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.

FALL 2025 SEMINARS!

DateTimeLocationUMass Host / Dept.Title/Guest Speaker
09/17/20254:00 pm - 5:30 pmISB Room 221VASCIAlissa Rothchild, PhD. (UMass Amherst): "Alveolar macrophages and the innate sentinel response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis"
09/18/202511:30 am - 12:30 pmLGRT 1681Chemistry: Jianhan ChenProf. Carlos Castaneda (Syracuse University): "UBQLN Phase Transitions in Protein Quality Control and Implications for Neurodegenerative Diseases"
09/24/20254:00 pm - 5:30 pmISB Room 221VASCIIlia Karatosreos, PhD.
09/25/202511:30 am - 12:30 pmLGRT 1681Chemistry: Richard VachetProf. Rachid Skouta (UMass Amherst): "Mechanisms Driving Ferroptosis"
10/01/20254:00 pm - 5:30 pmISB Room 221VASCIPablo Visconti, PhD. (UMass Amherst):"Sperm signaling in ART and contraception"
10/08/20254:00 pm - 5:30 pmISB Room 221VASCIDavid Russell, PhD. (Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine): "Tuberculosis and why heterogeneity will always favor the pathogen"
10/20/202511:30 am - 12:30 pmLGRT 1681ChemistryCraig Martin (UMass Amherst)
10/22/20254:00 pm - 5:30 pmISB Room 221VASCI, PhD. (Stony Brook School of Medicine): "Guardians of the Airways: The Protective Roles of Specialized CD4 T Cells in Respiratory Immunity"
11/05/20254:00 pm - 5:30 pmISB Room 221VASCI: Department of Biomedical EngineeringPrabhani Atukorale, PhD. (Umass Amherst)
11/19/20254:00 pm - 5:30 pmISB Room 221VASCILeonid Pobezinsky, PhD. (UMass Amherst): "Naïve T Cell Heterogeneity as a Driver of Memory T Cell Diversity"
12/04/202511:30 am - 12:30 pmLGRT 1681Chemistry: Chris WuProf. Jennifer Heemstra (Washington University in St. Louis): "A Chemical Biology Toolbox for Probing A-to-I RNA Editing"
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