ECE Graduate Seminar
<p> You are cordially invited to attend the following seminar:</p> <p> Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering</p> <p> Old Dominion University</p> <p> GRADUATE SEMINAR</p> <p> New Research in the Field of</p> <p> Plasma Medicine</p> <p> by</p> <p> Dr. Nazir Barekzi</p> <p> Laser and Plasma Engineering Institute</p> <p> Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering</p> <p> Old Dominion University</p> <p> Friday, October 11 , 2013</p> <p> 3:00 p.m. KH 224</p> <p> Host: Dr. Laroussi</p> <p> Plasma medicine is an independent medical field that is emerging worldwide. The use of low-temperature plasma in medicine is an ever increasingly important topic for engineers, physicists, biologists, researchers and medical personnel alike. The prospects of using low-temperature plasma in health care are extensive. To meet the diverse health care challenges various devices have been developed to harness the beneficial reactive species of non-equilibrium plasma. The focus of this seminar is to provide current research using the Plasma Pencil in the field of plasma medicine with an emphasis on mammalian cells such as fibroblasts, epithelial cells and cancerous cells.</p> <p> Biio:</p> <p> Dr. Nazir Barekzi received the M.S. degree in microbiology from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, and the Ph.D. degree in microbiology from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, in 2009. He then moved to northern Virginia to complete a two-year appointment as an American Society for Engineering Education Postdoctoral Fellow with the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. After working in the federal government research arena his passion of interacting with students and professors lead him back to academia. In the year 2011, he joined Old Dominion University working with Professor Mounir Laroussi as a Research Scientist with the Laser and Plasma Engineering Institute, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA. Dr. Barekzi recently accepted a Lecturer position with the Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University and is currently engrossed in pedagogy activities as well as research. His research interests involve general microbiology, molecular biology and include designing and implementing novel biological assays to investigate biomedical applications of low-temperature atmospheric pressure plasmas.</p> <p> </p>
Posted By: Linda Marshall
Date: Tue Oct 08 10:27:41 EDT 2013