**REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT** Join the AIChE NorCal Leadership Team and other AIChE professionals like yourself to close out our 2017-18 Fiscal Year with a celebration of one of AIChE NorCal's top professional awards, the Professional Progress Award, given annually to a...Read more
Contemporary chemical industry is predominantly based on fossil fuels as energy sources and the steam boiler is probably the most common element being used in today’s chemical processes. Next to its...
A Texas A&M graduate and newly retired engineer, Gayle discusses working in various areas at DuPont, including engineering design, plant improvement, and manufacturing as well as her experiences as an LGBTQ professional.
Elizabeth Lipke, PhD, is the Mary and John H. Sanders Associate Professor in the Dept. of Chemical Engineering at Auburn Univ. She completed her graduate studies at Rice Univ., followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins Univ. Her research focuses on the use of cell-material interactions to create cellular microenvironments that guide tissue formation and direct cellular function. To better understand congenital heart defect formation and advance cardiac regeneration, Lipke’s research group employs biomimetic materials to direct pluripotent stem cell differentiation and create...Read more
Morgan Ellis is a PhD candidate in the Dept. of Chemical Engineering at Auburn Univ. She obtained her BS in chemical engineering from the Univ. of South Florida in 2015. In her graduate research, she is developing 3D engineered cardiac tissue models for studying genetic congenital heart disease under the guidance of Dr. Elizabeth Lipke. Her research interests include developing a robust platform for studying both electrophysiological and structural congenital heart disease and employing 3D bioprinting technologies for engineered cardiac tissue production
Dr. Li Tang is currently an Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator for the Laboratory of Biomaterials for Immunoengineering (LBI) at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Dr. Li Tang was an Irvington Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Darrell Irvine’s lab at MIT.Read more
Natesh Parashurama, PhD, MD, is an assistant professor in the Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Univ. at Buffalo, with an adjunct Appointment in the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, and Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (906 Furnas Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14260; Phone: (716) 645-1201; Fax: (716) 645-3822; Email: nateshp@buffalo.edu). The vision of his laboratory is to merge regenerative medicine and in vivo molecular imaging to develop the next generation of diagnostics and therapeutics. He holds a BS from MIT...Read more
Saber Meamardoost is a PhD candidate in the Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Univ. at Buffalo. He works in Natesh Parashurama’s research group and his research focuses on regulatory gene circuits that govern the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells toward definitive endoderm. He received his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Amirkabir Univ. of Technology and his master’s degree in chemical engineering from Sharif Univ. of Technology. During graduate school, he conducted a project on mathematical modeling of momentum, mass, and heat transfer in...Read more
Mitchell H. Maloy is a PhD student in the Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Univ. at Buffalo (UB). He graduated Cum Laude with his BS in biological engineering from Cornell Univ. in 2016, where he worked in the laboratory of Professor Carl Batt in the Dept. of Food Science. His research focus was on the production of recombinant proteins utilizing Pichia pastoris, and he coauthored a publication in Biotechnology Progress in 2016, which focused on the optimization of virus-like particle production in P. pastoris. He was awarded the Presidential...Read more
Ogechi Ogoke is currently a PhD candidate in the Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Univ. at Buffalo (UB) as of Fall 2015. He is a chemical engineer by degree training with minor studies in premedical sciences and chemistry. In his current doctoral work, he is investigating the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells toward the development of microengineered liver tissue. The overall goal is to determine an effective means to treat liver disease and its related end-stage liver cancer. In addition, he is also taking on a mentorship role, serving as course instructor...Read more
