BTP Seminars Fall 2026

FALL 2026 SEMINARS!

DateTimeLocationUMass Host/Dept.Title/Guest Speaker
September 11, 20263:35 PMConte A110/111PSE - Professor Maria Santore, Ph.D"Ordered Materials Meet Living Cells: Engineering Alignment and Programmable Force Actuation" - Yimin Luo (Yale University)
September 22, 202611:30 AMLGRT 201CBE"Data-driven methods to accelerate soft (bio)materials formulation and processing" - Matthew Helgeson, Professor of Chemical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara
September 22, 20264:00 PMMorrill 2 Room 222MCB - Craig Martin"New roles of tRNA and snoRNA in translation" - Tao Pan (University of Chicago)
September 23, 20264:00 PMGSMN 153MSES. Thayumanavan, Chemistry, UMass
September 29, 20264:00 PMMorrill 2 Room 222MCB"Metabolic Regulation off Tissue Immunity in Health and Disease" - Upasana Das Adhikar (UMass Amherst)
October 8, 202611:30 AMISB 221ChemistryFerroptosis and the metastatic microenvironment" - Dr. Jessalyn Ubellacker Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
October 8, 20261:00 PMLSL 333BMEColloidal Design at the Nano, Micro, and Macro Scales: Materials that Can Move, Morph, Protect and Heal - Prof. Srini Raghavan, University of Maryland
October 9, 20263:35 PMConte A110/111PSE - Assistant Professor Laurel Kroo, Ph.DMussels, mucus, and mouthfeel" - Professor George Degen (Georgia Institute of Technology)
October 20, 20264:00 PMMorrill 2 Room 222MCB - Jenny Rauch, Ph.DShawn Ferguson (Yale University)
October 21, 20264:00 PMISB 221VASCIDevelopment of a next-generation dendritic cell-targeted mRNA vaccine platform and its application to tuberculosis - Ross Fulton, Akagera Medicine
October 29, 202611:30 AMLSL 330-340ChemistryChristopher Chang Prof of Chemistry Princeton University
November 5, 202611:30 AMISB 221ChemistryProf. Ramya Kumar, Colorado State University
November 10, 20264:00 PMMorrill 2 Room 222MCB - Elizabeth Vierling"Laboratory Evolution of RuBisCOs with Enhanced Biochemical Characteristics" - Ahmed Badra (Scripps)
November 12, 202611:30 AMISB 221ChemistryMultimodal Activity Profiling: A Functional Lens on Tissue Microenvironments - Prof. Liangliang Hao Boston University, Department of Biomedical Engineering
December 1, 20264:00 PMMorrill 2 Room 222MCB - Eric StrieterLiz Nolan (MIT)
December 3, 202611:30 AMISB 221ChemistryProf. Anthony K. L. Leung Johns Hopkins, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology