- Agenda
- Networking Panel
- Education Symposium
- Poster Session
- Biodiversity, Conservation, Ecology, Evolution & Behavior
- Bioengineering
- Biomaterials and Nanoscience/Nanotechnology
- Chemical Sciences
- Education/Curricular Innovation
- Environmental Science
- Family, Community and Public Health
- Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics, and Proteomics
- Microbiology and Immunology
- Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
- Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
- Water Quality and Management
- Agriculture, Food, and Nutritional Sciences
- Biochemistry/Biophysics
- Professor Venture Fair
- Keynote Address
PrintUnderstanding Life
November 27, 2012 Stamp Student Union
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10:30 AM |
Registration (FREE) when you arrive |
| 8:30 AM - 2:30 PM |
Secondary School Teachers Symposium: Integrative Science – With Biology at the Center (Special Registration Required) Location: Atrium, Stamp Student Union |
| Two Sessions: 11:00 AM - 12:00N 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM |
Networking Panel Location: Jimenez Room, Stamp Student Union Representatives of industry and federal laboratories will hold two panel discussions to help students understand what they can do with a degree in the biological sciences and similar majors. |
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11:30 N - 1:30 PM |
Poster Session - Meet the researchers Poster session and Lunch Location: Grand Ballroom, Stamp Student Union |
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12:00 PM - 1:30 PM |
Innovation Corner - "Professor Venture Fair" Location: Grand Ballroom Lounge, Stamp Student Union Professors and inventors will pitch their inventions to local Venture Capitalists who will select the Best Inventor Pitch for Bioscience Day 2012. |
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Short Seminars by University of Maryland Faculty |
| 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM |
William E. Bentley, Robert E. Fischell Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Chair, Fischell Department of Bioengineering
Talk: "A Systems Biotechnological Interrogation of Quorum Sensing: Opportunities for Altering the Microbiome" |
| 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM |
Kan Cao, Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics Talk: "Molecular Insights on Aging from Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome" |
| 3:00 PM - 3:30 pm |
Antony M. Jose, Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics
Talk: “RNAs that Move Between Animal Cells to Control Genes” |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 PM |
Break |
| 3:45 PM - 4:15 PM |
Garegin Papoian, Monroe Martin Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Talk: "How Do Cells Move? Chemistry Meets Mechanics" |
| 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM |
Daphne Soares, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Talk: "Navigating in Dark Water: the Secret Lives of Cavefishes" |
| 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM |
Break |
| 5:00 PM |
The Dr. Erik B. & Mrs. Joyce D.C. Young Lecture Location: Colony Ballroom "On Growth and Form - A Physical Basis for Morphogenesis"by |
