Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held online via Webex at 11 a.m. on the date indicated, with linking information posted prior to each seminar. They are open to all ISU faculty, staff, students, post-doctoral researchers and scientists.
| Aug. 20 | Welcome Back Seminar | CBE Faculty/Staff |
| Aug. 27 | Safety Seminar | CBE Faculty/Staff |
| Sept. 3 | From Silicon to Plastic: Materials Design and Process Considerations | Elsa Reichmanis, Lehigh University |
| Sept. 10 | Multilayered Metal Carbides for the Upgrading of Natural Gas | Carlos A. Carrero, Auburn University |
| Sept. 17 | Diversification & Compartmentalization: Two Synthetic Biology Technologies for Redesigning Cells | John Dueber, University of California Berkeley |
| Sept. 24 | Passive Sensors for Closed Systems: Pandemic Diagnostic Mailers, Wearable Health Monitors, Soil Sensors, and Biomanufacturing Control | Nigel Reuel, Iowa State University |
| Oct. 1 | Active Site Dynamics in Catalysis | Philippe Sautet, University of California Los Angeles |
| Oct. 8 | Silk Proteins – Functional Biomaterials and Medical Applications | David L. Kaplan, Tufts University |
| Oct. 15 | Electrification and Decarbonization of Chemical Synthesis | Karthish Manthiram, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Oct. 22 | A Sense of Balance: Development of Metabolic Pathway Balancing Approaches for the Production of High Value Chemicals in Recombinant E.coli | Mattheos Koffas, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Oct. 29 | Research Excellence/Brown Fellowship Competition | ISU chemical engineering graduate students |
| Nov. 5 | The Past, the Present, the Future: Biomaterials and Kidney Dialysis | Buddy Ratner, University of Washington |
| Nov. 12 | Bioengineering Early CNS Morphogenesis for a Scalable Neural Tube Defect Risk Assay | Randolph Ashton, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
