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Michael Petrecca
Chair: Dr. Peter Fedkiw
“Applications of Polymers at Electrified Interfaces: Hierarchical Shear-Derived Battery Components; and Characterization of Polyester Powder Coatings”
Friday, December 6, 2024
9:00 AM
EB1 1005

Febby Krisnadi
Chair: Dr. Michael Dickey
“Liquid Metal Foams: Printable Inks, Growing Conductors, Shiny Engimas”
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
10:00 AM
EB1 2105

Yug Chandra Saraswat
Chair: Dr. Lilian Hsiao
“Combining Visualization with Rheology in Designer Composite Gels and Dense Suspensions”
Tuesday, February 14, 2025
10:00 AM
EB1 2018

Sobhana Alekhya Sripada
Chair: Dr. Stefano Menegatti
“Purification of Protein Therapeutics by Flow-Through Affinity Chromatography”
Friday, November 15, 2024
11:30 AM
FWH 2321

Matthew Dorsey
Chair: Dr. Carol Hall
“Self-Assembly of Anisotropic Magnetic Colloidal Particles in an External Field”
Friday, October 25, 2024
3:00 PM
Zoom (remote)

Leo Brody
Chair: Dr. Fanxing Li
“Perovskite-Structured Oxides as Redox-Activated CO2 Sorbents for Sorption-Enhanced Cyclic Partial Oxidation Reactions”
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
3:00 PM
EB1 1005

Zach Hetzler
Chair: Dr. Qingshan Wei
“A Toolbox Approach to Biomanufacturing Analytical Technology Development”
Monday, October 21, 2024
10:00 AM
PSB 4152

Oindrila Hossain
Chair: Dr. Qingshan Wei
“Advances in Rapid, Low-Cost Miniaturized VOC Sensors for Detecting Plant Pathogens and Monitoring Vegetable Quality”
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
2:00 PM
PSB 3152

Sean Steadley
Chair: Dr. Erik Santiso
“A Molecular Dynamics Study of Liquid Crystalline Copolymers of 4-Hydroxybenzoic Acid and 6-Hydroxy-2-naphthoic Acid”
Monday, October 7, 2024
12:00 PM
EB1 2018

Noor Mohammad
Chair: Dr. Qingshan Wei
“Discovery of Novel Reporters and Detection Mechanism for CRISPR-Based Point-of-Care Diagnostics”
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
10:00 AM
PSB 3158

Himendra Perera
Chair: Dr. Saad Khan
“General understanding of complex fluid flows utilizing rheology and big data”
Friday, September 13, 2024
11:00 AM
T&V Room/Hunt Library

Sneha Mukherjee
Chair: Dr. Orlin Velev
Co-chair: Dr. Michael Dickey
“Rational Design of Colloidal Strategies for Manipulation of Biomolecules and DNA for Microbioassays and Data Storage”
Friday, September 6, 2024
10:00 AM
EB1 2018

Van Thanh Tran Nguyen
Chair: Dr. Carol Hall
Co-chair: Dr. Erik Santiso
“Development of user-friendly DMD/PRIME20 software package and its application to investigate aggregation of Alpha-Synuclein N-terminal fragments”
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
1:00 PM
EB1 3018

Xin Dong
Chair: Dr. Carol Hall
“Modulating peptide aggregation: Insights from coarse-grained simulations”
Monday, August 12, 2024
11:00 AM
EB1 2018

Nidhi M. Diwakar
Chair: Dr. Orlin Velev
“New principles and applications of active particle propulsion driven by electrical and chemical gradients”
Friday, August 9, 2024
9:00 AM
EB1 2015

Mariam Sohail
Chair: Dr. Saad Khan
“Sustainable Design of Controlled Release Agriculture Formulations: Rheological Characterization and Incorporation of Diverse Cargo”
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
11:00 AM
EB1 2015

Prottasha Sarker
Co-Chair: Dr. Saad Khan
Co-Chair: Dr. Orlando Rojas
“Interactions and Rheological Properties of Biopolymer-Based Systems”
Monday, August 5, 2024
11:00 AM
EB1 2015

Daniel J. Willard
Chair: Dr. Robert Kelly
“The Confluence of Abiotic and Biotic Chemistry int eh Development and Metabolic Engineering of Sulfur-Oxidizing Archaea”
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
2:00 PM
EB1 2018

James Lichty
Chair: Dr. Adriana San Miguel
“Model and Tool Development for Studying Alzheimer’s Disease in the Organism C. elegans”
Friday, June 14, 2024
9:00 AM
EB1 2018

Zidan Li
Chair: Dr. Nathan Crook
“Evolutionary Strategies for Enhanced Performance in Bacteria”
Friday, June 7, 2024
12:00 PM
EB1 2018

