Finalists for director of Bindley Bioscience Center to make on-campus presentations

Three finalists for the position of director of Bindley Bioscience Center at Discovery Park will be on Purdue's West Lafayette campus for two-day interviews in April, the search committee announced today (March 29).

Alexandra Boltasseva, professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and chair of the search committee, said that as part of the process, each finalist will make a 45-minute public presentation and then take questions from the audience.

"We have three excellent candidates,” Boltasseva says. “I would like to encourage faculty, staff and students to attend these seminars and provide us their feedback."

Feedback on the candidates is requested, and the link will be live after the first candidate's presentation at https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3JKdo054GKFajXf.

Bindley Bioscience Center is a multidisciplinary research facility where life sciences and engineering researchers collaborate to explore new technologies and scientific knowledge that impact the broad boundaries of plant, animal and human diseases.

The center's next director will succeed Marietta Harrison, who is serving as interim director.

Candidates and their presentation times are below.

* Sophie Lelievre, professor of basic medical sciences with courtesy appointment in Nutrition Science, Purdue; co-leader, Drug Discovery & Molecular Sensing, Purdue Center for Cancer Research; scientific director, 3D Cell Culture Core Facility, Birck Nanotechnology Center. April 5. 9-10 a.m. Jischke Hall of Biomedical Engineering, Room 1001. Seminar title: "Bindley Bioscience Center, A Beacon for Integration and Diversity in Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Research."

* Gabriel Popescu, professor of electrical and computer engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; director of the Quantitative Light Imaging Laboratory in the Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology at UIUC. April 16. 9-10 a.m. Jischke Hall of Biomedical Engineering, Room 1001. Seminar title: "Multiscale Studies of Cells and Tissues Using Quantitative Phase Imaging."

* S. Ramaswamy, senior professor and dean, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Bangalore, India. April 23. 9-10 a.m.  Jischke Hall of Biomedical Engineering, Room 1001. Seminar title: "Structural Biology of Proteins Involved in Sialic Acid Uptake and Catabolism in Pathogenic Gram Negative Bacteria."