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Colloquium Syllabus


Schedule for presentations

2008  
Date Presenters
April 17          Fernando Alday/Wendell Ela
March 13

Shawn Wnek/Jay Gandolfi

February 21            Chris Grandlic/Raina Maier
January 17            Guest Speaker
   
2007  
Date Presenters
December 13            Erik Rupp/Eric Betterton           
November 15            Erica DiFilippo/Mark Brusseau
October 18 Guest Speaker
September 13            Patrick Jones - Technology Transfer: Variations on a Theme
August 23

Robin Harris, Public Health, Drachman A120

February 15 Iverson/Maier - Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization for Visualization of Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria in Mine Tailings Remediation
January 18 Rupp/Betterton - Catalytic Destruction of PCE and TCE from SVE Gases
   
2006  
Date Presenters
December 7 Erica DiFilippo/Mark Brusseau - Mass Flux Reduction as a Function of Source Zone Mass Removal
November 16 Jilei Shan/Wendell Ela - Stabilization of Arsenic by Crystallizeation to Scorodite (FeAsO4.2H2O) and Arsenate apatite (Ca10P6-AsnO4(OH)2 )
October 19 Patricia Caldwell/Ornella Selmin - Potential Modifications of Calcium and Methylation Pathways in Cardiac Cells Exposed to TCE
September 21 Hans Huth, Arizona Department of Environmental Quality - Gauging the Effects of Cananea Mine on the Upper San Pedro River Watershed
August 31 Donna Zhang - The protective role of Nrf2 in arsenic-induced toxicity and carcinogenicity
May 11 A. Jay Gandolfi - Overview of the US - Mexico Binational Center for Environmental Sciences and Toxicology
April 13 Chris Grandlic/Raina Maier - Identification of Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria and their Potential Applications for Phytostabilization of Mine Tailings
March 16 David Aguilar/Richard Vaillancourt - Arsenic Induced Cellular Signaling in Smooth Muscle
February 16 Jilei Shan/Wendell Ela - Stabilization of Arsenic-bearing Waste Using Crystallization
January 19 Patricia Caldwell/Ornella Selmin - Identifying Molecular Mechanisms of TCE Cardiac Teratogenesis
   
2005  
Date Presenters
November 17 Lei Wang/Eric Betterton - Destruction of Aqueous-Phase Carbon Tetrachloride by a Roll Electrochemical Reactor
October 13 Greg Schnaar/Mark Brusseau - Pore-scale characterization of organic immiscible-liquid morphology in natural porous media using synchrotron X-ray microtomography
September 22 Guest Speaker: Dennis Shirley, Errol Montgomery & Associates - Twenty years in the trenches at the North Indian Bend Wash Superfund Site ... evolution of a successful groundwater cleanup
August 25 Kate Dixon - Arsenic and cellular responses to DNA damage
April 21 Rich Vaillancourt - Molecular Approaches to Dissect Arsenic-Dependent Signal Transduction
March 3 Chris Rensing / Yang Zhang - A Novel Mechanism for Microbial Arsenic Resistance - Arsenite methylation in Rhodopseudomonas palustris
February 10 Bob Arnold / Lei Wang - Destruction of Aqueous-phase Carbon Tetrachloride by Electrochemical Reactor
January 13

Mark Brusseau / Greg Schnaar & Michele Mahal - Mass-transfer Processes Influencing the Transport and Remediation of Chlorinated Solvents in Subsurface Environments

   
2004  
Date Presenters
December 16 James Farrell / Dhananjay Mishra - Understanding Arsenic and Chromium Removal by Reactive Adsorbent Media
November 18 A. Jay Gandolfi / Kylee Billings - As(III) and MMA(III) Toxicity Studies in Human Bladder Cells
October 14 Raina Maier / Monica Mendez - Atriplex lentiformis as a Candidate for Phytostabilization of Mine Tailings
September 30 Guest Speaker: Jon Chorover - Subsurface Radionuclide Contamination at the Hanford Site, WA:  Geochemical Transformations Affect Metal Fate
April 8 Jim Field / Irail Cortinas - Biotransformation and Mobilization of Arsenate Under Simulated Landfill Conditions
March 11 Jim Farrell / Dhananjay Mishra - Reactive Adsorbent Media for Removing Arsenic from Potable Water
February 12 Clark Lantz / Jason Orozco - The Chemical Genotoxicity of Uranium
January 15 Ian Pepper / Chris Rensing / Gejiao Wang - Real-Time PCR Quantification of a GFP-Labeled, Genetically Engineered Pseudomonas putida Strain during 2-Chlorobenzoate Degradation in Soil
   