Carly Catella
Co-chair: Dr. Nathan Crook
Co-chair: Dr. Stefano Menegatti
“Development of peptide and nanobody toxin inhibitors for treatment of Clostridioides difficile Infection”
Monday, May 20, 2024
10:00 AM
PSB 1322A

Ryan Gordon Bing
Chair: Dr. Robert Kelly
“Metabolic Engineering and Optimization of Non-native Solventogenic Lignocellulose Fermentation by the Extreme Thermophile Anaerocellum bescii”
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
3:30 PM
EB1 2018

Lilian Bridgits Okello
Chair: Dr. Orlin Velev
“Integration of Magneto-Capillary Effects in Novel Multiphase Inks for 3D Printing and Soft Robotics”
Monday, May 6, 2024
12:00 PM
EB1 2018

Hwan Oh
Chair: Dr. Gregory Parsons
“Dual-Material Area-Selective Deposition for Advanced Nanopatterning”
Monday, May 6, 2024
10:00 AM
EB1 3018

Shengwei Zhang
Chair: Dr. Qingshan Wei
“Plasmonic Smartphone Microscopy for Biosensing and Disease Diagnostics”
Thursday, May 2, 2024
3:00 PM
PSB 3158

Sherafghan Iftikhar
Chair: Dr. Fanxing Li
“Sustainable Carbon Dioxide and Methane Conversion via Thermochemical Cyclic Reactions”
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
1:30 PM
EB2 3002

Alison Waldman
Co-Chair: Dr. Albert Keung
Co-Chair: Dr. Balaji Rao
“A yeast surface display platform for the mapping of histone acetyltransferases”
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
1:00 PM
Toxicology 2104

Pallav Kirti Jani
Co-Chair: Dr. Saad Khan
Co-Chair: Dr. Lilian Hsiao
“Uncovering interfacial mechanisms in hybrid polymer systems”
Friday, March 15, 2024
12:00 PM
EB1 2015

John van Schaik
Chair: Dr. Nathan Crook
“Synthetic Biology Methods for Engineering Root Microbiomes”
Thursday, March 14, 2024
10:00 AM
EB1 2018

Ryan Kilgore
Chair: Dr. Stefano Menegatti
“Bespoke Peptide Affinity Resins: Enhancing the Purification of Biopharmaceuticals and Gene Editing Products”
Friday, March 8, 2024
10:00 AM
EB1 2018

Ronald Christopher Estridge
Chair: Dr. Albert Keung
“Advancing Tools to Accelerate the Study of Human Neurodevelopment”
Friday, February 23, 2024
11:00 AM
EB1 2018

Rakshit Kumar Jain
Co-Chair: Dr. Erik Santiso
Co-Chair: Dr. Carol Hall
“Computational Methods to Study Secondary Structure and Physical Properties of Peptoids”
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
2:00 PM
EB1 2018

Vahid Rahmanian
Chair: Dr. Saad Khan
“Hybrid Nanofibrous Aerogels: Strategies Towards Design and Functionality”
Friday, November 10, 2023
10:00 AM
EB1 2018

Leah Granger
Co-Chair: Dr. Greg Parsons
Co-Chair: Dr. Donald Brenner
“Modeling energetics across interfaces: atomistic molecular dynamics simulations of metal/metal and metal/metal oxide interfaces”
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
10:00 AM
EB1 2015

Fazel Bateni
Chair: Dr. Milad Abolhasani
“Autonomous Microfluidic Synthesis of Metal Cation-Doped Perovskite Quantum Dots”
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
9:00 AM
EB1 3018

Bradley Davis
Co-Chair: Dr. Milad Abolhasani
Co-Chair: Dr. Jan Genzer
“Ligand-Free Catalysis Using Polymer Network Supports and a Continuous Flow Platform for Pharmaceutical and Fine Chemical Synthesis”
Friday, July 28, 2023
1:00 PM
EB1 2018

Junchen Liu
Chair: Dr. Fanxing Li
“CO2 Utilization, Mitigation for Hydrocarbon and Alkylbenzene Conversion via Chemical Looping Approach”
Friday, July 28, 2023
9:00 AM
EB1 2018

Kevin Lin
Chair: Dr. Albert Keung
“Biomolecular Engineering for Accessing and Manipulating Digital and Biological Information”
Friday, July 14, 2023
2:00 PM
Toxicology 2104

Eduardo Barbieri
Chair: Dr. Stefano Menegatti
“Bacteria- and Virus-Targeting Peptides for Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Applications”
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
9:30 AM
EB3 4142

Sunyoung Woo
Chair: Dr. Jan Genzer
“Formation and properties of surface grafted functional networks and brushes”
Monday, July 10, 2023
1:00 PM
EB1 2018

