| DATE | SPEAKER(S) | HOST | TITLE(S) |
| Jan 5
(60) | Sandor J. Kovacs, Ph.D, M.D.
Washington University, St. Louis | Ritman
| How the heart must work when it fills or what biomedical engineers can teachy cardiogist and vice-versa. |
| Jan 12
(36) | Carlos Romero, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering | Manduca | Mechanism of hypertension produced by Angiotensin II (Ang II) induced by oxidative stress (OXST). |
| Jan 19
(93) | Maile Ceridon
Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering | Manduca | Altitude Symptoms At the South Pole (ASAP) 2006 - The inaugural year of the Mayo ASAP study: Studying altitude physiology in antarctica. |
| Jan 26
(45) | Michael Romero, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering | Manduca | Electrogenic bicarbonate transporters: Biophysics, human disease and evolution. |
| Feb 2
(70) | Erik L. Ritman, M.D., Ph.D.
Department Physiology and Biomedical Engineering | Ritman | Imaging of tissues' x-ray refractive index - the promise of high contrast range and reduced radiation dose. |
| Feb 9 | No Seminar - Interview Weekend | -- | -- |
| Feb 16
(105) | Ory Zik, Ph.D.
QuantomiX, Auburndale, MA | Ahlquist | Electron microscopy of wet samples exemplified by lipid accumulation and protein distribution. |
| Feb 23 | No Seminar - Interview Weekend | -- | -- |
| Mar 2
(56) | Sebastian Ourselin, Ph.D.
Brisbane, Australia | Robb | Current research within BioMedIA Lab, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia |
| Mar 9
(45) | Yuan-Ping Pang, Ph.D.
Department of Biophysics and Pharmacology | Manduca | Novel acetylcholinesterase target site for malaria mosquito control. |
| Mar 16
(63) | Andrzej Rucinski, Ph.D.
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH | Yaszemski | Microelectronic systems education in the global economy era. |
| Mar 23
(40) | Hai-Long Wang, Ph.D.
Depaartment of Physiolology and Biomedical Engineering | Sine | Single cation permeation through nicotinic receptors goverened by dynamics, electrostatics and hydrophobicity of the channel. |
| Mar 30
(40) | John Lieske, M.D.
Department of Nephrology and Hypertension | Manduca | Urinary macromolecular modification of cell-crystal interactions in the pathogenesis of renal stones. |
| Apr 6
(66) | Jiping He, Ph.D.
Arizona State University | An | Epidural spinal stimulation induces improvement on muscle coordination and endurance for chronic spinal cord injured individuals during overground walking. |
| Apr 13
(52) | Kevin F. King, Ph.D.
GE Healthcare | Bernstein | Introduction to parallel transmission in Magnetic Resonance Imaging. |
| Apr 20
(52) | James Caffrey, Ph.D.
Univeristy of North Texas, Fort Worth, TX | Charkoudian | Endogenous opioids and autonomic control of the heart and circulation. |
| Apr 27
(62) | Student Presentations: EkTsoon Tan; Lindsay Godin | Manduca | Accelerated brain volume imaging using 2D-SENSE and ellipical-centric phase encoding in 3D MP-RAGE; Defining the role of the osteoclast in bone: Is it an active or passive mediator? |
| May 4
(59) | Bradley Erickson, M.D., Ph.D.
Dept. Radiology and Informatics | Manduca | The applications of image processing to the practice of medicine. |
| May 11
(39) | Susan Marengo, Ph.D.
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH | Lieske | The role of oxalate in calcium oxalate stone disease. |
| May 18
(55) | Zong-Ming Li, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Zhao | Hand bioengineering and clinical applications. |
| May 25 | No Seminar - Memorial Day Weekend | -- | -- |
| Jun 1
(85) | Andrew Primak, Ph.D.
Department of Radiology | McCollough | Functional applications of dual-source CT: Improved temporal resolution for myocardial perfusion and dual-energy material characterization for renal stones. |
| Jun 8
(82) | Virginia Miller, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering | Manduca | From bench to bedside: Update on the KEEPS trial. |
| Jun 15 | IGI Symposium | Robb | -- |
| Jun 22
(62) | Matthew Koff, Ph.D.
