2018 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Graduate Student Competition in Microbiointerface Research

Graduate Student Competition in Microbiointerface Research. The students will be judged for the quality of the presentation and research on microbial interaction with biomedical interfaces. Supported by the AIChE Foundation

Chair

Anita Shukla, Brown University

Co-Chairs

Huan Gu, University of New Haven
Elizabeth Stewart, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Presentations

03:35 PM

(222a) Sensitizing Bacterial Cells to Antibiotics through Dynamic Topography–Triggered Biofilm Detachment
Sang Won Lee, Huan Gu, James Kilberg, Dacheng Ren

03:55 PM

(222b) The Role of Flagellar Motor Reversals in Swarming in Escherichia coli
Katie Ford, Jyot Antani, Pushkar Lele, Aravindh Nagarajan

04:15 PM

(222c) Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Single-Cell Level Heterogeneity, Investigated Via Drop-Based Microfluidics
Shawna Pratt, Tatsuya Akiyama, Geoffrey Zath, Kerry Williamson, Michael Franklin, Connie Chang

04:35 PM

(222d) Differential Response of Mucoid and Non-Mucoid Pseudomonas Aeruginosa isolates to Interfacial Confinements
Sricharani Balmuri, Nicholas Waters, Tagbo H.R. Niepa

04:55 PM

(222e) Bloodmeal-Induced Inhibition of Plasmodium infection in Mosquito Vectors Using the Microbial Symbiont Asaia
Jackie Shane, David Lampe

05:15 PM

(222f) Dynamics of Biofilm Elimination on Thermally Shocked Biomedical Surfaces
Haydar Aljaafari, Erica Ricker, Eric Nuxoll

05:35 PM

(222g) Modelling Microbial Microenvironments through Encapsulation of Synthetic Communities
Shanna-Leigh Davidson, Erin. K Hunter, Tagbo H.R. Niepa