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 in biofilm research and innovation. 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 2023-2024 seminar organizing committee

Kylie Bodle, PhD student, civil engineering
Kristen Connolly, technical operations manager
Kristen Griffin, communications & marketing
Emma Loveday, assistant research professor, microbiology & cell biology
Madie Willis, PhD student, land resources & environmental sciences
Kathryn Zimlich, PhD student, microbiology & cell biology

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

Fall 2023 Schedule

Thursdays
NEW TIME: 2:10 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Mountain Time (MT) unless otherwise noted below*
Location: Barnard 108 unless otherwise noted below*

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Presentation Title
Oct 5	Dr. Jing Yan	Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, Yale University	Bacterial biofilm as self-shaping active matter
Oct 12	Dr. Laura Jennings	Research Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, University of Montana	Sugar-coated, multidrug-resistant bacteria as targets for new antimicrobial therapeutics
Oct 19	Dr. Sunanda Sharma	Postdoctoral Scholar, Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Searching for organics and minerals on Mars with SHERLOC
Oct 26	Dr. Hannah Schweitzer	ORISE Research Scientist, DOE-NETL; Affiliate Research Faculty, Montana State University	Diversity and selection of surface marine microbiomes in Arctic ecosystems
Nov 2	Dr. Andrew Jones	Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University	Defending the Colony: Mathematical and experimental tools for studying Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Nov 9	Dr. Sheyda Azimi	Assistant Professor, Biology, Georgia State University	Intra-species bacterial population dynamics shapes the biogeography of infection
Nov 16	Dr. Julia Willett	Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Minnesota Medical School	Functional genomics of Enterococcus faecalis biofilm formation and morphology
Nov 23	No Seminar - Fall Break
Nov 30	Seminar cancelled
Dec 7	No Seminar - Last week of classes