CBE Seminars + Events
Spring 2022 Seminar Series
All CBE seminars will be held in the Wu and Chen Auditorium at 3:30 p.m, unless otherwise noted.*
Wednesday, January 19
Faculty Candidate
Connie Wu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School and Wyss Institute
“Tackling Disease-Associated Biomolecules: From RNA Therapeutics to Single-Molecule Detection”
Wednesday, January 26
Faculty Candidate
Fang Liu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Materials Science and Engineering
Stanford University
“Revealing the Unknown Dynamics of High-Energy-Density Lithium-Metal Batteries”
Wednesday, February 2
Faculty Candidate
Julie Rorrer
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“From Trash to Treasure: Advancing the Heterogeneous Catalytic Deconstruction and Upcycling of Waste Polyolefins”
Wednesday, February 9
Faculty Candidate
Molly Kozminsky
Postdoctoral Scholar
Chemical Engineering
University of California – Berkeley
“Investigating Biomedical Challenges Through State-of-the-Art DNA-based Technology”
Wednesday, February 16
Faculty Candidate
Dohyung Kim
Postdoctoral Scholar
Chemical Engineering
Stanford University
“Beyond Surface Facilitates Electrocatalyltic Reactions of Renewable Carbons”
Wednesday, February 23
Faculty Candidate
Juan Manuel Restrepo-Florez
Postdoctoral Associate
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Beyond Ethanol: A Process and Systems Engineering Framework for the Design of Advanced Biofuels”
Wednesday, March 2
Lily Cheung
Assistant Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
“Spying on Sugar Transporters: Kinetic Studies of Biomolecular Sensors”
Wednesday, March 23
Amir Haji-Akbari
Assistant Professor
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Yale University
“Too Small is Never Too Small: Utilizing Advanced Path Sampling Techniques
to Probe the Kinetics and Mechanism of Rare Events, From Atmospheric Ice
Nucleation to Ion Transport”
Wednesday, March 30
Joel L. Kaar
Associate Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of Colorado – Boulder
“Understanding and Designing Complex Materials to Stabilize Proteins and Enable Supra-Biological Properties”
Wednesday, April 6
Aaron D. Sadow
Professor of Chemistry
Iowa State University
“Progressive-Cleavage and Functionalization-Cleavage for Deconstruction of Polyolefins”
Wednesday, April 13
John A. Quinn Distinguished Lecture
Nicholas L. Abbott
Tisch University Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Cornell University
“Molecular and Colloidal Interactions in Water”
Wednesday, April 20
Christian W. Pester
Thomas K. Hepler Early Career Professor
Chemical Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
“Design of Advanced Functional Surfaces Using Oxygen-tolerant Photopolymerization”