September 5, 2024
EMBS Distinguished Lecture: How is the human
brain reprogrammed in Alzheimer's Disease?
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM MT
Speaker:
Dr. Shankar Subramaniam
Register at: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/431942
Metrics of cognition such as dementia provide
the first clues to neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s
disease. What are the early events that presage the onset of
dementia? How is the brain reprogrammed in Alzheimer’s disease?
Is there a hope of reversing Alzheimer’s disease? Do other
neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s and Huntington’s
show similar reprogramming? Do mechanisms of reprogramming offer
a strategy for drug screening? Can we develop human brain models
for AD? This talk will address these issues from molecular and
cellular perspectives.
About
the speaker: Shankar Subramaniam is a
Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering, Computer Science
and Engineering, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Computer
Science and Engineering and Nano Engineering at the University
of California at San Diego. He was the Chair of the
Bioengineering Department at the University of California at
San Diego (2008-13). He holds the inaugural Joan and Irwin
Jacobs Endowed Chair in Bioengineering and Systems Biology. He
was the Founding Director of the Bioinformatics Graduate
Program at the University of California at San Diego. Prior to
moving to UC San Diego, Dr. Subramaniam was a Professor of
Biophysics, Biochemistry, Molecular and Integrative
Physiology, Chemical Engineering and Electrical and Computer
Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(UIUC).
In 2023, he was elected
as a Fellow of IEEE. In 2020 he was elected as a Fellow of
IAMBE and in 2013 he was elected as a Fellow of AAAS. In 2002
he received the Genome Technology All Star Award. He is a
fellow of the AIMBE and is a recipient of Smithsonian
Foundation and Association of Laboratory Automation Awards and
his research work is described below. In 2019 he was elected
as the diamond jubilee distinguished alumni by the Indian
Institute of Technology Kanpur. In 2008 he was awarded the
Faculty Excellence in Research Award at the University of
California at San Diego. In 2011 he was appointed as a
Distinguished Scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
In 2019 he was awarded the diamond jubilee Distinguished
Alumni Award by the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He
has served on the External Advisory Boards for several
Bio/Biomedical Engineering Departments including Johns Hopkins
U., Case Western Reserve U., U. Penn, Rice U., and UT Austin.
He is currently an overseas advisor for the Department of
Biotechnology of the Government of India. In 2012, he was
elected as the Chair of the College of Fellows of AIMBE. He
also serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Janssen
Pharmaceuticals (the research arm of Johnson and Johnson). He
has served on the Scientific Councils of NIGMS and NHGRI (NIH
Institutes) and as a Chair of three distinct study sections at
the National Institutes of Health. Subramaniam has graduated
over 80 Ph.D. students who occupy leading academic and
industrial positions. He has trained over 100 postdoctoral
researchers. His research is funded by the National Institutes
of Health, National Science Foundation, the Wellcome Trust,
and the Chen Foundation.
Subramaniam's innovative
work has major impact on research and development in academia
and industry by allowing the synthesis of complex biological
and medical information from genes and molecules into
integrated knowledge at cellular and system levels, thus
providing important basis for drug discovery and innovation.
He was a pioneer in bioinformatics with his development of the
Biology Workbench, the first of its kind in web based
infrastructures. He has fostered training and research in
systems biology and bioinformatics at the national level,
serving on the NIH Director’s Advisory Committee on
Bioinformatics and played a key role in the formulation of the
NIH Director’s Roadmap which places a major emphasis on the
use of quantitative approaches of engineering to biomedical
research in health and disease. He has been instrumental in
raising national awareness of the roles of these engineering
approaches to biomedical research. He founded the UCSD
Bioinformatics program and was Chair of the nationally
top-ranked bioengineering program from 2008-2013. Subramaniam
has collaborated with colleagues in clinical medicine to
elucidate the molecular and genomic basis of the pathogenesis
of diabetes, inflammation, atherosclerosis, and myopathies by
using modern approaches of systems biology and bioinformatics
to analyze physiological and pathophysiological data, leading
to the development of novel therapeutic measures and drug
discovery.
