[Illinois] Beckman Graduate Seminar: Frontoparietal traffic signals: A fast optical imaging study of preparatory dynamics in response mode switching

20 Jun 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Pauline L. Baniqued

Coordination between networks of brain regions is important for optimal cognitive performance, especially in attention demanding tasks. With the event-related optical signal (EROS; a measure of …

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[Illinois] Beckman Graduate Seminar: Graphene Atomic Shrink Wrap for Nanosandwiching Biomolecules

20 Jun 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Joshua D. Wood

Graphene, a two-dimensional honeycomb sheet of carbon atoms, has been hotly scrutinized for its desirable electronic applications. Still, graphene has hardly been used as an atomically thin membrane. …

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[Illinois] Beckman Graduate Seminar: Neural Correlates of Externally and Internally Originating Emotional Distraction Effects on Working Memory

20 Jun 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Alexandru D. Iordan

Balanced emotion-cognition interactions are critical for healthy functioning. Clinical studies suggest that symptoms of impaired executive control and enhanced emotional distractibility observed in …

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[Illinois] weSTEM 2013: Discussion Panel

20 Jun 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Marie-Christine Brunet, Amy Chervenak, Ann Peedikayil, Cassandra Rutherford

weSTEM (Women Empowered in STEM) will provide a forum through which current and future STEM leaders can motivate and inspire each other to excel at the frontier of scientific advancement and develop …

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[Illinois] Biophotonics 2012: Introduction to Fourier optics, Light scattering, Holography and QPI (I, II)

17 Jun 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gabriel Popescu

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[Illinois] GEM4 2012: Mechanobiology in Development

17 Jun 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Taher A. Saif

Cellular and Molecular Mechanics with a focus on Developmental Biology The 2012 GEM4 Summer School program consists of lectures in the mornings by experts in cellular and molecular mechanics and …

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[Illinois] BioNanotechnology Seminar Series Spring 2012: Dynamics of Multimodal Magnetomotive Microspheres

15 Jun 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Adeel Ahmad

Iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles (MNP's), due to their small size, unique magnetic properties and the ability to manipulate these remotely, are promising materials for diagnostic, imaging, and …

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[Illinois] BioNanotechnology Seminar Series Spring 2012: Multilayered Metal Dielectric nanoLAMPS for Highly Sensitive Multiplexed Detection of Pre-metastatic Cancer Cells

15 Jun 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Sean Sivapalan

We fabricate a new class of nanoLAMPS based on recent theoretical designs by the Bhargava group. A variety of methods are adapted to create alternating metal and dielectric layered nanoparticles with …

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[Illinois] Beckman Institute Graduate Student & Director's Seminar Series

15 Jun 2013 | Series | Contributor(s): NanoBio Node

The Beckman Institute Graduate Student Seminar Series presents the work of outstanding graduate students working in Beckman research groups. The seminars begin at Noon in Beckman Institute Room 1005 …

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[Illinois] weSTEM 2013: Managing your Goals in the Face of Uncertainty

14 Jun 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Nina Tandon

In a recent interview for the Lavin Daily, “You Don’t Have To Be One Thing: Nina Tandon On Pursuing Many Interests,” Nina describes the value in pursuing a variety of interests even when …

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[Illinois] weSTEM 2013: Combining Interests and Expertise to Shape Your Career

14 Jun 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Roshni Kasad

A common misconception among graduate students is that people believe they must stick to the same technical research area in which they earned a Ph.D. in order to find a job. While it might be more …

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[Illinois] weSTEM 2013 Series: Be Inspired, Stay Motivated, Grow Passionate

14 Jun 2013 | Series

weSTEM (Women Empowered in STEM) will provide a forum through which current and future STEM leaders can motivate and inspire each other to excel at the frontier of scientific advancement and develop …

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[Illinois] 2010 Nano-Biophotonics Summer School: Intro to Nanophotonics

14 Jun 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Kent D Choquette

Biophotonics Summer School 2010 May 21st - June 1st 2010 Urbana-Champaign, Illinois The Biophotonics Summer School brings together from a wide variety of disciplines to teach students about the …

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[Illinois] Introduction to Cell Visualization

14 Jun 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Emad Tajkhorshid

Professor Emad Tajkhorshid speaks to University Laboratory High School students about his research in Computational Studies of Membranes and Membrane Associated Phenomena Membrane proteins are of …

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[Illinois] BioNanotechnology Seminar Series Fall 2011: Pluripotency and Directed Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

14 Jun 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Fei Wang

Our long-term goal is to define new conditions and molecular programs that govern fate decisions of human pluripotent stem cells such as human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and human induced …

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[Illinois] BioNanotechnology Seminar Series Fall 2011: Bio-inspired Microenvironments Regulate Cell Fate

14 Jun 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Adam Engler

Epigenetic regulation of stem cell fate by intrinsic properties of the surrounding extracellular matrix (ECM), e.g. stiffness, organization, composition, etc., appears to be an important yet …

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[Illinois] SIAM Student Chapter Colloquium: Data Intensive Science: New Opportunities, Old Challenges

14 Jun 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Robert Brunner

Science, and society in general, is experiencing fundamental change. First is the explosion of data inundating everything from Astronomy to Zoology. Second is the severe impact of the economic …

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[Illinois] BioNanotechnology Seminar Series Spring 2012: Cationic, Helical Polypeptide Based Gene Delivery for IMR90 Fibroblasts and Human Embryonic Stem Cells

13 Jun 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jonathan Yen

New diblock copolymers consisting of poly(ethyleneglycol)-block-poly(?-(4-(piperidin-1-yl)ethanaminomethylbenzyl)-L-glutamate), PEG-b-PVBLG-8 were synthesized for the effective transfection of hard …

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[Illinois] BioNanotechnology Seminar Series Spring 2012: Fabrication and Characterization of Multi-Compartment Collagen-Glycosaminoglycan Scaffolds for Tissue Regeneration

13 Jun 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Daniel Weisgerber

We are working to create multi-compartment scaffolds as regenerative templates for multi-tissue interfaces such as the tendon to bone junction (TBJ). Collagen-glycosaminoglycan (CG) scaffolds have …

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[Illinois] BioNanotechnology Seminar Series Spring 2012: CYP17A1: Gatekeeper to Androgen Biosynthesis

13 Jun 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Michael Gregory

Human Cytochrome P45017A1 (CYP17) catalyzes the 17 alpha-hydroxylation of pregnenolone and progesterone as well as the subsequent 17,20 carbon-carbon lyase chemistry of its hydroxylated products. …

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