Bio-X Seed Grants Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium - August 25, 2010

Symposium Program:

• Tirin Moore, Professor of Neurobiology & Kalanit Grill-Spector, Professor of Psychology
  • "Functional Neuroimaging of Attention Networks"
• Sandip Biswal, Professor of Radiology
  • "Sodium Ion Channel-Selective Toxins as Tools for Imaging Pain Generators"
• Julie Baker, Professor of Genetics
  • "Trophoblast Evolution and Implications for Human Pregnancy"
• Peter Pinsky, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
  • "Connective Tissue Elasticity: Bridging the scales between Chemical Morphology and Engineering Models"
• Daniel Palanker, Professor of Opthamology
  • "Optoelectronic Retinal Prosthesis"
• Eric Kool, Professor of Chemistry & Phillip Barbeau, Professor of Physics
  • "A New Approach to Scintigraphic Biomedical Imaging"
• Brian Kobilka, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
  • "High-Affinity, Highly Specific Peptoid Antagonists for G-Protein Coupled Receptors"
• Stephen Skirboll, Professor of Neurosurgery
  • "The Colony-Forming Antibody Cell Array: A Novel Screening Strategy to Identify Cancer Stem Cells in Human Malignant Gliomas and Other Cancers"