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September 20, 2001

Biotechnology in the
Capital Region
Part 1:
Imaging and Bioengineering
 

September 13-16, 2001

Rensselaerville, New York, USA



PRE-REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS
(as of September 21, 2001)

Rajendra Agrawal
Division of Molecular Medicine
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Three-dimensional cryo-electron microscopic study of dynamics of elongation factor-G and ribosome during translocation

Mohan Amaratunga
GE Corporate Research & Development, Niskayuna, NY

Patricia Anders
Division of Education and Development
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Nanobiotechnology

Steven Aceto
Memstar Corp.
Troy, NY

Jake Ballard
Materials Research Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Nanobiotechnology and tissue engineering

Robert Balmer
Dean of Engineering
Union College, Schenectady, NY

Gautam Baruah
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Recovery of human monoclonal antibodies from transgenic goat milk

Georges Belfort
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Molecular separations, a core technology for genomics and proteomics
Chemical interactions between protein molecules and polymer materials
Recovery of human monoclonal antibodies from transgenic goat milk
Reducing protein-polymer interactions by UV-assisted graft polymerization
Applications of inteins in protein purification

Marlene Belfort
Division of Genetic Disorders
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Applications of inteins in protein purification

B. Wayne Bequette
Department of Chemical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Control applications in biotechnology and biomedical engineering

Gary Bernardini
Neurology Department
Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY
Stroke and neurocritical care

Russell Bessette
NYSTAR, Albany, NY
Discovery Drives Progress: NYS' Biotech Future

Jinbo Bi
Department of Mathematics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Recent development of RECON/TAE method for prediction of protein retention in ion-exchange systems

Rena Bizios
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Strategies for bone tissue engineering:  Novel material formulations and select biophysical stimuli

John Brunski
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Tissue engineering

Henry Bungay
Department of Chemical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Alvaro Carrillo
Department of Chemical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

James Castracane
Nanotech Center for Advanced Thin Film Technology 
SUNY, Albany, NY
XYZ-on-a-chip:  Integration of the bio and micro world
Design and fabrication of a low-power, low-voltage microvalve for biomedical applications

Rui Chen
Department of Chemistry
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy,  NY
Calibration challenges during microdialysis sampling of hydroxyl radical

Christin Choma
Department of Chemistry
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Protein design, protein modeling, proteomics

Harold Craighead
Director, Nanobiotechnology Center
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
NanoBioTechnology: Interfacing Nanotechnology and Biology
Brain replacement parts through nanotechnology
Functional and morphological characterization of hipposampal neural networks on chemically modified surfaces

Steven Cramer
Department of Chemical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Bioseparations research at RPI
High throughput screening and quantitative structure efficacy relationship models of novel displacers for protein purification
Displacer efficacy prediction by electronic shape/property-encode descriptors
Predicting column performance in displacement chromatography from high-throughput screening batch experiments
Recent development of RECON/TAE method for prediction of protein retention in ion-exchange systems

Heather Cunningham
Center for Cardiovascular Sciences
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
Imaging

Donna Dean
National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Partnering for Research Opportunities in the 21st Century:  A Perspective from NIH's Newest Institute

Wei Deng
Department of Chemistry
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Displacer efficacy prediction by electronic shape/property-encode descriptors

Natacha DePaola
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Bioengineering

Victoria Derbyshire
Division of Genetic Disorders
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Applications of inteins in protein purification

Paritosh Dhawale
GE Corporate Research & Development, Niskayuna, NY
Medical imaging

Michael DiPersio
Center for Cell Biology & Cancer Research
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
Genetic manipulation of cell adhesion receptors reveals pathways that regulate matrix metalloprotease (MMP) expression and extracellular matrix organization in skin; implications for carcinoma cell invasion and wound healing

Concetta DiRusso
Center for Cardiovascular Sciences
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
Imaging fatty acid transport in living cells

Bijan Dorri
GE Corporate Research & Development, Niskayuna, NY

Natalie Dowell
School of Public Health, Department of Biomedical Sciences
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
The role of topographical cues on the development of rat hippocampal neuron polarity and synapse formation in vitro

Donald Drew
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Mathematical models for processes in bacterial cell division

Donna Esposito
Division of Genetic Disorders
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Genetics, bacterial and plant molecular biology

Xiaojun Feng
UAlbany Institute for Materials
SUNYA, Albany, NY
XYZ-on-a-chip:  Integration of the bio and micro world

Bradley Ferguson
Department of Physics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Terahertz imaging using a chirped probe pulse

Kenneth Fish
GE Corporate Research & Development, Niskayuna, NY
Chemistry, biochemistry, data mining

