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March 7, 2013

Recap of CBE faculty, staff, and student presentations and future appointments.

March 7, 2013

The CBE is hosting the following academic researchers from Brazil, Italy, and Finland in 2013.

March 6, 2013

College of Engineering associate dean and CBE faculty Anne Camper, civil engineering, was a member of the organizing committee for the ASM American Academy of Microbiology’s Colloquium Program on Water Distribution Systems. CBE faculty Ross Carlson, associate professor, chemical and biological engineering, also participated in the colloquium.

March 6, 2013

The National Science Foundation-Small Business Innovation Research program recently awarded CBE faculty members Rich Macur and Brent Peyton, as well as Mark Kozubal of Sustainable Bioproducts LLC, $150,000 for the project “Direct conversion of lignocellulosic feedstocks to lipids and high-value products using a proprietary microbial process.”

March 4, 2013

Collection of the latest publications from CBE faculty, researchers, and students.

March 4, 2013

The CBE is proud to announce the 2013 W.G. Characklis Outstanding Student Award to Kara Bowen De León and Liz Sandvik.

March 1, 2013

The CBE is pleased to welcome Microbial Defense Systems as its newest small business member.

Announcement

The CBE Seminar Series was organized to invite biofilm experts from both academia and industry to present their research and share their expertise.

January 23, 2013

CBE undergraduate student Eric Dietrich and CBE faculty member Warren Jones, associate professor, both of MSU’s Department of Civil Engineering, are among the recipients of the 2013 Awards for Excellence sponsored by the MSU Alumni Association and the Bozeman Chamber of Commerce.

January 11, 2013

Recap of recent invited talks and poster presentations by CBE faculty.

January 11, 2013

The CBE hosted the following industrial and academic visitors in December 2012.

January 4, 2013

CBE faculty member, Robin Gerlach, associate professor, chemical and biological engineering, is among the winners of the top Montana State University 2013 faculty awards announced this week.

December 14, 2012

“Comparison of CO2 and bicarbonate as inorganic carbon sources for triacylglycerol and starch accumulation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii” 

December 10, 2012

“From Seeing to Solving…”

Imaging sparks the imagination. In this year's annual report, we celebrate biofilm imaging by sharing some of the striking images and movies we are collecting on our two newly installed confocal scanning laser microscopes (CSLM).

The end of the year can be a hectic time. This year we invite you to take a minute to relax and contemplate a quiet green forest of. . . biofilm!

November 28, 2012

CBE assistant research professor Darla Goeres, chemical and biological engineering, is leading an inter-laboratory study (ILS) for ASTM Test Method E2871-12 “Standard test method for evaluating disinfectant efficacy against Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm grown in CDC biofilm reactor using single tube method.”

November 21, 2012

November 21, 2012

Recap of recent invited talks and poster presentations by CBE faculty, scientists, and students.

“Nuclear magnetic resonance measurement of hydrodynamic dispersion in porous media: Preasymptotic dynamics, structure and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics”
Codd SL, Seymour JD
European Physical Journal Applied Physics 2012; 60(2): 24204-24212
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“Actin recruitment to the Chlamydia inclusion is spatiotemporally regulated by a mechanism that requires host and bacterial factors”
Chin E, Kirker K, Zuck M, James G, Hybiske K

November 15, 2012

A CBE confocal microscope image is featured on the cover of the December 2012 issue of Biotechnology and Bioengineering. This is the second CBE image on the cover of Biotechnology and Bioengineering in the past year.