Sarah Morgan
Chair: Dr. Greg Parsons
“Sorption-vapor synthesis: a new method for producing metal-organic framework fabric composites”
Friday, July 7, 2023
10:00 AM
EB1 2015

Zvikomborero Machikiti
Co-Chair: Dr. Jan Genzer
Co-Chair: Dr. Kirill Efimenko
“A Systematic Approach to Tuning Adhesion Strength in Polymer-Polymer Systems”
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
11:00 AM
EB1 2018

Sooik Im
Co-Chair: Dr. Michael Dickey
Co-Chair: Dr. Jan Genzer
“Surface and Interfacial Phenomena in Soft Materials”
Monday, June 26, 2023
10:00 AM
EB1 2018

Thomas Rudibaugh
Chair: Dr. Albert Keung
“Developing an Ex Vivo Model of the Mesolimbic Pathway for Studying Drug Responses”
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
11:00 AM
EB1 2018

Brandyn Moore
Co-Chair: Dr. Stefano Menegatti
Co-Chair: Dr. Michael Daniele
“Discovery of Peptide Ligands for the Light-Responsive Purification of Hematopoietic Stem Cells and the Universal Purification of Exosomes”
Monday, June 19, 2023
9:00 AM
EB1 3018

Sudeep Sarma 
Chair: Dr. Carol Hall
“Computational Redesign of Peptides as Detectors, Drugs, and Biomaterials”
Monday, June 12, 2023
1:00 PM
EB1 3018

Mohammad (Milad) Shamsi
Co-Chair: Dr. Michael Dickey
Co-Chair: Dr. Richard Spontak
“Fundamental Study of Thermoplastic Elastomer Fibers”
Monday, May 15, 2023
3:00 PM
REMOTE

Andrew Clark
Chair: Dr. Adriana San Miguel
“Microfluidics and Quantitative Image Processing for High Throughput Biology Studies”
Thursday, May 4, 2023
10:00 AM
EB1 3018

Ernesto Daniel Cardenas Vasquez
Chair: Dr. Erik Santiso
“In-Silico Novel Solvent-Based Molecular Method For Crystal Nucleation in Solution”
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
2:00 PM
EB1 3018

Katie Kilgour
Co-Chair: Dr. Stefano Menegatti
Co-Chair: Dr. Michael Daniele
“Affinity Binding of Proteins and Peptides for Growth Factor Display and Rapid Antibody Quantification”
Friday, April 28, 2023
9:30 AM
EB3 4142

Yosra Kotb
Chair: Dr. Orlin Velev
“Colloidal Stability and Adhesivity of Safe and Sustainable Polymer and Biopolymer Films”
Thursday, April 27, 2023
12:00 PM
EB1 2015

Amelia Chen
Chair: Dr. Carol Hall
“Conjugation of DOPA and Amyloid-forming Peptides for Molecular Design of Underwater Adhesives”
Friday, April 21, 2023
3:30 PM
REMOTE

Amanda Volk
Chair: Dr. Elizabeth Dickey
“Algorithm Driven Development of Fringe Layer-by-Layer Deposition Techniques”
Friday, January 27, 2023
3:00 PM
REMOTE

Rachel Bang
Chair: Dr. Lokendra Pal
“Multiphasic Liquid Nanofabrication and Characterization of a Multitude of Soft Matter Morphologies”
Thursday, January 5, 2023
10:00 AM
EBI 2018

Scott Baldwin
Chair: Dr. Jason Haugh
“Analysis of Fibroblast Chemotaxis and Haptotaxis using Novel Microfluidic Devices, Mathematical Modeling, and Quantative Image Processing”
Tuesday, November 11, 2022
2:30 PM
EBI 3018

Deniz Durmusoglu
Chair: Dr. Nathan Crook
“Establishing  Probiotic Yeast Saccharomyces Boulardii as an In-Gut Biomanufacturing Platform”
Friday, October 14, 2022
1:00 PM
EBI 3018

James Crosby
Chair: Dr. Robert Kelly
“Biochemical, Regulatory, and Metabolic Assessment of Hemicellulose Conversion by the Extreme Thermophile Caldicellulosiruptor bescii”
Thursday, October 13, 2022
11:00 AM
Online

Tunyaboon Laemthong
Chair: Dr. Robert Kelly
“Engineering the Cell Surface of Caldicellulosiruptor bescii to Enhance Ability to Deconstruct Lignocellulosic Plant Biomass”
Thursday, October 6, 2022
1:00 PM
Online

Ibrahim Al’Abri
Chair: Drs. Nathan Crook and Adriana San Miguel Delgadillo
“Adaptive and Directed Evolution Approaches to Enhance Probiotics Residence Time in the GI Tract”
Monday, August 29, 2022
12:00 PM
EB1 2018

Ryan Tam
Chair: Dr. Albert Keung
“Characterizing Responses in Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Medium Spiny Neuron-Like Cells”
Monday, August 22, 2022
11:00 AM
EB1 2018

