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 2025-2026 seminar organizing committee

Kristen Connolly, Technical Operations Manager
Kristen Griffin, Communications & Marketing
Hossein Khadivar, PhD student, Chemical & Biological Engineering
Jake Marquis, PhD student, Microbiology & Cell Biology
Ghazal Vahidi, Postdoctoral Researcher, CBE
Ethan Viles, PhD student, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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

Spring 2026 Schedule

Thursdays
NEW TIME: 2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Mountain Time (MT) *unless otherwise noted below
Location: Cobleigh 429

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Presentation Title
01/15	First week of classes: No seminar
01/22	Dr. Roland Hatzenpichler	Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Montana State University, Center for Biofilm Engineering	The new kids on the block: Methanogens in the Thermoproteota
01/29
02/05
02/12
02/19
02/26
03/05
03/12	Dr. Sara Molinari	Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland	TBA
03/19	Spring Break: No seminar
03/26
04/02
04/09	Dr. Michael Neubauer	Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Biofilm Engineering	TBA
04/16	Dr. Isaak Thornton	Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Biofilm Engineering	TBA
04/23	Dr. Jacob Valenzuela	Senior Research Scientist, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington	TBA
04/30
05/07	Last week of classes: No seminar