[IEEE-bhpjobs] May 19 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society meeting

[esther-l at mailsnare.net]

Thursday May 19, Science and Math bldg room 162, Meredith College (Raleigh), 6 PM. Free.

Meredith College, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society,
American Association of University Women Raleigh Branch, and IEEE Women 
in Engineering are jointly sponsoring a presentation by the winners of the Team Prize in the 2004-5 Siemens-Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science and Technology.

This is a national contest for high school students. Light refreshments will be served at 6:00 p.m. and the meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m.

Lucie Guo and Xianlin Li, students at the North Carolina School of
Science and Mathematics in Durham who are graduating shortly, will speak
on their winning project and research methodology. The title of Ms. Guo
and Ms. Li's paper is "CpG island methylation of GADD45(alpha) is marker
of breast carcinogenesis".  Ms. Guo and Ms. Li's genetics research
project examined the effect of a natural gene silencing process or
methylation on breast cancer. In their project the two students
demonstrated that breast cancer cell lines exhibit a specific pattern of
silent (methylation) sites in GADD45a, a prospective tumor-suppressor
gene. The methylation sites in the gene present potential new biomarkers
for personalized methods of early detection as well as treatment of
breast cancer, a critical step in the successful treatment of the
disease. An abstract of their paper (to be published in the journal
Oncogene) is available at
http://www.siemens-foundation.org/2004/Gtech/yueqi%20guo%20and%20xianlin%20li.html
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The pair worked with Dr. Wei Wang in Dr. Jeffrey Marks' lab at Duke. Ms
Guo and Ms Li have been interviewed by NPR and MSNBC, and have been
personally congratulated by Governor Easley.

Directions to and map of Meredith College are at
http://www.meredith.edu/about/directions.htm

contact Tom Jepsen, 933-0377, tjepsen at ieee.org or visit
www.rtpnet.org/aauw/ or www.ieee.org/enc  for information.


Meeting sponsors:
- IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (NC Chapter)
- AAUW Raleigh/Wake County branch 
- Meredith College 
- IEEE Women in Engineering 
 
Before anyone asks, Yes, high school students are encouraged to attend this meeting.

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thanks, Esther Lumsdon
President, AAUW Raleigh/Wake County Branch