Announcing the National ChemE Seminar Series highlighting future faculty and the diversity of our discipline!

The talks will be at 9am Pacific/12pm Eastern on Fridays starting on September 3

The chemical engineering departments at the Northeastern University and Princeton University have organized a future faculty seminar series to highlight chemical engineering graduate students of diverse backgrounds.

Date

Speaker

Title

Session Chairs

September 3

Colin Hisey

Developing Micro and Nanotechnologies for Extracellular Vesicle Research

  • Thanos Panagiotopoulos (Princeton)
  • Rebecca Willits (Northeastern)
  • John Kitchin (CMU)

September 10

Sean Najmi

Reducible Oxides Catalyze the Aldol Condensation Reaction of Biomass Derived Oxygenates

  • Thanos Panagiotopoulos (Princeton)
  • Rebecca Willits (Northeastern)
  • Panagiotis Christofides (UCLA)
  • John Kitchen (CMU)

Susan Leggett

Cell-level heterogeneity alters breast cancer progression in an engineered tumor model

September 17

Ethan Kamphaus

Ab-initio Simulation Applied to Next Generation Lithium Battery Technology

  • Eric Bay (U Texas San Antonio)
  • Mark Swihart (Buffalo)
  • Panagiotis Christofides (UCLA)

Andrea Joseph

Nanoparticle Design for the Treatment of Neonatal Brain Injuries

September 24

Jenna Ott

Competition between chemotactic dispersal andbiofilm growth in bacterial communities

  • Randy Snurr (Northwestern) 
  • Rachel Segalman (UCSB)
  • Rebecca Carrier (Northeastern)

Rodrigo Reboucas

A Pairwise Hydrodynamic Theory for Flow-Induced Particle Transport in Creeping Flows

October 1

Mingfei Zhao

Multiscale Modeling of Hierarchical Nanomaterials Via Molecular and Colloidal Self-Assembly

  • Mark Swihart (Buffalo)
  • Paulette Clancy (JHU)
  • Paul Kenis (UIUC)
  • Sharon Glotzer (Michigan)

Jean C. Rivera

Title TBD

October 8

Phillip Taylor 

Computational Studies of the Phase Transitions and Self-Assembly of Peptide-based Biomaterials

  • Mark Swihart (Buffalo)
  • Ali Mesbah (UC Berkeley)
  • Paul Kenis (UIUC)

Matthew Rivera

Analysis of the Transport of Guest Molecules in Molecularly Mixed Composite Membranes Containing Porous Organic Cages

October 15

Deirdra Ward

Dual Stimuli-Responsive Polycationic Nanoparticles for MicroRNA Delivery

  • Eric Brey (U Texas San Antonio)
  • Rebecca Willits (Northeastern)
  • Paul Kenis (UIUC)

Aisulu Aitbekova

X-ray absorption spectroscopy reveals the dynamic nature of catalysts

October 22

Anna Malakian

New Strategies to Improve Performance of Membrane Filtration Processes

  • Ali Mesbah (UC Berkeley)
  • Mark Swihart (Buffalo)
  • Prodromos Daoutidis (UMN)

Mackenzie Clay

Title TBD

October 29

Solomon Oyakhire

Understanding and Controlling the Electrodeposition of Lithium Metal Using Atomic Layer Deposition

  • Paulette Clancy (JHU) 
  • John Kitchin (CMU)
  • Rebecca Willits (Northeastern)
  • Prodromos Daoutidis (UMN)

Asuka Orr

Engineering Computational Tools for the Study and Design of Molecular Systems

November 5

Alexa Kuenstler

Leveraging Dynamic Covalent Bonds in Semi-Crystalline Polymer Networks for High-Performance Materials

  • Randy Snurr (Northwestern)
  • Paulette Clancy (JHU)
  • Rachel Segalman (UCSB)

Jason Madinya

Field Theory Description of Polyelectrolyte and Charged Surfactant Micelle Coacervation

November 19

Obioma Uche

Title TBD

  • Randy Snurr (Northwestern)
  • Eric Brey (U Texas San Antonio)
  • Rebecca Carrier (Northeastern)

Javier Huayta

Predicting longevity through in vivo analysis of gene activity enabled by CRISPR and quantitative image analysis

December 3

Antonio Del Rio Flores

Biosynthesis of Triacsins with an N-hydroxytriazene Pharmacophore

  • Randy Snurr (Northwestern)
  • John Kitchin (CMU)
  • Panagiotis Christofides (UCLA)

Gabriel J Rodriguez Rivera

Injectable hydrogels for treatment of ventricular arrhythmias

December 10

Katie Herbert

Title TDB

  • Paul Kenis (UIUC)
  • Panagiotis Christofides (UCLA)
  • Sharon Glotzer (Michigan)
  • Prodromos Daoutidis (UMN)

Sebastian Sensale

Sensing DNA With DNA – Nucleic Acid Sensing and Applications of DNA Origami Nanotechnologies