CBE Seminars + Events
Fall 2019 Seminar Series
All CBE seminars are in Wu and Chen Auditorium at 3:00 p.m, unless otherwise noted.
Wednesday, September 4
Stanislav Shvartsman – Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Princeton University
“Embryogenesis: A Cascade of Dynamical Systems”
Wednesday, September 11
Cecelia Leal – Associate Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Complexity in the Chemistry and Physics of Lipid Membranes as a Handle to Activate the Delivery of Cargo to Cells”
Wednesday, September 18
Diwakar Shukla – Blue Waters Assistant Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Evolution of the Conformational-free Energy Landscapes of Proteins”
Wednesday, September 25
Leila Deravi – Assistant Professor
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Northeastern University
“Protein-integrated Electronics: From Molecules to Machines”
Wednesday, October 2
Charles Sing – Assistant Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Thermodynamics of Sequence-defined Polyelectrolyte Complexes”
Wednesday, October 16
Connie Chang – Assistant Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Montana State University
“Examining Heterogeneous Populations of Microbes at the Single Cell Level Using Stabilized Emulsions”
Wednesday, October 23
Yushan Yan – Distinguished Professor
Engineering
University of Delaware
“Toward Platinum-free Fuel Cells for Affordable Zero-emission Vehicles”
Wednesday, October 30
Dan Hickman – Fellow
Engineering and Process Science
Dow Chemical Company
“Chemical Reactor Scale-Up: Principles and Practice at Dow”
Wednesday, November 6
Yong Lak Joo – BP Amoco/H. Laurance Fuller Professor
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Cornell University
“Tailoring Processes and Assembly of Nanomaterials for Electrochemical Energy Storage”
Wednesday, November 20
Joelle Frechette – Associate Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
“Soft, Wet, and Sticky: Viscous Forces and Elasticity in Wet Adhesion”