BTP Seminars

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BTP offers students a chance to participate and attend seminars surrounding and relevant to their research. Each seminar is unique and poses an opportunity to gain more knowledge about topics and areas of the biotech field.

SPRING 2025 SEMINARS!

DateTimeLocationUMass Host/Dept.Title / Guest Speaker
February 5, 20254:00 p.m.ISB 221VASCIDr. Prabhani Atukorale: "Leveraging engineering strategies and innate immunity for new cancer vaccines"
February 7, 20259:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.LSL N410BMEIda 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, 20253:35 p.m.Conte A110-111PSEProfessor Gregory Sotzing (University of Connecticut): “PolyCannabinoids, A Patent Awarded Sustainable Platform Technology… from Flowers!”
February 11, 20254:00 p.m.ISB 221MCBDr. Sara Rouhanifard (Northeastern University): " Single-molecule tools for RNA analysis: Discovery, Quantification and Imaging"
February 11, 20254:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.TBDMCB: Min ChenSara Rouhanifard "Single-molecule tools for RNA analysis: Discovery, Quantification and Imaging"
February 12, 20254:00 p.m.ISB 221VASCI: Leonid PobezinskyDr. Erietta Stelekati (Miami Miller School of Medicine): "T cell responses to immunotherapy regulated by microRNAs: the synergy of two Nobel prizes"
February 12, 2025TBDTBDNSBBess Frost: “Transposable Element Activation in Neurodegenerative Tauopathies”
February 14, 20253:35 p.m.Conte A110-111PSEDr. 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.TBDMCBDon Spratt (Clark University): "Structure and Mechanism of HECT E3 Ubiquitin Ligases and Transcription Factors"
February 19, 20254:00 p.m.ISB 221VASCI: Joe JerryDr. Francisco Sanchez-Rivera (MIT): "Functional studies of genetic variation using precision genome editing."
February 20, 202511:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.LSL 330/340Chemistry: Joseph DuCheneProf. Daniel Nocera (Harvard University)
February 20, 20254:00 p.m.Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222PB: Greg GregoryJenn Brophy (Standford University): "Reprogramming root growth with synthetic biology"
March 3, 20259:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.LSL N410BMEDr. Victoria Madigan (MIT): "Harnessing Human Capsid Proteins As Nucleic Acid Medicines"
March 12, 20254:00 p.m.ISB 221VASCI: Kim TremblayDr. Vikki Abrahams (Yale University): "Novel signaling mechanisms at the maternal-fetal interface in chorioamnionitis and preterm birth."
March 13, 20254:00 p.m.Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222PB: Rachel ColeAndrew Newhouse (SUNY ESF): "New Tools for Old Problems: Can biotechnology help protect our forests?"
March 13, 202511:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.LGRT 1681Chemistry: Jianhan ChenProf. Carlos Castaneda (Syracuse University)
March 14, 20253:35 p.m.Conte A110-111PSEProfessor Ritu Raman (MIT): “4D Tissue Engineering of Biological Actuators for Medicine and Machines”
March 27, 20254:00 p.m.Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222PB: Sibongile MafuPhilipp Zerbe (UC Davis): "Investigating plant terpenoid metabolism toward crop and bioproduct applications"
April 3, 20254:00 p.m.Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222PB: Maryam RashidzadeJessica Cooperstone (Ohio State University): "Harnessing plant science to improve crop nutritional quality."
April 17, 202511:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.LGRT 1681Chemistry: Richard VachetProf. Ryan Julian (University of California-Riverside): "Site-specific photodissociation of peptide bonds: a new tool for top-down proteomics "
April 24, 202511:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.LGRT 1681Chemistry: Igor KaltashovDr. Rachel Ogorzalek-Loo (UCLA)
May 1, 20254:00 p.m.Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222PB: Ashley KeiserJohn E. Drake (SUNY ESF): "The physiological ecology of transgenic American chestnuts- a pathway to restoration?"
May 1, 202511:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.LGRT 1681Chemistry: Michelle FarkasJoshua Kritzer (Tufts University)
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