Seminars

Fall 2024

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

September 9, 2024
"Wearing Many Hats! Prioritization and Managing your Time While in Graduate School"
Julie Gagliardi, Academic Coach
Tufts University StAAR Center

September 16, 2024
"Ventricular and Vascular Biomechanics of Mechanical Circulatory Support"
Kay Everett, Attending Cardiologist, Tufts Medical Center - Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine

September 23, 2024
"Controlling Neuronal Cell Signaling With Magnetic Nanomaterials"
Dekel Rosenfeld, Senior Lecturer
Tel Aviv University

September 30, 2024
"Neural Interfacing for Sensory Feedback and Neuroprosthetic Control"
Shriya Srinivasan, Assistant Professor
Harvard University

October 7, 2024
"Multi-parametric, Nanotechnology Enabled Ultrasound Guided Photoacoustic Imaging for Treatment Guidance, Dosimetry and Tumor Recurrence Prediction "
Srivalleesha Mallidi, Assistant Professor
Tufts University 

October 14, 2024
Indigenous Peoples' Day, No Seminar

October 21, 2024
"The Second Coming of Ultrasound Drug Delivery, Immunomodulation, and Image-Guided Neurotherapy"
Tao Sun
Northeastern University

October 28, 2024
"Control of Cell Differentiation by the Gαq / Phospholipase Cβ Pathway"
Suzanne Scarlata, Professor
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

November 4, 2024
"Two Decades of Bioprinting: How Far Have We Come and Where Can We Go?"
Lawrence Bonassar, Professor
Cornell University 

November 11, 2024
Veterans' Day, No Seminar

November 12, 2024 (Tuesday)
"Ingestible Therapeutics"
Giovanni Traverso, Associate Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

November 18, 2024
"Old Dog, New Tricks: Albumin Hitchhiking Strategies Applied To siRNA Delivery In The Brain"
Ethan Lippman, Associate Professor 
Vanderbilt University 

November 25, 2024
"Adapting Senescence-Mediated Inflammatory Signaling Mechanisms To Engineer New Cancer Immunotherapies"
Marcus Ruscetti, Assistant Professor
UMass Medical School

December 2, 2024
"Lab Safety Talk"
John Ryan, Carmen Preda and Laura Place
Tufts University 

December 9, 2024
Student Presentations