Joachim Frank
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Albany, NY
The ribosome - a molecular machine in motion
Three-dimensional cryo-electron microscopic study of dynamics of elongation factor-G and ribosome during translocation
Visualizing biological processes at cell membranes by electron tomography

Cheryl Frye
Department of Psychology
SUNY, Albany, NY
Use of multiple bioengineering and imaging techniques to elucidate novel mechanisms of action of steroid hormones

John Galivan
Division of Molecular Medicine
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Research administration, program development, cancer, proteomics, biochemistry, cell biology and pharmacology

Shekhar Garde
Department of Chemical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Molecular modeling of biomolecules and their interactions

Ken Gertz
Assistant Vice President for Research
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

David Graber
Division of Genetic Disorders
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Fabrication and imaging of protein crossover structures

Adolfo Gutierez
Memstar Corp.
Troy, NY

Mina Han
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Chemical interactions between protein molecules and polymer materials

Ileana Hancu
GE Corporate Research & Development, Niskayuna, NY
Magnetic resonance imaging, contrast agents

Charles Hauer
Division of Molecular Medicine
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Biological mass spectrometry, proteomics

Bruce Hegstad
CardioMag Imaging, Inc., Schenectady, NY
Operations management with a special focus on sustainable market adoption of a new medical product

Griselda Hernandez
Division of Molecular Diagnostics
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Reduced temperature dependence of collective conformational opening in a hyperthermophile rubredoxin

Rifat Hussain
Division of Genetic Disorders
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Functional and morphological characterization of hipposampal neural networks on chemically modified surfaces

David Isaacson
Department of Math Sciences
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Electrical impedance imaging

A. Nadeem Ishaque
Genomics and Molecular Imaging Laboratory
General Electric Research and Development, Niskayuna, NY
Molecular imaging

Colin Izzard
Department of Biological Sciences
SUNY, Albany, NY
Cellular imaging

Qiang Ji
Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Bruce Johnson
GE Corporate Research & Development, Niskayuna, NY

Amrit Kalra
Department of Chemical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Ravindra Kane
Department of Chemical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Biomimetic approaches to drug design:  The design of polyvalent nanoscale antagonists

Robert Keefe
Genomics Core Facility
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY

Charles Keese
Applied Biophysics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Incubator Center, Troy, NY
ECISTM - A morphological biosensor for drug discovery

Jan Keithly
Division of Infectious Disease
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Energy metabolism in Cryptosporidium parvum:  A biochemical relic linking mitochondriate and amitochondriate protists

Alexey Khodjakov
Division of Molecular Medicine
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Exploring centrosome functions using GFP-imaging and laser microsurgery

Nikolai Korsun
Software Development
CarioMag Imaging, Inc., Schenectady, NY
Cardiac 2D and 3D imaging, cardiac mapping with inverse solutions

Samuel Koszer
Department of Neurology
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
Epilepsy of imaging of electrical activity of the brain

John LaGraff
Department of Chemistry
Union College, Schenectady, NY
Fabrication and imaging of protein crossover structures

Charles Lawrence
Division of Molecular Medicine
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY

David Lawrence
Division of Molecular Medicine
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Immunology, immunotoxicology, neuroimmunology

David LeMaster
Division of Molecular Diagnostics
Wadsworth, Center, Albany, NY
Oligosaccharide NMR structural analysis utilizing 3D long range 1H-13C spin coupling
Reduced temperature dependence of collective conformational opening in a hyperthermophile rubredoxin

Michelle Lennartz
Center for Cell Biology and Cancer Research
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
PKC imaging in living cells

Biao Li
Nanotech Center for Advanced Thin Film Technology 
SUNY, Albany, NY
MEMS, nanotechnology

William Lorensen
GE Corporate Research & Development, Niskayuna, NY
Three-dimensional medical segmentation and registration

Qi Lu
Center for Cardiovascular Sciences
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
Imaging

Qiong Luo
Department of Chemistry
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Features of conformation-sensitive TAE descriptors for protein modeling

Sandra Lynch
Department of Chemical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Bioengineering

Seyffie Maleki
Union College, Schenectady, NY
Laser cooling and trapping

Carmen Mannella
Division of Molecular Medicine
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Visualizing biological processes at cell membranes by electron tomography

David Martin
Deputy Director
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Nanopharmacology

Paulette McCormick
Center for Comparative Functional Genomics
SUNY, Albany, NY

Leslie McCurdy
Division of Genetic Disorders
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Human genetics

Lee Ann McCue
Division of Molecular Medicine
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Tissue engineering, bioseparations, molecular engineering