Yuan Tian
Co-chairs: Drs. Fanxing Li and Phillip Westmoreland
“Redox Properties of Mixed Metal Oxides for Chemical Looping Combustion and Beyond”
Thursday, August 11, 2022
10:00 AM
Remote

Scott Collins
Co-chairs: Drs. Chase Beisel and Nathan Crook
“Controlling Outcomes in CRISPR-based Genome Editing”
Monday, July 11, 2022
10:00 AM
EB1 2018

Emily Krzystowczyk
Chair: Dr. Fanxing Li
“Oxygen Sorbent Design and Process Analysis for Thermochemical Air Separation”
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
9:00 AM
EBI 2018

Adam Bachmann
Chair: Dr. Michael Dickey
“Unconventional Laser Fabrication of Electronic Devices.”
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
10:00 AM
EB1 2018

Jungsik Kim
Chair: Dr. Gregory Parsons
“Area-selective Deposition of Organic/Inorganic Materials by Atomic Layer Deposition, Molecular Layer Deposition and Chemical Vapor Deposition”
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
2:00 PM
EBI 2018

Javier Huayta Ramirez
Chair: Dr. Adriana San Miguel
“Quantitative analysis of the Effects of Environmental Factors on Lifespan and Stress Resistance of C. Elegans.”
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
EB2 2018

Joseph Mccaig Chair: Dr. Henry Lamb
“Ni/aluminosilicate Catalysts for Heterogeneous Ethylene Oligomerization”
Thursday, May 12, 2022
EBI 2018

Rachel Nye
Chair: Dr. Gregory Parsons
Nucleation and Growth Mechanisms in Atomic and Molecular Layer Deposition for Applications in Microelectronics
Friday, May 6, 2022
10:00 AM
EB2 1226

Steven James Zboray
Chair: Dr. Jan Genzer
Modification of Maleic Anhydride Copolymers for Applications Including Water Purification and Antifouling
Friday, March 11, 2022
3:00 PM
EB2 1212

Veenasri Vallem
Chair: Dr. Michael Dickey
Polymer networks with liquid metal electrodes for energy harvesting and actuation
Monday, March 28, 2022
4:00 PM
EB1 2018

Srivatsan Ramesh
Co-chair: Dr. Stefano Menegatti
Co-chair: Dr. Jan Genzer
Co-chair: Dr. Saad Khan
Stimuli-responsive nano- and micro-composites for smart fabrics and therapeutics delivery
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
3:00 PM
EB1 2018

Zachary Scott Campbell
Chair: Dr. Milan Abolhasani
Metal Oxide Microparticles: From Synthesis to Application
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
9:00 AM
Virtual

Tamoghna Saha
Co-chair: Dr. Orlin D. Velev
Co-chair: Dr. Michael Dickey
Engineering and On-skin Validation of a Novel Osmotic-Capillary Wearable Patch for Long-Term Sweat Lactate Monitoring
Tuesday, January 6, 2022
9:00 AM
EB1 2018

Justin Vento
Chair: Dr. Chase Beisel
Exploiting Bacterial Defense Systems to Improve Genetic Tools in Bacteria
Monday, December 13, 2021
10:00 AM
EB1 2018

Raphael Prodromou
Chair: Dr. Stefano Menegatti
Development of Complete Process Workflow Identification, Characterization, and Utilization of Light Responsive Peptide Affinity Ligands
Wednesday, November 03, 2021
2:00 PM
REMOTE

Kristine M. Smith
Chair: Dr. Lilian Hsiao
Velocity profiles and microstructure of thermoresponsive nanoemulsions in cylindrical channel flow
Friday, October 29, 2021
10:00 AM
EB2 1220

Rajesh Paul
Chair: Dr. Qingshan Wei
Applications of microneedle patches and smartphone-based diagnostic devices for tackling emerging plant diseases
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
11:00 AM
Toxicology Building 2102

Suyong Han
Chair: Dr. Milad Abolhasani
Accelerating Gas-Liquid Reactions in Flow
Thursday, August 12, 2021
9:00 AM
REMOTE

Natasha Iris Morales Castellanos
Chair: Dr. Orlin D. Velev
Formulation and characterization of novel soft magnetic beads, magneto-capillary gels, and responsive soft structures
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
10:00 AM
REMOTE

Kameel Antami
Chair: Dr. Milad Abolhasani
Microfluidic Studies of Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Quantum Dots
Monday, August 09, 2021
10:00 AM
REMOTE

Jeffery Bennett
Chair: Dr. Milad Abolhasani
Polymer Network Based Catalysts for Metal Mediated Synthesis of Fine Chemicals
Thursday, August 05, 2021
2:00 PM
REMOTE

