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Kathleen Stebe

University of Pennsylvania

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

220 South 33rd Street
311A Towne Building
Philadelphia , PA  19104  

kstebe@seas.upenn.edu

Project List:

Dispersion Research on Oil: Physics and Plankton Studies III (DROPPS III)

Year 8-10 Research Grants (RFP-VI)Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Task Co-Lead, Task Co-Lead

Dispersion Research on Oil: Physics and Plankton Studies II (DROPPS II)

Year 5-7 Consortia Grants (RFP-IV)Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Task Lead, Task Co-Lead

Dispersion Research on Oil: Physics and Plankton Studies (DROPPS)

Year 2-4 Consortia Grants (RFP-I)Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Task Co-Lead, Task Co-Lead

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 7

2020

Deng, J., Molaei, M., Chisholm, N. G., & Stebe, K. J. (2020). Motile Bacteria at Oil-Water Interfaces:Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Langmuir, 36(25), 6888–6902.

2018

Vaccari, L., Molaei, M., Leheny, R. L., & Stebe, K. J. (2018). Cargo carrying bacteria at interfaces. Soft Matter, 14(27), 5643–5653.

2017

Kim, D., Sengupta, A., Niepa, T. H. R., Lee, B. - H., Weljie, A., Freitas-Blanco, V. S., et al. (2017). Candida albicans stimulates Streptococcus mutans microcolony development via cross-kingdom biofilm-derived metabolites. Sci. Rep., 7, 41332.
Niepa, T. H. R., Vaccari, L., Leheny, R. L., Goulian, M., Lee, D., & Stebe, K. J. (2017). Films of Bacteria at Interfaces (FBI): Remodeling of Fluid Interfaces by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Sci Rep, 7(1).
Vaccari, L., Molaei, M., Niepa, T. H. R., Lee, D., Leheny, R. L., & Stebe, K. J. (2017). Films of bacteria at interfaces. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 247, 561–572.

2016

Niepa, T. H. R., Hou, L., Jiang, H., Goulian, M., Koo, H., Stebe, K. J., et al. (2016). Microbial Nanoculture as an Artificial Microniche. Sci. Rep., 6, 30578.

2015

Vaccari, L., Allan, D. B., Sharifi-Mood, N., Singh, A. R., Leheny, R. L., & Stebe, K. J. (2015). Films of bacteria at interfaces: three stages of behaviour. Soft Matter, 11(30), 6062–6074.

Conference Presentations - 40

2019

Chisholm, N., & Stebe, K. (2019). Hydrodynamic Interactions between Microswimmers Trapped at Interfaces. In 2019 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting. Orlando, FL : 11/10/19-11/15/19.
Chisholm, N., & Stebe, K. (2019). Hydrodynamics of Microswimmers Trapped at Fluid-Fluid Interfaces. In 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics. Seattle, WA : 11/23/19-11/26/19.
Chisholm, N. G., & Stebe, K. J. (2019). The Hydrodynamics of Swimming Bacteria at a Clean Oil-Water Interface. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2019. New Orleans, LA : 02/04/19-02/07/19: Poster.
Chisholm, N. G., & Stebe, K. J. (2019). Hydrodynamics of microswimmers trapped at fluid-fluid interfaces. In 16th Annual Conference on Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics (FACM'19). Newark, NJ : 05/23/19-05/24/19.
Deng, J., Molaei, M., Chisholm, N. G., Crocker, J. C., & Stebe, K. J. (2019). Surface active layersof bacteria at oil-water interfaces. In 93rd ACS Colloid & Surface Science Symposium. Atlanta, GA : 06/16/19-06/19/19.
Deng, J., Molaei, M., Yao, T., Chisholm, N., Crocker, J., & Stebe, K. (2019). Pinning and hydrodynamic coupling determine the motility pattern of interfacially trapped bacteria. In 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics. Seattle, WA : 11/23/19-11/26/19.
Molaei, M., Chisholm, N. G., Crocker, J. C., & Stebe, K. J. (2019). Displacement fields in complex interfaces owing to thermal andactive motions. In Harrington Symposium on the Physics of Microfluidics. Austin, TX : 06/09/19-06/11/19: Poster.
Molaei, M., Deng, J., Chisholm, N., Cocker, J., & Stebe, K. (2019). Displacement Fields Around Thermally Forced and Active Colloids at Interfaces. In 2019 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting. Orlando, FL : 11/10/19-11/15/19.
Molaei, M., Deng, J., Chisholm, N., & Stebe, K. (2019). Swimming Bacteria at Complex Fluid Interfaces. In 2019 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting. Orlando, FL : 11/10/19-11/15/19.
Molaei, M., Deng, J., Yao, T., Chisholm, N., Cocker, J., & Stebe, K. (2019). Flow Field on the interface induced by swimming and driven colloids. In 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics. Seattle, WA : 11/23/19-11/26/19.
Stebe, K. J. (2019). Active Colloids at Fluid Interfaces. In Harrington Symposium on the Physics of Microfluidics. Austin, TX : 06/09/19-06/11/19.

