This
announcement is being forwarded to the
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"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
765-496-1464
kbeaver@purdue.edu
www.purdue.edu/bbc