FYI in case you didn’t get this

James – can you let me know if you get this email? There has been trouble with emails going to one of my classroom students named James instead of you. I hopefully fixed the problem, but I just want to check.

Nicole Iverson, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Biological Systems Engineering Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources College of Engineering University of Nebraska–Lincoln 260 Morrison Hall, 4240 Fair Street, Lincoln, NE 68583 402-472-0884 | iverson@unl.edu| engineering.unl.edu/iversonlab

From: Tracy Zimmerman <tracy.zimmerman@unl.edu>
Date: Monday, January 22, 2024 at 8:49 AM
To: BSEALL@LISTS.NEBRASKA.EDU <bseall@lists.nebraska.edu>, Wei Niu <wniu2@unl.edu>
Subject: BSE Colloquium

Please join us for the first colloquium of the spring semester! Dr. Wei Niu from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering will be joining us (bio below).

Note that food will not be served at the colloquiums this semester – feel free to bring your lunch.

Dr. Wei Niu completely her B.S. degree in Chemistry and M.S. degree in Biophysics from Tsinghua University in China. She received her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Michigan State University in 2004 under the supervision of Professor John W. Frost. After spending years in biotech companies, she returned to academia and joined the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln in 2015. Her research focuses on synthetic biology with special interests in microbial metabolic engineering, protein engineering, and genetic code expansion. She is one of the team members of Genomatica Inc. to receive the 2011 Presidential Green Chemistry Award for Bio-BDO project.