Subramaniam has made
innovative contributions at the interface of engineering and
medicine. In addition to inventing new methods for analysis of
complex systems, he pioneered a novel technology for RNA
sequencing with the smallest quantities of RNA leading to our
ability to analyze human tissues at the microscale. His
contributions to models of human disease are wide and profound
and have strong implications for precision and personalized
systems medicine.
Presented by: IEEE Southern Alberta
Section Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society(EMBS)
September 19, 2024
My adventures with the X-15 Rocket Plane
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Cal Lutheran
Center for Entrepreneurship (Hub101), Westlake Village, CA
Speaker:
Dr. Michelle Evans
Register at: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/429273
What does it take to
write a book? Some authors will tell you it is easy, that the
story just pours out from their brain to the page. Others will
tell a much different story, especially when it comes to
writing non-fiction aerospace history, such as the task I
created for myself. However, it was a task I enjoyed from
beginning to end. I consider it an adventure to have been able
to write my book “The X-15 Rocket Plane, Flying the First
Wings into Space.” It is an adventure that has spanned
decades, and is still going on today.
In this presentation, I share my personal
journey that started in kindergarten with the idea of someday
becoming an author, then my father
taking me on field trips to Edwards AFB, which gave me a
first-hand look at the X-15, which, in turn, led to my
fascination with this amazing, innovative, and consequential
aircraft. It took decades before I put it all together to
understand that this was the perfect subject for the book I
wanted to write. From there it took 30 more years of
interviews, research, and writing to get to the completed
manuscript, yet even then my journey was just beginning. Today
I travel the world and speak about the X-15, and tell the
stories about not only the rocket plane itself, but all the
people who made it the highest and fastest, as well as the
most successful, research aircraft to ever take to the skies.
Come and share this adventure with me.
About
the speaker: Michelle Evans is the founder of
Mach 25 Media (www.Mach25Media.com)
and is a writer, photographer, and communications specialist
in aerospace. She has written the bestselling book “The X-15
Rocket Plane, Flying the First Wings into Space” which was
published by the University of Nebraska Press as part of their
“Outward Odyssey, People's History of Spaceflight” series.
Michelle's background in aerospace engineering includes
serving in the US Air Force working on missile systems, and
later in private industry accomplishing environmental testing
for systems used in airliners and spacecraft. She has
accomplished extensive outreach activities on space
exploration at science centers, museums, and other venues.
This has often involved working closely with astronauts and
others involved with the space program. Her current work
primarily involves exciting audiences about the X-15 research
aircraft at locations across the country, as well as overseas.
Michelle is a Distinguished Speaker with the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and her book on the
X-15 was a finalist for the Eugene M. Emme Award for
Astronautical Literature. Michelle received the Diverse
Community Leader Award from Orange County Human Relations, and
was recognized on the Orange County Register’s list of the 100
Most Influential People in Orange County. She has appeared in
numerous publications, including Air & Space Smithsonian,
Ad Astra, Orange County Register, Los Angeles Times, and New
York Times. Michelle had feature stories about her life in
both Time and Newsweek magazines. She was a technical
consultant on the Neil Armstrong biopic “First Man,” and has
consulted with National Geographic television for “The Real
Right Stuff.”
Presented by: IEEE
Buenaventura Section Aerospace and
Electronic Systems Society
Volunteers
Needed: FIRST Lego League Robotics Tournament
Once again IEEE
Buenaventura Section is supporting middle school robotics by
sponsoring the annual FIRST Lego League Robotics Tournament.
The tournament will be on Saturday, November 2, at the
Ventura County Office of Education Conference Center in
Camarillo. Teams of young robot enthusiasts that will compete
for a chance to go to the regional tournament. The IEEE has
been generous in its support over many years both financially
and in providing volunteers. It is a lot of fun and you will
be greatly impressed with what these young people accomplish
and their enthusiasm.
If you are available to volunteer from 8
AM to 4 PM we can definitely use you in a variety of rolls
from assisting judges, monitoring the games, and other jobs.
Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
Planning for the event has
already started. Please E-mail Deron Johnson and the
planning team at fll-2024@ieee-bv.org
to volunteer or ask questions. Feel free to pass this on to
anyone you think might enjoy volunteering!
Presented by: For
Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST),
and IEEE Buenaventura Section
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