2003  
Date Presenters
December 18 Mark Brusseau / Justin Marble - Cyclodextrin as a solubility-enhancement agent for source-zone remediation: From the lab to the field
November 20 Raina Maier / Monica Mendez - Phytoremediation: A common sense approach to the remediation of mine tailings
October 23 Jay Gandolfi / Tiffany Bredfeldt - The Effects of Arsenic on Human Urothelial Cells
September 25 Bob Arnold / Otakuye Conroy - Estrogenic activity in wastewater effluent--a problem for water reuse in Tucson?
August 28 Walt Klimecki - Invariant Diversity? Human Toxicogenetics in Translational Research
May 1 Martha Conklin / Orestes Morfin - The Use of Pb Isotopes to Characterize Pb Fate and Transport in an Interrupted Stream, Aravaipa Creek, Southeast Arizona
April 10

Clark Lantz / Jay Petrick - Arsenic effects on the developing lung: gene and protein expression profiling
Jim Farrell / Dhananjay Mishra - Electrochemical Investigation of Nitrate Reduction by Zero Valent Iron using EIS Techniques

February 13 Ian Pepper / Terry Gentry - Bioaugmentation Enhanced Remediation of Chlorinated Organics via Genes , Cells or Activated Soil
January 16 Mark Brusseau / Justin Marble / KC Carroll - Investigating dissolution dynamics of immiscible-liquid contamination
   
2002  
Date Presenters
December 17 Raina Maier / Monica Mendez - Microbial community development during revegetation of the Klondyke Mine Tailings Site
November 21 Bob Arnold / Xiumin Ju - Dehalogenation of chlorinated solvents by chemical methods
October 24 Jay Gandolfi / Don Kirkpatrick - Capture the Flag:Using Proteomics to Identify Ubiquitin-Modified Proteins in As (III) Treated Cells
September 12 Jefferey Burgess - Arsenic exposure in Ajo and Tucson: Evaluating the community
April 4

Mark Brusseau / Justin Marble - Characterizing Dissolution Dynamics of Spatially Distributed Immisicble Liquid
Ian Pepper / Terry Gentry- The Role of Gene Transfer in Enhancing Bioremediation

March 7 James Farrell / Nikos Melitas - Electrochemical Removal of Contaminants from Potable Water
February 7 Martha Conklin / Aiko Condon - Investigation of Zn Uptake Processes by Mn-Oxide Coated Sediments in a Mining Contaminated Stream, Pinal Creek, AZ
January 10 R. Clark Lantz / Jay Petrick - Arsenic Induces Aberrant Gene Expression during Lung Development: Application of Genomics Technologies
   
2001  
Date Presenters
December 6 Raina Maier / Adria Bodour - Biosurfactants - Structure and Applications
November 1

Robert Arnold - Catalysis of Abiotic Reduction of Chlorinated Organic Pollutants
Xiumin Ju - Catalytic Hydrodechlorination of Chlorinated Volatile Organic Compounds in Gas Phase by Using Element Hydrogen on Media Supported Platinum Surface

October 11

A. Jay Gandolfi - Molecular Effects of Low Level Arsenic
Marjorie Peraza - Inorganic Arsenic Biotransformation and Mitochondrial Toxicity in HK-2 Human Proximal Tubular Cells

September 13 Steve Wright - Membrane Transport in Toxicology
April 5 Ian Pepper / Chris Haney - The Amoeba Defense of the Soil Microbial Gene Pool
March 8 James Farrell / Nikos Melitas - Reductive Dehalogenation and Metal Precipitation Using Iron Media
February 8 Mark Brusseau - TCE Contaminant Transport and Remediation in the Subsurface
Brandolyn Patterson - Influence of Heterogenous Microbial Populations on Contaminant Transport
January 11 Vas Aposhian - Arsenic Toxicity: Known and Unknown
Jay Petrick - Toxicity of Monomethylarsonous Acid, A Metabolite of Inorganic Arsenic
   
2000  
Date Presenters
December 7 Martha Conklin / Kurt Herman - Metal Removal in the Hyporheic Zone in a Mining Contaminated Stream in Arizona.
November 9 Robert Arnold - Innovative Techniques for Removal and Degradation of Halogenated Hydrocarbons
Susan Ju - Gas-phase Hydrodechlorination of TCE at the Presence of Media-supported Pt Catalyst
October 5

Raina Maier - The use of Biosurfactants to Remove Metals from Soil.
Adria Bodour - Ecology of Biosurfactant-producing Microbes.

   


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