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| It's not too late! SBE's Journal Biotechnology Progress is offering a new annual prize for excellence in publications in biological engineering. The deadline is July 15, 2011. |
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| SBE Member and Bailey Award Recipient Bob Langer has been named the 2012 recipient of the Priestley Medal for his research in controlled-release pharmaceuticals and tissue engineering. Dr. Langer recently presented a webinar for SBE's Bailey Webinar Series. | |||||||||
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| SBE Advisory Board member Ali Khademhosseini has been selected to participate in the prestigious US Frontiers of Engineering meeting by the National Academy of Engineering. | |||||||||
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| Web-Lab is back this fall thanks to Sartorius-Stedim Biotech. If your school is interested in participating, please email us at bio@aiche.org. | |||||||||
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| Call for Papers is now available for SBE's Sustainability in (Bio)Pharmaceuticals conference. Be sure to submit papers for consideration by October 31st. The conference is co-organized by the Institute for Sustainability and will be held February 19-22, 2012 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. | |||||||||
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| Save the date! SBE's Electrofuels Research Conference will be held November 6-9 at the Biltmore in Providence, RI. | |||||||||
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| Mark your calendars! The 3rd International Conference on Stem Cell Engineering (ICSCE) will be held April 29 – May 2, 2012 at the Sheraton in downtown Seattle, WA. | |||||||||
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| Register now! The 2011 AIChE Annual Meeting will be held October 16-21 at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Be sure to stop by all of SBE's events including the Bailey Lecture, Bio Symposium on Metabolic Engineering, SBE short courses on Synthetic Biology and Quality by Design, and the always-popular Pfizer Hospitality Suite! | |||||||||
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| Congratulations to Michael Monaghan (National Univeristy of Ireland, Galway) for correctly answering last month's What Protein Am I? quiz with retinylidene protein (rhodopsin would also be acceptable)! Be the first to answer this month's WPAI quiz correctly and your name and organization will be featured in our next newsletter. | |||||||||
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| SBE would like to congratulate all of the recent graduates in chemical and biological engineering departments across the globe. Be sure to check out SBE's Job Boards if you're looking for great jobs in the biological engineering industry. | |||||||||
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| SBE's e-Connections is edited by Adrian Andrew Fay, Web Science Editor, with input from SBE staff. Contact us at bio@aiche.org. | |||||||||
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