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College of Engineering and Science Fair
Location: Engineering Quad
Details: College of Engineering and Applied Sciences students, faculty and staff meet over a great barbecue to launch the new academic year. All are welcome to attend and learn more about the College, our student organizations and other opportunities.
The Role of Biomacromolecular Complexes in Fracture and Turnover of Bone's Extracellular Matrix
Location: Atkins Learning Center, Level 4, Stony Brook Medical Center
Speaker: Deepak Vashishth, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Details: BME Seminar Series 2009-2010
Student versus Faculty Soccer Game
Location: Field near the football stadium
Details: The Biomedical Engineering Society will be hosting a student versus faculty soccer game. The game will be played on the field near the football stadium. There will be free food and drinks provided. Hopefully the staff comes out and plays this time, unless they are still too scared. So come on out and enjoy some soccer and food. We hope to see you there!
Lack of Metal in Mouse Plaques Points to a Link in Neurodegeneration in Human Alzheimer’s Disease
Location: Wang Center Theatre
Speaker: Andreana Leskovjan, Ph.D. Student, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Brookhaven National Laboratory
Details: Provost’s Graduate Student Mini-Symposium
Advised by Lisa Miller, Biophysical Chemist, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Leskovjan examined the zinc, iron, copper, and calcium distribution in a transgenic mouse model representing end-stage Alzheimer’s disease and compared them to plaques in human Alzheimer’s disease. She found that the mouse plaques contained only a 29 percent increase in zinc and there was actually less copper, iron, and calcium in the plaque compared to the surrounding tissue. These findings were in stark contrast to the high metal content observed in human plaques, further implicating the role of metal ions in human Alzheimer’s pathology.