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Friday, April 15, 2016
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BMEBT Doctoral Dissertation Defense / BMEBT Seminar by Vijay Boominathan
- Location: Textiles Building 101E
- Contact: BMEBT PHD Program
- Description: TITLE: GENETIC SIMILARITY TO HUMANS MAKE THE ZEBRAFISH AN EXCELLENT RESEARCH MODEL TO ADDRESS CELL DIFFERENTIATION, TISSUE PATTERNING, BIOCOMPATIBILITY OF NOVEL BIOMATERIALS AS WELL AS DRUG RELEASE AND TISSUE RESPONSE.
Abstract: The vertebrate animal model, the Zebrafish- Danio rerio shares a high degree of sequence and functional homology with mammals, including humans. With the development of the Zebrafish Genome project and comparison to the Human reference genome, it was discovered that this vertebrate has homologous genes to 84% of the genes existing in human diseases. Our research here focused on how the zebrafish can assist in efforts to study cell differentiation as well as to use the whole organism as an in vivo model to answer questions about novel biomaterials. In regards to early cell differentiation studies we wanted to examine the role of tbx22 in zebrafish in the hopes it can lend insight into diseases such as X-linked cleft palate with ankyloglossia syndrome, which is known to occur in humans as the result of defects in TBX22 signaling. Our goals were to determine critical promoter elements that drive a well-defined discrete domain of expression of tbx22 in zebrafish. Identification of promoter elements that allow for restricted expression may assist our efforts to delete tbx22 only in the mouth region bypassing developmental defects associated with ubiquitous tbx22 disruption throughout the whole embryo. The second goal was to work towards understanding T-box target genes to understand what genes T-box controls that assist in mouth formation. MattInspector and transcription factor (TF) binding tools were used to find potential T-binding domains on target genes in Zebrafish. The studies performed in this work will provide a foundation for our long-term goals, which include a more thorough understanding of the molecular signaling events regulating craniofacial development.
The use of Zebrafish has not limited our hands to study only within the field of molecular biology. We have successfully used the animal model to study the effect of biocompatible and biodegradable scaffolds. We have tested the effect of Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) when treated in both in-vitro and in-vivo systems. Biodegradability and biocompatibility of the scaffold materials in these systems have been studied for the change in their structural properties and their nature to support the growth of cells which is a desired quality for scaffoled for tissue engineering. We also studied the effect of drug loaded Poly(caprolactone) scaffolds and their potential as a controlled drug release system. Studies were not confined to only in-vitro assays but also extended to use the Zebrafish in-vivo animal model system. The field of biomedical applications is seeing new developments every day, testing the effect of them on to animal models. The zebrafish with its striking homology genetically and physiologically has been seen as a novel tool to study and understand complex tissue interactions.
Advisor: Dr. Tracie Ferreira, Bioengineering
Committee: Dr. Erin Bromage, Biology; Dr. Sankha Bhowmick, Mech Engr; Dr. Robert Drew, Biology; and Dr. Chris Brigham, Bioengineering
- Topical Areas: University Community, Biology, Bioengineering, College of Engineering
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Doctoral Dissertation Defense
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314
- Contact: College of Nursing & Health Sciences
- Description: Amy Bruno, PhD(c), ANP-BC
Nursing PhD Candidate
Fatigue in Parkinson's Disease
A Qualitative Descriptive Study Exploring the Individuals Perspective
Date: April 15, 2016
Time: 1pm-3pm
Location: Library, Room 314
Dissertation Committee:
Susan Hunter Revell, PhD, RN(Chair)
Deborah Armstrong, PhD
Joseph H. Friedman, MD
RSVP to Vicki Vital: vvital@umassd..edu
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community
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2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Cost: Free Admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: April 2-May 14, 2016
2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 2, 3-5 pm
Artists Talk: Thursday, AHA! Night, April 14 at 7 pm
The UMass Dartmouth 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition is a much anticipated and celebrated annual event showcasing the artwork of graduating students from the College of Visual and Performing Arts. This large-scale exhibition at the Star Store Campus in historic Downtown New Bedford consists of a wide variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, digital and moving images, software application design, as well as intricately made jewelry that utilizes both text and unusual contemporary materials. The range of themes is equally diverse; explorations of personal and cultural identity, feelings of loss, intimacy, memories and dreams as well as examinations of formal and conceptual space.
The 2016 exhibition includes the creative efforts of 18 UMass Dartmouth MFA degree candidates in the visual arts: Alec H. Andersen, Amy Araujo, Calvin Arterberry, Kendra Conn, Kelly Lynn Daniels, Yinan Dong, Meaghan Gates, Marcia Goodwin, Kyungsun "Ariel" Lee, John A. Middleton, Mark Phelan, Sara Allen Prigodich, Cuong Abel Sy, Brett Sylvia, Andrew Tedesco, William M. Vanaria, Lillian E. Webster, and Will Wolf.
An opening reception will be held on Saturday, April April 2, from 3 to 5 pm and the exhibition is open to public through May 14, 2016. Artists Talk is scheduled on Thursday, AHA! Night, April 14 at 7 pm.
Selections from this exhibition will be shown this summer at the Bromfield Gallery in Boston from June 1 to June 26, with an opening reception on Friday, June 3, 6:00 - 8:30 pm.
Gallery exhibitions are open daily in New Bedford from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month-April 14 and May 12). All events are free and open to the public.
University Art Gallery
UMass Dartmouth
715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740
umassd.edu/universityartgallery
www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Fine Arts, Visual Arts
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CORSAIR Jobs Training for Staff
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 226
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: This session will provide training in the use of the new CORSAIR Jobs system. This will be especially helpful for individuals who will be hiring students for the summer and the fall, but also for anyone who is new to using the system and would like training.
