To ensure you receive your BNC Weekly Memo e-mails, please add bnc-all@ecn.purdue.edu to your address book. Current issue is at http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/Nanotechnology/mondaymemo.html BNC News January 26, 2009 ANNOUNCEMENTS SAVE THE DATE: 3rd Annual Birck Nanotechnology Center RESEARCH REVIEW will be held on Arpil 6, 2009. Specific details to follow. POSTER SESSION will be included [More] Please read this if you did not attend one of the all-user meetings this week! If you attended an all-user meeting, thank you for your participation! Make-up Sessions: Monday Jan 26, 2009 3:30 – 5:00 PM BMED 2001 Tuesday, Jan 27, 2009 3:30 - 5:00 PM MRGN 121 Please remember that you will need your Birck ID, and must arrive prior to the 3:30 PM start time of the meeting. If you do not attend a makeup session, please use the following procedure to have your laboratory and/or cleanroom access restored: · Download the presentation from nano.purdue.edu · Meet with your major professor and review all of the material in the presentation · Obtain Documentation to Demonstrate Receipt of Required Training from Mary Jo Totten or Nancy Black · Complete this document and return to Mary Jo Totten with required signatures. · Access to cleanroom and laboratories will be restored. *IMPORTANT NOTE: This document ensures that training required by law has been performed. Falsification of the information on this document could subject the user and/or major professor to civil or criminal liability. ________________________________ TOURS/VISITORS Wednesday, 01.28.09, 10:30AM-4:30PM: EAFIT University, Colombia. Meetings with NCN and Birck. ________________________________ SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS The 2009 Electronic Materials Conference and the 2009 Device Research Conference will be held back-to-back at Penn State University, June 22-26. Abstracts for EMC are due January 31st, 2009. See the following website for details: http://www.tms.org/Meetings/Specialty/emc09/home.html. The abstract deadline for DRC has not yet been announced. The conference website is: http://drc.ee.psu.edu/. Friday, 01.30.09, 11:30AM, BRK 1001: "Probing Nanoscale Mechanical Properties of Heterostructured Polymeric Materials," by Gregory Meyers, Dow Chemical Company; a Purdue Scanning Probe Microscopy Users Group Seminar; everyone is invited. FREE PIZZA PROVIDED AT 11:30AM; TALK BEGINS AT NOON.[More] Friday, 01.30.09, 3:30PM, LILY 1-117: "A Rice SPX1 Domain Protein, OsSPX1, Acts as a Negative Regulator of Pi-starvation Signaling in Plants," by Dr. Huixia (Sylvia) Shou, Professor and Head, Department of Biotechnology; Associate Director, Plant Science; Institute Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. [More] ________________________________ OPPORTUNITIES Research Assistant Professor Position Openings: University of Notre Dame; Center for Nano Science and Technology. [More] Post Doctoral Research Positions; Department of Electrical Engineering, Minwest Institute for Nanoelectronics Discovery (MIND), University of Notre Dame. [More] ________________________________ LIFE ON THE OUTSIDE Event: Serenity Hospice Foundation Golf Outing "Please support our work with the terminally ill." What: Fundraiser Host: Janessa Drake Start Time: Saturday, May 16 at 9:30am End Time: Saturday, May 16 at 4:00pm Where: The Elks To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below: http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=118468515789 DON'T FORGET THE FOOD DRIVE! [More] ________________________________ BNC In the News Nano-tetherball biosensor precisely detects glucose Researchers have created a precise biosensor for detecting blood glucose and potentially many other biological molecules by using hollow structures called single-wall carbon nanotubes anchored to gold-coated "nanocubes." The device resembles a tiny cube-shaped tetherball. Each tetherball is a sensor and is anchored to electronic circuitry by a nanotube, which acts as both a tether and ultrathin wire to conduct electrical signals, said Timothy Fisher, a Purdue University professor of mechanical engineering. [Read More] New stretchable electrodes created to study stresses on cardiac cells Engineers at Purdue and Stanford universities have created stretchable electrodes to study how cardiac muscle cells, neurons and other cells react to mechanical stresses from heart attacks, traumatic brain injuries and other diseases. The devices are made by injecting a liquid alloy made of indium and gallium into thin microchannels between two sheets of a plastic polymer, said Babak Ziaie, a Purdue associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. [Read More] ________________________________ Submit items for memo of February 2, 2009 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY, 01.30.09, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi@purdue.edu ________________________________ Other BNC info: Purdue Home Page BNC Home Page BNC Users Forum Links to Discovery Park Centers Bindley Bioscience Center e-Enterprise Center Burton D. 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