Proceedings of the
Tenth Annual IBE Meeting

Papers for “Biology-Inspired Engineering Frontiers”

Institute of Biological Engineering

March 4-6, 2005

Full-length Manuscripts for the 2005 IBE Meeting Proceedings

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Keynote – “Drawing Engineers out of the Machine”

Robert E. Ulanowicz, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, MD, USA

“Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Curricula – Recommendations from Academia and Industry”

David W. Gatchell and Robert A. Linesnmeier, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University and VaNTH Engineering Research Center in Bioengineering Educational Technologies, Evanston, IL, USA

“Macroecology: The Organizing Forces”

Lionel Johnson, The Freshwater Institute, Winnipeg, Canada

“A Virtual Ecosystem for Ecological Engineering”

T. R. Lanphere and R. Kok, Bioresource Engineering, McGill University, Canada

“A Fractal Analysis of Binding and Dissociation Kinetics of Glucose and Related Analytes on Biosensor Surfaces”

Atul M. Doke and Ajit Sadana, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Mississippi, University, MS, USA

"Functionalization and Characterization of Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biological Engineering Applications"

B.S.G. Nidumolu, M.C. Urbina, C.S.S.R. Kumar and W.T. Monroe, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, and Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. USA

“Biomimetic Nanoengineering: Polypeptide Microcapsules as Artificial Cells”

Donald T. Haynie, Biomedical engineering and Physics, Bionanosystems Engineering Laboratory, Louisianan Tech University, Ruston, LA, USA

 "An Undergraduate Biomechanics Module for Modeling the Impact of Static Flexion Duration on the Development of a Neuromuscular Disorder"

R. LaBry, M. Solomonow andW.T. Monroe, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. and Occupational Medicine Research Center, Bioengineering Lab, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA. USA

“Purification and Characterization of Caged DNA Oligonucleotides”

B.M. McAdams, C.M. Haslauer, and W.T. Monroe, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. USA

“Light-Induced Control of DNA Oligonucleotide Hybridization Activity”

B. Ghosn and W. T. Monroe, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. USA

Ensiling corn stover with enzyme addition as a feedstock preservation method for particleboard manufacturing

Haiyu Ren¹, Tom L. Richard¹, Zhilin Chen² Monlin Kuo², Yilin Bian² Kenneth J. Moore³, Patricia Patrick^3, 1 Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Penn State University, State College, PA 16802, USA, 2 Dept. Of Natural Resources, Iowa State University, 3 Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, trichard@psu.edu