Spring 2025 SEMINARS!
| Date | Time | Location | UMass Host/Dept. | Title / Guest Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 5, 2025 | 4:00 p.m. | ISB 221 | VASCI | Dr. Prabhani Atukorale: "Leveraging engineering strategies and innate immunity for new cancer vaccines" |
| February 7, 2025 | 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. | LSL N410 | BME | Ida Su, PhD (Georgia Tech): In Vivo Engineering of Disease-Specific T Cells for CAR T Cell Therapy and Autoimmune Disease Prevention. Zoom meeting ID: 413 545 2017 |
| February 7, 2025 | 3:35 p.m. | Conte A110-111 | PSE | Professor Gregory Sotzing (University of Connecticut): “PolyCannabinoids, A Patent Awarded Sustainable Platform Technology… from Flowers!” |
| February 11, 2025 | 4:00 p.m. | ISB 221 | MCB | Dr. Sara Rouhanifard (Northeastern University): " Single-molecule tools for RNA analysis: Discovery, Quantification and Imaging" |
| February 11, 2025 | 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. | TBD | MCB: Min Chen | Sara Rouhanifard "Single-molecule tools for RNA analysis: Discovery, Quantification and Imaging" |
| February 12, 2025 | 4:00 p.m. | ISB 221 | VASCI: Leonid Pobezinsky | Dr. Erietta Stelekati (Miami Miller School of Medicine): "T cell responses to immunotherapy regulated by microRNAs: the synergy of two Nobel prizes" |
| February 12, 2025 | TBD | TBD | NSB | Bess Frost: “Transposable Element Activation in Neurodegenerative Tauopathies” |
| February 14, 2025 | 3:35 p.m. | Conte A110-111 | PSE | Dr. Emily Agnello (UMass Amherst): “Investigating the Assembly Mechanism of a Long-Tailed Thermophilic Bacteriophage Using Cryo-Electron Microscopy” |
| February 18, 2025 | 4:00 p.m. | TBD | MCB | Don Spratt (Clark University): "Structure and Mechanism of HECT E3 Ubiquitin Ligases and Transcription Factors" |
| February 19, 2025 | 4:00 p.m. | ISB 221 | VASCI: Joe Jerry | Dr. Francisco Sanchez-Rivera (MIT): "Functional studies of genetic variation using precision genome editing." |
| February 20, 2025 | 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | LSL 330/340 | Chemistry: Joseph DuChene | Prof. Daniel Nocera (Harvard University) |
| February 20, 2025 | 4:00 p.m. | Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222 | PB: Greg Gregory | Jenn Brophy (Standford University): "Reprogramming root growth with synthetic biology" |
| March 3, 2025 | 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. | LSL N410 | BME | Dr. Victoria Madigan (MIT): "Harnessing Human Capsid Proteins As Nucleic Acid Medicines" |
| March 4, 2025 | 4:00 p.m. | ISB 221 | MCB: Beatriz Martinez-Martin | Flora Vaccarino (Yale University): "Organoid models of developmental disorders" |
| March 5, 2025 | 4:00 p.m. | ISB 221 | VASCI | Dr. Sanja Arandjelovic (University of Virgina School of Medicine): "Apoptotic cell clearance components in inflammatory arthritis" |
| March 12, 2025 | 4:00 p.m. | ISB 221 | VASCI: Kim Tremblay | Dr. Vikki Abrahams (Yale University): "Novel signaling mechanisms at the maternal-fetal interface in chorioamnionitis and preterm birth." |
| March 13, 2025 | 4:00 p.m. | Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222 | PB: Rachel Cole | Andrew Newhouse (SUNY ESF): "New Tools for Old Problems: Can biotechnology help protect our forests?" |
| March 13, 2025 | 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | LGRT 1681 | Chemistry: Jianhan Chen | Prof. Carlos Castaneda (Syracuse University) |
| March 14, 2025 | 3:35 p.m. | Conte A110-111 | PSE | Professor Ritu Raman (MIT): “4D Tissue Engineering of Biological Actuators for Medicine and Machines” |
| March 27, 2025 | 4:00 p.m. | Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222 | PB: Sibongile Mafu | Philipp Zerbe (UC Davis): "Investigating plant terpenoid metabolism toward crop and bioproduct applications" |
| April 1, 2025 | 4:00 p.m. | ISB 221 | MCB: ChangHui Pak | Chaolin Zhang (Columbia University): "Mapping and targeting neuronal" |
| April 3, 2025 | 4:00 p.m. | Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222 | PB: Maryam Rashidzade | Jessica Cooperstone (Ohio State University): "Harnessing plant science to improve crop nutritional quality." |
| April 17, 2025 | 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | LGRT 1681 | Chemistry: Richard Vachet | Prof. Ryan Julian (University of California-Riverside): "Site-specific photodissociation of peptide bonds: a new tool for top-down proteomics " |
| April 22, 2025 | 4:00 p.m. | ISB 221 | MCB | Helena Safavi-Hemami (University of Utah): "Molecular Mimicry: The Ecology, Evolution and Applications of Doppelgänger Peptides from Venoms and Parasites " |
| April 24, 2025 | 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | LGRT 1681 | Chemistry: Igor Kaltashov | Dr. Rachel Ogorzalek-Loo (UCLA) |
| April 30, 2025 | 1:25 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. | ISB 221 | NSB: ChangHui Pak Lab | Dr. Gord Fishell (Harvard Medical School): "generation of interneuron diversity" |
| May 1, 2025 | 4:00 p.m. | Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222 | PB: Ashley Keiser | John E. Drake (SUNY ESF): "The physiological ecology of transgenic American chestnuts- a pathway to restoration?" |
| May 1, 2025 | 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | LGRT 1681 | Chemistry: Michelle Farkas | Joshua Kritzer (Tufts University) |
| May 6, 2025 | 4:00 p.m. | ISB 221 | MCB: Li-Jun Ma | Xiaorong Lin (University of Georgia): "From cryptococcal morphogenesis to vaccination and pan-antifungal drug delivery" |