Bioengineering Day, April 11th 2008

 

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A Brief History of the Event

The 1st Annual Bioengineering Quiz Bowl, founded by UCSD Bioengineering undergraduate Anish Jina, took place on April 7th, 2006. This event began a tradition in the UCSD Department of Bioengineering to recognize and celebrate the achievements of the bioengineering community.

Since then this tradition has expanded into Bioengineering Day, a full-day of events consisting of a bioengineering poster exposition, alumni and industry panels, keynote speeches by distinguished alumni, and, of course, the Bioengineering Quiz Bowl. In 2007 UCSD BMES hosted the first annual Bioengineering Day.

Bioengineering Day 2008

The 2nd Annual Bioengineering Day promises to be even more fulfilling. The idea behind this year’s Bioengineering Day is to focus upon bioengineering as an interdisciplinary field that represents the synthesis of myriad areas of study as well as the many career possibilities associated with a bioengineering background. We hope to establish diversity in engineering by involving individuals of various related expertise and by interacting with those who have overstepped the traditional boundaries of bioengineering.

Events

- Networking Workshop

- Keynote Lectures

- Bioengineering Panel Discussion

- Industry Presentations and Reception

- Student Poster Expo

- Bioengineering Quiz Bowl

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Schedule & Map

10:00a-end Registration & poster set-up (Cal-it2 lobby)

12:00p-1:00p Networking workshop (Cal-it2 Auditorium)

1:00p-1:45p Opening Remarks & Academic Keynote (Cal-it2 Auditorium)

2:00p-3:00p Panel Discussion (Cal-it2 Auditorium)

3:00p-3:30p Industry Keynote (Cal-it2 Auditorium)

3:30p-4:30p Company Presentations (Fung Auditorium)

3:30p-6:30p Industry Reception & Dinner (Engineering Courtyard)

5:30p-6:30p Poster presentations (Cal-it2 lobby)

6:30p-8:00p Bioengineering Quiz Bowl & Award Ceremony (Cal-it2 Auditorium)

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Poster Expo

BMES will be hosting a poster session and competition in conjunction with Bioengineering Day highlighting undergraduate student research, and we are looking for poster submissions. Any students performing research are encouraged to submit their projects. The posters will be judged by faculty members and industry representatives.

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3rd Annual Bioengineering Quiz Bowl

The Bioengineering Quiz Bowl is an academic competition for bioengineers to show off their diverse knowledge and is the culminating event of the 2nd Annual Bioengineering Day. To be eligible for competition in the Quiz Bowl, bioengineering undergraduates must form a team of four members and take a qualification test. The four teams with the highest scores on the test will face off against each other in the 3rd Annual BQB, an elimination-style tournament. The team that is able to beat all the other student teams will have the opportunity to challenge a special team comprised of an industry representative, bioengineering faculty, grad student and alumni.

Thank you to all those who participated in the preliminary round, and congratulations to those that will be officially competing in the BQB!

—BENGers: Michael Salvatore, Arun Ganti, Vic Constaninescu, Kunal Sukhija

—I like pie: Manasa Gadde, Priya Sundaramurthy, Caryn Ubanczyk, Muthu Annaamalai

—MADA: Alvin Chao, David Lau, Michael Wong, Holim Fung

—Power Stroke: Jonathan Lin, Espoir Kyubwa, Michelle Jue, Meena Siddiqui

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Networking Workshop

The networking workshop will serve as an outlet for students to develop interpersonal skills. Students will work on developing effective networking skills as well as professionalism.

Handshakes, Eye Contact & Small Talk: How to Network Effectively as a Student at Social and Professional Functions.

If you feel uncomfortable networking at conferences, professional meetings or job networking events, this interactive session is for you! This fun and practical workshop uses role-play to provide useful strategies and etiquette on how to enter and exit conversations, engage in small talk, and speak about your academic, research and career interests with colleagues in your professional community.

Naledi Saul has been providing career-related counseling and programming to students and scholars for more than a decade. Currently, she serves as the Associate Director of the Office of Career and Professional Development at the University of California, San Francisco, where she advises graduate and professional school students, and postdoctoral scholars, on a wide variety of topics related to careers in the biomedical and health sciences. Her particular expertise includes working with health professionals pursuing domestic and international careers in the public health arena. She has also previously served as an Advisor to the Career Forum at Science magazine’s online resource, Sciencecareers.org. Ms. Saul’s previous professional experience includes serving as the Assistant Dean of Students and Assistant Director of the Career Center at Amherst

College, and as an Assistant Director of the Career Development Center at Mount Holyoke College. She holds a Master of Public Management degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Spelman College (http://www.faseb.org/====================

