2008:
Monday, April 28, 2:30 PM, Riley Robb B15, Professor Todd Schmidt, AEM, Cornell, "When to get In and get out: A Real options analysis of biofuels manufacturing development". [Hosted jointly with AEM]
Monday, April 14, 2:30 PM, Riley Robb B15, Professor Peter Hess, BEE, Cornell, "Biofuels and air pollution issues". [Hosted jointly with AEM]
Monday, April 7, 2:30 PM, Riley Robb B15, Professor Todd Walter, BEE, Cornell, "Biofuels and water quality issues". [Hosted jointly with AEM]
Monday, March 31, 2:30 PM, Riley Robb B15, Professor Jocelyn Rose, Plant Biology, Cornell, "Unlocking the potential of plant cell walls: A new opportunity for biofuel production". [Hosted jointly with AEM]
Tuesday, March 11, 12:20 PM, Riley Robb 105, Professor Tammo Steenhuis and Zachary Easton, Postdoc, S&W Lab, BEE, Cornell, "Ethiopia: Landscape Engineering with Limited Data"
Monday, March 10, 2:30 PM, Riley Robb B15, David Pimentel, Entomology, Cornell, "What are the energy and carbon savings from ethanol?" [Hosted jointly with AEM]
Friday, February 15, 11:15AM, Riley Robb B15, Professor Harry de Gorter, AEM, "Biofuels: Role of trade policy". [Hosted jointly with AEM]
Monday, February 11, 2:30PM, Riley Robb B15, Peter Woodbury, Research Associate, CSS Cornell, "Geospatial analysis of opportunities and challenges for sustainable biomass feedstock production". [Hosted jointly with AEM]
Monday, February 4, 2:30PM, Riley Robb B15, Jack Huttner, Vice President, Biorefinery Business Development, Genencor, "The ethanol industry: Scale, location and future". [Hosted jointly with AEM]
Tuesday, February 5, 12:20PM, Riley Robb 105, Professor Todd Walter, BEE, Cornell, "Taking the 'Nonpoint' out of Nonpoint Source Pollution".
Friday, February 1, 2:30PM, Riley Robb 205, Steve Pacenka, "The future of water reuse in New York".
Tuesday, January 29, 12:20PM, Riley Robb B15, Julie Goddard, "Polymer surface modification for the attachment of bioactive compounds".
Monday, January 28, 2:30PM, Riley Robb B15, Professor Antonio Bento, AEM Cornell, "Introduction to the Economics of biofuels". [Hosted jointly with AEM]
Friday, January 25, 2:30PM, Riley Robb 205, Nalini Rao, BEE PhD Candidate, "Agricultural Best Management Practices in the New York City Source Watersheds: Hydrological, Economic and Policy Analysis".
Monday, January 21, 2:30PM, Riley Robb B15, Professor Larry Walker, BEE Cornell, "The evolving paradigm of agriculture as a provider of energy and industrial chemicals". [Hosted jointly with AEM]
2007:
Thursday, April 26th, 2:30PM, Riley Robb 205: Otto C. Doering III, Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, "the Midwest Ethanol Feeding Frenzy". Open discussion.
Thursday, April 26th, 3:00PM, BTI Auditorium: Mike Edgerton, Ph.D., Monsanto, "Improvements in corn grain and ethanol yields through breeding and biotechnology".
Friday, April 6th, 9:00AM, RR105: Megan Marshall, Bioconversion Research Group, Penn State, Teaching Seminar.
Thursday, April 5th, 1:00PM, B15: Megan Marshall, Bioconversion Research Group, Penn State, "Sustainable control of plant pathogens in agricultural systems: Engineering approaches to improve consistency and efficiency".
Monday, April 2nd, 12:20PM, B15: Claudia Fischbach-Teschl, Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, "Polymeric systems to study tumor microenvironments".
Thursday, March 29th, 1:00PM, B15: Zhen Fang, Energy Lab, McGill University, Canada, "Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass and Nanocatalyst Synthesis".
Monday, March 26th, 12:20PM, B15: Moonsoo Jin, Sc.D., Biomedical Engineering Department, Cornell University, "A novel platform for discovering therapeutic antibodies against integrins".
Monday, March 12th, 12:20PM, B15: Anne Kraepiel, Princeton University, "Trace metals and the terrestrial nitrogen cycle: uptake of essential and toxic oxoanions in nitrogen fixing bacteria".
Wednesday, March 7th, 6-8 PM in the Duffield Atrium: BioExpo. See More.
Tuesday, March 6th, 253 Malott Hall, 1:25PM: Lidia Vidal, "Fundacion Chile: 30 years promoting the development of innovative businesses based on technology".
Friday, February 23rd, Morison Room, Corson Hall, 4:00PM: Beth Ahner, Cornell Dept of Biological and Environmental Engineering, "Novel dipeptides in marine algae: Special function for a special environment?"
Monday, February 19th, Room B-15, 12:20PM: William Bentley, University of Maryland, School of Engineering, Director of Bioengineering, and Center for Biosystems Research, "Bacterial Quorum Sensing: A Target for Systems Bioengineering Research".
Monday, February 12th, Room B-15, 12:20PM: Faping Duan, Cornell Dept of Biological and Environmental Engineering, "Engineering enteric bacteria to prevent cholera infection".
Monday, February 5th, 12:20, Room B-15, 12:20PM: Lois Pollack, Cornell Dept of Applied and Engineering Physics, "Ion-nucleic acid interactions: new insights from x-ray scattering".
Digital Microscope Open House
Hosted by the BEE Soil & Water Group with Anthony Hay from Microbiology
December 19, 2006
12 - 3pm, Riley-Robb B44
Members of BEE's Soil and Water Group showed off the department's new digital Hirox KH-7700 microscope. Brian Richards and Tammo Steenhuis along with Anthony Hay demonstrated the cutting edge technology of this amazing device. In addition to conventional 2D imaging, the microscope can scan a specimen, store the data digitally and then render the image in 3D onto an LCD. The researcher can then zoom and rotate the 3D model so it can be viewed from any angle.
The advantage of this type of microscopy is a better assessment of the actual structure of soils and other specimens. Presently the microscope is helping the group study colloidal transport to ground water. With a maximum magnification of 7000x (based on a 15" LCD image), it is easy to view and record the 5 micron diameter particles as they move through porous media.
Funding for the microscope was provided by a USDA project grant as well as CALS and the Cornell Biocomplexity & Biogeochemistry Initiative.
