WAKE FOREST INSTITUTE FOR REGENERATIVE MEDICINE: SEMINAR SERIES - SPRING 2007


17-Jan Daniel Eberli, M.D.
Ph.D. Candidate for Molecular Medicine, WFIRM
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
"Bioengineering of Muscle for Functional Sphincter Reconstruction"
24-Jan William Sonntag, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
"Worms, Flies, Dwarfs and Things That Go Bump in the Night: Aging in the Growth Hormone, Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 Era"
31-Jan Tamer AbouShwareb, M.D.
Research Fellow, WFIRM
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
"Keratin Gel for Acute Hemorrhagic Liver: A Pilot Study"
7-Feb Jacquelyn S. Fetrow, Ph.D.
Reynolds Professor of Computational Biophysics
Director, Graduate Track in Structural and Computational Biophysics
Departments of Physics and Computer Science
Wake Forest University
"Computational Systems Biology: Approaches to Modeling Sparse Time Course Genomics and Proteomics Data"
14-Feb Matthew O. Fraser, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Urology, Department of Surgery
Duke University Medical Center
"Considering the Urethra as an Outlet for Neurourological Research Activity"
1-Mar Michael Manyak, M.D, F.A.C.S
Vice President of Medical Affairs
Cytogen Corporation
Princeton, NJ
"The Evolution of Imaging for Prostate Cancer"
7-Mar Mark O. Lively, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry
Center for Structural Biology
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
"Protein Mass Spectrometry for Biologists"
14-Mar Richard Cohen, M.D.
Director, Vascular Biology Unit
Department of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
"Signaling by Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species"
21-Mar Albert Banes, Ph.D.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
President of Flexcell International Corporation
Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
NC State University and UNC Chapel Hill
"Effects of Mechanical Loading and Mediators on Tendocytes and Bioartificial Tendons"
29-Mar Robert Klein, J.D.
Chairman, Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
"Proposition 71: California's $3B Stem Cell Research Initiative: A New Paradigm for Science and Policy"
2-Apr Matthew M. Stern
(Post Doc Candidate)
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Carver College of Medicine
University of Iowa
"Epidermal Stem Cell Plasticity: Somatic Stem Cells Being All That They Can 'B'"
18-Apr Sang Jin Lee, Ph.D.
Instructor, WFIRM
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
TBA
2-May DJ Lee, M.S.
Ph.D. Candidate for Bioengineering, WFIRM
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
"Tissue Engineering Heart Valves"
9-May Henrik Semb, Ph.D.
Professor in Functional Genetics, Dept. of Endocrinology, BMC
Lund University, Sweden
"Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Towards Regenerative Medicine in Diabetes"
30-May Samira Neshat, M.D.
Research Fellow, WFIRM
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
"Amniotic Fluid Stem Cells for Cardiac Therapies"
For updates, please contact Jennifer Hipp, 336-713-1193