Keynote Speakers

Academic

Dr. Ghassan Kassab received his BS (Chemical Engineering), MS (Engineering Sciences) and PhD (Bioengineering) from the University of California, San Diego. He is currently the Thomas J. Linnemeier Guidant Foundation Chair and Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Indiana-Purdue University Indianapolis. Dr. Kassab is the recipient of the NIH Young Investigator Award and the AHA Established Investigator Award. He is also a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and the American Physiological Society (Cardiovascular section). He serves on the Editorial Board of American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology and has previously served as an Associate Editor of Mechanics and Chemistry of Biosystems. Dr. Kassab has published over one hundred peer-reviewed full articles and his current scientific interests encompass the biomechanics of the coronary circulation (in health and disease) and medical devices.Industry

Dr. Ann Lee-Karlon currently serves as a Director of Product Portfolio Management at Genentech. She leads a product development team that is responsible for the life cycle strategy and development of anti-CD20 therapies (Rituxan and second generation anti-CD20) for autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and multiple sclerosis. Prior to Genentech, Ann worked in venture development at Eli Lilly. She has also worked previously at a biotech in La Jolla (ATS), at Pfizer in New York, and at UBS Investment Bank in London. Ann holds an MBA from Stanford University and a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego, where she was a National Science Foundation Fellow. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University College London as an NSF International Research Fellow.

 

 

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Panel Discussion

Dr. Jeff Omens (Moderator) is currently a Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering here at UC San Diego, and also a Principal Investigator in the Cardiac Mechanics Research Group. He completed all of his higher education here at UCSD, earning his B.S. in Applied Mechanics in 1983, his M.S. in Bioengineering in 1985, and his Ph.D in Bioengineering in 1988. His post-doctoral work was completed in 1991 in Cardiovascular Physiology.

 

 

Ms. Lisa Chin is currently a Biopharmaceutical Development Engineer in the Cell Culture Development group at Biogen Idec, where she has worked since 2003. Her responsibilities include small-scale development of mammalian cell culture biopharmaceutical processes, scale-up and technology transfer into manufacturing, and manufacturing support. Prior to working at Biogen Idec, Ms. Chin was a Research Associate in the Cartilage Research Group at Advanced Tissue Sciences. She graduated from UCSD in 2001 with a BS in Bioengineering: Biotechnology and returned to complete an MEng in Bioengineering in 2003.

Mr. Marc Fenster is a partner at Russ, August & Kabat, where he specializes in intellectual property and litigation, with an emphasis on high-technology patent litigation. Mr. Fenster received his B.S. (1991) and M.S. (1992) degrees in Bio-Engineering from the University of California at San Diego. He received his J.D. (1995) from the University of California at Los Angeles and is a member of the State Bar of California. Marc lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Jin, and their two daughters, Maddie (6) and Dani (2).

Mr. Rey Halili graduated from UCSD in 1994 with a B.S. in Bioengineering (ABET) and returned to complete his Masters in Engineering in Bioengineering in 2004. He has worked in Dr. Robert Sah’s Cartiledge Tissue Engineering Lab, as well as larger industrial firms such as Medtronic, TheraCardia, Inc., and CryoCor, Inc. As an experienced design engineer and project leader, Mr. Halili is currently the Associate Director in charge of Product Presentation Engineering at Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. To date, he has established and presently manages an engineering group within the Product Development Department that has internal capabilities to design, test, prototype, and develop drug delivery devices.

Dr. Iman Famili, is the Associate Director of Computational Modeling at Genomatica, Inc. She is a co-author of 14 scientific articles in the area of quantitative biology, systems biology, and bioinformatics Her contributions include the reconstruction of the first genome-scale metabolic model of a eukaryote, S. cerevisiae, and the first reconstruction of a multi-cellular metabolic model for human adipocyte and myocyte. She was the recipient of the first prize for the Association for Women in Science Graduate Fellowship, San Diego Chapter in 2003, Phi Beta Kappa Graduate Fellowship in 2001, the Whitaker Foundation Graduate Fellowship in 1999, and San Diego Fellowship Award in 1998. She received her doctorate degree in Bioengineering with specialization in Bioinformatics from the University of California, San Diego, in 2004.

Sadaf Soleymani received her BS in Bioengineering from University of California San Diego. Following graduation, she joined Ablation Frontiers, a startup medical device company focusing on a novel treatment for Atrial Fibrillation. She began her work a pre-clinical engineer, and in January of 2007 joined the research and development (R&D) team. The T-VAC Catheter which Sadaf worked on is currently CE marked and available for sale in Europe.

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Registration Information

Registration is now closed.

Sponsorship Information

The following link is a PDF of our sponsorship packet, all inquiries on sponsorship should be directed to Stephanie Fan (s1fan@ucsd.edu).

BEDay Sponsorship Packet 2008