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Integrative Course Philosophy
IGERT GTFs will choose three integrative courses (denoted by IC) on biointerfaces, from four available IC offerings.
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These courses are new and are currently under various stages of development. The course titles and team-teachers are tabulated below, and their syllabi summaries are tabulated further below. It should be noted that these courses are novel in their outlook because they review important applications or case studies in the field of biointerfaces, and they utilize an integrative philosophy to treat each course theme, which differs greatly from the conventional curriculum in this field. For example, a traditional approach to teach synthesis of biomaterials is to review separately the synthesis of polymeric, ceramic, and metallic materials. While this approach is useful for a summative review of all biomaterials, these reviews are largely without context, and the treatment of design of biomaterial-based biointerfaces must await a separate course on the biological components that is then reviewed in the absence of the materials context. Instead, the IC courses designed here
integrate biointerfaces across (a) the range of organization of biological components of the interfaces (e.g. genes, proteins, cells: see IC1), or (b) size scales (e.g nano-micro-macroscales), or (c) the two phases that constitute a typical biointerface.
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| Major Events |
IRIF:Megan Anderson Fri., 12/11 in BME-122, 12-1 pm
Enhanced Survival of Progeny of Neural Stem Cells in Response to Trace Eyeblink Conditioning
IRIF:Andrew LHuillier Thurs., 11/19 in BME-122, 12-1pm
Mesenchymal Stem Cell Mediated Immunosuppression and IDO Metabolites
RESCHEDULED: Bioindustry Ethics Luncheon Part II w/ David Finegold (IGERT Fellows ONLY) 11/5/09
Part II of the Ethics Luncheon will be rescheduled to the Spring semester IRIF schedule.
IRIF:Dr. Debu Banerjee 10/22 in BME-122, 12-1 pm
Therapeutic applications of bone marrrow derived Mesenchmal stem cells
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Congratulations!
IGERT Fellows Aaron Carlson and Mohamed Sadik took 1st and 3rd place (respectively) in the Poster Presentations at the 3rd Annual NJ Stem Cell Symposium held Thursday, September 24, 2009. Aaron Carlson's poster was titled “3-D Electrospun Polymer Scaffolds Promote Human Embryonic Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Controlled Organization". Mohamed presented “Electroporation-Mediated Molecular Delivery”. Jonathan Davilla took 2nd place with “Identification of Biologically Functional microRNAs in Human ESCs by Ago2 Immunoprecipitation and Sequencing”. The keynote address was delivered by Hakim Djaballah, PhD of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Congratulations to Professor Ki-Bum Lee, Stem Cell IGERT Faculty in Chemistry and Chemical Biology, who is the recipient of the NIH Director’s New Innovator award, 2009.
The NIH Director's New Innovator Award program is designed specifically to support unusually creative early stage investigators with highly innovative research ideas at an early stage of their career.
IGERT fellow wins award:
Congratulations to IGERT fellow Nicole Plourde who was recipient of the 2009 Schering-Plough Innovation Award. She was presented with an awards plaque and a check for $5000 at a ceremony on Thursday, April 16th.
Chris Ricupero featured on Epigenie interview
Follow link here for full interview.
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