Professor Albena Ivanisevic was invited as a Distinguished Speaker for the Governor's Biotechnology Initiative Seminar Series at Louisiana Tech's Institute for Micromanufacturing. Her talk was entitled "Building and Evaluating Chemical and Biological Architectures Using Surface Science Techniques."

Professor Ivanisevic's resume includes a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship in Genomics and Related ELSI Topics; Dr. E. Hirschfelder Award for Women in Chemistry, Math, and Physics; Belle Crowe Fellowship; Dr. William Coppock Chemistry Research Award; Beta Beta Beta, Biological Sciences Honor Society; Saylor Wilson Memorial Scholarship; and Drake University Scholarship. She is currently an assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry at Purdue. She is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Institute for Chemical Engineers, and the Materials Research Society.

Her research interests include biomimetic surfaces, biosensors and biomaterials, and SPM imaging and patterning.

For more information on Louisiana Tech University's seminar series, contact Liliana M. Norby, Governor's Biotechnology Initiative research associate at 318-257-5131 or lnorby@latch.edu.