Chemical Engineering Seminars

Spring 2019

All seminars will be held in 254 Health & Human Development Building from 10:50-11:50 a.m. unless otherwise noted.

Thursday, January 10
Dr. Yifei Zhang, Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Columbia University
Seminar Title: “Engineering Multienzyme Systems for Advanced Biomanufacturing”

Tuesday, January 15
Joaquin Resasco, Postdoctoral Researcher
University of California, Santa Barbara 
Seminar Title: "Understanding and controlling the complexity of catalytic active sites"

Thursday, January 17 
Jovan Kamcev, Postdoctoral Scholar 
University of California, Berkeley 
Seminar Title: "Advanced Polymeric Materials for Water and Energy Applications: Relating Molecular Structure to Macroscopic Properties"

Tuesday, January 22 
Kate Galloway, Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Southern California
Seminar Title: "Slick Software, Slow Hardware: Balancing Biophysical Tradeoffs Drives Cellular Reprogramming"

Thursday, January 24 
Hee Jeung Oh, Postdoctoral Researcher
University of California, Berkeley 
Seminar Title: "Molecular Scale Engineering of Membranes for Environment, Energy, and Health"

Tuesday, January 29
Laurel Hind, Postdoctoral Scholar 
University of Wisconsin - Madison 
Seminar Title: "Eucidating The Role of the Microenvironment in Directing Innate Immune Cell Motility"

Tuesday, February 5 
Amir Sheikhi, Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California at Los Angeles 
Seminar Title: "Micro- and Nanoengineering Cellulose, Layered Minerals, and Proteins for Environmental & Biomedical Applications"

Thursday, February 28
Bryan D.  Vogt, Professor of Polymer Engineering
University of Akron 
Seminar Title: “Engineering Material Solutions for Additive Manufacture of Tough Plastic Parts”

Thursday, March 21
Yaroslava Yingling, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
North Carolina State 
Seminar Title: TBD

Thursday, March 28
Huimin Zhao, Steven L. Miller Chair Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Bioengineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Seminar Title: “Synthetic Biology: Putting Synthesis into Biology”

Thursday, April 11
Astha Garg, Data Scientist
Citrine Informatics San Francisco Bay Area
Seminar Title: “Science-based Machine Learning for Materials Development”

Thursday, April 18
T. Alan Hatton, Ralph Landau Professor and the Director of the David H. Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Seminar Title: “Redox-Mediated Electro-sorption for Chemical and Environmental Separation”

Thursday, April 25
Jan Genzer, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
North Carolina State University
Seminar Title: TBD