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SUMMARY:Virtual Heads Up Lunchtime Funtime
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Student Services is hosting a Heads Up Virtual “lunchtime funtime” event for Master’s students to get to know each other and play an exciting competition against each other on October 1st\, 12-1pm EST!  Heads Up is a game where one student in a group will have to guess 10 words within a category with the help of their group members.  You will need to register via the Zoom link we will send out shortly to students to attend the event.
URL:https://che.northeastern.edu/event/virtual-heads-up-lunchtime-funtime/
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SUMMARY:ChE Seminar Series Presents: “Engineering the intestinal and retinal microenvironments”
DESCRIPTION:ChE Seminar Series Presents:\n \nRebecca Carrier\, Ph.D. \nProfessor & Associate Chair of Research\, Department of Chemical Engineering \nAffiliated Faculty\, Bioengineering\, Northeastern University\, Boston\, MA \n“Engineering the intestinal and retinal microenvironments” \nAbstract: The Advanced Drug Delivery Lab conducts research in regenerative medicine\, with a focus on intestinal and retinal tissue engineering\, and in oral drug delivery\, with a focus on enabling effective oral delivery of therapeutics. In the area of enabling effective oral drug delivery\, we have developed an experimental and theoretical framework to predict the impact of ingested lipids\, in food or drug delivery systems\, on oral drug absorption. This work could have a significant impact on societal health by providing practical\, relevant guidance for the oral dosing of drugs and nutritive supplements. As part of our efforts in enabling effective oral treatments\, we have explored the barrier properties of the gastrointestinal mucus barrier\, and revealed changes in the mucus barrier certain disease states. The lab is now exploring how to alter mucus barrier properties to potentially prevent certain diseases\, including necrotizing enterocolitis. In the area of intestinal tissue engineering\, we are developing human in vitro models of the microbiome-gut-immune axis for understanding the impact of what we ingest and the microbiome on human health. We are also developing biomaterial cell carriers for cell-therapy based retinal regeneration strategies\, with a focus on engineering cues into biomaterial carriers that will promote the survival and integration of implanted cells. \nBiosketch: Rebecca Carrier is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Northeastern. She earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1995\, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000\, where she worked as a pioneer in cardiac muscle tissue engineering. After completing her graduate studies\, Rebecca worked at Pfizer\, Inc.\, as a Senior Research Scientist in oral controlled release drug delivery. She joined Northeastern in 2003\, and the overall theme of her research interests is the interaction between biological systems and materials\, with specific applications in drug delivery and regenerative medicine. She has worked with multiple industrial partners including Pfizer\, Merck\, and Boehringer Ingelheim\, and has received honors including the NSF CAREER award\, NU “Outstanding Teacher (2011)\,” “Faculty Fellow (2014)\,” and Soren Buus Outstanding Research (2017) Awards for excellence in teaching and research leadership. She was also invited to participate in the National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering (2016) and Frontiers of Engineering Education (2013) Symposia\, served as the Member-At-Large for the Society for Biomaterials from 2018-2019\, and was inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2019. \nPlease email Alyssa Ramsey at a.ramsey@northeastern.edu for the link to the seminar.
URL:https://che.northeastern.edu/event/che-seminar-series-presents-engineering-the-intestinal-and-retinal-microenvironments/
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SUMMARY:ChE Seminar Series Presents: “Engineering Bacteria to Solve Problems in Renewable Chemical Production and Human Health”
DESCRIPTION:ChE Seminar Series Presents:\n \nBenjamin M. Woolston\, PhD \nAssistant Professor\, Department of Chemical Engineering\, Northeastern University\, Boston \, MA \n“Engineering Bacteria to Solve Problems in Renewable Chemical Production and Human Health” \nAbstract: The synthetic biology revolution has given us the ability to genetically reprogram microbes to serve a wide variety of purposes – from miniscule chemical factories that orchestrate exquisitely selective enzymatic pathways to produce fuels\, pharmaceuticals and polymers from simple raw materials – to biological computers that can sense their chemical environment and implement complex decision-making algorithms. The overall goal of the Woolston lab is to harness this potential for applications in renewable energy production and the human gut microbiota. In this talk\, I will present an overview of the two major current thrusts of the lab: In the first\, we are engineering anaerobic bacteria for the conversion of renewable single-carbon feedstocks to biofuels\, taking