From: Tanner, Catherine A Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 8:20 AM Subject: Save the Date and Student Poster Presentation Call-out This announcement is being forwarded to the Discovery Park e-list at the request of Kathy Beaver, Assistant Director of the Bindley Bioscience Center. ______________________ Bindley Bioscience Center at Discovery Park and the Purdue University Physiological Sensing Facility present the 1st Annual Physiological Sensing Symposium: "Advances in Physiological Sensing: New Technology to Explore Form and Function in Biological Systems" Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship -- Room 121 To REGISTER: http://www.purdue.edu/dp/bbc/psfsymp/ Keynote Address: "Ceramic-Based Microelectrode Arrays for Neurochemical Measures in the CNS of Laboratory Animals and Humans" Greg A. Gerhardt, Ph.D., Professor Anatomy & Neurobiology, Neurology and Psychiatry; Director, Morris K. Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Center of Excellence; Director, Center for Sensor Technology; Co-Editor-in-Chief, Americas and Australasia, Journal of Neuroscience Methods Science is a process that seeks to understand the natural world. These processes of discovery and conceptualization involve the development of hypotheses and theories based on observation and experimentation. In biology, revolutionary changes have most often been catalyzed by new tools and technologies that have been developed and used in the scientific method. Examples include the development of: 1) nuclear chemistry and radioisotope tracing for dissecting the major metabolic pathways in the 1940-1950s; 2) electron microscopy for imaging cytoplasm and membrane structure in the 1960-1970s; and 3) molecular biotechnology and the explosion in the study of molecular biology and genetics that emerged in the 1980s. Because of these advances, research is now moving into an era dominated by new disciplines, including bioinformatics, cytomics, genomics, ionomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, to name a few. These emerging fields are based on advancing technologies and are providing more and more information that now needs to be integrated into understanding broader relationships. Because of this, the attention of researchers is returning to integration in terms of form and function in biosystems. This neo-physiological approach will, in turn, be dependent upon the development and application of physiological sensor technologies that are multidimensional and dynamic. This revolution has already begun and includes work in biosensors, biomaterials, scanning probe microsensors, biomimetics, and lab-on-a-chip technologies (BioMEMS, and microfluidics). This symposium seeks to provide a framework for this emerging field by bringing together researchers to share ideas from across this interdisciplinary domain. Registration Requested: www.purdue.edu/bbc/psfsymp/ or Call 496-1464 Sponsors: Applicable Electronics, Inc. Bioanalytical Systems, Inc. If you have any questions, please contact: Kathy Beaver, MS, RN Assistant Director Bindley Bioscience Center Purdue University 1203 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907 765-496-1464 kbeaver@purdue.edu www.purdue.edu/bbc