Spring 2022 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Time: 11am-12pm, Thursday, Central Time
Location: North Lawn Hall (NL) 1012
Theme | Date | Speaker | University/Institute |
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January 13, 2022 | Graduate Orientation | UA | |
January 20, 2022 | Pengfei Wang Development of Photolabile Protecting Groups |
UAB | |
January 27, 2022 | Graduate Students Xiaoyang Liu (Turner), Elizabeth Bury (Koh), Medha Kasula (Esfahani) |
UA | |
February 3, 2022 | No Seminar | ||
February 10, 2022 | Graduate Students Creighton Baltier (Bara), Lauren McLoughlin (Wujcik), Joseph Danner (Weinman) |
UA | |
February 17, 2022 | Colleen Scott Design Strategy for New Optoelectronic Organic/Polymeric Materials |
Mississippi State University | |
February 24, 2022 | Graduate Students Monimum Munny (Koh), Annaliese Baietto (Peng), and Charles Hill (Ritchie) |
UA | |
March 3, 2022 | Graduate Students Sydney Foster (Harris), Tristan Maxson (Szilvási), Shubham Pandey (Szilvási) |
UA | |
March 10, 2022 | Karthik Nayani Phase Behavior of Water-based Liquid Crystals and their Applications in Biology |
University of Arkansas | |
March 17, 2022 | Spring Break | ||
March 24, 2022 | Randy Mrozek Polymer Research at the US Army Research Laboratory |
Army Research Laboratory | |
March 31, 2022 | Brian K. Long Make it or Break it: Addressing Critical Membrane-Based Challenges through Polymer Chemistry |
The University of Tennessee | |
April 7, 2022 | Xinyu Zhang Functional Nanocomposites for Energy Applications |
Auburn University | |
April 14, 2022 | Zhiyong Wang TBD |
Troy University | |
April 21, 2022 | Allan David Engineering Nanomaterials to Improve Their Potential for Clinical Translation |
Auburn University |
Fall 2021 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Time: Thursdays, 11am – 12pm
Location: H.M. Comer 1026
Theme | Date | Title |
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19-Aug | Graduate Program Review | |
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26-Aug | Mary Kathryn Sewell-Loftin, UAB Investigating the Mechanobiology of the Tumor Microenvironment |
2-Sep | Connie Roth, Emory University Local versus Global Measures of Local Property Changes Near Interfaces in Multicomponent Polymer Materials |
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9-Sep | Graduate Student Presentations | |
16-Sep | Eugenia Kharlampieva, UAB Responsive polymer assemblies for controlled delivery |
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23-Sep | Brenda Helen Prager, University of Mississippi Surface and Interfacial Studies on Thermal Barrier and Hydrophobic Coatings on Paper Substrates |
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30-Sep | Elizabeth Barker, University of Tennessee-Knoxville Local Drug Delivery for Improving Drug Penetration in Pediatric Brain Tumors |
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7-Oct | Monirosadat (Sanaz) Sadati, University of South Carolina Liquid Crystals and the Color of Chirality |
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14-Oct | 3MT and Graduate Student Presentations | |
21-Oct | Virginia Davis, Auburn University TBA |
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28-Oct | No Seminar | |
4-Nov | Randy Mrozek, Army Research Laboratory Polymer Research and Development at DEVCOM’s Army Research Laboratory |
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11-Nov | No Seminar | |
18-Nov | Graduate Student Presentations | |
25-Nov | No Seminar | |
2-Dec | Graduate Student Presentations |
Co-sponsored by Polymers and Soft Materials (Poly-SM) Center
Contact: Amanda Koh, askoh@eng.ua.edu, 205-348-8514
ChBE office: (205) 348-1740
Spring 2021 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Time: 11am-12pm
Location: Zoom (VirtualMeeting)
Theme | No. | Date | Time | Speaker | University |
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1 | Thursday, January 14, 2021 | 11:00 | No Seminar | ||
2 | Thursday, January 21, 2021 | 11:00 | Graduate Update | The University of Alabama | |
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3 | Tuesday, January 28, 2021 | 11:00 | Isabel C. Escobar | University of Kentucky |
4 | Thursday, February 4, 2021 | 11:00 | Ryan P. Lively | Georgia Tech University | |
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5 | Thursday, February 11, 2021 | 11:00 | Georges Belfort | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) |
6 | Thursday, February 18, 2021 | 11:00 | Ranil Wickramasinghe | University of Arkansas | |
7 | Thursday, February 25, 2021 | 11:00 | No Seminar | ||
8 | Thursday, March 4, 2021 | 11:00 | Kevin J. Cash | Colorado School of Mines | |
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9 | Thursday, March 11, 2021 | 11:00 | Caleb Funk | DuPontWater Solutions, Edina, MN |
10 | Thursday, March 18, 2021 | 11:00 | No Seminar | ||
11 | Thursday, March 25, 2021 | 11:00 | Graduate Students | ||
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12 | Thursday, April 1, 2021 | 11:00 | Matthew D. Green | Arizona State University |
13 | Thursday, April 8, 2021 | 11:00 | Graduate Students | ||
14 | Thursday, April 15, 2021 | 11:00 | Graduate Students | ||
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15 | Thursday, April 22, 2021 | 11:00 | Christine E. Duval | Case Western Reserve University |

Contact: Steven Weinman, stweinman@eng.ua.edu, 205-348-8516
ChBE office: (205) 348-1740
Fall 2020 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Time: 11am-12pm
Location: Zoom (VirtualMeeting)
Theme | No. | Date | Time | Speaker | University |
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1 | Thursday, September 3, 2020 | 11:00 | Grad student orientation | UA | |
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2 | Thursday, September 10, 2020 | 11:00 | Zachary P Smith | MIT |
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3 | Tuesday, September 15, 2020 | 11:00 | Jodie Lutkenhaus | Texas A&M University |
4 | Thursday, September 17, 2020 | 11:00 | No seminar | ||
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5 | Thursday, September 24, 2020 | 11:00 | Piran R Kidambi | Vanderbilt University |
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6 | Thursday, October 1, 2020 | 11:00 | John Pellegrino | University of Colorado-Boulder |
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7 | Thursday, October 8, 2020 | 11:00 | Andrea Achilli | University of Arizona |
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8 | Thursday, October 15, 2020 | 11:00 | Andrew Zydney | Pennsylvania State University |
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9 | Thursday, October 22, 2020 | 11:00 | Ayse Asatekin | Tufts University |
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10 | Thursday, October 29, 2020 | 11:00 | Yoram Cohen | UCLA |
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11 | Thursday, November 5, 2020 | 11:00 | Menachem Elimelech | Yale |
12 | Thursday, November 12, 2020 | 11:00 | Manish Kumar | University of Texas at Austin | |
13 | Thursday, November 19, 2020 | 11:00 | 2020 AIChE Annual Meeting November15-20, 2020 (No seminar) | ||
14 | Thursday, November 26, 2020 | 11:00 | Thanksgiving -Classes Dismissed | ||
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15 | Thursday, December 3, 2020 | 11:00 am – Pavel Izak, Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the Czech Academy of Sciences 12:00 pm – Karel Friess, University of Chemistry & Technology Prague |

Contact: Milad Esfahani, mesfahani@eng.ua.edu, (205) 348-8836
ChBE office: (205) 348-1740