News and Events
Spring 2010 Seminars
All seminars are held in 102 Chemistry Building from 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. on
Thursdays unless otherwise noted.
Thursday, January 7
Jungkyu Choi
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- University of California, Berkeley
- "Microstructural Control to Achieve High Performance MFI Type Zeolite Inorganic Membranes"
- http://cheme.berkeley.edu/
Thursday, January 21
Miao Yu
- Department of Chemical Engineering - The Falconer Group
- University of Colorado - Boulder
- "Nanoporous Inorganic Membranes for Energy and Environment Applications"
- www.colorado.edu/che/falconer/miaoyu.htm/
Thursday, January 28
Thomas K. Wood
- Professor and T. Michael O'Connor II Chair
- Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering
- Texas A&M University
- "Cellular Sleeping Pills and Engineered Biofilm Systems"
- http://cheweb.tamu.edu/orgs/groups/Wood/
Thursday, February 4
Michael W. Deem
- John W. Cox Professor, Biochemical & Genetic Engineering
- Bioengineering and Physics & Astronomy
- Rice University
- "Vaccine Design for Influenza"
- www.mwdeem.rice.edu/
Thursday, February 11
Angela D. Lueking
- Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering
- The Pennsylvania State University
- "Nanomaterials for Gas Storage and Separations via a Trapping Mechanism"
- www.eme.psu.edu/faculty/lueking.html
Thursday, February 18
Qiaobing Xu
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- "Soft-nanotechnology: Functional Nanomaterials from Top-down
Fabrication and Bottom-up Self-assembly"
Thursday, March 4
Daniel Heller
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Optical Sensor Technologies"
- http://web.mit.edu/dheller/www
Tuesday, March 16
Shelly Peyton
- Tuesday, March 16
- Department of Biological Engineering
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- "Physicochemical Control of Cell Migration Using Engineered Extracellular Matrices"
Thursday, March 18
Esther Gomez
- Chemical Engineering and Molecular Biology
- Princeton University
- "Mechanical regulation of epithelial-mesenchymal transition"
- Nelson research group
- Relocated to 14 Life Sciences Building
- Where is the Life Sciences Building?
Thursday, March 25
Nikhil Nair
- Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- "Synergy of protein and genome engineering for fuels and chemicals production"
- Zhao research group
- Relocated to 14 Life Sciences Building
- Where is the Life Sciences Building?
Tuesday, March 30
Ravindra Kane
- Seminar rescheduled from 02/26/10
- P. K. Lashmet Professor
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Rensselear Polytechnic Institute
- "The Design of Nanoscale Therapeutics and Nanostructured Materials"
- www.rpi.edu/~Kaner/
Thursday, April 8
Randall J. Meyer
- Assistant Professor
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- University of Illinois at Chicago
- "Building Small Metal Clusters on Oxide Surfaces with Organometallics:
the Beginnings of a Story" - www.uic.edu/labs/rmeyer/
Thursday, April 15
Robert Davis
- Earnest Jackson Oglesby Professor and Chair
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- University of Virginia
- "Catalytic Conversion of Biorenewable Molecules to Fuels and Chemicals"
- www.che.virginia.edu/people/faculty/davis.php
Tuesday, April 20
Huimin Zhao
- Centennial Endowed Chair
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- University of Illinois
- "Microbial Synthesis of Drugs and Fuels via Synthetic Biology"
- http://chbe.illinois.edu/Faculty/zhao.php
Thursday, April 29
David Sholl
- The Michael E. Tennenbaum Family Chair & G R A Eminent Scholar for Energy Sustainability
- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- "Accelerating development of membranes using materials modeling:
metal alloys and metal organic frameworks" - www.chbe.gatech.edu/faculty/sholl.php