Biomedical Engineering :: Seminars :: University of Memphis

The University of Memphis & The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Joint Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering
Spring 2013 Seminar Series

January 18	No Seminar
January 25	Professor José Ramón Atoche Enseñat, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Instituto Tecnológico de Mérida (Technological Institute of Mérida), Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico Current research topics in the Graduate School of Engineering at the Technological Institute of Mérida
February 1	Jane Cappaert, Head of Devices Research and Development, Merck Consumer Care, Memphis, www.merck.com
February 8	Shuying Yang, Assistant Professor, School of Dental Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo [faculty candidate for UTHSC position]; http://dental.buffalo.edu/oralbiology/home.asp?f=sy47 TO BE HELD AT UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER
February 15	Robert Bowles, Posdoctoral Research Associate, Biomedical Engineering, Duke University [faculty candidate for UTHSC position]; http://www.bme.duke.edu/ TO BE HELD AT UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER *Tissue-engineered Total Disc Replacement, Pain and the Future of Cell-based Therapies for the Treatment of the Pathological Spine*
February 22	Brook Sanford, PhD Candidate, Biomedical Engineering, University of Memphis
March 1	Jerald Redmond, Principal Research and Development Engineer, Medtronic Spinal and Biologics, Memphis
March 8	Syamal Bhattacharya, Professor, Medicine, Surgery and Neurology, Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine; Executive Director, NIH-Sponsored Medical Students Research Program, University of Tennessee Health Science Center; http://academic.uthsc.edu/faculty/facepage.php?netID=sbhattac&personnel_id=139494 Excessive Intracellular Calcium Accumulation
March 15	Spring Break – no seminar
March 22	Michael Detamore, Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Kansas, Lawrence; http://www2.ku.edu/~telab/detamore.html
March 29	UT Holiday - no seminar
April 5	Mark Morrison, Lead Research Engineer, Advanced Surgical Devices, Materials Technologies, Smith & Nephew, Memphis *Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polyethylene: Past, Present and Future*
April 12	Carlos Parra, PhD Candidate, Biomedical Engineering, University of Memphis *Visual Function in Retinoblastoma Patients*
April 19	Robert Llewellyn, Professor Emeritus, Rhodes College (former Dean of the College and Professor of Philosophy), Memphis http://www.rhodes.edu/155_1312.asp
April 26	James Keaton Smith, PhD Candidate, Biomedical Engineering, University of Memphis

Seminars will be held on The University of Memphis campus in Room 203 Engineering Administration Building (Engineering Auditorium), corner of Central and Zach Curlin streets, at 3:30 pm, unless indicated differently (see listing above).
Contact info: 901/678-3733.