Seminars

Spring 2026

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

January 21, 2026 (Wednesday)
"Engineering Allorejection-Resistant NK Cell Therapies"
Karen Martin, Assistant Professor
Tufts University

January 26, 2026
"Designing Biomedical Technologies for Accuracy, Affordability, and Equity” 
Dhruv Seshadri, Assistant Professor
Lehigh University

February 2, 2026
"Mineralocorticoid Receptors: Evolutionary Mediators of Wound Healing, Turned Harmful by Modern Lifestyle "
Iris Jaffe, Professor
Tufts University, School of Medicine

February 9, 2026
"Life, Death, and the Discovery of PDAR: the Pol II Degradation-Dependent Apoptotic Response" 
Michael Lee, Associate Professor
UMass Chan Medical School

February 16, 2026
Presidents' Day, No Seminar

February 19, 2026 (Thursday)
"Immunomodulatory Nanomaterials for Imaging and Therapy of Cancer and Chronic Inflammation" 
Ashish A. Kulkarni, Associate Professor
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

February 23, 2026
"Dynamics and Process in Mammalian Reproduction and Development: Imaging, Visualization, and Insights" 
Shang Wang, Assistant Professor
Stevens Institute of Technology
DUE to inclement weather, this seminar will be held via ZOOM. Please contact Gwen Buchanan for ZOOM link. 

March 2, 2026
"Bioengineered Perfused Human Brain Microvasculature to Model Brain Tumor and Neurodegenerative Diseases" 
Guohao Dai, Professor
Northeastern University

March 9, 2026
"Microbially-Driven Materials Manufacture and Responsiveness" 
Neel Joshi, Associate Professor
Northeastern University

March 16, 2026
Spring Break, No Seminar

March 23, 2026
"Care Diagnostics and Diagnostics for Women’s Health" 
Catherine Klapperich, Professor
Boston University

March 30, 2026
"Multifunctional Soft Neurointerfaces: Hydrogel Probes for Recording, Stimulation, and Localized Delivery" 
Siyuan Rao, Assistant Professor
Binghamton University, SUNY

April 6, 2026
"Viability Assessment in Transplantation: Clinical Pulls or Technological Pushes?” 
Yanik Bababekov, Assistant Professor
Tufts Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine
 
April 13, 2026
"Generous Listening for Character and Community Development: A Relational Developmental Systems Approach"
Jonathan M. Tirrell, Ph.D.
Tufts University" 

April 20, 2026
Patriots' Day, No Seminar

April 27, 2026
Student Seminar Presentations