"Nature Inspired Materials Science" Presented by: Dr. Michael Rubner, TDK Professor of Polymer Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Time: 11:00 AM Location: 421 Aubert Hall
"Dancing with the Bugs: Choreography for Humans and their Microbial Partners” Lecture by Amy Cheng Vollmer, Visiting Phi Beta Kappa Scholar From the perspective of a typical bacterium or virus, the human body is a perfect incubator: constant temperature, filled with nutrients, bathed in moisture! So why are we still around? How do bacteria sense […]
Dr. D. Allan Butterfield of the University of Kentucky Chemistry Department for a special presentation entitled: OXIDATIVE STRESS AND THE PROGRESSION OF ALZHEIMER DISEASE: THE TRIANGLE OF DEATH FOR NEURONS ASSOCIATED WITH GLUCOSE DYSMETABOLISM, mTOR ACTIVATION, and ALTERED PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION REVEALED BY PROTEOMICS Alzheimer disease (AD), a multifactorial neurodegenerative disorder that represents one of the […]
