BEDD

Research from the Biofilm Engineering and Drug Discovery (BEDD) group was featured at the 2017 BMES (Biomedical Engineering Society) Annual Meeting (October 11-14) in Phoenix, AZ.

The BEDD group held a Professional Development Day for high-school STEM educators from Friendship Public Charter School on October 5th, 2017. “Safety in the science classroom and laboratory” was

Dr. Ymele-Leki gave a research seminar on July 18, 2017, at the University of Virginia’s Department of Biomedical Engineering. The talk was titled “Controlling Microbial Growth: Challenges and Applications.” The seminar introduced ongoing efforts in the laboratory to

Dr. Ymele-Leki gave a research seminar on July 18, 2017, at the University of Virginia’s Department of Biomedical Engineering. The talk was titled “Controlling Microbial Growth: Challenges and Applications.” The seminar introduced ongoing efforts in the laboratory to

Research from the Biofilm Engineering and Drug Discovery (BEDD) group was featured at the Emerging Researchers National (ERN) in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in Washington, DC. The ERN conference was held

Research from the Biofilm Engineering and Drug Discovery (BEDD) group was featured at the 2016 Annual Student Conference (November 11-14) and the 2016 AIChE Annual Meeting (November 13-18) in San Francisco, CA.

Mahtab Waseem (Junior Chemical Engineering student) received a research travel award to attend the North Central Branch ASM 2016 Meeting. The 76th annual meeting of the NCB-ASM was held at Iowa State University on October 21-22, 2016. Mahtab won second place of the student competition for

Dr. Ymele-Leki discussed the “Impacts of Hydrodynamic Conditions on the Initial Phases of Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms and Their Resistance to Antimicrobial Agents” at the 2016 BMES Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN.

Simone Stanley led the second cohort of high school students through her ThermoHUE educational program during the week of July 25, 2016. With two volunteers (Mahtab Waseem & Tariq Johnson), Simone spent four days at Friendship Public Charter School (FPCS) – Tech Prep Academiy, in Southeast, Washington, D.C.

On Thursday, July 14, 2016, Mahtab Waseem and Tariq Johnson (both rising Junior Chemical Engineering students) represented BEDD summer research in the poster session competition of the Washington Baltimore Hampton Roads-Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (WBHR-LSAMP). Mahtab won first place for her “Analysis of Biofilm Inducing Compounds with Potential PTS-Modulating Abilities”, and Tariq introduced