News at BME
November 20, 2009
BME Students Receive Certifications of Certified LabVIEW Associated Developer
BME students Austin Chang, Daniel Hwang, Robert Kimmerling, Xuan Liang, Basil Mathai, Han Yuen Oon, Erica Palma, Michael Scheid, Richard Striebel, Ada Tsoi, Antonio Wong, Robbin Yeh and Ting Ting Zhang have successfully passed the certification exam for Certified LabVIEW Associated Developer (CLAD) hosted by National Instruments. This certification will benefit the students in their future career development. This program is jointly sponsored by the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Stony Brook University and the LabVIEW academy of National Instruments.
The students attending the course Bioinstrumentation (BME313) took the certification exam with the pass rate 57%. Prof. Wei Lin is the instructor of BME313 and teaches bioinstrumentation concepts and the design of medical instrument using the cutting edge technology. LabVIEW is one of the key components of the course.
National Instruments (NI) is the world leader in measurement and automation technology. LabVIEW by NI has revolutionized the development of measurement and control applications that make the cutting edge technology available to engineers and scientist regardless of their background. LabVIEW academy is the education program that provides LabVIEW curriculum package to academic institutions.
November 18, 2009
BME faculty elected as AIMBE fellow
Professor Danny Bluestein from the BME department was elected into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering's (AIMBE) College of Fellows. He will be inducted at a ceremony that will be held in Washington, DC, in February 2010. Recipients of this honor, considered one of the highest in the biomedical engineering discipline, are chosen for exceptional leadership and achievements in medical and biological engineering. The Fellows of AIMBE are elected based on their contributions that have had a major impact in biomedical devices and processes, treatment of diseases, and public policy related to all aspects of bioengineering. Prof. Bluetein’s research include optimization of prosthetic cardiovascular devices, cardiovascular disease processes, and advanced numerical simulations.
Located in Washington, DC, AIMBE is the leading advocacy group for medical and biological engineering and is comprised of some of the most important leaders in science and engineering. Founded in 1991, AIMBE has earned a reputation as a prestigious public policy leader on issues impacting the medical and biological community. AIMBE is regarded by key legislators as the preeminent voice on the subject.
October 28, 2009
BME students win multiple awards
BME students recently received multiple awards. Congratulations!
BME undergraduates kathleen Burke, emily Hutton and jacqueline secured the undergraduate research and creative activities (URECA) grants to travel to the 2009 Biomedical Engineering society (BMES) society meeting.
BME undergraduate student Emily Hutton and graduate student Danielle Green received travel awards from the Biomedical Engineering society (BMES).
October 28, 2009
BME Faculty Featured in ACS Nano Podcast
An interview with Balaji Sitharaman, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Stony Brook University, is featured in the August 2009 ACS Nano podcast.
Sitharaman was interviewed about a paper he coauthored with Mechanical Engineering Professor Jon Longtin, and graduate student Danielle Green. The article, "The Effect of Nanoparticle-Enhanced Photoacoustic Stimulation on Multipotent Marrow Stromal Cells," published in the August 2009 edition of ACS Nano. The article was chosen by its editors for its novelty, high level of interest and potential impact on future research.
You can listen to the podcast on the Web at http://pubs.acs.org/page/ancac3/audio/index.html (link below). Click on Episode 25.
ACS Nano is an international forum for comprehensive articles on synthesis, assembly, characterization, theory, and simulation of nanostructures, nanobiotechnology, nanofabrication, methods and tools for nanoscience and nanotechnology, and self- and directed-assembly. The journal serves researchers at the interfaces of chemistry, biology, materials science, physics, and engineering.
October 1, 2009
Faculty Search, Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University
The Department of Biomedical Engineering is inviting applications for an Assistant, Associate or Full Professor tenure-track faculty position in any BME area, including: Bioimaging, Cell and Molecular Bioengineering, Tissue Engineering, Biomechanics, Biosignal Processing/ Instrumentation, and Neural Engineering.
Candidates must have a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering or a related field, and a minimum of 2 years of postdoctoral experience is preferred. Outstanding candidates wishing to be considered at the Associate or Full Professor level should have active, funded research programs in their area of expertise. Candidates are expected to maintain competitive extramurally funded research programs and to excel in teaching at both graduate and undergraduate levels. The Biomedical Engineering Department has close links to the Schools of Medicine and Engineering, as well as the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the Brookhaven National Laboratory in close proximity. Please visit our website for more details (http://bme.sunysb.edu).
Qualified individuals are invited to submit a complete application including their CV, statement of research, teaching philosophy, and names/addresses of 3 or more professional references to: Yingtian Pan, Ph.D., Chair, Search Committee, Stony Brook University, HSC Level 18, Rm. 030, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8181. Applications shall be received preferably by November 15, 2009, but the position will remain open until filled.
September 30, 2009
BME Program Faculty Awarded National Medal of Science
Joanna Fowler, a senior chemist, BME program faculty, and Director of the Radiotracer Chemistry, Instrumentation and Biological Imaging Program at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, will be awarded the National Medal of Science at a White House ceremony on October 7. She is one of nine researchers named by President Barack Obama to receive the nation’s highest award for lifetime achievement in science.
Click the below link for the press release.