Kyle J Tomek
Chair: Dr. Albert Keung
Addressing Practical Barriers to Extreme-Scale DNA-based Data Storage Systems
Thursday, August 05, 2021
10:00 AM
REMOTE

Daniel Midkiff
Chair: Dr. Adriana San Miguel
Microfluidics and Image Processing for High-Throughput Screening for Aging in C. elegans
Friday, July 16, 2021
10:00 AM
REMOTE

Siyao Wang
Chair: Dr. Saad A. Khan
Processing of Intrinsic Microporous Polymer for Protective Textiles and Molecular/Atomic Layer Deposition for Organic and Hybrid Material Synthesis
Friday, July 2, 2021
10:00 AM
REMOTE

Shravan Pradeep
Chair: Dr. Lilian C. Hsiao
Towards designing flow mechanics in dense suspensions of smooth and rough colloids
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
9:30 AM
REMOTE

Seung Keun Song Chair: Dr. Gregory N. ParsonsArea Selective Deposition of Dielectric and Metal Thin Films by Controlled Nucleation during Atomic Layer Deposition and Etching
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
1:00 PM
REMOTE

Jessica Lee
Chair: Dr. Albert Keung
Novel Modalities of Gene Regulation Engineering for Eukaryotic Synthetic Biology
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
1:00 PM
REMOTE

Jennifer A. Clark
Chair: Dr. Erik Santiso
Bridging the Gap in Modeling Polymer Behavior using Simulation Methods on Multiple Scales
Thursday, May 13, 2021
8:30 AM
REMOTE

Austin Williams
Chair: Dr. Orlin Velev
Particles with “Gecko Legs”: Making and Applications of a Hierarchical Nanomaterial
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
2:00 PM
REMOTE

Jiaqi Yan
Chair: Dr. Richard J. Spontak
Physico-Chemical Modifications of Block Copolymers and Their Gels for Enhanced Functionality
Thursday, April 1, 2021
2:00 PM
REMOTE

Yunhu Peng
Chair: Dr. Lilian Hsiao
Engineering elastohydrodynamic friction on soft substrates through surface patterning and porous microstructures
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
1:00 PM
REMOTE

Dilara Sen
Chair: Dr. Albert Keung
Organoid models of neurodevelopment and neuroepigenetics
Thursday, March 11, 2021
2:00 PM
REMOTE

Kaitlyn Bacon
Co-Chair: Dr. Balaji Rao & Dr. Stefano Menegatti
Engineering Combinatorial Platforms for Design and Analysis of Biomolecular Recognition
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
11:30 AM
REMOTE

Ankit Chandra
Chair: Dr. Jason M. Haugh
Multiscale Modeling and Quantitative Methods for Mesenchymal Cell Migration
Friday, January 15, 2021
2:00 PM
REMOTE

Camden Cutright
Chair: Dr. Stefano Menegatti
Next-generation surface coatings and smart-gated membranes built from stimuli-responsive microgels
Friday, January 15, 2021
10:30 AM
REMOTE

Soo Ah Jin
Co-Chair: Dr. Richard J. Spontak & Dr. Saad Khan
Elucidating and Controlling Hierarchical Structural Development in Hybrid Biobased Materials
Thursday, January 14, 2021
2:00 PM
REMOTE

Salvatore Luiso
Co-Chair: Dr. Peter S. Fedkiw & Dr. Richard J. Spontak
Separators and electrolytes for next generation Li-ion batteries
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
10:00 AM
REMOTE

Bharadwaja Srimat Tirumala Peddinti
Chair: Dr. Richard J. Spontak
Antimicrobial Polymers: Strategic Pathways for Application as Broad-Spectrum Anti-Infective Materials
Monday, January 4, 2021
10:30 AM
REMOTE

Daphne Collias
Chair: Chase Beisel
Evaluating DNA targeting requirements and outcomes for CRISPR technologies
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
12:00 PM
REMOTE

Arnab Bose
Chair: Dr. Philip R. Westmoreland
Polsaccharide and Heat-Transfer-Fluid Pyrolysis Mechanisms Developed using Data, Theory and Machine Learning
Tuesday, November 13, 2020
2:30 PM
REMOTE

Robert Wood Epps
Chair: Dr. Milad Abolhasani
Accelerated Lead Halide Perovskite Development by Autonomous Robotic Experimentation in Flow
Wednesday, November 7, 2020
3:30 PM
REMOTE

Ria Domier Corder
Chair: Dr. Saad Khan
Rheological Characterization of Complex and Dynamic Materials: From Collagenase-Treated Tumors to Photopolymerizing Coordinated Ionic Liquids
Thursday, October 29, 2020
1:30 PM
REMOTE

