Chemical and Biological Engineering

Angel Garcia

Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — angel

Name:	Angel Garcia
Title:	Professor of Physics and Senior Constellation Professor in Biocomputation and Bioinformatics
Department	Biomedical Engineering Chemical and Biological Engineering Physics, Applied Physics & Astronomy
School	Science
Website:	http://rpi.edu/dept/phys/faculty/profiles/garcia.html

Bio García received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Cornell University . He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the Biophysical Society, The Protein Society, the AAAS, and the American Chemical Society. He received the Edward Bouchard prize of the American Physical Society in 2006.

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Education Ph.D., Theoretical Physics, Cornell University. M.S., Physics, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras B.S., Physics (Magna cum Laude), University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

Scholarly Works:

S. Gnanakaran, R. Nussinovand A. E. García, “Atomic level description of amyloid beta dimer formation” J Amer. Chem Soc. (Communications) 128: 2158-2159 (2006) A.E. Garcia and J. N. Onuchic, “Folding a protein in the computer: Reality or hope?” (Commentary) STRUCTURE 13: 497-498 (2005)

Georges Belfort

Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — belfog

Name:	Georges Belfort
Title:	Institute Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Member, National Academy of Engineering
Department	Chemical and Biological Engineering
School	Engineering
Website:	http://cbe.rpi.edu/node/76

Bio Dr. Georges Belfort: Endowed chair Russell Sage Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at RPI. He received his BS degree in CHME at the University of Cape Town and PhD in Engineering from UC Irvine. He has broad research interests include mass transfer and membrane filtration, protein misfolding and kinetics, single molecule force spectroscopy, and bioseparations. He has received the two major awards in the US on Separations (ACS (1995) and AIChE (2000)), the ACS Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (2008), and is one of the â€œ100 Chemical Engineers of the Modern Erae as part of the AIChE Centennial Celebration in 2008. He was elected a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, February 2003.

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Education B.S. Chemical Engineering (the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa), 1963 M.S. Chemical Engineering (The University of California at Irvine) Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (The University of California at Irvine), 1972

Recognitions:

Elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering, February, 2003
Winner of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Separations Division Award for 2000: Clarence G Gerhold Award in Separations Science & Technology

B. Wayne Bequette

Fri, 2010-08-06 10:37 — bequeb

Name:	B. Wayne Bequette
Title:	Professor
Department	Chemical and Biological Engineering
School	Engineering
Center	Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS) Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) Center for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Research (CFCHR) Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES)
Website:	http://homepages.rpi.edu/~bequeb/bwbres.html

Bio Dr. Bequette served as President of the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) in 2008-9, and currently serves as the AIChE CAST Division Programming Chair (2010-2013). He is a Fellow of the AIChE (May, 2008), was inducted into the Arkansas Academy of Chemical Engineers (April, 2007), received the Rensselaer School of Engineering Research Excellence Award (2008), and was named a Trustee of the CACHE Corporation (2010-2012).

Dr. Bequette is the author of Process Control: Modeling, Design and Simulation (2003) and Process Dynamics: Modeling, Analysis and Simulation (1998), both published by Prentice Hall. He served as the Guest Editor of Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics (February, 2005), and also edited special issues on Process Control for the IEEE Control Systems Magazine (August and December, 2006). He is a founding member of the editorial board of the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, and has co-edited a number of special issues on algorithms for sensors and a closed-loop artificial pancreas.

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Education 1980 B.S. Ch.E. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 1985 M.S.E. University of Texas, Austin 1986 Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin

Scholarly Works:

Cameron, F., B.W. Bequette, D.M. Wilson, B.A. Buckingham, H. Lee and G. Niemeyer “A Closed-Loop Artificial Pancreas Based on Risk Management,” J. Diabetes Sci. Technol., 5(2), 368-379 (2011).
Kuure-Kinsey, M. and B.W. Bequette “A Multiple Model Predictive Control Strategy for Disturbance Rejection,” Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 49(17), 7983-7989 (2010).
Dassau, E., F. Cameron, H. Lee, B.W. Bequette, H. Zisser, L. Jovanovic, H.P. Chase, D.M. Wilson, B.A. Buckingham and F.J. Doyle III. “Real-time Hypoglycemia Prediction Suite Using Continuous Glucose Monitoring: A safety net for the artificial pancreas,” Diabetes Care, 33(6), 1249-1254 (2010).
Buckingham, B, H.P. Chase, E. Dassau, E. Cobry, P. Clinton, V. Gage, K. Caswell, J. Wilkinson, F. Cameron, H. Lee, B.W. Bequette, F.J. Doyle III “Prevention of Nocturnal Hypoglycemia Using Predictive Alarm Algorithms and Insulin Pump Suspension,” Diabetes Care, 33(5), 1013-1018 (2010).
Bequette, B.W. Continuous Glucose Monitoring: Real-Time Algorithms for Calibration, Filtering and Alarms. J. Diabetes Science and Technology, 4(2), 404-418 (2010).
Bequette, B.W. Process Control: Modeling, Design and Simulation, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ (2003).
Bequette, B.W. Process Dynamics: Modeling, Analysis and Simulation, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ (1998).

