Welcome to “What has DNA Done for me Lately?”
Class Members
Dave Butler is an Emeritus Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati where he taught and conducted research for 37 years. His focus was in orthopaedic biomechanics as well as tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Since he retired, he has enjoyed numerous hobbies including triathlons, photography, genealogy, travel, detective fiction in a monthly book club, and teaching for both OLLI and ILR.
Cindy Fackler: I am a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner who is retired from that role and I now work very part time as a Wellness nurse, giving lunch and learns on various health related topics. I am married with 5 adult children, and we are a few weeks away from becoming grandparents for the first time. My son works with CRISPR technology in his research so I thought that it would be interesting to get to know a little more about how CRISPR works.
Tom Griffiths: I’m a recently retired Mechanical Engineer at GE Aviation, where I worked with fellow classmate Phil Griggs for 16 years. I took an introductory Biomedical Engineering class as an undergraduate, but don’t have much background in the topic.
Mary Heider: Retired assistant dean emerita in medical education, UC College of Medicine. Worked with medical students, basic science and clinical science faculty. Long term interest: art. Retirement project: bringing art to the College of Medicine spaces for its students, staff and faculty thereby enhancing the environment and stimulating thinking.
Nancy Pelc: I’m a recently retired physician who began my career in Biomedical Engineering.
General Guidelines
When you first connect to the Zoom Session, please turn on your Video Camera so we can all see each other. It’s my preference that we all keep our cameras on throughout the session, but if you have internet connection problems, it may help to turn off your camera.
Please keep your microphone muted. When you wish to speak, you can unmute or you can “Push-to-Talk”: When activated in your Settings, you can temporarily turn on your microphone by pressing and holding the spacebar, then releasing when you are through speaking - Instructions here.. If you should start speaking while still muted, don’t worry! We will remind you! And, if we find that our discussions are lively and several people wish to speak at once, I will help sort it out by starting to call on you.
Remember the chat window! Hopefully Zoom will work well for our group discussions, but the Chat Window could be a helpful addition or even a great safety net - a way to post links, spell out anything that people are having a hard time hearing, send questions or comments to the whole group or to individuals, including Brack.
IMPORTANT: Naturally, we all want to enjoy our conversations, so please give everyone a chance to contribute to the discussion and be respectful of each others’ views.
For many of the sessions, I will provide additional materials, which you can access by clicking on the links below.