May 2008 Directors' Meeting

The spring Director???s Meeting will be held at the University of Washington in Seattle over two days, May 1-2 2008. The meeting will begin in the early afternoon on Thursday and adjourn late morning on Friday. This schedule will allow travelers from the east coast to arrive on the 1st and depart on the 2nd.The theme of the meeting is ???The Interface Between Biology and Materials???.The spring Director???s Meeting will be held at the University of Washington in Seattle over two days, May 1-2 2008. The meeting will begin in the early afternoon on Thursday and adjourn late morning on Friday. This schedule will allow travelers from the east coast to arrive on the 1st and depart on the 2nd. Due to severe constraints on the MRSEC Program managers, this date cannot be changed. The theme of the meeting is

???The Interface Between Biology and Materials???.

Location: The Donald E. Petersen Room 482 Allen Library, 4th floor, Room 485 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, WA 91895

AGENDA

Thursday May 1 - Scientific Session

12:00 Lunch, Executive Committee Meeting (UW Faculty Club) 1:00 p.m. Opening Comments (Bill Curtin) 1:15-2:00 Lee Hartwell, Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle

2:00-2:40 Dan Hammer, Chem. Eng., Univ of Pennsylvania

2:40-3:00 Coffee Break 3:00-3:40 Huajian Gao, Div. of Engineering, Brown University, Providence

3:40-4:20 Babak Parviz, Co-Director, Microscale Life Sciences Center, U. Washington

4:20-4:35 Dan Steinberg, Princeton University,

4:35-5:00 Remarks by MRSEC Program Managers (Charles Ying, Tom Rieker, & Rama Bansil) 5:00-5:45 Reception 7:00 Dinner at Ivar???s Salmon House, Lake Union (van pick ups at the hotels at 6:40 p.m.)

Friday, May 2nd - MRSEC Business

8:15 Continental Breakfast 9:30??? Irina Zaks, mrsec.org webmaster,??? Stanford University,

9:45 Committee Deliberations 10:00 Committee Reports 12:00 Lunch at UW Faculty Club Download Presentation Abstracts and Presenters' Bios