Archive for the ‘Biology’ Category

NanoBio 2007 Day Two Speaker: Dr. Nadrian Seeman

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Dr. Nadrian Seeman received a B.S. in Biochemistry and a Ph.D. in Biological Crystallography. He has published over 200 papers. He presented a talk entitled “It’s more than the secret of life: Building with DNA”.
Seeman lamented that he is a working scientist, and therefore his work does not progress as fast as he would [...]


NanoBio 2007 Day One Speaker: Jason McCoy

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Jason McCoy is the Vice President of Global Seawater, Inc., a for-profit firm. They are developing a globalized system for agriculture and aquaculture in order to provide immediate and long lasting planetary ecological balance.
The lecture presented today was called “Greening the Deserts of Earth”. The firm explores many biotechnology approaches to global concerns. They [...]


NanoBio 2007 Day One Speaker: Dr. Behrooz Dehdashti

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Dr. Behrooz Dehdashti has a Ph.D. in Cardiovascular Biology and is currently a senior research analyst at the University of Arizona. He is working on the development of the Syncardia Total Artificial Heart.
Dehdashti said that advanced complex atherosclerotic coronary artery disease is a therapeutic challenge, poorly treated by angioplasty and bypass surgery. Many options have [...]


NanoBio 2007 Day One Speaker: Lisa Hopper

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Lisa Hopper is CEO and Founder of World Care, a non-profit organization. She has a BS in Radiology Administration and Physics from George Washington University. In 1997, she put all of her retirement savings into World Care and devoted herself full time to developing the organization.
In reference to her work in foreign countries Hopper [...]


Challenges & Opportunities: The Future of Nano & Bio Technologies – Introduction

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Image caption: Simone Syed (and Michael Anissimov of Accelerating Future) at the Nano/Bio 2007 conference.
My day:
I am very excited to be attending the Nano/Bio Conference 2007 put on by World Care and CRN (Center for Responsible Nanotechnology). I was allowed to come to this conference on scholarship after Lisa Hopper, the conferences organizer [...]


The Prokaryotic, Eukaryotic, and Archaea Kingdoms

Friday, April 23rd, 2004

I was interested to learn this morning that biologists no longer divide all life into two cellular kingdoms; they divide life into three kingdoms. When I took college biology as recently as the [...]