Assigning products to categories, advanced search operators / regex?

Question

In Magento I'm trying to find a fast way to assign products to categories from the Manage Categories section. After I select a category and click on Category Products I'm wondering if there's a way to make the Name field searchable through Regex or at least to use a wildcard.

Example: entering nike * shoes in the name field would return results for nike running shoes and nike shoes

Screenshot: http://goo.gl/DM0s2g