Motion Analysis Laboratory | Kaufman | Quantitative assessment of cartilage during osteoarthritis. |
| Jun 29
(59) | Richard R. Brey, Ph.D.
Idaho State University | Vetter | Estimating radiation doses from internally deposited radionuclides. |
| Jul 6 | No Seminar - Independence Day Weekend | -- | -- |
| Jul 13
(66) | Daniel Blezek, Ph.D.
GE, Albany, NY | Manduca | Atlas stratification. |
| Jul 20
(86) | Armen Sarvazyan, Ph.D.
Artann Laboratories | Fatemi | Selected hot topics in medical biophysics. |
| Jul 27
(100) | Walter F. Mangel, Ph.D.
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY | Pang | New paradigms for virion maturation: Proteinase activation, then one-dimensional diffusion along DNA on a molecular sled. |
| Aug 3
(58) | Corey Smith, Ph.D.
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH | Romero | Regulation of the mode of exocytosis in adrenal chromaffin cells. |
| Aug 10
(58) | Kenton Sanders, Ph.D.
University of Nevada | Farrugia | Features of interstitual cells of Cajal and their function in visceral smooth muscles. |
| Aug 17 | BME Student Boot Camp: Kee-Won Lee; Mambi Madzivire; Lizette Warner | Sieck/Manduca | 3D preformed polymer/hydroxyapatite (HA) composite scaffolds with controlled microstructures for bone tissue engineering applications; Optical imaging of PAPP-A targeted nanoparticles for detection of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques; Renal tissue oxygenation in renal arteral stenosis. |
| Aug 24
(36) | Akira Kato, Ph.D.
Physiology and Biomedical Imaging | Romero-Michael | Use of Takifugu species and its genome resource on molecular physiology. |
| Aug 31 | No Seminar - Labor Day Weekend | -- | -- |
| Sep 7 | Tianhong Cui, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN | An | Self-assembled biosensors and actuators. |
| Sep 14 | Peter Raven, Ph.D.
University of North Texas Health Science Center, Forth Worth, TX | Charkoudian | Arterial baroreflex resetting during exercise. |
| Sep 21
(50) | Martin Rodriguez-Porcel, M.D.
Cardiovascular Diseases | Manduca | Imaging of cell-based therapies. |
| Sep 28
(55) | Lawrence R. Crum, Ph.D.
University of Washington, Seattle, WA | Greenleaf | Therapeutic ultrasound. |
| Oct 5
(53) | Sven Prevrhal, Ph.D.
University of California at San Francisco | McCollough | CT raw data processing - metal artifact reduction and more. |
| Oct 12
(55) | Peter Huijing, Ph.D.
University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | An | Force transmission from muscle by non-tendinous pathways: Principles and functional consequences. |
| Oct 19
(35) | LiLian Yuan, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota | Sine | Regulation of synaptic plasticity in hippocampus and cortex. |
| Oct 26
(41) | Timothy J. Mosher, M.D.
Penn State University College of Medicine | Amrami | Functional cartilage imaging: Applications in the study of human cartilage biomechanics. |
| Nov 2
(72) | Qiufu Ma, Ph.D.
Harvard University, Boston, MA | Warner | Molecular control of nociceptor neuron phenotypes and pain behaviors. |
| Nov 9
(45) | Michael Levin, Ph.D.
The Forsyth Institute, Boston, MA | Sussman | Bioelectrical controls of regeneration and embryonic development. |
| Nov 16 | Friedrich Knollmann, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | Ritman | Cardiac flat panel computed tomography. |
| Nov 23 | No Seminar - Thanksgiving Weekend | -- | -- |
| Nov 30 | John Osborn, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota | Charkoudian | Salt and hypertension: Is it all in your head? |
| Dec 7 | No BME Seminar - Please attend Research Gathering at 12:00 noon in Phillips Hall. Guest speaker is 2007 Findling Lecturer Dr. Robert Langer, MIT | Sieck | |
| Dec 14 | Peter Aronson, M.D.
Yale University | Romero-Michael | Roles of ion exchangers in renal NaC1 and oxalate excretion. |
| Dec 21 | No Seminar - Christmas Weekend | -- | -- |
| Dec 28 | No Seminar - New Year Weekend | -- | -- |