2018

Vaccari, L., Molaei, M., Chisholm, N., Leheny, R., & Stebe, K. (2018). Cargo-Carrying Bacteria at Oil-Water Interfaces. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18.

2017

Niepa, T., Vaccari, L., Leheny, R., Goulian, M., Lee, D., & Stebe, K. (2017). Films of Bacteria at Interfaces (FBI) as Protective Layers against Interfacial Stress. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17.
Vaccari, L., Molaei, M., Leheny, R., & Stebe, K. (2017). Bacteria and Transport of Colloids at Fluid Interfaces. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17: Poster.
Vaccari, L., Molaei, M., Leheny, R., & Stebe, K. (2017). Bacteria and Transport of Colloids at Fluid Interfaces. In Society of Rheology 88th Annual Meeting. Tampa, FL : 02/12/17-02/16/17.

2016

Jalali-Mousavi, M., Stebe, K., & Sheng, J. (2016). Monitoring Bacterial Attachment to Array of Microscale Oil Droplet. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2016. Tampa, FL : 02/01/16-02/04/16: poster.
Niepa, T., Vaccari, L., Leheny, B., Goulian, M., Stebe, K. J., & Lee, D. (2016). Films of bacteria at Interfaces (FBI) formation: A dynamic response to interfacial stress. In Gordon Research Conference: 2016 Biointerface Science. Les Diablarets, Switzerland : 06/12/16-06/17/16: Poster.
Niepa, T., Vaccari, L., Sharifi-Mood, N., Leheny, R., Goulian, M., Lee, D., et al. (2016). Differential Response of Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells to Interfacial Stress. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2016. Tampa, FL : 02/01/16-02/04/16: Poster.
Niepa, T., Vaccari, L., Sharifi-Mood, N., Leheny, R., Goulian, M., Lee, D., et al. (2016). Differential Response of Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells to Interfacial Stress. In National Society of Black Engineer Conference/Academic and Research Leadership Symposium. Boston, MA : 03/23/16-03/27/16: Poster.
Niepa, T. H. R., Hou, L., Jiang, H., Goulian, M., Koo, H., Stebe, K., et al. (2016). Microbial Nanoculture as an Artificial Microcolony. In 6th ASM Conference on Beneficial Microbes. Seattle, WA : 09/09/16-09/12/16: Poster.
Vaccari, L., Niepa, T. H., Molaei, M., Sharifi-Mood, N., Leheny, R., & Stebe, K. (2016). Complex colloidal motion at oil-water interfaces with bacteria. In 90th ACS Colloid & Surface Science Symposium. Cambridge, MA : 06/05/16-06/08/216.

