Professor Ronald Hanson has been an international leader in the development of laser-based diagnostic methods for combustion and propulsion, and in the development of modern shock tube methods for accurate determination of chemical reaction rate parameters needed for modeling combustion and propulsion systems. He and his students have made several pioneering contributions that have impacted the pace of propulsion research and development worldwide.
Dr. Ariagno is Professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus at Stanford University School of Medicine in the Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine. He has been on the faculty at Stanford University since 1975. He received his medical degree from University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago and pediatric training at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Hospital in Chicago. His neonatology fellowship was at the University of California San Francisco and Children’s Hospital of San Francisco under Dr. June Brady (1973-75).
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Christopher Jacobs
Talk Title: Adenylyl Cyclase 6 Mediates Primary Cilia-Regulated Decreases in cAMP in Bone Cells Exposed to Dynamic Fluid Flow
Event: 2008 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
Dr. Ron Davis's group is using Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Human to conduct whole genome analysis projects. The yeast genome sequence has approximately 6,000 genes. They have made a set of haploid and diploid strains (21,000) containing a complete deletion of each gene. In order to facilitate whole genome analysis each deletion is molecularly tagged with a unique 20-mer DNA sequence. This sequence acts as a molecular bar code and makes it easy to identify the presence of each deletion.
