Fall 2012 Seminar

GRADUATE STUDENTS
Fall ’12

Dwayne Vickers – PhD Defense
“Extracellular and Intracellular Phenomena in Microfluidic Flow”
Friday, November 30, 2012 at 9:30 am, 030 BK
(Faculty Advisor: Prof. Shashi Murthy)

Nil Tandogan
“Nano-Constriction Devices for Isolation and Cultivation of Environmental Microbes”
Friday, November 30, 2012
(Faculty Advisor: Prof. Edgar Goluch)

Pierre Bhoorasingh
“Automating Transition State Searches for Reaction Mechanism Generation”
Friday, November 16, 2012
(Faculty Advisor: Prof. Richard West)

Hasan Yildiz – PhD Defense
“Food-associated Stimuli Enhance Barrier Properties of Mucus”
Friday, November 14, 2012
(Faculty Advisor: Prof. Rebecca Carrier)

Daniel Milano
“Contact Inhibition in Tumor Progression”
Friday, November 9, 2012
(Faculty Advisor: Prof. Anand Asthagiri)

Joshua Marion
“Towards rare-earth-free permanent magnetic materials – thermal evolution of magnetic
and structural properties in nanostructured MnAl”
Friday, November 9, 2012
(Faculty Advisor: Prof. Laura Lewis)

Radhika Barua
“Matrix-induced strain effects on the magnetostructural response of
Cu-embedded FeRh nanostructures”
Friday, October 26, 2012
(Faculty Advisor: Prof. Laura Lewis)

Adam Hatch
“Efficacy and Versatility of Engineered Alginate Hydrogels Capture and Release of
Endothelial Progenitor Cells”
Friday, October 26, 2012
(Faculty Advisor: Prof. Shashi Murthy)

Shaopeng Sun
“Electrodeposition and Induced Codeposition Behavior of NiMoW Alloys”
Friday, October 19, 2012
(Faculty Advisor: Prof. Elizabeth J. Podlaha-Murphy)

Dinara Andirova
“Nanoengineering of Metal-Organic Frameworks
(MOFs) for Carbon Capture”
Friday, October 19, 2012
(Faculty Advisor: Prof. Sunho Choi)

Emily Gong
“Cell Proliferation in Gradients of Chemical Cues”
Friday, October 12, 2012
(Faculty Advisor: Prof. Anand Asthagiri)

Melissa Loving
“Effect of Size Reductions on the Magnetostructural Transition in FeRh Thin Films”
Friday, October 12, 2012
(Faculty Advisor: Prof. Laura Lewis )

Selena DiMaio
“Modeling Impact of Ingested Lipids on Orally Delivered Drug Dissolution”
Friday, October 5, 2012
(Faculty Advisor: Prof. Rebecca Carrier)

Salem Zahmi
“Electrodeposition of Sn, In and Cu from Citrate Electrolytes, Part I. Electrolyte Characterization”
Friday, October 5, 2012
(Faculty Advisor: Prof. Elizabeth J. Podlaha-Murphy)

Hana Kim
“Fabrication of Super Invar Micro- and Nano- Structures by Electrodeposition for Low Thermal Expansion Applications”
Friday, October 5, 2012 at 3:00 pm, 220 BK
(Faculty Advisor: Prof. Elizabeth J. Podlaha-Murphy)

Nina Bordeaux
“Towards Rare-Earth-Free Permanent Magnets: L1₀ FeNi (Tetrataenite)”
Friday, September 28, 2012
(Faculty Advisor: Prof. Laura Lewis)

Dwayne Vickers
“Determination of the Effect of Shear Stress on Hematopoiesis using two Shear Platforms”
Friday, September 28, 2012
(Faculty Advisor: Prof. Shashi Murthy)

Sean Kevlahan
“Enteroid and enterosphere co-culture elicits vasculogeneic response”
Friday, September 21, 2012
(Faculty Advisor: Prof. Shashi Murthy)

Thaddaeus A. Webster
“Determination of the Effect of Shear Stress on Hematopoiesis using two Shear Platforms”
Friday, September 21, 2012
(Faculty Advisor: Prof. Edgar Goluch)

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS
Fall ’12

Dr. Cullen R. Buie
“Electrophoretic Deposition of Nanoporous Surface Coatings with Extreme Wettability”
Friday, December 7, 2012
HOST: Prof. Shashi Murthy

Dr. Michael Tsapatsis
“Zeolite Nanosheets for Thin Film Applications and Hierarchical Zeolite Catalysts”
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
HOST: Prof. Sunho Choi

Dr. Evan Scott
“An Immunoengineering Approach to Vaccination: Tuning the Immune Response with
Redox-Sensitive Nanoparticles”
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
HOST: Dr. Thomas Webster, Chair

Dr. Hicham Fenniri
“Supramolecular Engineering of Nanoscale Materials for Nanomedicine”
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
HOST: Dr. Thomas Webster, Chair

Dr. Lucas Landherr
“The Friction and Adhesion of Polymeric Systems: The Characterization of Thin Brush Lubricants and Superhydrophobic Surface Interactions”
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
HOST: Prof. Shashi Murthy

Dr. SJ Claire Hur
“Inertial Microfluidics: Label-free Cell Manipulation for Biomedical Research”
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
HOST: Prof. Shashi Murthy

Dr. Eno Ebong
“Hemodynamics, Glycocalyx, and Endothelial Cell Function in Health and Atherosclerosis”
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
HOST: Dr. Thomas Webster, Chair