CBE Seminar Series
Year Published: 2021
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 2020-2021 seminar organizing committee
- Reha Abbasi, PhD student, chemical & biological engineering
- Arda Akyel, PhD student, chemical & biological engineering
- Sobia Anjum, PhD student, chemical & biological engineering
- Kristen Brileya, technical operations manager
- Brian Pettygrove, PhD student, microbiology & immunology
- Shawna Pratt, PhD student, chemical & biological engineering
- Heidi Smith, Core Imaging Facility manager
- 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 2021 Schedule
- Thursdays, 4:10 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time (MST)
- Virtual via WebEx
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title/Topic |
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Jan 14 |
Dr. Paul Sturman |
Industrial Coordinator, Center for Biofilm Engineering |
The CBE Industrial Associates Program: Our history and forward progress
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Jan 21 |
No Seminar |
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Jan 28 |
No Seminar | ||
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Feb 4 |
Dr. Howard Stone |
Donald R. Dixon ’69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
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Fluid dynamics of speech: Mechanisms underlying COVID-19 transmission
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| Feb 11 | Dr. Knut Drescher | Professor, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology & Philipps-Universität Marburg |
Insights into biofilm growth and function enabled by image cytometry
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Feb 18 |
Dr. Gerhard Herndl |
Professor, Chair of Aquatic Biology Microbial Oceanography Group Dept. of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Vienna
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Biofilm microbial communities in surface and deep waters |
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Feb 25 |
Dr. Maryam Salehi |
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering, University of Memphis
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Investigation of the role of biofilm, plastic surface aging, and water chemistry on lead deposition onto and released from plastics
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Mar 4 |
Dr. Hans Steenackers |
Assistant Professor, Microbial and Molecular Systems, KU Leuven, Belgium
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Cooperation and competition in biofilms: Novel targets for antimicrobial treatment
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Mar 11 |
Dr. Caitlin Proctor |
Asst. Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering; Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University
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The biofilms you bathe with
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Mar 18 |
Dr. Kendra Rumbaugh
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Professor, Department of Surgery, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center |
Understanding and treating biofilms in wounds
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Mar 25 |
Dr. Hans Bernstein |
Associate Professor, Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, The Arctic University of Norway
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Hot Lake: A story of salty biofilms, chemical gradients and succession dynamics
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Apr 1* *10:00 a.m. MST
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Dr. Alma Dal Co |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
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Interaction networks in microbial communities |
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Apr 8 |
Dr. Luanne Hall-Stoodley |
Associate Professor, Microbial Infection and Immunity; Director, BSL3 Program, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University
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Airway Infections: aggregates, bacteria, and biofilms
Contact CBE for WebEx access |
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Apr 15 |
Dr. Haluk Beyenal |
Paul Hohenschuh Distinguished Professor, Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, Washington State University
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Electrochemical control of wound biofilm infections
Contact CBE for WebEx access |
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Apr 22 |
No Seminar - Last week of classes | ||
Past Seminars
2020-Fall-CBE-Seminar-Schedule
2020-Spring-CBE-Seminar-Schedule
2019-Fall-CBE-Seminar-Schedule
2019-Spring-CBE-Seminar-Schedule