1. For information on the ’09 - ‘10 BTP Seminar series contact Robert Deitcher, Paul Bonthuis, or Joseph Kilroy of the Seminar Committee.  For information on the new BTP Faculty Talks series, contact Kyudam Oh.
   

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2010
January 29: Ed Botchwey (UVa Biomedical Engineering) ‘TBA’ 12:15 pm Jordan 3006 [BTP Faculty Talk]   
February 19: Chris Hall (Phillips Research) ‘TBA’ Noon [BTP Seminar Talk - Joint with BME]   
March 26:  Inchan Kwon (UVa Chemical Engineering) ‘TBA’ 12:15 pm Jordan 3006 [BTP Faculty Talk]   
April 8:  Ravi Kane (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) ‘TBA’ Noon [BTP Seminar Talk - Joint with Chem Eng)   
May 28: Michael Shirts (UVa Chemical Engineering) ‘Towards quantitative computational drug design: physics based modeling of protein ligand binding’ 12:15 pm Jordan 3006 [BTP Faculty Talk]

2009 
December 4th: James Landers (UVa Chemistry) ‘A generic microfluidic platform for ultrafast genotyping: sample-in/answer-out capabilities that revolutionarize clinical/forensic diagnostic analysis’ 12:15 pm Jordan 3006 [BTP Faculty Talk]   
Ian Ratcliffe (President and CEO, Stemgent, Cambridge MA) BTP New Students’ Dinner
4TH BTP SYMPOSIUM: 'FROM BENCH TO BEDSIDE' 5.5.09 - 5.6.09
- Randall Moorman (University of Virginia)
- Karen Fairchild (University of Virginia)
- Stephen Rich (University of Virginia)
- Matthew Stokes (Cell Signaling Technology)
- Bill Petri (University of Virginia)
- Timothy Guzi (Schering-Plough Research Institute)
- Thomas Laurell (Lund University)
- Joel Linden (University of Virginia)
- Bill Walker (University of Virginia)

2008
Tonya Kuhl (U California Davis) 'Two dimensional lipid monolayers at the air-water interface'   
James Wells (U California San Francisco) ‘Understanding and modulating cell death’
Patrick Cirano (Penn State) ‘Protein and metabolic engineering for biocatalysis’   
Milton Brown (Director, Drug Discovery Program, Georgetown U), Ed Botchwey (UVA Biomedical Engineering) BTP New Students’ Dinner

2007
Richard Casey (RMC Biosciences, Inc) 'Overview of computer-aided drug design'
Maciek Sasinowski (Incogen, Inc.) 'On the ups and downs of informatics in biotechnology'  
Mark Herzog (Executive Director, Virginia Biotechnology Assoc) BTP New Students’ Dinner

2006
Steven Nicoll (U Penn) 'Is beauty skin deep? The potential of dermal fibroblasts for connective tissue regeneration'
Helen Lu (Columbia U) 'Biological fixation of soft tissue to bone: A tissue engineered approach'
Gilda Barabino (Northeastern U) 'Cultivation of engineered cartilage in a novel wavy-walled bioreactor'
3RD BTP SYMPOSIUM: 'SYSTEMS BIOLOGY: LINKING MOLECULES IN NETWORKS TO CELLS IN TISSUES'
- Andrew McCulloch (U California San Diego) 'Experimental and modeling approaches to cardiovascular systems'
- Edwin Munro (U Washington) 'Network analysis of multicellular and tissue systems'
- Jay Keasling (U California Berkeley) 'Metabolic engineering and malaria'
- Anthony Burgard (Genomatica) 'Industrial applications of metabolic engineering'
- Isidore Rigoutsos (IBM) 'Bioinformatics and pattern discovery'
- Donald Hunt (UVa) 'Mass spectrometry techniques for proteomic analysis'
- Christopher Moskaluk (UVa) 'Microarray analysis of human cancers translated into clinically useful biomarkers'
- Joseph Nadeau (Case Western U) 'Functional genomics'
Marcel Bohmer (Phillips Research Europe) 'Monodisperse, polymer-shelled ultrasound contrast agents and drug delivery vehicles'  
George Martin (former NIA Scientific Director; Chief of Fibrogen SAB), Jay Reuben (Director, R&D of BD Diagnostic Systems) BTP New Students’ Dinner

