Seminars

Fall 2025

Seminars are held Mondays at 10:45am in SciTech, Room 136 (unless otherwise noted).

September 8, 2025 
"A Nanoscale Insight into Tumor Immunology: When Failed Experiments Open New Doors"
Shiladitya Sengupta, Associate Professor
Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology

September 15, 2025 
"Inclusive Teaching Practices for TAs” 
Keturah Ragland (Graduate Student Racial Equity & Diversity Lab)  & Kasandra Yee (Diversity & Inclusion Program Administrator) 
Tufts University 

September 22, 2025 
"Lab Safety Training"
Laura Place PhD, Biomedical Engineering Laboratory Manager
Tufts University 

September 29, 2025 
"Understanding Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs)/Biological Shipments/Lab Safety Policies" 
Chiara Vannucci/Gwen Buchanan/Laura Place 
Tufts University 

October 6, 2025 
"Precise Delivery of Agrochemicals in Plants using Biomaterials" 
Benedetto Marelli, Associate Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

October 13, 2025 
Indigenous Peoples' Day, No Seminar

October 20, 2025 
"Advancing Tumor Detection using Surface-Enhanced Spatially Offset Raman Imaging " 
Fay Nicolson PhD, Instructor in Radiation Oncology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School

October 27, 2025 
"Leveraging Natural Silk Biopolymers, and the Insects That Make Them, for Applications in Biotechnology" 
Whitney Stoppel, Assistant Professor
University of Florida 

November 3, 2025
"TBD"
Kyle Quinn, Professor
Director, Tufts Advanced Microscopic Imagining Center (TAMIC), Tufts University School of Engineering
Tufts University 

November 10, 2025
"TBD" 

November 17, 2025
"Cell Line and Media Development for Cultivated Meat: Past Work and Future Directions" 
Andrew Stout, Assistant Professor
Tufts University 

November 24, 2025
"TBD"
Marjan Rafat, Assistant Professor
Vanderbilt University

December 1, 2025
"Regeneration in the Uterus" 
Kara Mckinley, Assistant Professor
Harvard University 

December 8, 2025
Student Presentations for Fall 2025 Semester 
Tufts University