Biomedical Engineering Student Association Newsletter September 2019 |
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Your source for monthly updates on BMEGG events and news! |
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September BESA Events Student Seminar Series: Nkechi Chidi-Ogbolu Tuesday, Sept. 3 from 1-2 p.m. in GBSF 3206 This month's Student Seminar Series will feature a practice QE by Nkechi Chidi-Ogbolu from the Baar lab. Nkechi will talk about "The Effect of Hormonal Manipulation on Tendon and Ligament Function." Come support your peers in preparing for the QE and learn about their project! If you are interested in presenting your research to your peers, please email Amy Becker at aebecker@ucdavis.edu. BESA Welcome Week - Orientation: Tuesday, Sept. 24 from 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. in GBSF 2202. Ice cream social to follow!
- Farmer's Market: Wednesday, Sept. 25 from 5:30-8 p.m. at Central Park
- Bar Night: Thursday, Sept. 26 from 6-11 p.m. in Downtown Davis
Be on the lookout for emails about these events! BESA Meeting
Tuesday, Sept. 17 from 4-5 p.m. in GBSF 2202 |
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Other Events BMEGG Student Exit Seminars - Tuesday, Sept. 3: Armaun Emami, GBSF 2202, 9 a.m.
- Monday, Sept. 16: Anita Rajamani, GBSF auditorium, 9 a.m.
- Friday, Sept. 27: Divya Kernik, GBSF auditorium, 2 p.m.
EXPLORER Symposium: Advances in Medical Imaging Monday, Sept. 9 from 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. at Betty Irene Moore Hall Auditorium, 2570 48th Street, Sacramento, CA. Register here. Let’s ROC! Run/Walk for Ovarian Cancer Sunday, Sept. 15 at 8 a.m. Dr. Randy Carney and his lab are putting together a team to support OCERN, a non-profit organization that supports ovarian center research. Join the "UC Davis Carney Lab" team here! Additional donations beyond the registration fee are optional and not expected. More information about the event can be found here. Cancer Research Symposium Thursday, Sept. 19 at 8 a.m. - Friday, September 20 at 11:30 a.m. at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center Auditorium, 4501 X Street, Sacramento, CA Register here before tickets sell out! Registration is free for UCD students and post-docs. BMEGG BBQ Thursday, Oct. 3 from 5-9 p.m. at Putah Creek Lodge. Start thinking of recipes for the dessert competition! |
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Announcements Congratulations to Caitlin Banks on her F31! Caitlin was recently awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Individual Predoctoral Fellowship to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research from the NIH NINDS for her project, "The Long-Latency Reflex: A Biomarker for Functional Impairment Following Stroke." Caitlin is a PhD candidate in Dr. Carolynn Patten's lab. The project is sponsored by Dr. Patten and Dr. Monica Perez. Congratulations and we're excited to see what comes out of this exciting research! Apply for the Richard and Joy Dorf Engineering Fellowship Award This fellowship award for College of Engineering graduate students gives out four $1000 awards per year to support graduate education. Send your applications to Alin Wakefield at amwakefield@ucdavis.edu by Sept. 25 to apply. More information can be found here. 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 as soon as you can! Share your achievements for the "Intro to Grad School" presentation Did you receive a fellowship or participate in professional development (Designated Emphasis, Big Bang, FUTURE, LFTF, PFTF, etc.) since you started graduate school? We are collecting a list of current BMEGG students' achievements for the "Intro to Grad School" presentation to give new students a point of contact for applying. Please email Amy Becker with your professional development activities/awards/fellowships! Fall quarter starts Wednesday, Sept. 25! |
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Publications Banks CL, Little VL, Walker ER, Patten C. Lower extremity long-latency reflexes differentiate walking function after stroke. Experimental Brain Research. 2019 Aug 1. doi: 10.1007/s00221-019-05614-y. Goldbloom-Helzner L, Hao D, Wang A. Developing Regenerative Treatments for Developmental Defects, Injuries, and Diseases Using Extracellular Matrix Collagen-Targeting Peptides. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2019 Aug 21. doi: 10.3390/ijms20174072. Gonzalez-Fernandez T, Sikorski P, Leach JK. Bio-instructive materials for musculoskeletal regeneration. Acta Biomater. 2019 Jul 11. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2019.07.014. Johansen N, Quon G. scAlign: a tool for alignment, integration, and rare cell identification from scRNA-seq data. Genome Biology. 2019 Aug 14. doi: 10.1186/s13059-019-1766-4. Veselinovic J, Almashtoub S, Seker E. Anomalous Trends in Nucleic Acid-Based Electrochemical Biosensors with Nanoporous Gold Electrodes. Anal. Chem. 2019 Aug 20. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b02686. |
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Applied Statistics for Translational Researchers Wednesday, Sept. 18 at noon GBSF 6202 - "Which test should I use? - Overview of statistical tests." Register here.
MMI 291 Fridays from 12:10-1 p.m. GBSF 1005 - Sept. 27: Stephen McSorley, PhD, Interim Director, Center for Comparative Medicine, Professor, Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology, UC Davis
Pharmacology GBSF 1005 Sept. 12, 4:30 p.m.: Matthew B. Dalva, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Neuroscience, Director, Jefferson Synaptic Biology Center, Thomas Jefferson University, "Synapse formation and plasticity: effects of biological-sex and synaptic nanostructure" Sept. 17, 4:00 p.m.: Maria Kurnikova, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University
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Radiology Grand Rounds Thursday, Sept. 19 from 7-8 a.m. 4860 Y St, ACC 3015 - Prathap Jayaram, MD, Director of Regenerative Sports Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, "Regenerative Medicine Strategies for Post Traumatic Knee Osteoarthritis and Off Target Effects"
Cancer Biology Thursdays from 9-10 a.m. UC Davis Cancer Center, 4501 X Street - Sept. 12: Tim Huang, PhD, UT Southwestern Medical Center, “Cancer Malignancy Analyzed by Single Cell Omics”
- Sept. 26: Surinder K. Batra, MD-PhD, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Physiology and Membrane Biology Fridays at 4:00 p.m. Tupper Hall 2133/2135 - Sept. 27: Kazuharu Furutani, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Physiology & Membrane Biology, UC Davis
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BMEGG students and post-docs beat the heat with some popsicles and air conditioning at the August popsicle hour. Stay tuned for more events like this as the summer winds down and Fall quarter begins! |
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We had 20 researchers attend our student seminar this month! Bharad Nandakumar gave a talk in preparation for his qualifying exam (which he passed – congrats!). Thanks for those that came out to give their support and feedback, be sure to join us in September for Nkechi's talk (see above)! |
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