2015

Jalali-Mousavi, M., Stebe, K., & Sheng, J. (2015). Bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation over surface with printed oil micro-droplet array. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15: Poster.
Jalali-Mousavi, M., Stebe, K., & Sheng, J. (2015). Biofilm formation over surfaces with oil micro-droplet arrays. In 89th ACS Colloid & Surface Science Symposium. Pittsburgh, PA : 06/15/15-06/17/15.
Niepa, T. H. R., Hou, L., Goulian, M., Koo, H., Stebe, K., & Lee, D. (2015). Selectively Permeable Robust Microbial Nanoculture System. In 2015 AICHE Annual Meeting. Salt Lake City, UT : 11/08/15-11/13/15.
Niepa, T. H. R., Hou, L., Goulian, M., Koo, H., Stebe, K., & Lee, D. (2015). Selectively Permeable Robust Microbial Nanoculture System. In 7th ASM Conference on Biofilms. Chicago, IL : 10/24/15-10/29/15: Poster.
Niepa, T. H. R., Vaccari, L., Goulian, M., Koo, H., Stebe, K., & Lee, D. (2015). Bacterial Response to Interfacial Stress in a Model of Hydrocarbon Bioremediation. In 2015 AICHE Annual Meeting. Salt Lake City, UT : 11/08/15-11/13/15.
Niepa, T. H. R., Vaccari, L., Park, S., Liu, I., Goulian, M., Lee, D., et al. (2015). Bacterial response to interfacial stress in a model of hydrocarbon bioremediation. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15.
Stebe, K. (2015). Complex Interfaces, Their Mechanics and Implications. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15.
Vaccari, L., Tran, L., Niepa, T. H. R., Sheng, J., Erdner, D., Goulian, D., et al. (2015). Effect of Bacteria and Diatom Interactions on Mechanical Properties of Oil-Water Interfaces. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15: Poster.

2014

Allan, D., Vaccari, L., Firester, D., Singh, A., Sheng, J., Reich, D., et al. (2014). Microrheology studies of the mechanical evolution of interfacial protein layers and biofilms. In The Society of Rheology 86th Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA : 10/05/2014-10/09/2014.
Jalali-Mousavi, M., Molaei, M., Stebe, K., & Sheng, J. (2014). Bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation over substrates with micro-scale oily textures. In 88th ACS 2014 Colloid & Surface Science Symposium. Philadelphia, PA : 6/22/2014-06/25/2014.
Molaei, M., Jalali-Mousavi, M., Vaccari, L., Stebe, K., & Sheng, J. (2014). Bacterial locomotion near oil-water interface. In 88th ACS 2014 Colloid & Surface Science Symposium. Philadelphia, PA : 6/22/2014-06/25/2014.
Vaccari, L., Allan, D., Sharifi-Mood, N., Sheng, J., Goulian, M., Leheny, R., et al. (2014). Mechanics of biofilms at oil-water interfaces, Platform Presentation. In 88th ACS 2014 Colloid & Surface Science Symposium. Philadelphia, PA : 6/22/2014-06/25/2014.
Vaccari, L., Allan, D., Sharifi-Mood, N., Sheng, J., Goulian, M., Leheny, R., et al. (2014). Measuring moduli of elastic biolfilms at oil-water interfaces by pendant drop method. In The Society of Rheology 86th Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA : 10/05/2014-10/09/2014.

2013

Ray, B., Prosperetti, A., Katz, J., & Stebe, K. J. (2013). Mechanisms of micro-droplet generation in a liquid-liquid system. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013.
Sheng, J., Jalali-Mousavi, M., Molaei, M., Vaccari, L., & Stebe, K. (2013). Bacterial motility near the sheared complex boundaries using DHM + microfluidics platform. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013.
Stebe, K. J. (2013). Directed assembly by capillarity. In Bryn Mawr Physics Colloquium. Bryn Mawr, PA February 11, 2013.
Stebe, K. J. (2013). Microparticle at interfaces of siotropic and anisotropic liquids. In Wetting and Capillarity in Complex Systems, Max-Plank Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems. Dresden, Germany February 18-22, 2013.
Vaccari, L., Shieh, W., Sheng, J., Wattenbarger, M., & Stebe, K. (2013). Biofilms at oil-water interfaces and their mechanical consequenses. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013.
Vaccari, L., Stebe, K., Cavallaro, M., Yao, L., & Botto, L. (2013). Microparticle assembly at fluid interfaces. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013.