Bruce McEwen
Division of Molecular Medicine
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Attachment and dynamic instability conformations of kinetochore microtubules

Paula McKeown-Longo
Center for Cell Biology & Cancer Research
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
Tissue engineering

Shreefal Mehta
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Tissue engineering, medical imaging

Dennis Metzger
Center for Immunology & Microbial Disease
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
Immune responses to tissue engineered extracellular matrix used as a bioscaffold
Strategies for bone tissue engineering:  Novel material formulations and select biophysical stimuli
Extracellular matrix as a xenogeneic scaffold for tissue remodeling

Samuel Mickan
Department of Physics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Medical imaging, tissue and cellular imaging, molecular imaging

Albert Millis
Center for Comparative Functional Genomics
SUNY, Albany, NY

Fred Minnear
Center for Cardiovascular Sciences
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
Novel mechanism of tightening the endothelial barrier

Gerald Mizejewski
Division of Diagnostic Oncology
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Imaging

Michael Muehlemann
Serometrix LLC (a subsidiary of Illumination Technologies, Inc.), E. Syracuse, NY
Enhanced ELISA assays for HIV screening

Jonathan Newell
Biomedical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Electrical impedance imaging

Cesar Palerm
Department of Chemical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Control, drug infusion control

Robert Parsons
Department of Biology
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

George Plopper
Department of Biology
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
In vitro analysis of integrin signaling and cell migration

Timothy Pratt
Department of Biological Sciences
SUNY Albany, Albany, NY

Frederick Provorny
Science & Technology Law Center
Albany Law School, Albany, NY
Technology transfer, intellectual property, law and technology

Sujatha Ramanathan
Division of Genetic Disorders
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Bioselective surfaces -- blood brain barrier

Kaushal Rege
Department of Chemical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
High throughput screening and quantitative structure efficacy relationship models of novel displacers for protein purification
Predicting column performance in displacement chromatography from high-throughput screening batch experiments

Andrew Reilly
Division of Molecular Medicine
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Improving diagnostic accuracy of mammography by image analysis

Christian Renken
Division of Molecular Medicine
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Electron microscopy and tomography

Frank Rice
Center for Neuropharmacology and Neuroscience
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
Sensory, motor and trophic interactions between peripheral innervation and non-neural tissues

Conly Rieder
Division of Molecular Medicine
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Laser microsurgery and mitosis

Victor Rizzo
Center for Cardiovascular Science
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
Shear stress-induced cytoskeletal rearrangement involves caveolae-mediated mechanotransduction

Stephen Romero
Department of Psychology
Union College, Schenectady, NY
Investigating cognitive neuroplasticity in single cases and patient groups

Badrinath Roysam
Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Multi-dimensional quantitative image analysis tools for biological microscopy

Peter Russo
Division of Genetic Disorders
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Bioengineering

John Salerno
Department of Biology
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Design of novel small heat shock proteins
Design of altered NO synthases and effectors:  Modulation of signal generators

John Schenck
General Electric Research & Development
Niskayuna, NY
Brain iron, magnetic resonance imaging and neurodegenerative disease

Eugene Schuler
SUNY Albany, Rensselaer, NY
Technology commercialization/intellectual properties

John Schwarz
Center for Cardiovascular Sciences
Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY
Cardiovascular

Mark Scott
Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
Immunocamouflage of donor tissues via nonimmunogenic polymer derivatization

Keith Servis
Director of Programs
NYSTAR, Albany, NY

Ananthakrishnan Sethuraman
Department of Chemical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Chemical interactions between protein molecules and polymer materials

William Shain
Division of Genetic Disorders
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Brain replacement parts through nanotechnology
Functional and morphological characterization of hipposampal neural networks on chemically modified surfaces

Susan Sharfstein
Department of Chemical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Albany, NY
The role of cell culture environment on recombinant protein glycosylation

David Shub
SUNY, Albany, NY

Michelle Simkulet
InterScience, Inc., Troy, NY

Harold Singer
Center for Cardiovascular Sciences
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
Tissue engineering

Jan Slapeta
Division of Infectious Disease
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Organelles in apicomplexa; phylogenetic reconstruction

Jason Smith
InterScience, Inc., Troy, NY

Karen Smith
Division of Genetic Disorders
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Brain replacement parts through nanotechnology
Functional and morphological characterization of hippocampal neural networks on chemically modified surfaces

Susan Smith
Department of Biology
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Design of altered NO synthases and effectors:  Modulation of signal generators

Abigail Snyder-Keller
Division of Genetic Disorders
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY

