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 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 23, 20264:00 PMGSMN 153MSES. Thayumanavan, Chemistry, UMass
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 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 12, 202611:30 AMISB 221ChemistryMultimodal Activity Profiling: A Functional Lens on Tissue Microenvironments - Prof. Liangliang Hao Boston University, Department of Biomedical Engineering
December 3, 202611:30 AMISB 221ChemistryProf. Anthony K. L. Leung Johns Hopkins, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
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