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.

Fall 2025 Schedule

Thursdays
NEW TIME: 1:45 p.m.–2:55 p.m. Mountain Time (MT) *unless otherwise noted below
Location: Barnard 126

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Presentation Title
08/28	No seminar
09/04	Dr. Monica Serban	Associate Professor, College of Health, University of Montana	Connecting research and product development: Practical translational approaches
09/11	Dr. Felix Weinhardt	Visiting Researcher, Helmholz Center for Enviornmental Research, Liepzig	TBA
09/18
09/25
10/02	Stephen Boppart	Photonics West, San Francisco, CA	TBA
10/09
10/16	Dr. Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez	Research Scientist-Group Leader at Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology); Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich	TBA
10/22* 2:00 p.m. NAH 165	Dr. Reiner Helmig	Professor, Dept. of Hydromechanics and Modelling of Hydrosystems, University of Stuttgart	TBA
10/30
11/06
11/13	Dr. Darla Goeres	Coordinator of Industrial Development, Center for Biofilm Engineering	What's the story with the CBE Industrial Associates Program?
11/20
11/27	No Seminar - Fall Break
12/04