Somen and Karen with other collogues have organized a workshop on “Solutions through Highly Integrated Engineering and Life Sciences for Defense (SHIELD)” at University of Colorado, Fort Collins
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Karen and Mary give talks at the ACS National Meeting
Congrats on a productive American Chemical Society National Meeting in Orlando!
Karen takes undergrads on a tour of Bayer
Karen brings her ECH 161C undergraduate biochemical engineering class to tour the facilities at Bayer CropScience.
The lab attends the 28th Annual Biotech Training Retreat
The group presented two talks (Mary and Matt) and two posters (Sara and Korn). A special congratulations to Matt for winning “audience favorite” talk!
Matt leads an outer space-theme science outreach event
Matt organized a grad student-led outreach event called “STEM Stars” at Shirley Rominger Intermediate School in Winters. The kids were taught about scientific thinking and the complexity of exploring Mars through hands-on problem-based learning.
The hand-powered centrifuge team meets at Davis
Sacramento City College members of the hand-powered centrifuge team, led by the McDonald-Nandi lab, visit Davis for a lab/campus tour and learn information the undergraduate biochemical engineering program.
A warm welcome to new lab members in the McDonald/Nandi lab
A warm welcome our new Chemical Engineering graduate student lab members: Dexter Antonio (Phd), Kevin Yates (Phd), Eric Knapp (MS), and Kiro Kelada (MS).
Former lab member, Dr. Ben Lindenmuth, visits the lab
Dr. Ben Lindenmuth visits the lab and presents on “Biopharmaceutical drug substance manufacturing,” at the Friday Biotechnology Seminar on campus. Pictured below (left to right): Karen McDonald, Ben Lindenmuth, Denneal Jamison-McClung, Abhaya Dandekar
Karen presents at Brazilian Minstry of Health’s Plant-Made Pharmaceutical Meeting
Karen spoke on techno-economic analysis at the Plant-Based Technology Trends Meeting held 2-4 Decemeber 2018 in Meireles, Fortaleza, Brazil.
Matt presents at the inaugural FOODIE conference
Matt gives a talk titled, “Techno-Economic Analysis of a Plant-Based Platform for Manufacturing Antimicrobial Proteins for Food Safety” at the Food Innovation and Engineering (FOODIE) 2018 conference. Pictured below is Matt (left) and fellow Chemical Engineering doctoral student, Konrad Miller Read More …