Bioengineering Industry Day 2006
On August 15 the Department of Bioengineering hosted our first Industry Liaison Day, a resounding success. Over 100 attendees from bioengineering industries, institutions and local universities attended throughout the day to hear short talks from our faculty on their current research.
The focus of the day was to increase collaboration and partnership between Berkeley Bioengineering and the local biotech industry, with the long term goals of ensuring jobs for our students, relevance for our research, and better health for the world. Bioengineering researchers presented their work and the health care advances it may produce, and enjoyed a day of disucussion and networking with local industry visitors.
The event also marked the launch of the Department's formal industry relations program, the BioEngineering Industry Partnership Program , designed to encourage university/industry collaboration.
Video recordings of the talks and discussions may be viewed at the links below (windows media player required).
Welcome - George Breslauer, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
Engineering Frontiers - A. Richard Newton, Dean, College of Engineering
Overview of Bioengineering Department - Dorian Liepmann
Strategic directions for bioengineering - Adam Arkin
Session 1: Advanced Instrumentation: Novel Sensors
Integrated quantitative medical diagnostics: iQMD - Luke Lee
New methods in magnetic resonance imaging - Steve Conolly
Discussion Session 2: Tissue Engineering
Molecular engineering of stem cell and genetic therapies - David Schaffer
Encouraging stem cells to repair old bodies - Irina Conboy
Stem Cells and nanomaterials for tissue engineering - Song Li
Discussion
Session 3: Systems Bioengineering
Genome scale functional genomics using evolutionary and structural analyses -Kimmen Sjölander
Somewhat intelligent design of cellular networks - Adam Arkin
CITRIS & Bioengineering - S. Shankar Sastry, Director Session 4: Cell Engineering
Animating cell movements: Swimming, crawling, and the cytoskeleton - Dan Fletcher
The original bioengineers: How cells fuse biochemistry and mechanics to control their structure - Sanjay Kumar
QB3 & Bioengineering - Graham Fleming, UC Berkeley Director
Session 5: Synthetic Biology: The Goal of Engineering Biology
Virotronics: Novel opportunities in bionanoscience - Seung-Wuk Lee
SYNBERC and the future of synthetic biology - Jay Keasling
Panel Discussion - Models and Strategies for Industrial Collaborations and Partnerships
Moderated by A. Richard Newton (Dean, College of Engineering)
Dorian Liepmann (Chair, Bioengineering)
Shankar Sastry (Director, CITRIS)
Julie Stein (Portfolio Manager, UC Discovery Grant)
Jack Lloyd (Chair, Bioengineering Industrial Advisory Board)
Peter Altman (Bioengineering alumnus and President, BioCardia)
Many thanks to the staff of CITRIS for their help with video and logistics. Having trouble viewing the videos or need more information? Please contact Pam Reynolds at
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