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Title: Chemical Engineering Models: a Versatile Toolbox for Interpreting Biological Data Abstract: Living cells and tissues are complex machineries, where biochemical signaling pathways, genetic networks, molecular motors, and cytoskeletal elements orchestrate to drive specific functions. Rapid advancements in microscopy, molecular biology, and genetics have improved the resolution and scale of …

Title : Computational modeling of neuronal dynamics across scales Abstract : Understanding neuronal dynamics, and how they are affected in neurological disorders, is one of the key problems in neuroscience today. Neuronal dynamics are not only altered in various diseases but are also instrumental in the manifestation of behavior, learning, decision-making, …

Title Hydrodynamic interaction of microswimmers with deformable interfaces Abstract In confined environments, swimming microorganisms interact with boundaries for various physical and biological imperatives. These boundaries can either be rigid such as cracks in rocks, metal surfaces, or deformable surfaces and interfaces such as blood capillaries, membrane boundaries and fluid interfaces. …

Title : Leveraging Surface Interactions to Enhance Solute Transport through Biological Barriers Abstract : Biological transport barriers limit effective drug delivery and, therefore, the therapeutic potential of drug candidates. For example, current therapies against solid cancers fail in part due to their inability to penetrate through the extracellular matrix (ECM) of …

Title : Consequences of Single-Sequence Protein Structure Prediction Date/Time : 10-01-2023 4:00PM Venue : Chemical Engineering Auditorium MSB 241 Speaker: Prof Ratul Chowdhury Biography of the Speaker : Dr Ratul is an assistant professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Iowa State (research group areas – ChowdhuryLab (Structural Protein Biology and Engineering Lab – https://chowdhurylab.github.io/ – …

itle : Understanding trends in reaction rates in heterogeneous and electro-catalysis Date/Time : 09-01-2023 4:00PM Venue : Chemical Engineering Auditorium MSB 241 Speaker: Dr Sudarshan Vijay Affiliation of the Speaker : Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Materials Science, University of California Berkeley Abstract : Understanding and predicting reaction rates from first-principles calculations is critical to …