advantage of a number of economic and ethical benefits of using these substrates compared to 1st and 2nd generation biofuel efforts. In the second\, we are developing engineered microbes that can sense and correct an overabundance of the microbially derived metabolite hydrogen sulfide in the human gut; a toxic\, volatile molecule implicated in the onset of IBD and colorectal cancer. As well as the exciting applied potential of the resultant technology\, these efforts will also provide us with model systems with which to answer broader fundamental questions about microbial metabolism. \nBiography: Dr. Woolston joined the NEU Chemical Engineering department as an Assistant Professor in January 2020. As an NSF Graduate Research Fellow\, Dr. Woolston received his PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2017 from MIT under the guidance of Prof. Greg Stephanopoulos\, where his research focused on the development of genetic tools to enable metabolic engineering in anaerobic CO2-fixing microbes\, and the establishment of a methanol utilization pathway in the model organism Escherichia coli. While at MIT\, he was an inaugural Fellow of the Chemical Engineering Communication Lab\, where he provided peer tutoring and department-wide workshops to assist students and post-docs with aspects of scientific communication. His Post-doctoral work was conducted in the laboratory of Prof. Emily Balskus in the Chemistry & Chemical Biology department at Harvard University\, where he studied microbial metabolic pathways and enzymes that contribute to the stability of health-associated Lactobacilli in the human vaginal microbiota. At Northeastern\, his research program combines approaches from his previous research training in metabolic engineering\, synthetic biology\, biochemistry and microbiology to engineer microbes for biofuel & biochemical production\, and as diagnostics and therapeutics in the Human gut microbiota. His lab team currently consists of three graduate students and two undergraduates. Since joining NEU\, Dr. Woolston has taught the Biochemical Engineering senior elective (CHME 5630) and the graduate course in Kinetics & Reactor Design (CHME 7340). \nPlease email Alyssa Ramsey at a.ramsey@northeastern.edu for the link to the seminar.
URL:https://che.northeastern.edu/event/che-seminar-series-presents-engineering-bacteria-to-solve-problems-in-renewable-chemical-production-and-human-health/
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SUMMARY:ChE Seminar Series Presents: Joshua Gallaway
DESCRIPTION:Joshua Gallaway\, Ph.D. \nDiPietro Assistant Professor \nDepartment of Chemical Engineering\, Northeastern University\, Boston\, MA \n“Next Generation for the Grid”  \nAbstract: In our lab\, we study mechanisms within complex electrochemical systems. Practical electrochemical systems such as batteries\, sensors\, and fuel cells are often complex\, involving engineered high surface area electrodes\, starved electrolyte conditions\, phase transformations\, and interplay of the two electrodes. For these reasons\, there are significant deviations from ideal behavior as well as emergent or unexpected phenomena. We seek to understand these to engineer better devices for broad societal benefit\, such as the worldwide adoption of sustainable energy. We have developed strategies for coupling electrochemical methods with materials synthesis\, theory\, and operando analysis techniques\, often based on high energy X-rays. This allows distributed and localized phenomena to be observed within operating electrochemical cells\, and fundamental mechanistic information to be extracted from within the complex system. Thus we have a laboratory equipped for modern electroanalytical study and also make use of specialized X-ray sources maintained by the US Department of Energy. Recent research has focused on low-cost and safe battery materials for electrical storage at the scale of the power grid. Intermittent renewables like solar and wind power will succeed if excess electricity can be stored safely without adding significantly to the cost. \nBiography: Joshua Gallaway has been an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University since 2017\, where he has founded the Analysis of Complex Electrochemical Systems Laboratory (ACES). He received his PhD in chemical engineering from Columbia University in 2007. Working with his advisor Prof. Scott Calabrese Barton\, he characterized the electron transfer rates of enzymes embedded in oxygen-reducing hydrogels. After his PhD work he completed a postdoctoral appointment with Prof. Alan West\, also at Columbia\, studying non-uniform current distributions in sub-micron interconnect features for the semiconductor industry. He then joined the newly-formed CUNY Energy Institute in a research position funded by the Wallis Foundation. There he worked on an ARPA-E funded project headed by Distinguished Professor Sanjoy Banerjee\, which resulted in the spin out company Urban Electric Power. His recent research has focused on using high energy synchrotron techniques to visualize non-uniform reactions within battery electrodes. \nPlease email Alyssa Ramsey at a.ramsey@northeastern.edu for the link to the seminar.
