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Nerenberg Lab Group Reunion!

Many of former and current members of the group gathered at Cloud’s Walking Cafe in South Bend to chat and enjoy a warm coffee. We caught up on each other’s lives, chatted about what’s next, and laughed over some hilarious lab memories!

It was truly special to see multiple generations of the ‘Nerenberg Lab’ come together in one place!

We are the Fighting Irish!

One of our projects was selected by the NBC group “What Would You Fight For?” and they came to film our group in action!

The video was shown on the field during the game day of Notre Dame Vs. Ireland

Here are some behind the scene pictures!!

Click here to enjoy the video!

Biofilm Course 2023

We hosted our second Biofilm Course this past July 16-20!

Many participants attended, both from the US and even from abroad!

We went over biofilm microprofilling, from building microsensors to making some oxygen profiles. Also learnt about Biofilm modeling with AQUASIM and COMSOL and went over different types of biofilm reactors and how/when to use each of them. Biofilm imaging was also part of the course, including Confocal and EPI microscopes, and Optical Coherence Tomography.

We had wonderful lecturers: Christian Picioreanu, Erika Espinoa-Ortiz, Caitlin Proctor, Sara Cole, Ignacio Vargas, Marcerlo Aybar, Bumkyu Kim, and Rob Nerenberg.

Thank you all for coming!

https://biofilmcourse.nd.edu/

2023 AEESP distinguished lecturer at Notre Dame

This past March 31th, we hosted the AEESP event with lots of attendees! We had oral presentations from wonderful speakers from Northwestern University, University of Notre Dame, Illinois Institute of Technology and Purdue University.

The distinguished lecturer was Dr. Cliff Davidson from Syracuse University, presenting “The Green Roof as a Complex System”.

Finally, we had an outstanding poster session.

Thank you all for coming!

Emily and Prof. Nerenberg presented at the IWA – Biofilms conference 2022 in Thailand!

The IWA – Biofilms 2022 was held in Phuket, Thailand on 6-8 December 2022, and topics included methods for biofilm characterizations, cell-cell communication, interactions with microplastics and nanoparticles and many others.

Rob was one of the Keynote speakers!

Emily presented two different research projects, one related to temperature effects on MABR reactors and the other about competition between suspended and biofilm bacteria in drinking water.

New MS Student!

Isaiah is joining our lab this fall 2022!

He is currently finishing is undergraduate degree at the University of Notre Dame and has been doing research with us for the past two years. Welcome back Isaiah!