[bioundgrd] Distinguished Lecture Series - Wednesday @ 6:30pm

[Rachel McPherson]

Dear Rachel,

I am the co-Vice President of Special Programs in MIT's Biomedical 
Engineering Society.  We have a Distinguished Lecture Series every 
month where we invite a faculty member or a scientist from a local 
biomedical engineering company to talk to students about their 
research.  This month, Professor Voldman, a NBX Assistant Professor 
of EECS at MIT, has kindly agreed to present his research on 
manipulating and measuring cells.  I believe that this is a great way 
for students to get to know the fascinating research occurring on 
campus and for biology students to see how Biology can be integrated 
into other fields such as engineering.  If you have time, please 
forward the following segment on the lecture to the students in 
Course 7.  Thanks in advance,

Chensi Ouyang
co-Vice President of BMES



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Dear Course 7 students,

MIT Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) cordially invites you to 
attend our Distinguished Lecture Series on November 16th.

Our Distinguished Speaker will be Dr. Joel Voldman, a NBX Assistant 
Professor of the MIT EECS Department.  This is a great way to learn 
about the exciting research that is going on in the Institute. 
Refreshments will be served before the talk; so come nibble on a 
cookie, sip coffee, relax and listen to a wonderful speaker!

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November 16, 2005.
Refreshments at 6:30 pm.
Lecture at 7:00 pm.
Room 66-110.
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Microsystems for measuring and manipulating cells

Joel Voldman, Ph.D.
NBX Assistant Professor of EECS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
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About the Speaker:

Joel Voldman received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from 
the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1995.  He received the 
M.S and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, in 1997 and 2001, 
developing bioMEMS for single-cell analysis.  Following this, he was 
a postdoctoral associate in George Church's lab at Harvard Medical 
School, where he studied developmental biology.  He is currently an 
Assistant Professor in EECS, where his research focuses on developing 
microtechnology for manipulating and measuring cells.

About the Lecture:

As cell biology moves to a more quantitative science, there has been 
an increasing need for new methods to study and manipulate individual 
cells and cell assemblies.  These methods allow the acquisition of 
new kinds of biological information that directly lead to new 
insights into how cells work.  This talk will describe our research 
in developing microtechnologies that allow us to measure and 
manipulate cells for both basic biology and biotechnology.  Our 
research focuses on two technologies: dielectrophoresis, which acts 
as electrical "tweezers" for cells, and microfluidics, which we use 
to control the cell microenvironment.  In this talk I will describe 
how we have combined these two technologies to create systems for 
studying stem cell biology, for creating platforms that can sort 
cells based upon dynamic and visual information, and for electrically 
concentrating and separating cells.
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co-sponsored by the IEEE EMBS, Boston Chapter.
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