Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Seminar Series

2005-2006 Seminar Series

Seminars will be held at 11:00 a.m. in 171 Durham Center.


September 22
Arup Chakraborty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Intercellular
Communication in the Adaptive Immune System (L. K. Doraiswamy Lecture)  

October 6
Brad Chmelka
University of California - Santa Barbara
Hierarchically Ordered Inorganic-Organic Materials

October 13
Jim Liao
University of California - Los Angeles
Network Analysis and Engineering in the Cell (Procter & Gamble Lecture)  

October 20
Victor Barocas
University of Minnesota Protein Crystal Growth:  Microfluidics meet Macromolecules

November 17
Sriram Sundararajan
Iowa State University
Tribology and Surface Mechanics of Engineering Materials

December 1
Kam Leong
Johns Hopkins University
Influence of Nanotopography on Cellular Behavior (3M Lecture)  

February 16
Keith Woo
Iowa State University
Development of Homogeneous Catalysts using Molecular Evolution

February 23
Michael Ramage
ExxonMobil
The Hydrogen Economy:  Opportunities, Costs, Barriers and R&D Needs

March 2
Maria Coleman
University of Toledo
Rational Design and Synthesis of Polymer Nanocomposites (3M Lecture)  

March 9
Allan Hoffman
University of Washington
Smart Polymer Switches in Biotechnology and Drug Delivery

March 23
Dimitrios Maroudas
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Modeling of Electromechanically-Induced Defect Dynamical Phenomena in Metallic Thin Films  

April 6
Jennifer West
Rice University
Biomimetic Strategies in Vascular Tissue Engineering