Recognitions:

AIChE Fellow (May, 2008)
Arkansas Academy of Chemical Engineers (April, 2007)
Trustee of the CACHE Corporation (2010-2012)
Rensselaer School of Engineering Research Excellence Award (2008)

Henry R Bungay III

Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — bungah

Name:	Henry R Bungay III
Title:	Professor Emeritus
Department	Chemical and Biological Engineering
School	Engineering

Bio A faculty member since 1976, Professor Bungay previously worked for Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis and Worthington Biochemical Corporation in Freehold, NJ, was a Program Manager at the National Science Foundation and at ERDA (now the U.S. Department of Energy), was the Resident Energy Fellow at the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, and held academic positions at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Clemson University. He is the author of five books on environmental and biochemical engineering.

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Education Ph.D. Biochemistry (Syracuse University, 1955) B.Ch.E. Chemical Engineering (Cornell University, 1949)

Scholarly Works:

Energy, the Biomass Options (1981)
Computer Games and Simulation for Biochemical Engineering (1985)
BASIC Environmental Engineering (1988)
BASIC Biochemical Engineering (1989)
Environmental Systems Engineering (1998)
Pulse Distribution Analysis Device (1966)
Reaction Container for Chemical Analysis (1976)
Chemical analysis method using reaction container (1977)
Production of microbial cellulose using a rotating disk film bioreactor (1999)
Method for Preparation of Microbial Cellulose (2000)
Listing of Books and Journal Articles

Cynthia H Collins

Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — collic3

Name:	Cynthia H Collins
Title:	Assistant Professor
Department	Chemical and Biological Engineering
School	Engineering
Center	Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS)
Website:	http://homepages.rpi.edu/~collic3/

Bio Cynthia Collins joined the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at RPI in March 2008 as an assistant professor. Cynthia grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She obtained her Honours B.Sc. in Chemistry and Biochemistry from the University of Toronto in 2000, and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics from Caltech in 2006. She subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Michael Suretteâ€™s lab at the University of Calgary, where she was the recipient of a prestigious Alberta Ingenuity Post-Doctoral Fellowship.

Communities of microorganisms are ubiquitous in nature and play important roles in processes that directly impact human life, from environmental remediation, wastewater treatment and assistance in food digestion to biofouling, biofilm-related corrosion and hospital-acquired infections. The Collins Lab focuses on fundamental and applied aspects of microbial consortia and combines multiscale modeling of biological networks (from gene to protein to organism to community), metabolic and biochemical engineering, synthetic biology and engineered cell-cell communication with the complexities of coexisting communities of bacteria. Applications range from engineering biosensors, to bioprocessing, bioremediation and bio-energy production, and may also include the development of therapeutics that specifically target the balance between good and bad bacteria in the human body.

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Education B.S. Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (University of Toronto, 2000) Ph.D. Chemistry and Biochemistry (California Institute of Technology, 2006) Postdoctoral: 2006-2008, University of Calgary

Scholarly Works:

A synthetic Escherichia coli predator-prey ecosystem (2008)
Dual selection enhances the signaling specificity of a variant of the quorum-sensing transcriptional regulator LuxR (2006)
A synthetic multicellular system for programmed pattern formation (2006)
Directed evolution of Vibrio fischeri LuxR for increased sensitivity to a broad spectrum of acyl-homoserine lactones (2005)
Evolutionary design of genetic circuits and cell-cell communications (2003)
Adenosine to inosine editing by ADAR2 requires formation of a ternary complex on the GluR-B R/G site (2002)
Engineering proteins that bind, move, make and break DNA (2003)

