SANS Seminar Series

Fall 2024 SANS Seminar Series

The Fall 2024 SANS Seminar Series concluded Nov. 14, 2024, with a presentation by University of Maryland Eastern Shore Assistant Professor Salem Al Mosleh.

The other speakers at the Fall series were: Dr. Anil N. Netravali, Cornell University; Dr. Yvon Woappi, Columbia University; Dr. Stephen Tomasetti, UMES; Dr. Indranath Chaudhuri, St. Xavier’s College, India; and Dr. Samira Musah, Duke University.

The SANS seminar series will return in Spring 2025. Please check back later for updates.

A Look Back at the Fall Seminar Series

“Dr. Salem Al Mosleh, UMES assistant professor, talks about the connection between biology and physics in shaping living structures in the final Fall SANS Seminar. (Photo by Kara Nuzback, Ag Communications)

Dr. Samira Musah, an Assistant Professor at Duke Univrsity, talks about uncovering human disease mysteries with stem cell and organ chip models during the fall SANS Seminar Series. (Photo by Todd Dudek, UMES Ag Communications)

Dr. Indranath Chaudhuri, Dean of Science, St. Xavier’s college in Kolkata, India, speaks about the Pattern Formation in Nature during the weekly SANS Seminar Series on the Campus of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. (Photo by Todd Dudek, UMES Ag Communications)

Dr. Stephen Tomasetti, Assistant Professor at UMES Department of Natural Sciences, presented the SANS Seminar Series on learning about the challenges our shellfish face and new approaches for their protection. (Photo by Todd Dudek, UMES Ag Communications)

Yvon Woappi, talks about delveloping High-Throughput Wound Organoids for Human-relevant injury modeling during the SANS Seminal Series Thursday, Oct 3, 2024. (Photo by Todd Dudek, UMES Ag Communications)

Dr. Anil Netravali, a professor of Fiber Science from Cornell University, talks about advance green composites that could be used in applications from automobiles to sporting goods, circuit boards to housing and furniture to packaging during the First SANS Seminar Series on the Campus of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Thursday, Sept, 12, 2024 (Photo by Todd Dudek, UMES Ag Communications)

The Fall 2024 SANS Seminar Series featured speakers from multiple universities and a variety of topics. The speakers, from left, were: Dr. Salem Al Mosleh, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Dr. Samira Musha, Duke University; Dr. Indranath Chaudhuri, St. Xavier’s College, India; Dr. Stephen Tomasetti, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Dr. Yvon Woappi, Columbia University; and Dr. Anil N. Netravali, Cornell University. Photos by Todd Dudek and Kara Nuzback/Ag Comm

Past Seminars

Date	Speaker	Topic
Nov. 14, 2024	Dr. Salem Al Mosleh, University of Maryland Eastern Shore	Getting in Shape: From Beaks to Batteries
Oct. 24, 2024	Dr. Samira Musah, Duke University	Uncovering Human Disease Mysteries with Stem Cell and Organ Chip Models
Oct. 17, 2024	Dr. Indranath Chaudhuri, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, India	Pattern Formation in Nature
Oct. 10, 2024	Dr. Stephen Tomasetti, University of Maryland Eastern Shore	Shellfish Stories
Oct. 3, 2024	Dr. Yvon Woappi, Columbia University	Developing High-Throughput Wound Organoids for Human-relevant Injury Modeling
Sept. 12, 2024	Dr. Anil N. Netravali, Cornell University	Advanced Green Composites
May 9, 2024	Dr. Jonica Thompson, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service	Common Poultry Diseases on the Eastern Shore
May 2, 2024	Margaret “Marnie” Pepper, USDA APHIS	Understanding and Managing Wildlife Conflicts
April 11, 2024	Margaret Zeigler, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture	Feeding the Americas and the World: Bridges for Agricultural Cooperation
Feb. 15, 2024	Dr. Habilou Ouro-Koura, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	From Student Lab to National Research Lab
Feb. 22, 2024	Dr. Aaron Persad, UMES Engineering Dept.	Space Food to Space Suit
Mar. 7, 2024	Dr. Birendra Adhikari, Idaho National Laboratory	Membrane Separation: Technology Needed to Reach Net-Zero
Mar. 14, 2024	Dr. Naveen Dixit, UMES SANS	UMES Horticulture: Advancements in Teaching, Research and Extension

Date	Speaker	Topic
March 15, 2023	Dr. Deborah Sauder	First Measurement of Ambient Air Quality on the Rural Lower Eastern Shore
April 5, 2023	Dr. Jimmy W. Smith	Opportunities and Challenges in International Agriculture Development
April 19, 2023	Dr. Charles R. Powley	Challenges in the Analysis of PFAS in the Environment
April 27, 2023	Dr. L. Mahadevan	Magic, Mystery, and Mathematics in the Mundane
Sept. 13, 2023	Dr. Richard Kane	Exploring the Synthesis and Energy Storage Applications of Graphene
Sept. 20, 2023	Dr. Catherine A. Richter	Molecular biology in environmental science: Discovery of de novo thiaminase synthesis in fish, and defining the range of a rare and cryptic fish with environmental DNA
Sept. 27, 2023	Dr. Kausiksankar Das, SANS, UMES	Technology in the classroom (virtual reality and cellphone)
Oct. 11, 2023	Ray Baughman, University of Texas at Dallas	Give it a twist: How artificial muscles harvest mechanical energy
Oct. 25, 2023	Dr. Malinda Cecil, UMES	A Food Culture Tour of the Republic of Ireland and the Challenges of Food Sustainability
Nov. 8, 2023	Trevor Michaels, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service	How conservation detection dogs are used for wildlife management
Nov. 29, 2023	Dr. Melissa A. Cregger, Oak Ridge National Laboratory	How harnessing plant-microbe interactions builds sustainable ecosystems.
Dec. 6, 2023	Dr. Carrie A.M. Laboski, USDA-ARS Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit in University Park, PA.	Sustainable Nitrogen Fertilizer Rate Decisions Tools for Corn Production: A Midwestern Approach