LORRE Seminars Our weekly seminars will be held on Mondays 4-5pm! All LORRE graduate students are expected to attend. Seminar on Monday September 22th will a guest seminar by Prof. Johana Husserl in the Fu Room (POTR 234). Seminar Schedule Date Title Presenter(s) 8-Sep Introductions, Lab Report Ladisch, Mosier, Engelberth, Ximenes 15-Sep Lab Tours 22-Sep TBD Prof. Johana Husserl University of the Andes, Colombia 29-Sep Effect of Swelling of Cellulose on its Thermochemical Conversion to HMF Barron Hewetson 6-Oct TBD Daehwan Kim 13-Oct Fall Break Fall Break 20-Oct TBD Ian Mateus 27-Oct TBD Studie Red Corn 3-Nov TBD Mahdieh Aghazadeh 10-Nov TBD Iman Beheshti 17-Nov AIChE Meeting AIChE Meeting 24-Nov TBD David Orrego 1-Dec TBD Jinsha Li 8-Dec TBD Michele Michelin 15-Dec TBD Ariane Zanchetta LORRE Student Leadership As discussed in seminar last week, we are instituting leaders in the offices and labs to help to keep LORRE a fun and productive place to work. We announced the points of contact for each lab last week: Lab Purpose Point of Contact 231 Biomass Chemical Characterization Amanda Kreger 233/252 Molecular Biology Ariane Zanchetta 235 Biomass Physical Characterization Ximing Zhang 237/256 Fermentation and Enzyme Hydrolysis Tommy Kreke 254 Biocatalysis David Orrego 333 HPLC etc. Linda Liu 335 Biosafety Seockmo Ku 336 Biochemistry Ximing Zhang 359 Bioseparations Studie Red Corn Please be helpful and respond when asked by the lab contacts to help keep the labs clean and safe. Several companies have inquired about visiting LORRE in the near future. These companies are looking to hire students with the experiences and skills that students develop while at LORRE. Please help make the first impression our guest have be the best possible by keeping your work areas orderly and clean.