FALL 2026 SEMINARS!
| Date | Time | Location | UMass Host/Dept. | Title/Guest Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 11, 2026 | 3:35 PM | Conte A110/111 | PSE - Professor Maria Santore, Ph.D | "Ordered Materials Meet Living Cells: Engineering Alignment and Programmable Force Actuation" - Yimin Luo (Yale University) |
| September 21, 2026 | 1:00 PM | LSL 330 | BMB | Dr. Kheewoong (Khee) Baek Seminar Title: “Cullin-RING Ubiquitin Ligases – Mechanism to Targeted Protein Degradation” |
| September 22, 2026 | 11:30 AM | LGRT 201 | CBE | "Data-driven methods to accelerate soft (bio)materials formulation and processing" - Matthew Helgeson, Professor of Chemical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara |
| September 22, 2026 | 4:00 PM | Morrill 2 Room 222 | MCB - Craig Martin | "New roles of tRNA and snoRNA in translation" - Tao Pan (University of Chicago) |
| September 23, 2026 | 4:00 PM | GSMN 153 | MSE | S. Thayumanavan, Chemistry, UMass |
| September 24, 2026 | 1:15 PM | LSL 330 | BMB | Dr. Sarah Hopp Seminar Title: “Microglia-Mediated Protein Homeostasis in Neurodegenerative Diseases” |
| September 29, 2026 | 4:00 PM | Morrill 2 Room 222 | MCB | "Metabolic Regulation off Tissue Immunity in Health and Disease" - Upasana Das Adhikar (UMass Amherst) |
| CANCELLED: October 5, 2026 | 1:00 PM | LSL 330 | BMB | Monday October 5 Dr. John Christianson Seminar Title: "Protein Quality Control in the ER: A Therapeutic Vulnerability in Cancer" |
| October 7, 2026 | 1:00 PM | LSL N610 | BMB | Dr. Nima Maseri Seminar Title "Decoding Proteoform and Lysosome Diversity in Neurodegeneration" |
| October 8, 2026 | 11:30 AM | ISB 221 | Chemistry | Ferroptosis and the metastatic microenvironment" - Dr. Jessalyn Ubellacker Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |
| October 8, 2026 | 1:00 PM | LSL 333 | BME | Colloidal Design at the Nano, Micro, and Macro Scales: Materials that Can Move, Morph, Protect and Heal - Prof. Srini Raghavan, University of Maryland |
| October 9, 2026 | 3:35 PM | Conte A110/111 | PSE - Assistant Professor Laurel Kroo, Ph.D | Mussels, mucus, and mouthfeel" - Professor George Degen (Georgia Institute of Technology) |
| October 20, 2026 | 4:00 PM | Morrill 2 Room 222 | MCB - Jenny Rauch, Ph.D | Shawn Ferguson (Yale University) |
| October 21, 2026 | 4:00 PM | ISB 221 | VASCI | Development of a next-generation dendritic cell-targeted mRNA vaccine platform and its application to tuberculosis - Ross Fulton, Akagera Medicine |
| October 24, 2026 | 9:00 AM - 2:45 pm | LSL 330 | NMR Symposium | NMR Symposium: 10:30 a.m. Dorothee Kern, Professor of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research Institute The Protein Dance – from Experiments to AI Predictions 11:00 a.m. Wolfgang Jahnke, Director and Leading Scientist, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Drug discovery guided by NMR 11:30 a.m. Kevin Gardner, Distinguished Professor and Director, Structural Biology Initiative - CUNY Advanced Science Research Center NMR: A versatile toolbox for protein/ligand discovery 1:30 - 1:50 p.m. Jeanne Hardy, Professor, Chemistry, UMass Amherst Differential Dynamics in Caspase-6 Impact and Guide Development of Selective Inhibitors 1:50 - 2:10 p.m. Francesca Massi, Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology - UMass Chan Medical School; Director of the Massachusetts NMR Consortium Beyond Structure: What Protein Dynamics Reveal About Molecular Recognition and Function 2:10 - 2:25 p.m. NMR Talk selected from poster abstracts 2:25 - 2:40 p.m. Jasna Fezjo, Director of Biomolecular NMR, Centralized Core Facilities, UMass Amherst New Opportunities in the NMR Core Facility |
| October 29, 2026 | 11:30 AM | LSL 330-340 | Chemistry | Christopher Chang Prof of Chemistry Princeton University |
| November 5, 2026 | 11:30 AM | ISB 221 | Chemistry | Prof. Ramya Kumar, Colorado State University |
| November 10, 2026 | 4:00 PM | Morrill 2 Room 222 | MCB - Elizabeth Vierling | "Laboratory Evolution of RuBisCOs with Enhanced Biochemical Characteristics" - Ahmed Badra (Scripps) |
| November 12, 2026 | 11:30 AM | ISB 221 | Chemistry | Multimodal Activity Profiling: A Functional Lens on Tissue Microenvironments - Prof. Liangliang Hao Boston University, Department of Biomedical Engineering |
| December 1, 2026 | 4:00 PM | Morrill 2 Room 222 | MCB - Eric Strieter | Liz Nolan (MIT) |
| December 3, 2026 | 11:30 AM | ISB 221 | Chemistry | Prof. Anthony K. L. Leung Johns Hopkins, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |