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Investigating the effect of oil spills
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Tagbo Herman Niepa

University of Pennsylvania

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

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

tniepa@seas.upenn.edu

Project List:

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

Year 5-7 Consortia Grants (RFP-IV)Role: Post-Doc

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

Year 2-4 Consortia Grants (RFP-I)Role: Post-Doc

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 5

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

Murphy, D., Gemmell, B., Vaccari, L., Li, C., Bacosa, H., Evans, M., et al. (2016). An in-depth survey of the oil spill literature since 1968: Long term trends and changes since Deepwater Horizon. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 113(1-2), 371–379.
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.

Conference Presentations - 13

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.

2016

Murphy, D. W., Gemmell, B., Vaccari, L., Li, C., Bacosa, H., Evans, M., et al. (2016). A Survey of the Oil Spill Literature: Trends since 1968 and Changes since Deepwater Horizon. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2016. Tampa, FL : 02/01/16-02/04/16.
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

Niepa, T. (2015). Controlling the Metabolic Activity of Bacterial Cells By Physico-Chemical Factors. In 2015 AICHE Annual Meeting. Salt Lake City, UT : 11/08/15-11/13/15: Poster.
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.
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.