Week of February 10, 2013 to February 16, 2013

1. Monday, February 11, 2013

   1. 12:00 pmDr. Kevin Wood, Harvard University
      Decoding the Multi-Drug Response in Populations of Bacteria and Human Cancer Cells
      2240 DCL
   2. 12:00 pmMichael King
      Rolling in the Deep: Tumor Cell Adhesion and Treatment in the Bloodstream
      2005 Mechanical Engineering Lab

2. Tuesday, February 12, 2013

   1. 12:00 pmKennedy Nguyen, University of California at Merced
      Characterization and Effect of Engineered Solid and Mesoporous Silica Particle Physical Properties on In Vitro Toxicity
      1000 MNTL
   2. 12:30 pmSarah E. Holton, University of Illinois
      Combining Three-dimensional Cell Culture Models and Chemical Imaging for Understanding Fibroblast-epithelial Interactions During Early Breast Cancer Progression
      1000 MNTL
   3. 3:00 pmProf. Evelyn Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
      'Nanoengineered Surfaces: Transport Phenomena and Energy Applications'
      190 Engineering Sciences Bldg

3. Wednesday, February 13, 2013

   1. 12:00 pmProfessor Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, University of Illinois
      Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Energy Conversion Processes: Insights from Theory and Computation
      2240 DCL
   2. 3:00 pmProfessor Noah J. Cowan, Johns Hopkins University
      Antagonistic thrust forces enhance controllability and stability at the expense of energy in the glass knifefish
      B02 Auditorium CSL
   3. 4:00 pmStrategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects on Security (SHARPS)
      2405 Siebel Center

4. Thursday, February 14, 2013

   1. 2:00 pmDr. Ximin He, Harvard University
      Warm-blooded Plastics: Bio-inspired Smart Soft Materials Systems
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory
   2. 4:00 pmDr. Jackie Shen, Barclays Investment Bank
      Portfolio Algos: Demands, Challenges, and Opportunities
      303 Transportation Building

5. Friday, February 15, 2013

   1. 3:00 pmProfessor Raphal Jungers, Universite Catholique de Louvain
      Joint spectral characteristics: a tale of three disciplines
      B02 Auditorium CSL