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Scientific participation

Invited talks

Montana Tech, Butte, MT - February 23, 2017.

Talk title: Thixotropic materials for biomedical applications

Presenter: Monica A. Serban

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 Ñý¼§Ö±²¥.

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 Ñý¼§Ö±²¥.

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