[BIC-announce] Special Seminar in Biomedical Engineering - Wednesday August 22nd at 11h / Candidate for the position of BE/BME chair

[Christophe Grova]

Dear all,

We will have a special  Biomedical Engineering Dpt seminar TOMORROW at 11h 
(Note the time change, the seminar is at 11h !)

Wednesday - August 22nd,  at 11h

Location: Room  333 Lyman Duff Building (Biomedical Engineering Dpt, 3775 
University Street).

Speaker: Pr. Dan V. Nicolau PhD Department of Electrical Engineering & 
Electronics, University of Liverpool

Pr. Nicolau  is a candidate applying for the position of the chair of the 
fusion of Biomedical Engineering and BioEngineering Departments,
so the attendance of most of you (Professors and students) is really 
expected, as it is very important for our future.

Title: Bioengineering: From Molecular to Social

Abstract:
Bioengineering is an evolving Engineering discipline that seeks to 
understand the exact mechanisms of complex biological systems; and from this 
understanding derive new solutions to existing problems with 
engineering-precision. Following the two paradigmatic approaches to 
Bioengineering, the lecture will have two parts.


First, the lecture will look at Bioengineering from the Engineering side, 
with an overview of applications of Engineering, in particular developments 
emerging from semiconductor manufacturing, for the benefit of life sciences 
and medicine, in particular regarding biomedical microdevices. These 
engineering-orientated approaches, could address the fundamentals, such as 
protein interaction with engineering surfaces; the fabrication, such as 
technologies for the patterning of biomolecules on biomedical microdevices 
surfaces; and the design, such as improving the contrast of biomolecular 
patterns, improving signal to noise ratio of biomedical microdevices.



Second, the lecture will look at Bioengineering from the Life Sciences side, 
focusing on two case studies where Biology is lending to Engineering, namely 
hybrid nanodevices using protein linear motors, such as actomyosin for 
diagnostics, drug discovery and biocomputation; and observing the behaviour 
of microorganisms in microfluidics, which leads to suggesting new space 
searching algorithms.



Finally, the lecture will end with a synthesis of the two approaches to 
Bioengineering.

A list of upcoming seminars can be found at : 
http://www.bme.mcgill.ca/seminars.html

See you there

Christophe Grova

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Christophe Grova, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering Dpt
Neurology and Neurosurgery Dpt
Montreal Neurological Institute
Centre de Recherches en Mathématiques
Biomedical Engineering Department - Room 304
McGill University
3775 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4
email : christophe.grova at mcgill.ca<mailto:christophe.grova at mcgill.ca>
tel : (514) 398 2516
fax : (514) 398 7461

web:
http://www.mni.mcgill.ca/research/gotman/members/christophe.html
http://www.bmed.mcgill.ca/
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