Announcements
New Strategic Council Begins for BBC
Bindley Bioscience Center is pleased to announce the establishment of the Bindley Strategic Council (BSC). The following Purdue faculty members will be serving 3-year terms as advisers to the administrative and scientific leadership of the center:
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Clint Chapple (Biochemistry)
Rebecca Doerge (Statistics)
Jim Fleet (Foods and Nutrition)
Michael Gribskov (Biological Sciences)
Tony Hazbun (Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology)
Catherine Hill (Entomology)
Scott Jackson (Agronomy)
Richard Kuhn (Biological Sciences)
Phil Low (Chemistry)
Suresh Mittal (Comparative Pathobiology)
Alyssa Panitch (Biomedical Engineering)
Kinam Park (Biomedical Engineering; Industrial & Physical Pharmacy)
Tim Ratliff (Comparative Pathobiology)
Tim Sands(Materials Engineering)
Cynthia Stauffacher (Biological Sciences)
Connie Weaver (Foods and Nutrition)
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BSC members function as liaisons among academic departments, other Purdue units, external organizations and the BBC in order to enhance communications, establish effective collaborations and improve opportunities and resources for Purdue’s life sciences initiatives. The BSC currently consists of 15 members representing 6 different schools/colleges and 11 different academic departments. To contact a member of the BSC, please go to: BSC Member List
Bioethics Seminar Series 2008
The BBC is co-sponsoring the 2007-2008 Bioethics Seminar Series with Purdue's Department of Philosophy. The first seminar, "Ethics and Politics of Climate Change," was held on November 5, 2007. Additional seminars will be held in 2008:
February 8, 2008
"Nanotechnologies and Environmental Concerns"
Speaker: Dr. Barbara Karn, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; National Center for Environmental Research; Head of the Research Grant Program for Nanotechnologies in Office of Research and Development; Member of the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies with The Wilson Center.
MRGN 121 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
March 3, 2008
"Nanotechnologies and Medical Ethics"
Speaker: Dr. Nigel M. de S. Cameron, President of the Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future; Director of the Center on Nanotechnology and Society; Research Professor of Bioethics and Associate Dean at the Chicago-Kent College of Law in the Illinois Institute of Technology
MRGN 121 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
April 2, 2008
"Conflicts of Interest in Biomedicine"
Speaker: Dr. David Resnik, Bioethicist, National Institute of Environmental Health Services and National Institutes of Health
MRGN 121 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
April 16, 2008
"Ethical Issues in Constructing and Using Biobanks"
Speaker: Dr. Eric Meslin, Director of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics; Professor of Medicine and of Medical and Molecular Genetics in the Indiana University School of Medicine; Professor of Philosophy in the School of Liberal Arts; Associate Dean for Bioethics at Indiana University School of Medicine
MRGN 121 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
For more information and to register: http://www.purdue.edu/bioethics
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