CBE Seminar Series

The CBE Seminar Series is organized to host experts from both academia and industry to present their research and share their expertise. Each semester, a committee of CBE graduate students and staff invite and host the colleagues and visitors (on and off-campus) who present at this seminar series.

The CBE 2021-2022 seminar organizing committee

Arda Akyel, PhD student, chemical & biological engineering
Sobia Anjum, PhD student, chemical & biological engineering
Kylie Bodle, PhD student, civil engineering
Kristen Brileya, technical operations manager
Isaac Miller, PhD student, microbiology & cell biology
Shawna Pratt, PhD student, chemical & biological engineering
Platform host: Kristen Griffin, technology transfer specialist

If you have feedback or a speaker suggestion for the CBE Seminar Series, please contact a member of the organizing committee.

Spring 2022 Schedule

Thursdays, 4:10 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Mountain Time (MT) unless otherwise noted*
Virtual via WebEx unless otherwise noted

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title/Topic
Jan 20	No Seminar-First week of classes
Jan 27	No Seminar
Feb 3* Hybrid Roberts 321	Dr. Kevin Cash	Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines	Nanosensors for spatiotemporal monitoring of microbial physiology
Feb 10	No Seminar
Feb 17	Dr. Zahra Mahdieh	Postdoctoral Researcher, CBE	Granular Matrigel: Restructuring a trusted extracellular matrix for improved permeability
Feb 24* Virtual 9am MST	Dr. Desiree Dickerson	Consultant,Academic Mental Health & Well-being	Strategies for managing our well-being in research
Mar 3* Virtual 10am MST	Prof. Kasper Kragh	Assistant Professor, Bacteriology, Costerton Biofilm Center, Copenhagen, Denmark	Microscopy in biofilm research- A closer look
Mar 10* Hybrid Roberts 321	Dr. Tomasz Zajkowski	Associate Scientist, Universities Space Research Association and Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, NASA Ames Research Center	An evolutionary perspective on prion-based mechanisms of regulation and adaptation
Mar 17	No Seminar-MSU Spring Break
Mar 24	CBE Undergraduate Research Day	Ian Novak, Chemical & Biological Engineering, Standardized Biofilm Methods Lab Martina Du, Chemical & Biological Engineering, Ross Carlson Lab Uve Strautmanis, Microbiology & Cell Biology, Matthew Fields Lab	Recent advancements in standard biofilm methods Using synthetic ecology to quantify consortial interactions in biofilm and planktonic cultures Investigation of complete groundwater denitrification utilizing an environmentally relevant bacterial co-culture
Mar 31	Dr. Tagbo Niepa	Assistant Professor, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh	Nanocultures: Controlled microbial communities in sessile drops
Apr 7* *Hybrid Byker Auditorium & via Webex	George Schaible	PhD Candidate, Chemistry & Biochemistry, MSU, CBE	Investigating cellular differentiation within multicellular magnetotactic bacteria using genomics and correlative microscopy Contact CBE for remote access
Apr 14	Dr. Anita Shukla	Associate Professor, Engineering, Brown University	Smart antimicrobial biomaterials Contact CBE for remote access
Apr 21	Dr. Qian Wang	Assistant Research Professor, Microbiology & Cell Biology, MSU	Aerobic methane synthesis microbes Contact CBE for remote access
Apr 28	Dr. Tim Borgogna	Postdoctoral Researcher, CBE	Host interactions with biofilms on implants: Translating from in vitro to in vivo Contact CBE for remote access
May 5	Kirsten Kapp	Professor, Biological Sciences, Central Wyoming College	Exploring the multidimensional world of microplastic pollution Contact CBE for remote access