Howard P. Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
and Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180, USA
December 2020
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Indian Institute of Chemical Engineering (IICHE) - CHEMCON- 2020, Kolkata, India : Chief Guest Dr. Georges Belfort to deliver invited talk entitled "Membrane Filtration with liquids: unresolved challenges and an in vitro selection method for structure-by design" at the Valedictory session (December 29 at 16:30 (Indian Standard Time)
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Chenyu Guan defended his Masters thesis entitled "Protein-coated particle capture within a membrane during filtration: simulations"
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ICOM 2020, London, UK : Dr. Georges Belfort delivers keynote talk entitled "Membrane Filtration with liquids: a global approach with prior success, new developments and unresolved challenges"
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ICOM 2020, London, UK : Dr. Mirco Sorci delivers talk "Linking microstructure of membranes and performance"
November 2020
AICHE 2020 virtual talks from the Belfort group:
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Dr. Georges Belfort: 124d "Membrane filtration with liquids: a global approach with prior successes, new developments and unresolved challenges"
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Dr. Georges Belfort chaired the SBE's James E. Bailey Award Lecture by Dr. Cato T Laurencin, U Conn
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Dr. Mirco Sorci : 217d "Membrane selectivity for protein filtration by atomic force microscopy​"
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Dr. Mirco Sorci" 348d "Linking microstructure of membranes and performance"
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Chenyu Guan: 379a "How does membrane microstructure affect performance"
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Pranav Ramesh: 421e "SET-LRP modification of crosslinked polyimide membranes for organic solvent nanofiltration"
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Matthew Wong: 627f "Engineering a cell-free system- enzyme fusion for enhanced production (Industry candidate)"
August 2020
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Dr. Belfort taught Advanced Membrane Concepts graduate (CHME 6410) and Introduction to Advanced Membrane Concepts (CHME 4961). Course outline can be found here. Invited speakers included Gabriel Tkacik (Millipore Sigma), Dr. Andrew Zydney (Penn State), Dr. Miao Yu (RPI), Dr. James Kilduff (RPI).