Patryck presents at the 99th New England Complex Fluids Meeting at Brown University

Patryck presents a SoundBite at the 99th New England Complex Fluids Meeting at Brown University on “Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilm pH gradients contribute to the emergence of biofilm mechanics.” Nice job, Patryck!

Stewart and Bailey-Hytholt lab MQP team students received the WPI Provost’s Major Qualifying Project (MQP) Award

Stewart and Bailey-Hytholt lab MQP team students received the WPI Provost’s Major Qualifying Project (MQP) Award for their senior project titled “Formulating liposomes for increased antimicrobial activity toward Staphylococcus epidermidis.” The team presented their work at the Chemical Engineering MQP Poster Competition.  Congrats to Mae Felkner, Emily Pimentel, Kate Stoncius, and Hannah Wolfgang for this […]

Prof. Stewart delivers invited virtual talk to U.S. Army DEVCOM Soldier Center in Natick, MA.

Sydney presents a talk at the AIChE 2023 Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL

Sydney’s presentation was titled “Quantifying the biophysical properties of bacterial cells and clusters released from biofilms after matrix-targeted disruption” and was given in the Colloidal Dispersions session.

Prof. Stewart delivers invited talk to the Chemical Engineering Department at Kansas State University!

Prof. Stewart gives invited talk to Colorado School of Mines Chemical and Biological Engineering Department!

Gabriel presents a poster at the WPI Summer Research Showcase

Gabriel’s poster was titled “Time-dependent kinetics of Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilm dispersal and adhesion”. Glad to have had you in the lab this summer Gabriel!

Lily presents a poster and rapid-fire talk at the 6th annual Stevens Conference on Bacterial-Material Interactions

Lily received an NSF funded student travel award to attend this conference. She was also one of few students selected to give an oral rapid-fire talk in addition to the poster presentation.

Sydney presents a rapid talk at the 94th New England Complex Fluids (NECF) Meeting at University of Rhode Island in South Kingston, RI

Sydney’s presentation was titled “Biophysical properties of cellular clusters released from biofilms after biofilm matrix disruption”.

Sydney, Lily, and Patryck present posters at WPI’s Graduate Research Innovation Exchange

All Stewart Lab PhD students presented posters at WPI 2023 Graduate Research Innovation Exchange. Sydney’s poster was titled “Biophysical properties of bacterial cells released from biofilms after anti-biofilm treatments”. Lily’s poster was titled “Development of a Staphylococcal biofilm infection model for evaluating biofilm formation at the host-pathogen interface”. Patryck’s poster was titled “Staphylococcus epidermidis Biofilm […]