Taylor Neumann
Chair: Dr. Michael D. Dickey
Additive Patterning of Liquid Metals: Enabling Diverse Processing of 3D and Multilayer Metallic Features at Room Temperature.
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
3:00 PM
REMOTE

Cathryn Conner
Chair: Dr. Orlin Velev
Analysis of the Interactions, Precipitation, and Aggregation or Biopolymer Nanoparticles and Immunoglobulins.
Monday, October 12, 2020
1:00 PM
REMOTE

Ryan B. Dudek
Chair: Dr. Fanxing Li
Redox Catalysts for Selective Hydrogen Combustion
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
9:00 AM
REMOTE

Emily Facchine
Co-Chair: Dr. Saad Khan & Dr. Orlando Rojas
Microstructures and Interactions of Biobased Nanomaterials.
Monday, July 20, 2020
11:00 AM
REMOTE

Sahand Saberi Bosari
Chair: Dr. Adriana San Miguel
Microfluids and Quantitative Image Processing for High-Content Analysis of Neuronal Degeneration and Particle-based Library Screening.
Thursday, June 11, 2020
02:00 PM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

Yeongun Ko
Chair: Dr. Jan Genzer
Controlling the Areal Density and Functionality of Polymer Brushes on Flat Solid Substrates via Degrafting and Post-Polymerization Modification Reactions.
Thursday, June 4, 2020
10:00 AM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

John Bowen
Co-Chair: Dr. Balaji Rao & Dr. Stefano Menegatti
Engineering post-translational modified peptides by combinatorial screening.
Thursday, June 4, 2020
10:00 AM
REMOTE

Kevin Day
Co-Chair: Dr. Stefano Menegatti & Dr. Michael Daniele
Next-Generation Peptide Affinity Ligands: From Linear to Light-Responsive.
Monday, May 26, 2020
01:00 PM
REMOTE

Kaihang Shi
Co-Chair: Dr. Keith E. Gubbins & Dr. Erik E. Santiso
Molecular Simulation and Theoretical Studies of Adsorption on Heterogeneous Surfaces and Microscopic Pressure Tensor in Thin Adsorbed Films.
Monday, May 18, 2020
01:30 PM
REMOTE

Barbara Vasconcelos De Farias
Chair: Dr. Saad Khan
Rheology and Lubrication of Gels and Emulsions.
Monday, March 23, 2020
09:00 AM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

Heather Barton
Chair: Dr. Gregory Parsons
Metal-Organic Framework-Fiber Composites enabled by Atomic Layer Deposition of Metal Oxides for the Degradation of Chemical Warfare Agents and Simulants.
Friday, February 10, 2020
01:00 PM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 3018

Ryan Maloney
Chair: Dr. Carol Hall
Computer Simulations of Colloidal Mixtures
Friday, January 3, 2020
11:00 AM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

James Counts
Chair: Dr. Robert M. Kelly
Determinants for Hot Acid Microbial Lifestyles: Chemolithoautotrophic Physiology of the Extremely Thermoacidophilic Archaeal Lineage Sulfolobales
Friday, November 20, 2019
02:00 PM
Partners II, Rm 3002

Petr Novotny
Chair: Dr. H. Henry Lamb
Mo-Al-Fe Oxides for Chemical Looping Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Ethane: Supported and Planar Model Catalysts
Friday, November 1, 2019
10:00 AM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 3018

Hannah Reese
Chair: Dr. Stefano Menegatti
Modulating the Binding Energy of Synthetic Peptide Ligands Towards Bio-molecular Targets
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
10:00 AM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

Jason Robert Miles
Chair: Dr. Jan Genzer
Precise Tuning of Surface Properties by Degrafting Organosilanos for Evaluation of Interfacial Phenomena
Friday, October 25, 2019
02:00 PM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

Ashton Lavoie
Co-Chair: Dr. Stefano Menegatti
Co-Chair: Dr. Ruben Carbonell
Mixed Mode Peptide Ligands for Enhanced Clearance of Cell Culture Host Cell Proteins
Thursday, September 26, 2019
02:30 PM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

Russell Schmitz
Chair: Dr. Jan Genzer
Reducing Particulate Fouling of Wind Tunnel Screens: Investigating nd Counteracting Phenomena that govern Polymer Microsphere Fouling on Wind Tunnel Screens
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
09:00 AM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

Vasudev P. Haribal
Chair: Dr. Fanxing Li
Light Alkane Valorization using a Redox approach
Monday, August 26, 2019
01:00 PM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

Sabina Islam
Chair: Dr. Orlin Velev
Revisiting the Colloidal Fundamentals of Ionic Polymers for Engineering of Dispensions and Nanocoating with Tailored properties
Thursday, August 15, 2019
02:30 PM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

Christopher C. Walker
Co-Chair: Dr. Erik Santiso
Co-Chair: Dr. Jan Genzer
Development of Accurate coarse-grained Polymer Molecular Models and a Framework for Copolymer Sequence Characterization via the Kerr Effect
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
10:00 AM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

