Seminar Series
Each semester the department hosts a weekly research seminar series for faculty, students, alumni, and chemical engineering professionals. We invite interesting speakers—people at the top of their fields—who are conducting creative research in chemical and biological engineering.
Our goal is to provide access to the latest ideas in the field, and the experts who are developing them, while also acquainting the larger chemical engineering community with the research advances being made at UB.
January 24, 2018
David Pawlowski, University at Buffalo
February 6, 2018
Athanasios Papathanasiou
Nazarbayev University
"Structure-Property Interactions in Composite Materials"
Zhumabay Bakenov
"Battery Research at Nazarbayev University"
March 7, 2018
Jian Yang
Pennsylvania State University
Multifunctional Citrate Biomaterials and Applications
March 14, 2018
Shouheng Sun
Brown University
Tuning Nanoparticle Catalysis for Efficient Electrochemical Reactions
March 28, 2018
Jim Pfaendtner
University of Washington
Understanding and controlling protein structure and function at interfaces
April 4, 2018
Benjamin D Cosgrove
Cornell University
Systems bioengineering dissection of skeletal muscle stem cell fate and function
April 11, 2018
Rachael Hageman Blair
University at Buffalo
Probabilistic Reasoning in Genetic Networks
April 18, 2018
M. Scott Shell
University of California- Santa Barbara
Simulation design of interfaces through shape and chemistry
April 25, 2018
Fabio H. Ribeiro
Purdue University
May 2, 2018
Surya Mallapragada
Iowa State University
Biomaterials to Modulate the Tissue Microenvironment
May 9, 2018
Yang Liu
Shape Evolution of Biconcave Djurleite Cu1.94S Nanoplatelets Produced from CuInS2 Nanoplatelets by Cation Exchange
Advisor: Mark Swihart
Shreya Mukherjee
Developing electrocatalyst for High-Efficiency Ammonia Production from Water and Nitrogen
Advisor: Gang Wu
September 13, 2017
Amol Ajinkya Memorial Fund Lecture
Andrew C. Hillier
Iowa State University
September 20, 2017
Jean-Luc Bredas
Georgia Tech
September 27, 2017
Amol Ajinkya Memorial Fund Lecture
Alan C. West
Columbia University
October 4, 2017
Jingguang Chen
Columbia University
October 11, 2017
Amol Ajinkya Memorial Fund Lecturer
William S. Epling
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
October 18, 2017
Ruilan Guo
University of Notre Dame
October 25, 2017
ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY for all NEW FALL 2017 CBE graduate students.
Nancy Schiller
University at Buffalo
Library Resources for Research in Chemical & Biological Engineering
November 8, 2017
Sharon Nolan-Weiss
ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY for all NEW FALL 2017 CBE graduate students.
University at Buffalo
November 15, 2017
Kaushal Rege
Arizona State University
November 29, 2017
EH&S Fire Prevention Training Unit
University at Buffalo
Fire Safety and Extinguisher Training
University at Buffalo
CBE Fall PhD Seminar
Highly Polar Polymers with Superior Membrane CO2/N2 Separation Properties for Carbon Capture
Hanguang Zhang
University at Buffalo
CBE Fall PhD Seminar
March 8, 2017
Scott Calabrese Barton
Michigan State University
Quantitative Assessment of Channeling Mechanisms in Nanoscale Catalytic Architectures
March 15, 2017
Sheryl Ehrman
University of Maryland
A Chemical Engineer's View of Air Quality in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the US
March 22, 2017
Prabhas Moghe
Rutgers University
Polymer Nanotherapeutics: What is good for the heart is good for the brain!
March 29, 2017
Simpson & Simpson, LLC
Robert C. Atkinson Esq
Basic Understanding of University Technology Transfer: What Researchers Need to Know
April 5, 2017
Rachel A. Segalman
UC Santa Barbara
Functional Materials from Polymerized Ionic Liquids
April 12, 2017
Milica Radisic
University of Toronto
Towards a human on a plate and injectable tissues
April 19, 2017
Hui Zhang
Johns Hopkins University
Structural and Functional Analyses of Glycoproteins Using Mass Spectrometry
April 26, 2017
W.S. Winston Ho
The Ohio State University
New Membranes for CO2 Separation and Water Purification
May 3, 2017
Sri Kidambi
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Disease in a Dish: Engineering Tissue Environment to Recreate Snapshots of Disease Progression
October 5, 2016
Norman J. Wagner
University of Delaware
The micromechanics of shear thickening fluids and their application as protective materials for medical professionals, first responders, football players, astronauts and spacecraft
October 12, 2016
Ke Zhang
Northeastern University
Teaching Old Oligos New Tricks - A Macromolecular Approach
October 19, 2016
Amol Ajinkya Memorial Fund Lecture
Richard B. Dickinson
University of Florida
How cells find their centers, push out their boundaries, and spin their nuclei
October 26, 2016
Amol Ajinkya Memorial Fund Lecture
François Baneyx
University of Washington
Enabling Biological Nanomanufacturing with Engineered Solid Binding Proteins
November 2, 2016
Amol Ajinkya Memorial Fund Lecture
Sanat K. Kumar
Columbia University
Nanocomposites with Grafted Nanoparticles
November 9, 2016
Matthew Neurock
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Engineering Molecular Transformations over Supported Metal Catalysts for the Sustainable Conversion of Biomass-Derived Intermediates to Chemicals and Fuels
November 11, 2016
Chulsung Bae
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Molecular Engineering of Ion-Conducting Polymers for Clean Energy Technology Application
November 30, 2016
Shawn Litster
Carnegie Mellon University
Nano-scale X-ray computed tomography applied to fuel cell and battery electrodes
December 7, 2016
Shiva Gupta and Changjie Zhang
University at Buffalo
2016 Graduate Student Seminar