URL:https://che.northeastern.edu/event/che-seminar-series-presents-joshua-gallaway/
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SUMMARY:ChE Seminar Series Presents: Richard West
DESCRIPTION:Richard West\, Ph.D.\nAssociate Professor\nDepartment of Chemical Engineering\, Northeastern University\, Boston\, MA \n“Detailed Kinetic Modeling: using computers to predict complex systems of chemical reactions” \nAbstract: The primary focus of our research is the development of detailed microkinetic models for complex reacting systems\, like combustion\, heterogeneous catalysis\, and bio-fuel processing. Our approach is to automate the discovery of reaction pathways\, and the calculation of key parameters using ab initio quantum chemistry calculations\, and novel machine learning techniques. These kinetic models will link to multi-scale models of the reactor systems so that the overall process can be understood and optimized as a whole. This approach towards microkinetic model development will then contribute to the optimization and understanding of catalytic processes\, leading to catalyst design and discovery\, as well as combustion processes\, leading to safer and greener fire suppressants\, refrigerants\, and fuels. Our approach to computational chemistry involves both learning chemistry from the computers\, and teaching chemistry to the computers. Learn more at neu.edu/comocheng. \nBiography: Richard read Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge\, completing his BA and MEng degrees in 2004. He was in the first cohort to spend a year at MIT on the undergraduate exchange program of the Cambridge-MIT Institute. He returned to MIT for a semester of graduate classes at the start of his PhD\, also in Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge. His thesis work\, in the Computational Modelling Group of Prof. Markus Kraft\, was on modeling the chloride process for the gas-phase synthesis of titanium dioxide nano particles. He finished in 2008 and returned to MIT once more\, this time as a postdoctoral research associate working with Prof. William Green to develop detailed kinetic models and the tools used to create them. In 2011 he moved across the river to Boston\, starting the Computational Modeling in Chemical Engineering group at Northeastern University. In 2018 he became an Associate Professor (with tenure) and the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Chemical Engineering\, a position he held until his sabbatical began in 2020. He lives with his wife (also NU faculty) and 5-year-old daughter in Brookline\, MA. You can follow his weird toast diet on Instagram (@richardhwest). \nPlease email Alyssa Ramsey at a.ramsey@northeastern.edu for the link to the seminar.
URL:https://che.northeastern.edu/event/che-seminar-series-presents-richard-west/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201021T120000
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SUMMARY:Environmental Interactions with the Human and Engineered Structures
DESCRIPTION:ChE Seminar Series Presents: A-Andrew D. Jones\, III\nAssistant Professor\, Department of Chemical Engineering\nAffiliate Faculty\, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs\, Northeastern University\, Boston\, MA \n“Environmental Interactions with the Human and Engineered Structures” \nAbstract: In the Systems for Engaging the Environment Lab we study “series of tubes”.  From the antimicrobial resistance crises that will hit in ~2030 to the water crises we are in the midst of\, many of our environmental problems can be described by flow through tubes in parallel and series. We are developing game theory models of policy interaction around shared resources\, like water and air. We are developing tools to help identify when drinking water is contaminated using electrochemistry and microfluidics to better share that finite resource. We are developing models describing why engineered nanomaterials embed inside bacteria biofilms when they are released into estuaries to monitor and care for the finite resource. These models then lead back to game theory models of how bacteria biofilms defeat novel drugs and drug delivery systems through social interactions. Due to the COVID19 pandemic\, most of our current work is numerical and theoretical\, however we also leverage tools like the rotating disk electrode\, continuous stirred tank reactors\, packed-bed plug flow reactors\, and microfluidic versions of the latter to verify and refine our models. Our models start with numerical schemes\, with an end goal to create operational dimensionless relations. Much of our data analysis uses machine learning to sift through the complexity. \nBiography: Dr. Jones seeks to help us understand and live with the natural environment studying biological systems under engineered constraints. This includes experimental analysis of bacteria’s form and function when we try to remove them. This also includes systems engineering analysis to discover characteristics of innovations that solve more problems than they create. Dr. Jones has been an avid teacher and educator of all ages since 1999. He has mentored high school\, undergraduate\, and graduate students in research. He has received over 20 academic awards\, including the Montana State University Center for Biofilm Engineering’s Young Investigator Award and a Sloan Scholar Award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He has presented at over 20 conferences and invited seminars on topics from mathematical modeling biofilms to policy impacts of technological development. He received his PhD\, MS\, and BS in Mechanical Engineering and a BS in Mathematics all from MIT with a focus on transport phenomena. He completed post-doctoral studies in 2019 at Northeastern University as 1 of 2 Provost supported Future Faculty Fellows at the university under Profs Thomas J. Webster and Carlos C. Hidrovo-Chavez. \nPlease email Alyssa Ramsey at a.ramsey@northeastern.edu for the link to the seminar.