Marc-Olivier Coppens

Fri, 2010-08-06 10:49 — Anonymous

Name:	Marc-Olivier Coppens
Title:	Professor and Associate Director of the Multiscale Science and Engineering Center
Department	Chemical and Biological Engineering
School	Engineering

Bio MARC-OLIVIER COPPENS is professor in chemical engineering at Rensselaer. He holds MSc (1993) and PhD (1996) degrees in chemical engineering from Univ. Ghent, Belgium, was visiting scholar at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1996), and postdoctoral fellow at Yale (1996-1997) and UC Berkeley (1997-1998). He joined the TU Delft faculty in the Netherlands in 1998, was named Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor in 2001, and Chair of Physical Chemistry and Molecular Thermodynamics, 2003â€“2006. His multidisciplinary research combines fundamental theoretical work with experiments, centering on nature-inspired chemical engineering, to design and build efficient chemical processes, porous catalysts and separation systems, guided by efficient biological systems. Awards include DSM Prize Laureate (1996), Young Chemist (2001) and PIONIER Awards (2002) from the Dutch National Foundation for Scientific Research (NWO) and a Visiting Professorship at National Tsinghua University, Taiwan (1998) and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (2008). His group is involved in many international collaborations, including the U.S.A., the Netherlands (TU Delft), Germany, Japan (NIMS), China and Norway. He has given over one hundred invited lectures worldwide.

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Education B.S. 1993 University of Ghent, Belgium Ph.D. 1996 University of Ghent, Belgium Postdoctoral: 1996-1998, Yale University and University of California, Berkeley

Steven Cramer

Fri, 2010-08-06 10:57 — littec

Name:	Steven Cramer
Title:	William Weightman Walker Professor
Department	Biomedical Engineering Chemical and Biological Engineering
School	Engineering
Website:	https://afsws.rpi.edu/AFS/dept/chem-eng/WWW/faculty/cramer/

Bio Professor Steven Cramer is one of the recognized leaders in chromatographic bioprocessing worldwide. For the past twenty three years, Professor Cramer and his students have combined elegant theoretical models and rigorous experimentation to make dramatic advances in several areas of preparative protein chromatography. He serves as a consultant and/or member of the scientific board for several biotechnology and separations companies. In addition, Professor Cramer is known worldwide for his expertise in separations in general. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International journal Separations, Science and Technology. Professor Cramer was the awarded the prestigious Alan S. Michaels Award for the Recovery of Biological Products (ACS Division of Biochemical Technology). He was also awarded Rensselaerâ€™s School of Engineering Research Excellence Award, a Presidential Young Investigator award from the National Science Foundation, the Early Career Award from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as well as several teaching awards. Professor Cramer was elected a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He has also chaired several prestigious meetings including the International HIC/RPC Bioseparations Conference, the ACS Recovery of Biological Products Meeting and the Gordon Conference on Reactive Polymers. He is also the U.S. coordinator of the NSF sponsored Eastern Mediterranean Chemical Engineering Conference Series. Prof. Cramer has published over 140 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has 9 patents. Importantly, he has produced over 33 Ph.D. students who have gone on to leadership positions in the biotechnology industry and academia.

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Education B.S. 1978 Brown University Ph.D. 1986 Yale University

Jonathan S. Dordick

Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — dordick

Name:	Jonathan S. Dordick
Title:	Howard P. Isermann Professor and Director of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies
Department	Biomedical Engineering Chemical and Biological Engineering Materials Science and Engineering
School	Engineering
Center	Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS)
Website:	http://enzymes.che.rpi.edu/

Bio Dordick joined the Rensselaer faculty as the chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering in 1998 and is also the Howard P. Isermann Professor. He spent nine years at the University of Iowa. He joined their staff in 1987 as a member of the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering and was promoted to associate professor in 1991 and to full professor in 1994. He served as department chair from 1995 to 1998. He also served as associate director of the Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing at the University of Iowa and held a joint position in the university's Department of Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry in the College of Pharmacy. Dordick is the associate editor for Biotechnology and Bioengineering (1996 to present), and is a member of the editorial boards for several publications, including Enzyme and Microbial Technology (1993 to present); the Journal of Industrial Microbiology (1996 to 2000); the Journal of Environmental Polymer Degradation (1996 to present); Metabolic Engineering (

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Education Ph.D. Biochemical Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983), M.S. Biochemical Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983), B.A. Biochemistry and Chemistry (Brandeis University, 1980)

Scholarly Works:

