BEDD

The 2022 AIChE Annual Meeting (including the Annual Student Conference), the premier educational forum for chemical engineers interested in innovation and professional growth, took place on November 13 through 18, 2022, in Phoenix, AZ. It was also the perfect forum for students from the Biofilm Engineering and Drug Discovery (BEDD) lab and their peers to…

Olabisi Bello, an undergraduate student in the BEDD lab, won the 3rd place award at the WE22 Collegiate Poster & Rapid Fire Competitions of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). About the SWE competition: The Rapid Fire Competition is a 5-6 minute speaking presentation, designed to emphasize the ability to concisely and dynamically present technical…

Through April 2022, Howard University Research Month celebrated the breadth of research being conducted across the University. Several of our Biofilm Engineering and Drug Discovery (BEDD) lab members had the opportunity to introduce their research projects on Thursday, April 28th, and Friday, April 29th, during the event. The research projects presented were funded by the…

Chemical Engineering Alumnus Jamel Ali, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemical and biomedical engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory partners with Patrick Ymele-Leki, Ph.D., interim chair and associate professor of chemical engineering on bacteria research funded by a total of over $1M in National Science Foundation grants. The pair…

Mahtab Waseem, a M.S. graduate student in the BEDD lab, was selected to receive the 1st place award in the poster session of the Environmental Division at the 2020 virtual AICHE annual meeting.On November 19, 2022, Mahtab introduced her “Investigation of Shewanella Oneidensis MR-1 As a Bioremediation Agent for Iodate”. The research presented by Mahtab…

Dr. Patrick Ymele-Leki was an invited speaker at the 2019 AfroBiotech Conference, which took place on October 27-29 in Atlanta, GA. He introduced the diverse breadth of scientific research undertaken by chemical engineering faculty and students at Howard University and presented BEDD lab’s work on the PTS system and Vibrio cholerae biofilms. The inaugural AfroBiotech…

Tafadzwa Chigumira (BEDD MS student) and Dr. Tao Wei (assistant professor of chemical engineering) attended the NSF-supported “US-Africa Forum on Nanotechnology Convergence for Sustainable Energy, Water and Environment” held at Johannesburg, South Africa, on August 2019. The forum brought together academics working in nanotechnology and nanoscience to address issues of energy, water and environmental sustainability…

Research from the Biofilm Engineering and Drug Discovery (BEDD) group was featured at the 2018 Howard University Research Symposium (April 9-13) in Washington, DC. Our students and post-doctoral fellow proudly presented their research effort in oral and poster sessions: (*) Projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF Award Number: 1505301). (**) Projects funded by the…