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