Peter So
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Minghu Song
Department of Chemistry
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Displacer efficacy prediction by electronic shape/property-encode descriptors
Recent development of RECON/TAE method for prediction of protein retention in ion-exchange systems

Gregory Spencer
Neuroscience Research Center
SUNY Albany, Albany, NY
Neurobiology

Robert Spilker
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Functional tissue engineering:  The role of computational modeling and simulation

Joseph Stanco
Creos Biotechnology Division
Metrix Composites, Inc., Utica, NY
Tissue engineering and nanobiotechnology

Frantisek Stejskal
Division of Infectious Disease
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Energy metabolism in Cryptosporidium parvum:  A biochemical relic linking mitochondriate and amitochondriate protists

Julie Stenken
Department of Chemistry
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Monitoring chemical events in vivo -- challenges and opportunities with microdialysis sampling
Calibration challenges during microdialysis sampling of hydroxyl radical
Analysis of macrophage activation products in cell culture for biocompatibility studies using microdialysis sampling

N. Sukumar
Department of Chemistry
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Recent development of RECON/TAE method for prediction of protein retention in ion-exchange systems
Displacer efficacy prediction by electronic shape/property-encode descriptors
Features of conformation-sensitive TAE descriptors for protein modeling

Li Sun
Department of Chemistry
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Analysis of macrophage activation products in cell culture for biocompatibility studies using microdialysis sampling

Donald Szarowski
Division of Genetic Disorders
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Fabrication and imaging of protein crossover structures

Boleslaw Szymanski
Department of Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Bioimaging, bio-simulation

Anand Tamatam
Department of Chemical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Emiko Tanaka
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Bioseparations and molecular engineering

Oliver Tang
Nanotech Center for Advanced Thin Film Technology 
SUNY, Albany, NY
XYZ-on-a-chip:  Integration of the bio and micro world

Masahide Taniguchi
Department of Chemical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy,  NY
Reducing protein-polymer interactions by UV-assisted graft polymerization

William Thompson
Division of Molecular Medicine
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Tissue engineering

Keith Thulborn
Department of Radiology
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Functional brain imaging in the clinic:  A test of technology

William Tivol
Division of Molecular Medicine
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Electron microscopy

Fumin Tong
Center for Cardiovascular Sciences
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
Imaging

Tsong-Ru Tsai
Department of Physics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Nihal Tugcu
Department of Chemical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Mobile phase effects on protein and displacer selectivity in ion exchange systems
Predicting column performance in displacement chromatography from high-throughput screening batch experiments

James Turner
Division of Genetic Disorders
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Brain replacement parts through nanotechnology
Functional and morphological characterization of hipposampal neural networks on chemically modified surfaces
Fabrication and imaging of protein crossover structures

Egidijus Uzgiris
GE Corporate Research and Development Center
Schenectady, NY
New contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging

Livingston Van De Water
Center for Cell Biology & Cancer Research
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
Extracellular matrix protein function during wound healing

Patrick Van Roey
Division for Molecular Diagnostics
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Intermolecular interactions at atomic resolution:  X-ray crystallography

Deepak Vashishth
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Mechanobiology of aging bone:  Strategies for tissue repair and regeneration

Peter Vincent
Center for Cardiovascular Sciences
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
Regulation of endothelial cell barrier function by TGF?

Gwo-Ching Wang
Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Fabrication and imaging of protein crossover structures

Shaohong Wang
Department of Physics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Yong-Xiao Wang
Center for Cardiovascular Sciences
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
Nanobiotechnology, medical imaging, tissue imaging and molecular imaging

James Woo
InterScience, Inc., Troy, NY

Wei Wu
Division of Genetic Disorders
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
Applications of inteins in protein purification

Fang Xia
Department of Chemical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Hydrophobic displacement chromatography:  Displacer discovery and applications for bioprocessing

Bai Xu
Institute for Materials
SUNY, Albany, NY
Design and fabrication of a low-power, low-voltage microvalve for biomedical applications

Jiahua Xu
Department of Biology
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Jingzhou Xu
Department of Physics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

X. George Xu
Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
A segmented adult male anatomical model developed from color images of the visible human project for medical physics and biomedical engineering simulations

Lu Yang
Department of Chemical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Enzyme structure and activity in non-aqueous media:  Insights from large-scale MD simulations

Yiping Zhao
Department of Physics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Nanobiotechnology

Thomas Zieziulewicz
Division of Molecular Medicine
Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY

Earl Zimmerman
Department of Neurology
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
Alzheimers, neurology

Zhiying Zou
Center for Cardiovascular Sciences
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
Imaging



 
 
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