019 |
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Your source for monthly updates on BMEGG events and news! |
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August BESA Events NEW BESA EVENT!: Surviving and Thriving in Grad School Thursday, August 8 from 4-5 p.m. in GBSF 2202 Hear from a panel of senior graduate students about the challenges of their grad school experience and some of their strategies for success. Any topics or questions you might have to discuss are welcome. The first meeting will be Thursday 8/8 from 4-5 p.m. in GBSF 2202 with drinks to follow. Any logistical questions can be directed to Laney at atcasella@ucdavis.edu. BESA Popsicle Hour Tuesday, August 13 from 2-3 p.m. in GBSF 2202 Come join us to eat some delicious popsicles and take a break from that lab grind! Student Seminar Series: Bharad Nandakumar Friday, August 23 from 3-4 p.m. in GBSF 3202 This month's Student Seminar Series will feature a practice QE by Bharad Nandakumar from the Moxon lab. Bharad will talk about "Cortex assisted recovery of function after spinal cord injury via neuro-rehabilitation". Come show your support and give feedback on Bharad's presentation! |
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Announcements Congratulations to Prof. Jamal Lewis and his lab on their R01! Dr. Jamal Lewis recently received his first R01 grant from the NIH for the project titled, "Particulate-based in vivo modulation for immunotherapy of rheumatoid arthritis". Prof. Lewis said that “the studies funded by this grant will allow us to demonstrate that our biomaterial system has potential to significantly improve on current clinical options for RA therapy. This award gives me, as well as my lab, a huge confidence boost and signals that our work is considered to be important and possibly impactful for human health." We congratulate the Lewis Lab and look forward to the outcomes of this exciting work! Congratulations to Dr. Gerard Arino Estrada on his R21! Dr. Gerard Arino-Estrada was recently awarded the Trailblazer R21 Award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB). He is currently a member of Dr. Simon Cherry’s group and will work together with Dr. Saif Islam, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Chair, to development silicon photodetectors with tapered-hole microstructures to improve the image quality in positron emission tomography (PET) and allow for earlier diagnosis of diseases and more efficient treatments. Congratulations, we're excited to see what comes out of this collaborative work! |
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Publications Whitehead J, Zhang J, Harvestine JN, Kothambawala A, Liu GY, Leach JK. Tunneling Nanotubes Mediate the Expression of Senescence Markers in Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cell Spheroids. Stem Cells. 2019 Jul 12. doi: 10.1002/stem.3056. Wang L, Morotti S, Tapa S, Francis SD, Yanyan S, Wang JZ, Myles RC, Brack KE, Ng GA, Bers DM, Grandi E, Ripplinger CM. Different paths, same destination: divergent action potential responses produce conserved cardiac fight-or-flight response in mouse and rabbit hearts. The Journal of Physiology. 2019 Jun 19. doi: 10.1113/JP278016. |
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Upcoming Events Be sure to check out our new "Surviving and Thriving in Grad School" event (see above) and be on the lookout for some new student-faculty events coming in the fall! Student Seminar Series: If you are interested in presenting your research to your peers, please email Amy Becker at aebecker@ucdavis.edu. Mark your calendars for next year's BMEGG Research Symposium The event will take place on Friday, May 29, 2020 from 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. at the UC Davis Conference Center. We hope to see everyone there! |
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iBIO: Integrated Biomedical Sciences Seminar Series Tues, August 6, 4 p.m. GBSF 1005 Bioinformatics: RNA-Seq Workshop August 19 at 9 a.m. to August 23 at 4:30 p.m. Registration required. For registration and more information, navigate here |
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Applied Statistics Seminar Series "Hypothesis Testing and P-Value Pitfalls" - Sacramento: Wed, August 14, 12-1 p.m. Center for Health and Technology 4610 X Street Room 1347. Register here.
- Davis: Wed, August 28, 12-1 p.m. GBSF 4202. Register here.
Registration preferred but not required. For more information contact Sandra Taylor at sltaylor@ucdavis.edu UC Chemicals and Chemtags Training Mon, August 26, 10:30-11:30 a.m. GBSF 1005 |
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July BESA Social Coffee Hour |
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We had quite a few grad students and post-docs grab coffee and hang out at the July coffee hour. It was a good opportunity to catch up during the summer. Be on the lookout for more coffee hours coming this fall! |
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