Charles McGill
Chair: Dr. Phillip Westmoreland
The Development of Elementary Reaction Mechanisms with Computational Quantum Chemistry
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
10:00 AM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

Yunfei Gao
Chair: Dr. Fanxing Li
Ethylene production with active lattice oxygen under a cyclic redox scheme
Friday, June 7, 2019
10:00 AM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

Seif M. Yusuf
Chair: Dr. Fanxing Li
Development of redox catalysts for the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane in a cyclic redox scheme
Friday, June 7, 2019
1:00 PM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 3018

Christopher T. Straub
Chair: Dr. Robert M. Kelly
Metabolic Engineering of Extreme Thermophiles for Conversion of Renewable Feedstocks to Industrial Chemicals
Thursday, June 6, 2019
10:00 AM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 3018

Amulya Pervaje
Co-Chair: Dr. Erik Santiso
Co-Chair: Dr. Saad Khan
Multi-scale modeling of polymer resins, thermosets, and fibers
Monday, June 3, 2019
10:00 AM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

Thomas Jacobsen
Co-Chair: Dr. Gregory Reeves
Co-Chair: Dr. Chase Beisel
Developing Tools and Techniques for Expanding the Synthetic Biology Toolkit
Thursday, May 30, 2019
11:00 AM
Partners II, Rm 3002

Shah Md Toufiqur Rahman
Chair: Dr. Jason Haugh
Dissection of Signal Transduction Networks Using Light-Activated Protein Kinases
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
9:30 AM
Partners II, Rm 3002

Amber Marie Hubbard
Co-Chair: Dr. Michael Dickey
Co-Chair: Dr. Jan Genzer
Stimuli-responsive polymers: Transforming planar, polymer materials into curved geometries
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
9:00 AM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 3018

Joseph Tilly
Co-Chair: Dr. Saad Khan
Co-Chair: Dr. Richard Spontak
Network polymers for coating and optics applications
Thursday, May 9, 2019
10:00 AM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

Wenyi Xie
Chair: Dr. Gregory Parsons
Thermal atomic layer etching and vapor phase infiltration for carbon material synthesis
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
9:00 AM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

Dennis Tae-Sung Lee
Chair: Dr. Gregory Parsons
Chemical protective metal-organic framework thin films on fiber systems driven by atomic layer deposition
Monday, March 25, 2019
1:00 PM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

Adam Mischler
Chair: Dr. Balaji Rao
Trophoblast Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
11:00 AM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 3018

Amit Mishra
Chair: Dr. Fanxing Li
Tailored Mixed Metal Oxides for Chemical Looping Processes
Thursday, December 6, 2018
8:00 AM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 3018

Sangchul Roh
Chair: Dr. Orlin Velev
Design of novel functional colloidal suspensions and gels by interfacial engineering of multiphse systems
Monday, November 19, 2018
1:00 PM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

Yiming Wang
Chair: Dr. Carol K. Hall
Understanding In Vitro Amyloid Formation and Inhibition Using Coarse-Grained Simulations
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
10:15 AM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

Anurodh Tripathi
Co-Chair: Dr. Saad Khan
Co-Chair: Dr. Orlando Rojas
Light-weight materials from biopolymers: from synthesis to applications
Thursday, July 26, 2018
9:00 AM
Engineering Building 1, Room 2018

Mohammad Oliuddin Tuhin
Chair: Dr. Richard Spontak
Co-Chair: Dr. Melissa Pasquinelli
Experimental and Simulation Insights into Linear Multiblock Copolymer Systems: From Piezoresistive Sensors to Physical Organogels
Thursday, July 26, 2018
1:00 PM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 3018

Dishit P. Parekh
Chair: Dr. Michael Dickey
Additive Patterning of Eutectic Gallium-Indium (EGaIn) Alloys at Room Temperature for Rapid Prototyping of Functional Microfluidics and Soft, Printed Electronics
Thursday, July 19, 2018
9:00 AM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

Mariah King
Co-Chair: Dr. Erik Santiso
Co-Chair: Dr. Gregory Parsons
Enhanced Materials Analysis Using Engineering Computational Tools for Applications in Electronics Fabrication and Surfactant Production
Friday, July 13, 2018
9:00 AM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

Kye Won Wang
Chair: Dr. Carol Hall
Development of Computer Simulation Models for Drug Delivery Applications
Thursday, June 28, 2018
10:00 AM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

Ishan D. Joshipura
Chair: Dr. Michael Dickey
Wet and Dry Approaches to Preventing the Adhesion of a Soft, Oxide-coated Liquid Metals for Reconfigurable Electronics
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
3:00 PM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

