Biomedical Engineering Student Association Newsletter March 2020 |
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Your source for monthly updates on BMEGG events and news! |
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March Events BMEGG Recruitment Thursday, March 5 to Saturday, March 7 Join us for another year of recruitment events! This year, we will be hosting 39 prospective students, so we will need all hands on deck. Check out the schedule of events here, we hope to see as many students and faculty as possible! BMEGG students, please sign up to help with events if you haven't already, see this spreadsheet. BESA Book Club March 9, Common Grounds Coffee, 2171 Cowell Blvd We're kicking off the BESA Health Book Club with "The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World". Get it from Shields Library or the local library and look out for more information coming soon! If you didn't get a chance yet and you are interested, please fill out this survey. We'll be discussing pages 1-78. Hope to see you there! BESA Meeting Tuesday, March 10, 3-4 p.m. in GBSF 2202 Join us for our monthly meeting to discuss upcoming events! BESA Industry Tour: Profusa, Inc. March 17, 10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. 5959 Horton St. Suite 450, Emeryville, CA, 94608 Profusa is a biotech company working to pioneer tissue-integrating biosensors for continuous monitoring of body chemistries. Several BESA alum, including Dr. Debika Mitra and Dr. Armaun Emami, currently work at Profusa. To get an inside look at what this company is all about, RSVP here. Student Seminar Series Are you interested in practicing your QE presentation to get feedback and QE tips from peers? Please email Amy Becker at aebecker@ucdavis.edu to set up a time. |
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Announcements and Awards Apply for the CCST Science & Technology Policy Fellows Program CCST is now accepting applications for next year's class of CCST Science & Technology Policy Fellows, a year of government service in the California State Legislature or Executive Branch. The CCST Science Fellows program is open to those holding a PhD or equivalent degree in science, engineering, or social science fields such as economics, sociology, or psychology. Support BESA by ordering business cards or buying some BESA swag! Business cards are available through Repro Graphics for interested students and post-docs. Standard cards are $28.55 for 500. Please contact our treasurer Caitlin for more info. Christal also has a variety of BESA items for purchase in her office, including some BESA pint glasses, the most recent BESA T-shirt, and a variety of older BESA T-shirts. You can find pictures of the shirts here! BMEGG Research Symposium committee soliciting nominations for career panel The 2020 BMEGG Research Symposium (Friday, May 29) is only a few months away! We will need help with some of the details, including setting the final schedule, abstract scoring, and more. If you would like to help out as part of the 2020 Planning Committee, email Liz at lzli@ucdavis.edu. This year we will be having a panel centered around the question: 'Why did you choose the path you chose?' We hope that the panel represents a broad range of backgrounds/career paths in the Sacramento Region/Bay Area. Please submit panel nominations to this form. Northern California Biomaterials Day registration and abstract submission are now open The Society for Biomaterials student chapter at UC Davis is hosting the second annual Northern California Biomaterials Day on Friday, April 17. We invite you to join us and researchers from Northern California universities, as well as industry professionals from the Bay Area and greater Sacramento region, in promoting advancements in biomaterial science. Abstracts are due March 24. Register here. |
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Publications Kapre R, Zhou J, Li X, Beckett L, Louie A. A novel gamma GLM approach to MRI relaxometry comparisons. Magn Reson Med. 2020; 00:1-13. doi: 10.1002/mrm.28192 Wang L, Olivas A, Francis Stuart S, Tapa S, Blake M, Woodward R, Habacker B, Ripplinger C. Cardiac sympathetic nerve transdifferentiation reduces action potential heterogeneity after myocardial infarction. AJP Heart and Circulatory Physiology. Jan 24. 2020. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00412.2019. Zhang, X, Cherry, SR, Xie, Z, Shi, H, Badawi, RD, & Qi, J. Subsecond total-body imaging using ultrasensitive positron emission tomography. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117 (5) 2265-2267. Feb 2020. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1917379117 |
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BIM 290 Thursdays at 9 a.m. GBSF 1005 Neuroengineering and Medicine Wednesday, March 11 3:30 p.m. reception, 4:10 p.m. seminar 1127 Kemper Hall - Gregory S. Sawicki, PhD, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and School of Biology , Georgia Institute of Technology, "A Biologically Inspired Approach to Lower-Limb Exoskeleton Design", Register Here
Designated Emphasis in Biotechnology Fridays at 11 a.m. LS 1022 - March 6: Chris Flask, MBA, Global Warehouse and Business Capability Owner, Product and Global Supply Chain Management, Roche
- March 13: Rachel Valenzuela, PhD (DEB alum), Senior R&D Scientist, Memphis Meats, "Evolving the Food Industry Through Biotechnology: Creating the Future of Sustainable Meat"
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MMI 291 Fridays at 12:10 p.m. GBSF 1005 - March 6: Sungjin Kim, PhD, Associate Professor, Medical Microbiology and Immunology
- March 13: Janine M. LaSalle, PhD, Professor, Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Radiology Tuesday, March 10 at 12 p.m. Room 1222, Education Building, UCD Health - Hooman H. Rashidi, MD, MS, FASCP, "Supervised Machine Learning and the Automated Machine Learning Platform, MILO (Machine Intelligence Learning Optimizer)"
Physiology and Membrane Biology Fridays at 4 p.m. Tupper Hall 2133/2135 - Feb. 28: Alla Fomina, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology, UC Davis
Applied Statistics for Translational Researchers Wednesday, March 11 at 12 p.m. Room 1341, Center for Health and Tech - Bradley Pollock, PhD, "Data Management for Clinical Trials", Register Here
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(Pre)Valentines Day Lunch |
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Another successful student-faculty lunch in the books! This month's lunch featured a poem contest, won by 5th year Charlotte Vorwald with her poem on RNA. Great job to all of the contestants and to Bobby for being a stellar MC! |
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We had a BESA Fun Friday Lunch Meetup at the UC Davis Medical Center. Students took advantage of the Spring-like weather and dined together outside. |
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Coffee Hour With Dr. George |
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Dr. Steve George joined BESA members at the February coffee hour to discuss the proposed BMEGG-BME consolidation. Dr. George listened to student worries about the potential merger and welcomed any questions. Thanks again to Dr. George for his time and support! |
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BESA Calendar
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