2005
Scott Diamond (U Penn) 'Drug Discovery on a Microarray'  
David Kalergis (Co-founder and CEO, Diffusion Pharmaceuticals) BTP New Students’ Dinner

2004
Thomas Schall (ChemoCentryx Inc) 'The chemokine system in immune regulation, inflammatory disease and cancer: From discovery to the clinic'
Andreas Garcia (Georgia Institute of Technology)
2ND BTP SYMPOSIUM: 'REAL-WORLD SYSTEMS BIOLOGY: DESIGNING BETTER DRUGS AND IMPROVING TISSUE FUNCTION'
- Jennifer Elisseeff (Johns Hopkins U) 'Cartilage tissue engineering: From basic science to applications'
- Mohammad Heidaran (Wake Forest Inst. for Regenerative Medicine) 'Applications of a systems approach to biology'
- Steve Withers (UBC) 'Engineering enzymes for the synthesis of oligosaccharides'
- Brian Grinnell (Lilly Research Labs) 'The protein C pathway: A systems biology perspective'
- Jeffry Watkins (Applied Molecular Evolution) 'Optimization of proteins using directed evolution'
- Michael Betenbaugh (Johns Hopkins U) 'Glycosylation engineering for generating humanized glycoproteins in insect cells'
- Ron Herzig (Upstate Biotechnology Inc) 'RNAi: Silencing the messenger'
- Tom Roberts (Harvard Medical School) 'Developing new systems for kinase studies'

2003
Frank Malinoski (Wyeth Pharmaceuticals) 'Biopharmaceuticals beyond the bench: The buck stops here'
Steven Wiley (Pacific Northwest Nat'l Lab) 'Using a systems approach to understand EGF receptor function'
Alan Waggoner (Carnegie Melon U) 'Fluorescence detection technologies in the biotechnology industry'  
Sheridan Snyder (Founder of Genzyme, Upstate Biotech) BTP New Students’ Dinner

2002
Tony Ratcliffe (Advanced Tissue Sciences) 'Tissue engineering for repair and transplantation: Angiogenesis, vascular grafts and articular cartilage'
1ST BTP SYMPOSIUM: 'CONNECTING CELL BEHAVIORS TO MANUFACTURED THERAPEUTICS'
- George Martin (Fibrogen) 'Biotech: Today and tomorrow'
- Kam Leong (Johns Hopkins U) 'Polymeric biomaterials for tissue engineering applications'
- John Fowler (Large Scale Biology Company) 'Proteomics as a drug discovery tool and commercialization of potential drug targets'
- Eric Neumann (Beyond Genomics) 'Applied systems biology: Where is this leading the future of drug discovery?'
- Blair Okita (Genzyme Corp) 'Role of carbohydrates in protein therapeutics'
- Joel Linden (UVa) 'New advances in adenosine research'
- David Needham (Duke U) 'From soft materials to cancer treatment: The mechanochemistry of lipid vesicles with implications for drug carrier design'
- Craig Wright (Novavax Inc.) 'Systematic delivery of estradiol in symptomatic post-menopausal women after topical application of new nanoemulsion product - ESTRASORB'

2001
Susan Barker (Veridian) 'Right here, right now: Sensors and microfluidics of real-time analysis'
Gerard Karsenty (Baylor College of Med) 'The genetic analysis of osteoblast differentiation and function'
Larry Sklar (U New Mexico) 'G protein coupled receptors, molecular assembly and high throughput flow cytometry'
Ralph Schwall (Genentech) 'Migration vs proliferation in response to hepatocyte growth factor'

2000
Erik Fernandez (UVa) 'How do proteins unfold?'
Michel van der Rest (Institute for Structural Biology, France) 'Structural Biology in the Post-Genome Era'
James Eberwine (U Penn) 'Microarray analysis of single cells: Insights into neuronal functioning'
John Herr (UVa) 'Sperm proteomics'
Ron Taylor (UVa) 'Targeting of pathogens to the primate erythrocyte complement receptor: A priviledged sight'