September 30, 2009
Dr. Danny Bluestein Joins MicroMed Science Advisory Board
MicroMed Cardiovascular announced that Danny Bluestein, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at SUNY-Stony Brook, has joined the Science Advisory Board (SAB) to provide industry expertise and guidance for the HeartAssist 5™ ventricular assist device, The Modern DeBakey VAD.
Click the link below for the press release
August 26, 2009
BME New Building Grand Opening Celebration
Dr. Samuel L. Stanley, Jr., President, Stony Brook University invites you to celebrate the Grand Opening of the Center for Biomolecular Diagnostics & Therapeutics, 25th Anniversary of the Center for Biotechnology Redesignation of the Sensor CAT
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Charles B. Wang Center Zodiac Gallery
Stony Brook University
Program to begin at 11:00 am followed by lunch
RSVP to 631.632.2302 by September 1, 2009. Click below for pdf invitation
August 25, 2009
BME Celebrates Graduate Research Day
The department of Biomedical Engineering celebrated its annual research day on 24th August 2009 showcasing the outstanding research of its graduate students.
As the only university wide BME research symposium, this event provided a way for faculty and students from BME, other departments and the Long Island area to get a perspective of the exciting cutting-edge research being performed in BME research labs . The success of Research day celebration relies on the efforts of faculty who provide time, resources and encouragement to participate.
A central part of the Celebration are oral presentations by the senior graduate students and a large all-day poster session by all graduate students where they present their work to faculty, each other and visitors. This year graduate students presented their work in the research areas of bioimaging, biomechanics, tissue engineering, bionanotechnology, medical instrumentation and biomedical modeling.
During the day long Celebration event, the venue was filled with student poster presentations and displays. The event culminated in a outdoor barbecue in the evening where all the students and faculty socialized.
Please click the below pdf link for a few pictures from the research day.
August 25, 2009
Center for Biotechnology Hosts Life Science Summit
The Department of Biomedical Engineering serves as the home for the Center for Biotechnology, one of New York’s fifteen Centers for Advanced Technology.
On September 23-24, 2009 key industry executives, leading academic scientists, entrepreneurs, and early-stage investors, will gather at the Life Sciences Summit 2009, to explore compelling business prospects, innovative product candidates, and collaborations that will pave the way for next-generation biomedical solutions.
Join the growing list of Summit delegates that will help define the future course of scientific investigation and develop novel, new approaches to prevent, diagnose and treat human disease.
Please click the link below for details.
August 19, 2009
BME research featured on CNN
CNN.com, a world leader in online news and information delivery has covered a new study by BME faculty members Lilianne Mujica-Parodi, Helmut Strey and co-workers. The CNN.com article covers their recent work published in the online journal PLoS One that reveals changes in brain activity when people are exposed to sweat from others who have been in a stressful situation. The BME Stony Brook researchers found that people may become more alert to potential threats when inhaling this "stress" sweat.
Read the article at CNN.com by following the below link.
July 30, 2009
Scent of fear puts brain in emergency mode
The smell of the sweat you produce when terrified is not only registered by the brains of others, but changes their behaviour too, according to new research conducted by BME scientists.
Click the link below for the New Scientist article which also has a link to the research article.
July 23, 2009
Nanotubes reveal breast cancer spread
A recently published paper titled "In-vivo carbon nanotube-enhanced non-invasive photoacoustic mapping of the sentinel lymph node", published in the journal Physics in Medicine and Biology paper has been chosen as a Featured Article. Featured articles from IOP Journals comprise of high-quality papers chosen by its editors and referees for their novelty, high level of interest and potential impact on future research.
This work was done as part of a ongoing collaboration between Dr. Sitharaman's lab at BME Stony Brook and Dr. Lihong Wang's lab at Washington University at St. Louis to develop molecular imaging technologies for early detection of breast cancer.
Click the link below for news article from medicalphysicsweb.org that discusses this research, and also has a link to the research paper.
July 1, 2009
BME undergraduate Gulce Nazli Dikecligil is URECA researcher of the month
The undergraduate research and creative activities (URECA) website regularly features students' perspectives on research and/or creative activities.
This month's featured student is Gulce Nazli Dikecligil, a biomedical engineering major (class of 2010) who has been mentored by Prof. Lilianne Mujica-Parodi since spring of 2007 in the Laboratory for the Study of Emotion and Cognition (LSEC). Known to her friends/colleagues as "Naz", this BME major has distinguished herself as a member of the Stony Brook University women's volleyball team (leading the NCAA Division I in aces per set) .This past summer, Naz was awarded a URECA fellowship to support her BME research with Prof. Mujica-Parodi: for an ONR-funded project investigating the neurobiology of fear and stress, Naz provided physiological subject data by participating in a tandem sky dive (summer 2007). She has also performed heart-rate variability analysis on ECG data using MATLAB-based code, done statistical analyses on complex data sets, been involved in clinical work with subjects on acute-stress protocols in a pheromone/EEG study and is first-author on two of the laboratory's manuscripts (in preparation). Her most recent project investigates "set shifting": modeling visual signal detection as a function of the net coherence of moving stimuli. Naz enjoys tutoring physics (for Athletics) and is a member of the Golden Key Honor Society and National Society of Collegiate Scholars. She plans to apply to PhD programs in the field of biopsychology/neurobiology next fall, and is from Istanbul, Turkey.
For the full interview/feature, please go to the below link