Please contact Verena Lisinski (vlisinski) x8609 with any questions.
- Topical Areas: Training, audience: Everyone
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Dystopian Fiction Book Club April meeting
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: The Dystopian Fiction Book Club will be meeting in April to discuss The Man in the High Castle , Philip K. Dick's novel that asks, what if the United States lost World War II?
By popular demand, we'll meet twice to accommodate as many interested readers as possible.
Our meeting dates for April are:
Thursday, April 14, 12pm-1pm
Friday, April 15, 2pm-3pm
Both meetings will be held in the Carney Library, Room 240.
From the publisher site:
"America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by the Japanese. But between these two states - locked in a cold war - lies a neutal buffer zone in which legendary author Hawthorne Abendsen is rumored to live. Abendsen lives in fear of his life for he has written a book in which World War Two was won by the Allies...."
Copies of The Man in the High Castle will shortly be available at the library's circulation desk.
All are welcome to join us for our final discussions of the year. Enjoy your reading!
Questions?
Contact Hilary Kraus ( hkraus@umassd.edu / 508-999-8681 )
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Claire T. Carney Library, English, Sociology, Anthropology, Crime and Justice Studies, Literature
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International Film Series
- Location: CVPA Auditorium
, CVPA-153
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Human Capital (Italy, 2015) This film is a riveting and stylish modern day morality tale of class, greed and desire. (Directed by Paolo Virzi, in Italian with English subtitles.)
CVPA Rm. 153
all films are free and shown in Rm. 153 in CVPA. The programs are hosted by Prof. Charles White of the English Department
- Topical Areas: General Public
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Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Location: Online
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for both online and blended teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for both methodologies. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop strategies in online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing and building the course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to tools that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and retention.
- Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Online+Teaching+Guide
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940)
- Location: University Art Gallery
- Cost: Free Admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940)
Date: April 12-April 30, 2016
Location: CVPA Campus Gallery, UMass Dartmouth
Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday 10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm
We might think that Linda Nochlin's famous 1988 question--Why have there been no great women artists?--is no longer applicable today. Thousands and thousands of girl students attended art academies right after the Civil War to meet growing industrial and cultural demand for illustrators, engravers, printmakers, miniaturists and portrait painters, but only Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keefe are part of the art historical canon.
Modernist critics and historians have often dismissed women's representational art because they privilege formalist invention over pictorial illusionism. Because of their focus on the individual fine artist, artistic style and elite patronage, such critics and historians have often ignored the importance of commercial illustration, printmaking, and traditional craft.
UMass Dartmouth's Art History Department and its upperclassmen address this premise in its exhibition, "Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880 - 1940)," which runs from April 12 to April 30.
The exhibition is a collaborative project whereby students work in teams and apply their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience.
This is the 5th year that art history professors Dr. Anna Dempsey and Allison J. Cywin have directed a group of upperclassmen to execute a professional museum-quality exhibition and publication.
This student-run exhibition explores the definition of modernity and focuses on feminine artistic communities that extend from Providence to Provincetown. The women artists represented in the exhibition are Blanche Lazzell, Lucy L'Engle, Agnes Weinrich, Ethel Mars, Maud Squire, Grace Albee, Eliza D. Gardiner, Jessie Willcox Smith, Frances Gifford, Sarah Eddy, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Mabel Woodward, Alice Barbara Stephens, Blanche Ames Ames and Allen Sisters, among others.
This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the arts community, including Julie Heller Gallery of Provincetown, Bert Gallery of Providence, Portsmouth Free Public Library, Smith College's Sophia Smith Archive, University of Massachusetts Amherst Archive and Special Collection, Providence Art Club, Providence Athenaeum, New Bedford Whaling Museum, and private collectors.
The exhibition, free and open to the public, is held at the College of Visual & Performing Arts, Campus Art Gallery, 285 Old Westport Road (adjacent to parking lot 9) in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
The opening reception is Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm.
For more information, please contact
Anna Dempsey at adempsey@umassd.edu
or
Allison J. Cywin acywin@umassd.edu
You can also call the gallery at 508-999-8550
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Lectures and Seminars, Conferences & Events
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MASTER OF SCIENCE THESIS DEFENSE BY: Joseph D. St. Pierre
- Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A
- Cost: Free
- Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
- Description: TOPIC: DEVELOPMENT OF INTELLIGENT WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS WITH MOBILE NODES
LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A
ABSTRACT:
Wireless sensor networks have become viable solutions to many commercial and military applications. There is a need to develop standards and robust architectures in this domain which allow effective solutions that can be integrated into existing systems. This research focuses on developing an architecture which supports adaptive, self-healing, and self-aware intelligent wireless sensor networks capable of supporting mobile nodes. Sensor subsystems are crucial in the development of projects such as the Future Combat System, a multi-layered system consisting of soldiers and 18 subsystems connected by a network. The proposed architecture utilizes the SWE, a standard for sensor networks being developed by the OGC, and the I-TRM, a multi-layered technical reference model consisting of a behavior-centric technical reference model, information-centric technical reference model, and control technical reference model. The designed architecture is implemented on MPR2400 motes using the nesC programming language. The architecture supports heterogeneous sensor networks with mobile and immobile sensors nodes.
NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend.
All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public.
Advisor: Dr. Howard E. Michel
Committee Members: Dr. Paul J. Fortier and Dr. Liudong Xing, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
*For further information, please contact Dr. Howard E. Michel at 508.910.6465, or via email at hmichel@umassd.edu.
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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