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 2022-2023 seminar organizing committee

Kylie Bodle, PhD student, civil engineering
Kristen Connolly, technical operations manager
Olayinka Durojaye, PhD student, civil engineering
Kristen Griffin, communications & marketing
Emma Loveday, assistant reserach professor, microbiology & cell biology
Isaac Miller, 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.

Spring 2023 Schedule

Thursdays, 4:10 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Mountain Time (MT) unless otherwise noted below*
Location: American Indian Hall Rm 102 unless otherwise noted below*

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title/Topic
Jan 19	First week of classes - No Seminar
Jan 26	No Seminar
Feb 2 *10am MST Barn 126	Dr. Natalia Ivleva	Lecturer, Analytical Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Germany	Applicability and limitations of Raman microspectroscopy for analysis of microorganisms and biofilms on the single-cell level
Feb 9	No Seminar
Feb 16	Dr. Danielle Ulrich	Assistant Professor, Ecology, Montana State University	Plant-microbe interactions influence plant physiology under drought
Feb 23 9am MST NAH 337*	Dr. Cecilia Burzio	Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden	Removal of micropollutants from wastewater in aerobic granular sludge and activated sludge systems
Mar 2	Colin Gauvin	Assistant Manager, Cryo-EM Facility, Martin Lawrence Lab, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University	Cryo-EM at MSU: From atoms to cells
Mar 2	Luke Findlay	Graduate student, Martin Lawrence Lab, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University	Structural studies of ribosome hibernation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Mar 9	No Seminar
Mar 16	No Seminar - MSU Spring Break
Mar 23	Dr. Erica McKenzie	Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Temple University	An environmental chemist’s musings on chemical pollutants in a biological world: Case studies of stormwater denitrification and PFAS biouptake
Mar 30 Undergraduate Research Day	Mykole (Kole) Stone	Yaofa Li Lab, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Montana State University	Achieving photo manipulation of oil droplets in microfluidic systems
	Jessica Dewit	Diane Bimczok Lab, Cell Biology and Neurobiology, Montana State University	Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae biofilms contribute to antibiotic resistance and pathogen persistence in the ovine respiratory tract
	Lydia Diehl	Brent Peyton Lab, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Montana State University, Center for Biofilm Engineering	Title TBA
Apr 6	Dr. Prathap Parameswaran	Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, Kansas State University	Title TBA
Apr 13 9am MDT NAH 337*	Dr. Mette Burmølle	Associate Professor, Microbiology, University of Copenhagen	Title TBA
Apr 20 *Co-hosted with MSU's Thermal Biology Institute	Scott Perl	Research Scientist, NASA, JPL	Title TBA
Apr 27	Dr. Chelsea Heveran	Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Montana State University, Center for Biofilm Engineering	Title TBA
May 4	Dr. Hannah Schweitzer		Title TBA
May 11	Finals Week - No Seminar