URL:https://che.northeastern.edu/event/environmental-interactions-with-the-human-and-engineered-structures/
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SUMMARY:ChE Seminar Series Presents: Steve Lustig
DESCRIPTION:ChE Seminar Series Presents: Steve Lustig  \nAssociate Professor & Associate Chair of Research\, Department of Chemical Engineering\, Northeastern University\, Boston\, MA \nAbstract: Not available at this time \nBio: Steve Lustig is an Associate Professor for the Department of Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University. He earned a BS in Chemical Engineering with Distinction from the University of Virginia in 1983. He then earned his MS in 1985 and PhD in 1989 from Purdue University. He joined the Chemical Engineering Department at Northeastern in 2016. His group seeks to design and manipulate molecular/materials chemistry and structure for new property discovery\, new functionality and technology development by combining theory\, high performance computing and experimental methods. Their theoretical methods frequently involve quantum chemistry\, statistical mechanics\, polymer physics\, materials and biomolecular engineering. Their experimental methods frequently involve chemical synthesis\, processing and characterizations: such as: microlithography\, electrospinning\, atomic force microscopy\, spectroscopy\, rheology and electroanalysis. They develop and implement powerful\, multi-disciplinary tools to solve relevant problems with industry and national laboratories. He has also received awards such as the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Industrial Research & Development Institute Award\, DuPont Central Research Accomplishment Award\, DuPont TechCon Award\, and DuPont Materials Science and Engineering Accomplishment Award. \nPlease email Alyssa Ramsey at a.ramsey@northeastern.edu for the link to the seminar.
URL:https://che.northeastern.edu/event/che-seminar-series-presents-steve-lustig/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201028T120000
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SUMMARY:Engineering targeted therapeutics for breast cancer
DESCRIPTION:ChE Seminar Series Presents:   \nDebra Auguste\, Ph.D.\nProfessor\, Department of Chemical Engineering\nNortheastern University\, Boston\, MA \n“Engineering targeted therapeutics for breast cancer” \nAbstract: Cells sense changes in their environment and respond by altering their gene expression.  My lab investigates how cells manipulate membrane proteins\, which has profound effects on disease progression. Cells orchestrate the density of proteins and lipids to govern adhesion and migration. From this knowledge\, one can engineer drug delivery vehicles that complement the molecular patterns observed on cells to achieve strong\, cooperative binding. I have employed these strategies in a model system of endothelial inflammation and in breast cancer metastasis. My lab has identified a new target and biomarker for triple negative breast cancer\, examined the role of ligand/receptor cell adhesion by atomic force microscopy\, and synthesized targeted drug delivery vehicles that demonstrate that nanoparticle ligand surface density alters gene expression. \nBiography: Debra Auguste\, PhD is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University. She received her S.B. in Chemical Engineering from MIT in 1999 and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University in 2005. She was trained as a Post-Doctoral Associate at MIT under Institute Professor Robert Langer.  Her interests include drug and gene delivery\, targeted drug delivery\, stimuli sensitive materials. Dr. Auguste is the principal investigator on grants from the National Institute of Health (NIH)\, Office of Naval Research (ONR)\, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)\, National Science Foundation (NSF)\, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). She is a recipient of various awards including: the Presidential Early Career in Science and Engineering- 2013\, the NIH Innovator-2012\, NSF CAREER Award-2011\, and the DARPA Young Faculty Award-2009. Dr. Auguste was elected as a Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (2018) and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (2020). Dr. Auguste sits on the Scientific Advisory Board of PATHS UP at Texas A&M University and Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston. Dr. Auguste is on the Board of Directors for BMES. Dr. Auguste is co-chair of the BMES national meeting (2020). \nPlease email Alyssa Ramsey at a.ramsey@northeastern.edu for the link to the seminar.
URL:https://che.northeastern.edu/event/engineering-targeted-therapeutics-for-breast-cancer/
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SUMMARY:ChE Seminar Series Presents: Sara Hashmi
DESCRIPTION:ChE Seminar Series Presents:\n \nSara Hashmi\, Ph.D.\nAssistant Professor\, Department of Chemical Engineering\nNortheastern University\, Boston\, MA \nAbstract/Bio: Information not available at this time \nPlease email Alyssa Ramsey at a.ramsey@northeastern.edu for the link to the seminar.
URL:https://che.northeastern.edu/event/che-seminar-series-presents-sara-hashmi/
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