Academic Year 2017-2018
Scientific participation
Invited talks
Montana Tech, Butte, MT - February 23, 2017.
Talk title: Thixotropic materials for biomedical applications
Presenter: Monica A. Serban
http://digitalcommons.mtech.edu/public_lectures_mtech/97/
Oral presentations
Society for Biomaterials (SFB) meeting, Minneapolis, MN - April 7, 2017.
Oral presentation: Dynamic, reversible 3D cell culture matrices
Authors: Kristian T. Stipe, Bogdan A. Serban, Monica A. Serban
Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring meeting, Phoenix, AZ - April 21, 2017.
Oral presentation: Syntheses and characterization of novel glucaric acid-based hydrogels
Authors: Erik R. Johnston, Tyler N. Smith, Monica A. Serban
GradCon - Missoula, MT - April 27, 2017.
Oral presentation: Dynamic, reversible 3D cell culture matrices
Authors: Kristian T. Stipe, Bogdan A. Serban, Monica A. Serban
UMCUR, Missoula, MT - April 28, 2017.
Oral presentation: Silk adhesives for biomedical applications
Authors: Alex Riffey, Erik R. Johnston, Kristian T. Stipe, Monica A. Serban
Poster presentations
Material Sciences Symposium, Bozeman, MT - October 14, 2016.
Poster presentation: Syntheses and characterization of novel glucaric acid-based hydrogels
Authors: Erik R. Johnston, Tyler N. Smith, Monica A. Serban
Society for Biomaterials (SFB) meeting, Minneapolis, MN - April 4-8, 2017.
Poster presentation: Thixotropic hydrogels for antibacterial applications
Authors: Bogdan A. Serban, Kristian T. Stipe, Jeremy B. Alverson, Nigel D. Priestley, Monica A. Serban
Educational poster presentation: Glues and clues from nature
Authors: Kristian T. Stipe, Monica A. Serban
APS Physics, DAMOP 17, Sacramento, CA - June 5-9, 2017.
Poster presentation: Compact Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensor for Fieldwork Environmental Detection
Authors: Margarethe Boyd, Madison Drake, Kristian T. Stipe, Monica A. Serban, Ivana Turner, Aaron Thomas, David Macaluso
Outreach
We Are Montana in the Classroom - Willard Alternative High School.
Erik and Monica serve as Role Models and talk about science careers to high school students.
2017 STEAM Fest.
Monica and Tyler Smith from Rivertop Renewables host one of Inspired Classroom's distance learning sessions on Building with Biomaterials reaching 9 High Schools from across Montana.
STEAM lounge demo.
Kristian, Erik and Monica participate in a science demo at the Montana Science Fair that hosted over 600 middle and high school students.
Serban Lab visits.
On May 12th and 26th, 2017, the Serban Lab hosted two 2nd grade and 3 1st grade classes from Hellgate Elementary for a day of fun and learning about the states of matter, phase transitions, dry ice and liquid nitrogen.
Graduations
Kristian Stipe
Kristian, the very first student of the Serban Lab graduates in Spring 2018 with an MS degree in Interdisciplinary Sciences. CONGRATULATIONS KRISTIAN!!!