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 2026-2027 seminar organizing committee

Kristen Connolly, Technical Operations Manager
Kristen Griffin, Communications & Marketing
Hossein Khadivar, PhD student, Chemical & Biological Engineering
Jake Marquis, PhD student, Microbiology & Cell Biology
Ghazal Vahidi, Postdoctoral Researcher, CBE

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

Fall 2026 Schedule

Thursdays
Time: 2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Mountain Time (MT) *unless otherwise noted below
Location: Roberts 101 **unless otherwise noted below

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Presentation Title
08/27	MSU first week of classes: No seminar
09/03 **Virtual	Dr. Gurol Suel	Professor, Molecular Biology, UC San Diego	TBA
09/10
09/17	Dr. Garrett McKay	Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering; A.P. and Florence Wiley Career Development Professor, Texas A&M University	TBA
09/24
10/01
10/08
10/15
10/22
10/29 **Virtual	Dr. Erin Gloag	Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Virginia Technological University	TBA
11/05
11/12 9 a.m. *Virtual	Dr. Giulia Ceriotti	Post-Doctoral Fellow, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland	TBA
11/19
11/26	Fall break: No seminar
12/03
12/10	Arunima Bhattacharjee	Scientist, Environmental and Molecular Science Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	TBA
12/17	MSU last week of classes: No seminar