CBE Seminar Series

The CBE Seminar Series is organized to host experts from both academia and industry to present their research and share their expertise in biofilm research and innovation. Each semester, a committee of CBE graduate students and staff invite and host the colleagues and visitors (on and off-campus) who present at this seminar series.

The CBE 2025-2026 seminar organizing committee

Kristen Connolly, Technical Operations Manager
Kristen Griffin, Communications & Marketing
Jake Marquis, PhD student, Microbiology & Cell Biology
Ghazal Vahidi, Postdoctoral Researcher, CBE
Ethan Viles, PhD student, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Kathryn Zimlich, PhD student, Microbiology & Cell Biology

If you have feedback or a speaker suggestion for the CBE Seminar Series, please contact a member of the organizing committee.

Spring 2026 Schedule

Thursdays
NEW TIME: 2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Mountain Time (MT) *unless otherwise noted below
Location: Cobleigh 429

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title
01/15	First week of classes: No seminar
01/22	Roland Hatzenpichler	TBA
01/29
02/05
02/12
02/19
02/26
03/05
03/12	Sara Molinari	TBA
03/19	Spring Break: No seminar
03/26
04/02
04/09	Michael Neubauer	TBA
04/16	Isaak Thornton	TBA
04/23	Jacob Valenzuela	TBA
04/30
05/07	Last week of classes: No seminar