Seminars

Spring 2025

The Department of Biomedical Engineering's seminar schedule will be posted here as the spring semester approaches. Please check back later to view the list of speakers and their presentation topics.

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


January 10, 2025 (Friday Special Seminar) 
"Ecologies of Scale: Controlling Competition to Optimize Bioproduction"
BME Faculty Candidate Seminar - Christopher Mancuso, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT

January 17, 2025 (Friday Special Seminar) 
"Making More out of Meat being Muscle: A Selection of Biomedical Tissue Engineering
and Cellular-Agriculture Highlights Spanning Academia and Industry—A Tale of Synergy"
BME Faculty Candidate Seminar - George Engelmayr, Founder and CEO, Vasavance

January 20, 2025
Martin Luther King Day No Seminar

January 22, 2025 (Wednesday)
"Advances in Fabricating Future Tissues and Transducers"
BME Faculty Candidate Seminar- Subramanian Sundaram, Boston University 

January 24, 2025 (Friday Special Seminar) 
"Addressing the Cost & Scale of Cultivated Meat Through Cell Line and Media Development Strategies"
BME Faculty Candidate Seminar - Andrew Stout, Tufts University 

January 27, 2025
"Engineering the Retinal Microenvironment to Improve Donor Neuron Integration Post-transplantation"
BME Faculty Candidate Seminar - Jonathan Soucy, Harvard University School of Medicine 

January 31, 2025 (Friday Special Seminar) 
"Advancing Tissue Engineering & Cellular Agriculture Through Sustainable Biofabrication Methods"
BME Faculty Candidate Seminar - Luke Perreault, Tufts University 

February 3, 2025
"Patient-Centric Devices Enable the Self-Collection of Metered Blood and Plasma to Improve Clinical Outcomes"
Charlie Mace - Associate Professor
Tufts University 

February 10, 2025
"TBD"
BME Faculty Candidate Seminar - Chima Maduka - University of Colorado of Boulder

February 17, 2025
"TBD"
Presidents' Day No Seminar

February 20, 2025 (Thursday)
"TBD"
BME Faculty Candidate Seminar - Pu-Ting Dong - Forsyth Institute

February 24, 2025
"TBD"
BME Faculty Candidate Seminar - Karen Martin Postdoctoral Researcher - Oslo University Hospital

March 3, 2025
"TBD"
Kirby Johnson Director of Research Ethics
Tufts University OVPR

March 10, 2025
"TBD"
Katherine Mirica
Dartmouth College

March 17, 2025
Spring Break No Seminar

March 24, 2025
"TBD"
Theodore Zwang, Assistant Professor 
Harvard Medical School 

March 31, 2025
"TBD"
Solomon Mensah, Assistant Professor
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

April 7, 2025
"TBD"
Christopher Alabi, Associate Professor
Cornell University 

April 14, 2025
"TBD"
Harald Paganetti, Professor 
Harvard Medical School 

April 21, 2025
"TBD"
Student Presentations
Tufts University

April 28, 2025
"TBD"
Robert Blanton, Associate Professor
Tufts University School of Medicine