Benjamin Zeldes
Chair: Dr. Robert Kelly
Leveraging extreme thermoacidophily for archaeal metabolic engineering
Thursday, June 14, 2018
10:00 AM
Partners 2, Rm 3002

Koohee Han
Chair: Dr. Orlin Velev
Field-Driven Reconfigurable Assemblies and Self-Propelling Microbots Engineered from Anisotropic Particles
Thursday, June 7, 2018
1:30 PM
Engineering Building 1, Room 3018

Yiliang Lin
Co-Chair: Dr. Jan Genzer
Co-Chair: Dr. Michael Dickey
Shape-Transformable Liquid Metal Particles for Soft Electronics and Biomedical Applications
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
2:00 PM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

Jennifer Ovental
Co-Chair: Dr. Gregory Parsons
Co-Chair: Dr. Saad Khan
Methods and processes for molecular scale coupling of organic and inorganic materials
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
10:00 AM
Engineering Building 1, Room 2018

Stephen Barilovits
Co-Chair: Dr. Eunkyoung Shim
Co-Chair: Dr. Saad Khan
Experimental Study of a Unique Multi-Row Meltblowing Process and the Web Structures Produced Thereby
Friday, May 11, 2018
1:00 PM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

David Chang
Chair: Dr. Orlin Velev
Investigation of Interfacial Interactions Between Surfactants, Cells, and Bubbles in Mammalian Cell Bioreactors
May 7, 2018
10:00 AM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

Laura Lee
Chair: Dr. Robert Kelly
Biodiversity of and Lignocellulosic Modes of Action by the Extremely Thermophilic Caldicellulosiruptor
May 4, 2018
1:00 PM
Partners II, Rm 3002

Chengxiang Liu
Chair: Dr. Erik Santiso
Molecular Modeling of Crystallization from Solution
May 4, 2018
1:00 PM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2015

Eric Stevens
Chair: Dr. Gregory Parsons
From Novel Processes to Industrially Relevant Applications: Atomic Layer Deposition of Metal, Metal Oxide, and Metal Carbide Thin Films
April 12, 2018
8:00 AM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

Joseph H. Lavoie
Co-Chair: Dr. Saad Khan
Co-Chair: Dr. Orlando Rojas
Approaches for Surface Energy Control of Nonwoven Webs for Alcohol Repellency and Electret Charge Protection
February 21, 2018
9:00 AM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 2018

Prajesh Adhikari
Co-Chair: Dr. Saad Khan
Co-Chair: Dr. Orlando Rojas
Developing New Multicomponent Systems: From Coatings, Gels to Nanofiller Composites
January 31, 2018
2:00 PM
Engineering Building 1, Rm 3018

Adam Quintanilla
Chair: Dr. Joseph DeSimone
Fundamentals of Particulate-Filled Polymer Composite Fabrication via Continuous Liquid Interface Production (CLIP)
September 25, 2017

Jason E. Coffman
Chair: Dr. Joseph DeSimone
Engineering antigen display for a PRINT particulate dengue subunit vaccine platform
September 25, 2017

Deepti Srivastava
Co-Chair: Dr. Keith Gubbins
Co-Chair: Dr. Erik Santiso
Monte Carlo Simulations of Adsorption and Reaction of Lennard-Jones Molecules in Carbon Pores and Protein-Polyelectrolyte Complexation
August 1, 2017

Timothy W. Shay
Co-Chair: Dr. Orlin Velev
Co-Chair: Dr. Michael Dickey
Hydrogel and Microfluidic Enabling Technologies for Wearable Biomonitoring Devices: Sweat and ECG Sensing
June 20, 2017

Matthew J. Melillo
Advisor: Dr. Jan Genzer
PDMS Network Structure-Property Relationships: Influence of Molecular Architecture on Mechanical and Wetting Properties
June 9,2017

Jonathan M. Conway
Advisor: Dr. Robert Kelly
In Vitro and In Vivo Analyses of the Role of Multi-Domain Glycoside Hydrolases from Extremely Thermophilic Caldicellulosiruptor Species in the Degradation of Plant Biomass
March 27, 2017

James S. Daubert
Advisor: Dr. Gregory Parsons
Atomic Layer Deposition for Electrochemical Applications: Energy Storage and Corrosion Protection
March 23, 2017

Paul C. Lemaire
Advisor: Dr. Gregory Parsons
Atomic Layer Deposition and Controlling Film and Crystal Nucleation
March 22, 2017

J. Zachary Mundy
Co-Advisor: Dr. Gregory Parsons
Co-Advisor: Dr. Saad Khan
Deposition Processes for Multifunctional Nanocoatings on Polymers
March 3, 2017

Anisur Rahman
Advisor: Dr. Jason Haugh
Quantitative Analysis of the Akt/mTOR Signaling Network
January 6, 2017