WSU Biofilms Short Course 2025
Gamry will be sponsoring the Washington State University's Biofilms Short Course 2025.
When:
July 28 – July 31, 2025(Monday-Thursday)
Where:
Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering
Washington State University - Pullman, WA, USA
- Learn how to quantify electron transfer in biofilms
- Hands-on with EAB reactors and potentiostats
- Biofilm-focused protocols for CV, SWV, EIS, eQCM, RDE, and more
Agenda
The workshop will be held from Monday to Thursday. Daily activities will include lectures and laboratory sessions.
The lectures will cover the following topics:
- Introduction to electrochemically active biofilms
- Basic electrochemistry needed to understand biofilms on electrodes
- Electrochemically active biofilms and reactor configurations
- Electrode acclimatization and growing electrochemically active biofilms
- Electrochemical techniques for studying extracellular electron transfer of electrochemically active biofilms
- Cyclic voltammetry
- Square wave voltammetry
- Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
- Electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (e-QCM)
- Rotating disk electrode (RDE)
- Microbiologically influenced corrosion
- Microbial community analysis
The lab sessions and demonstrations will cover the following topics:
- How to grow electrochemically active biofilms
- Cyclic voltammetry
- Square wave voltammetry
- Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
- Electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (e-QCM)
- Rotating disk electrode (RDE)
- Microbiologically influenced corrosion
- Microelectrodes
- Microscopy
- Future techniques coupled to study electrochemically active biofilms
- Modeling electrochemically active biofilms
- Limitations of electrochemical techniques
Instructors and organizers
Haluk Beyenal is a professor of Chemical Engineering in the School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at Washington State University. He has conducted research on biofilms since 1990 and on microsensors and biofilm structure and function since 1996. He has authored and co-authored more than 180 research papers and several book chapters on biofilm electrochemistry, electrochemically active biofilms, and biofilm processes. He received an NSF-CAREER award to study electrochemically active biofilms.
Jerome T. Babauta is an expert in biofilm electrochemistry and the integration of tools to study biofilms with electrochemical methods. He obtained his PhD in quantifying electron transfer processes within electrochemically active biofilms. The bulk of the work explored the microscale gradients operating within both anodic and cathodic biofilms and their impact on extracellular electron transfer. He has combined tools such as microsensors, quartz crystal microbalances, and rotating electrodes with traditional electrochemical methods to develop new ways to study electrochemically active biofilms. Currently, his primary interest is to understand the fundamentals of biofilm impedance for electrochemically active biofilms operating in a wide range of research topics including bioelectrochemical systems, metal corrosion, and biofilm control.
The total cost of the short course is $1,595.00 which includes the short course materials and coffee during breaks. To register please go thru Gamry's Online Store
