ASU Biomimicry Center Launch Symposium

Start: 
Tue, 2015/03/03
Location: 
Tempe, AZ

We invite you to celebrate the launch of the new Biomimicry Center, a joint partnership between Arizona State University and Biomimicry 3.8.

Please join us for a half-day of presentations, conversations and performances about the power of nature to inspire innovative collaborations and create sustainable solutions for global challenges.

Schedule

1:00

Welcome

1:15 Dayna Baumeister
Professor of Practice, School of Life Sciences
Co-Director, The Biomimicry Center
Co-Founder, Biomimicry 3.8
Darren Petrucci
Suncor Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, The Design School
1:35 Juergen Gadau
Professor, School of Life Sciences
Associate Director for Graduate Studies, School of Life Sciences
Associate Director of Educational Programs, The Biomimicry Center
Prasad Boradkar
Professor and Director of InnovationSpace, The Design School
Co-Director, The Biomimicry Center
1:55 Michelle Fehler
Lecturer, The Design School
Mike McBeath
Professor, Department of Psychology
2:15

Breakout activities

2:45 Everett Shock
Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration
Ed Kavazanjian
Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
3:05 Hanna Breetz
Assistant Professor, School of Sustainability
Devens Gust
Foundation Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
3:25 Ted Pavlic
Research Scientist, School of Life Sciences

Associate Director of Research, The Biomimicry Center
Spring Berman
Assistant Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
3:45

Breakout activities

4:15 Jennifer Fewell
President’s Professor, School of Life Sciences
Shade Shutters
Research Scientist, Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development
4:35 Ximin He
Assistant Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Andrea Richa
Associate Professor, School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering
4:55 Simon Ortiz
Regents Professor, Department of English
Joni Adamson
Professor, Department of English
5:15

Symposium Summary

5:30

Reception

6:00 Janine Benyus
Partner and Co-founder, Biomimicry 3.8
6:15
6:30 Janine Benyus
Partner and Co-founder, Biomimicry 3.8
Michael M. Crow
President, Arizona State University
6:45
7:00

Q&A

7:15

The Amyloid Project

A collaboration between the Phoenix-based arts collective urbanSTEW; Jessica Rajko, assistant professor in the School of Film, Dance and Theatre; and physicist Sara Vaiana, assistant professor in the Department of Physics.

Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), a new class of proteins discovered in the 1990s, have attracted much scientific interest. Because they do not fold into well-defined three-dimensional structures, IDPs have a high degree of flexibility that allows them to bind with many different kinds of biological partners. This plasticity sometimes leads to the formation of aggregations that prevent IDPs from carrying out essential biological functions, causing diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and diabetes.

Working at the intersection of art and biophysics, “The Amyloid Project” explores the molecular choreography of intrinsically disordered proteins and makes visible their actions deep within the human body.

Forest

A composition by Garth Paine, professor in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and School of Music.

This musical composition is part of a series of works that Garth Paine describes as “improvised conversations” with nature. In “Forest,” Paine plays a flute with the pre-recorded calls of birds and frogs. The sounds are electronically reprocessed in a kind of real-time call and response, an example of what he says is an “ongoing inquiry into the ways in which we converse with nature on a daily basis.”

7:30

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