CBE Seminars + Events

Spring 2021 Seminar Series

All CBE seminars will be held via Zoom, at 3:00 p.m, unless otherwise noted.*

Wednesday, January 27

Faculty Candidate
Stewart A. Mallory
Postdoctoral Fellow – Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
California Institute of Technology

“Phase Behavior and Self-Assembly of Active Colloids”

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Wednesday, February 3

Faculty Candidate
Lu Lu
Instructor of Applied Mathematics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“Integrating Machine Learning and Multiscale Modeling in Biomedicine”

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Wednesday, February 10

Faculty Candidate
Jorge A. Marchand
Postdoctoral Fellow – Department of Genetics
Harvard University Medical School

“Engineering Bacteria to Expand the Chemistry of Life”

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Wednesday, February 17

Faculty Candidate
Madelyn R. Ball
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Georgia Institute of Technology

“Insights into Active Site Structures for Bimetallic Heterogeneous Catalysts”

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Wednesday, February 24

Faculty Candidate
Julea Vlassakis
Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Bioengineering
University of California – Berkeley

“Probing Protein Interactions from Molecular to Cellular Scales with Microscale Technologies”

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Wednesday, March 3

Randall Q. Snurr
John G. Searle Professor and Department Chair
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Northwestern University

“Metal-Organic Frameworks as Tunable Platforms for Gas Storage, Chemical Separations, and Catalysis”

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Wednesday, March 24

Sujit S. Datta
Assistant Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Princeton University

“Life in a Tight Spot: How Bacteria Move in Heterogeneous Media”

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Wednesday, March 31

Sriram Neelamegham
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
State University of New York – Buffalo

“Systems Biology of Glycosylation: Examples from Cancer Biology,
Inflammatory Disease and SARS-CoV-2 Infection”

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Wednesday, April 7

Hang Lu
Love Family Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Georgia Tech

“Engineering Microsystems and Computational Pipelines to Understand the Brain”

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Wednesday, April 14

James H. Pikul
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
University of Pennsylvania

“Robots That Eat, Breathe and Bleed”

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