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 Brileya, technical operations manager
Huyen Bui, assistant research professor, chemical & biological engineering
Olayinka Durojaye, PhD student, civil engineering
Isaac Miller, PhD student, microbiology & cell biology
Shawna Pratt, PhD student, chemical & biological engineering

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

Fall 2022 Schedule

Thursdays, 4:10 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Mountain Time (MT) unless otherwise noted below*
Location: Barnard 108 unless otherwise noted below*

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title/Topic
Aug 22	No Seminar-First week of classes
Sep 1	Dr. Huyen Bui	Assistant Research Professor, Chemical & Biological Engineering, Montana State University, Center for Biofilm Engineering	Bacterial-algal interactions in high pH-high alkalinity algal cultivation
Sep 8	No Seminar
Sep 15	Dr. Brandon Briggs	Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska	Microbe-mineral interactions: From extreme environments to biotechnological advances
Sep 22	Sara Toja-Ortega	Visiting PhD Student, TU Delft	Removal of polymeric substrates from wastewater by aerobic granular sludge technology
Sep 29	Professor Christopher Hernandez	Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University	Microbes and Biomechanics
Oct 6	Dr. Christopher Smith	Director, R&D-Bozeman, Nature's Fynd	Sustainable protein production for food applications from a microbe, Fusarium strain flavolapis, isolated from Yellowstone National Park
Oct 13	No Seminar
Oct 20	Dr. Neerja Zambare	Linus Pauling Fellow, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Calcium carbonate formation by bacteria–nano-scale insights and attempts at combating the ammonium problem
Oct 27	Dr. Jill Mikucki	Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville	Cryptic cryospheric habitats: Extremophile refuge and astrobiological analogs
Nov 3 Alt time: 9:00 am MST Virtual Only	Lan Li Wong	PhD Candidate, Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering	Surface (S-) layer protein mediates bacterial organization in a key industrial and environmental anammox biofilm
Nov 10	No Seminar
Nov 17	No Seminar
Nov 24	Fall Break - No Seminar
Dec 1	Dr. Anthony Bertagnolli	Senior Research Scientist, Department of Microbiology, Montana State University	Net-spinning caddisflies create denitrifier-enriched niches in montane stream biofilms
Dec 8	Last Week of Classes - No Seminar
Dec 15	Finals Week - No Seminar