HOSTED AT UC SANTA CRUZ, JUNE 25 TO 27

Read about the symposium in UCSC Currents
Poster awards
Program book (PDF)
Bioengineering Institute of California, hosted by the University of California

PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE SYMPOSIUM

At the wine and cheese reception on Sunday night, University Center. Photo by Kimberly Denkers. Larger view
KC and Shu Chien	the LeBoeuf Brothers jazz trio on the Lanai
At the distinguished lecturer dinner on Sunday night, University Center. Photo by Kimberly Denkers.	Stephen Fodor's talk. Photo by Kimberly Denkers.
Symposium opening—Wentai Liu, Shu Chien, and Roderic Pettigrew. Photo by Kimberly Denkers	Wentai Liu, Dean Steve Kang, Shu Chien, and Roderic Pettigrew. Photo by Kimberly Denkers
	Rick Ellinger and Wentai Liu. Photo by Kimberly Denkers

POSTER AWARDS
Three posters took top honors, winning $250 each:

#39 —A novel dual-modality MRI/PET probe
Björn Gustafsson, Susan Youens, and Angelique Louie
Department of Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis

#45—Feasibility of a percutaneous technique for repairing proximal femora with metastatic lesions
Tadashi S. Kaneko, Harry B. Skinner., and Joyce H. Keyak
Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, UC Irvine

#12—ENCODE and HapMap data in the UCSC Genome Browser
Daryl Thomas, Kate Rosenbloom, Adam Siepel, Hiram Clawson, Jim Kent, Webb Miller, David Haussler
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics, UC Santa Cruz
Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania

MORE... Read the abstracts in the program book (PDF)

HONORABLE MENTION POSTERS

#15—One pulse – one spike: A technique for precise temporal control of retinal spiking elicited by prosthetic devices
Shelley Fried, Hain-Ann Hsueh, Frank Werblin
UC Berkeley

#19—Window chamber for study of tissue glucose sensors
Jared Goor and David Gough
Department of Bioengineering, UC San Diego

#23—Laser-activated shape memory polymer thrombus retrieval device for ischemic stroke treatment
Ward Small IV, Thomas S. Wilson, William J. Benett, Jeffrey M. Loge, and Duncan J. Maitland
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

#26—Fabrication of microarray sensors using a temperature-responsive elastin fusion protein for simultaneous detection of multiple tumor markers
Di Gao, Nicole McBean, Jerome S. Schultz, Ashok Mulchandani, Wilfred Chen
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, UC Riverside

#35—3D MRSI of brain tumors at 3 Tesla using an 8-channel phased array head coil
Joseph A. Osorio, Esin Ozturk, Duan Xu, Soonmee Cha, Susan Chang, Mitchel S. Berger, Daniel Vigneron, and Sarah J. Nelson
UCSF/UCB Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, Department of Radiology, and Department of Neurological Surgery, UC San Francisco

#54—Whole-cell kinetic model of Fc/FcRn binding and trafficking
Victor Z. Sun and Daniel T. Kamei
Biomedical Engineering Interdepartmental Program and Department of Bioengineering, UC Los Angeles

#57—Development of FRET-hybrid assay for screening protein-protein interactions
Xia You and Patrick S Daugherty
Department of Chemical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara