Shell Seminar Series

On March 11th, 2022, Anne “Liz” Ware from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will give a talk entitled "Analytical Approaches for Characterization of Lignocellulosic Biomass Cell Walls to Develop Optimized Feedstocks for the Bioderived Value Chain."

On March 18th, 2022, Phaneendra Kondapi from the University of Houston will give a talk entitled "Digital Approach in the Process Industry: Current and Future State of Transformation."

On April 1st, 2022, Daniel Alge from Texas A&M University will give a talk entitled "Expect the Unexpected – Unanticipated Effects of Crosslinking Chemistry and Immune Reactions on Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Hydrogels."

On April 8th, 2022, Dante Disharoon, Colorado School of Mines Alumni, will give a talk entitled "Miniaturized Dielectric Coagulometry for Point-of-Care Assessment of Hemostatic Dysfunctions."   On April 8th, 2022, Ryan Gasvoda, Colorado School of Mines Alumni, will give a talk entitled "Obtaining High Etch Selectivity in Plasma-Assisted ALE: A Surface Functionalization Approach."

On April 15, 2022, Bhuvnesh Bharti from Louisiana State University will give a talk entitled "Assembly and propulsion of colloids in external fields."

On April 29th, 2022, Clayton Radke from the University of California Berkeley will give a talk entitled "Black Holes and Dry-Eye Amelioration."

On Friday, September 2nd, 2022, Rahul Kasat, 3D Systems Corporation, will give a talk entitled "My Journey from Graduate Student to become an Entrepreneur"

On Friday, September 9th, 2022, Christopher Muhich, Arizona State University will give a talk entitled "Understanding and Controlling Surface Adsorption from the Ground Up- a Quantum Mechanical Approach to Renewable Energy and Environmental Remediation Materials Design.

On Friday, September 16th, 2022, Anne Ware, National Renewable Energy Laboratory will give a talk entitled "Analytical Approaches for Characterization of Lignocellulosic Biomass Cell Walls to Develop Optimized Feedstocks for the Bioderived Value Chain"

Alexander Mironenko from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, will give a talk on a topic that is TBD

On Friday, September 30th, 2022, Angela Pannier, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, will be give a talk entitled "Engineering Extracellular Vesicles for Nonviral Gene Delivery"

On Friday, October 7th, 2022, Mandi Malmali, from Texas Tech University, will give a talk TBD

On Friday, October 14th, 2022 Karen Wawrousek, from the University of Wyoming, will give a talk TBD

On Friday, October 21st, 2022, Abigail Koppes, from Northeastern University, will give a talk "Engineered Models of the Enteric-Gut-Axis"

On Friday, October 28th, 2022, Prashant Jain, from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, will give a talk entitled "The Interface of Optics and Chemistry"

On Friday, November 4th, 2022, Greg Hudalla, from the University of Florida, will give a talk TBD

The scheduled talk for Friday, November 11th with Edward Phelps, from the University of Florida, entitled "Engineered Models for New Insights Into Human Type 1 Diabetes." Has been canceled.

On January 13th Tagbo Niepa, from the University of Pittsburgh, will present his talk titled "Nanocultures: High-Throughput Platform for Assessing Microbial Community Dynamics in Sessile Drops."

Eric Furst, from the University of Delaware presents his talk titled "Dissipative Self-Assembly of Colloidal Dispersions."

James Crawford from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory will present his talk titled "Reactive Carbon Capture, Routes to Renewable Natural Gas."

Edward Phelps from the University of Florida will present his talk titled "Engineered Models for New Insights Into Human Type 1 Diabetes."

Alberto Striolo from the University of Oklahoma, will present his talk titled "New Surfactants with Excellent Performance in the Energy and Materials Sectors."

Rebecca Willits from Northeastern University, will present their talk titled “Microenvironmental Cues to Enhance Neural Repair”

Francois Baneyx,  from the University of Washington, will present his talk titled "Hierarchical and Stimuli-Responsive Hybrid Materials from High Information Content Building Blocks."

Joel Plawsky from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will present on their talk Heat Pipes in Space: What Could Go Wrong?

Thomas Fuerst, from Idaho National Laboratory, will present his talk titled “Tritium in Fusion and Fission Reactors.”

Kayla Sprenger, University of Colorado, will present her talk titled “Moving the Needle: Employing Deep Learning to Push the Boundaries of Computational Vaccine Models.”

S. Eileen Seo from Arizona State University, will present her talk titled “Tackling Sustainability Challenges Using Nanotechnology and Polymer Chemistry.”

Lecture details: TBD

Dr. Shuya Wei is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at UNM. She obtained her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University in 2017 and B. Eng in Bioengineering from Nanyang Technological University in 2013. Rational Design of Interphases to Enable High Energy Metal-based Batteries Abstract: Advances in the basic […]

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