UC’s systemwide Bioengineering Symposium, fostering intercampus collaboration, will begin its second decade by returning to the campus where it started: UC Davis.

The 11th annual symposium is scheduled for June 17 to 19, with most meetings set to take place in the Health Sciences District.

UC’s overall Bioengineering Institute comprises eight departments spread among the 10 campuses, with 339 faculty, more than 750 graduate students and nearly 2,500 undergraduates.

Each of the previous symposia has drawn approximately 200 students and faculty, and each year’s program has included approximately 25 podium presentations and 50 posters.

In recognition of the symposium’s 10-year history, the organizers of this year’s event have invited the chairs of all UC biomedical engineering departments to attend the Friday evening gala to provide a “Chairs Retrospective.”

The organizers also announced a number of other special events, including the inaugural TATRC Grand Challenge, in which graduate and undergraduate students are eligible to compete for up to $25,000 in research money for military medicine-relevant projects.

TATRC is the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, a unit of the Army’s Medical Research and Materiel Command.

The symposium program also includes a career and exhibitor fair in conjunction with a Lunch with Industry, during which symposium participants can chat with industry representatives.

Two career-oriented workshops also are planned:

• Applying for National Institutes of Health fellowships and grants, with presenter Belinda Seto, deputy director of the NIH’s National Institute of Biomedical Imagining and Bioengineering.

• “Day in the Life,” during which industry representatives have been asked to provide insight into their jobs and how to get them.

For research presentations, the program includes four oral sessions and two poster sessions. Typical categories include tissue engineering and regenerative medicine; biomechanics; cellular and protein engineering; bioinformatics and genomics; biomaterials; medical modeling and simulation; stem cell engineering; telehealth-remote health care; trauma, injury and post-traumatic stress disorder; and biomedical devices.

With the TATRC Grand Challenge as part of this year's symposium, organizers said they expect many of the presentations will have military significance.

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Or contact Holly Ober, communications coordinator, hjober@ucdavis.edu, or Angelique Louie, organizing committee chair, aylouie@ucdavis.edu.

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