Dr. Patrick Ymele-Leki was an invited speaker at the 2019 AfroBiotech Conference, which took place on October 27-29 in Atlanta, GA. He introduced the diverse breadth of scientific research undertaken by chemical engineering faculty and students at Howard University and presented BEDD lab’s work on the PTS system and Vibrio cholerae biofilms. The inaugural AfroBiotech […]

Ms. Tafadzwa Chigumira (BEDD MS student) and Dr. Tao Wei (assistant professor of chemical engineering) attended the NSF-supported “US-Africa Forum on Nanotechnology Convergence for Sustainable Energy, Water and Environment” held at Johannesburg, South Africa, on August 2019. The forum brought together academics working in nanotechnology and nanoscience to address issues of energy, water and environmental […]

Research from the Biofilm Engineering and Drug Discovery (BEDD) group was featured at the 2018 Howard University Research Symposium (April 9-13) in Washington, DC. Our students and post-doctoral fellow proudly presented their (more…)

Research from the Biofilm Engineering and Drug Discovery (BEDD) group was featured at the Emerging Researchers National (ERN) in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in Washington, DC. The ERN conference was held (more…)

Research from the Biofilm Engineering and Drug Discovery (BEDD) group was featured at the 2017 Annual Student Conference (October 27-30) in Minneapolis, MN. (more…)

Research from the Biofilm Engineering and Drug Discovery (BEDD) group was featured at the 2017 BMES (Biomedical Engineering Society) Annual Meeting (October 11-14) in Phoenix, AZ. (more…)

The BEDD group held a Professional Development Day for high-school STEM educators from Friendship Public Charter School on October 5th, 2017. “Safety in the science classroom and laboratory” was (more…)

Dr. Ymele-Leki gave a research seminar on July 18, 2017, at the University of Virginia’s Department of Biomedical Engineering. The talk was titled “Controlling Microbial Growth: Challenges and Applications.” The seminar introduced ongoing efforts in the laboratory to (more…)

Research from the Biofilm Engineering and Drug Discovery (BEDD) group was featured at the Emerging Researchers National (ERN) in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in Washington, DC. The ERN conference was held (more…)

Research from the Biofilm Engineering and Drug Discovery (BEDD) group was featured at the 2016 Annual Student Conference (November 11-14) and the 2016 AIChE Annual Meeting (November 13-18) in San Francisco, CA. (more…)