Structural diversity of peroxidase-catalyzed oxidation products of o-Methoxyphenols (2004)
Silica Nanoparticules Size Influences the Structure and Enzymatic Activity o Adsorbed Lysozyme (2004)
Periplasmic expression as a basis for whole cell kinetic screening of unnatural enzyme reactivities (2004)
Hydration of Enzyme in nonaqueous media is consistent with solvent dependence of its activity (2004)
Combinatorial Formulation of Biocatalyst Preparations for Increased Activity in Organic Solvents: Salt Activation of Penicillin Amidase (2004)
Biocompatibility of chemoenzymatically derived dextran-acrylate hydrogels (2004)
Solid-phase peptide synthesis by ion-paired alpha-chymotrypsin in nonaqueous media (2003)
Si-Nanocolumns as Unique Nanostructured Supports for Enzyme Immobilization (2003)
Self-assembled lipid nanotube materials from synthetic glycolipids (2003)
Multienzyme Catalysis in Microfluidic Biochips (2003)
Microfluidic Peroxidase Biochip for Polyphenol Synthesis (2003)
Influence of Different S

Arthur Fontijn

Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — fontia

Name:	Arthur Fontijn
Title:	Professor Emeritus
Department	Chemical and Biological Engineering
School	Engineering
Website:	http://www.rpi.edu/~fontia

Bio Professor Fontijn is Director of the High-Temperature Reaction Kinetics Laboratory, housed in the Chemical Engineering Building, where his graduate students are located. He earned his degrees from the University of Amsterdam. His undergraduate work was in Physics and Chemistry and thereafter he specialized in Physical Chemistry.

He was an NRC of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow in Radiation Chemistry at the University of Saskatchewan, a Research Associate in the Upper Atmosphere Chemistry Research Group at McGill University, and was employed by AeroChem Research Laboratories, Inc., Princeton, NJ, initially as Physical Chemist, thereafter as Head of the Reaction Kinetics Group and Vice-President. He joined Rensselaer in 1981. He has held visiting appointments at: the Chemistry Department of Queen Mary College, London University, England; CSIRO, Sydney, Australia; the Photophysics and Photochemistry Laboratory of the University of Bordeaux, France; the Oxford University Centre for Applied Kinetics, England.

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Education Ph.D. Natural Sciences (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1957) M.S. Physical Chemistry (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1954) B.S. Physics and Chemistry (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1949)

Scholarly Works:

Reactions of Small Transient Species, Kinetics and Energetics (1983)
Gas-Phase Chemiluminescence and Chemi-Ionization (1985)
Gas-Phase Metal Reactions (1992)
Absolute Quantum Yield Measurements of the NO-O Reaction and its Use as a Standard for Chemiluminescent Reactions (1964)
High-Temperature Photochemistry (HTP) Studies of the Reactions of Ground-State Oxygen Atoms with Chloro-ethylenes (1994)
High-Temperature Fast-Flow Reactor Studies of Metal Atom Oxidation Kinetics (1973)
High Temperature Flow Tubes. Generation and Measurement of Refractory Species (1979)
Gas-Phase Oxidation Kinetics of Toxic Metals at Incinerator Temperatures. The reactions of Chromium Atoms with HCl, N2O , Cl2, and O2 (1994)
High-Temperature Fast-Flow Reactor Kinetics Studies of the Reactions of Al with Cl2, Al with HCl, and AlCl with Cl2 over Wide Temperature Ranges (1989)
Kinetics of the O(3P)+N2O Reaction 1. Direct Measurements at Intermediate Temperatures (2000)
Transitions in Order and Molecularity with Temperature in G

Shekhar Garde

Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — gardes

Name:	Shekhar Garde
Title:	Elaine and Jack S. Parker Professor and Department Head
Department	Chemical and Biological Engineering
School	Engineering
Center	Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center (RNC)
Website:	http://www.rpi.edu/~gardes/

Bio Dr. Garde's research interests include molecular thermodynamics and simulations of biological systems, statistical mechanics of liquids and polymers, and solvation phenomena -- especially in aqueous solutions (water structure, hydrophobic interactions). We focus on understanding and modeling the role of water structure in inducing interactions between various hydrophobic, polar, and ionic molecules which ultimately leads to many important self-assembly processes in water. For an overview, see brief descriptions of ongoing projects in my research group.

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Education Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (University of Delaware, 1997) B.S. Chemical Engineering (University of Bombay, 1992)