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
"Technical Push or Clinical Pull? Biomedical Engineering in Liver Transplantation?”
Yanik Bababekov, Assistant Professor
Tufts Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine
April 13, 2026
"Generous Listening and Human Flourishing: A Paradigm Shift for Democracy and Civic Life"
Jonathan M. Tirrell, Ph.D.
Tufts University"
April 20, 2026
Patriots' Day, No Seminar
April 27, 2026
BME Student Seminar Presentations
"Pro-flow; how to move blood from point A to point B in a microfluidic device”?
Brooke Bednarke, Ph.D. Student
"Using In Vivo Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging of NADH to Quantify the Effects of Age and Diabetes on Skin Wound Metabolism"
Divya Gollapalli, Ph.D. Student
"Developing Sustainable Plastic Replacement Utilizing Machine Learning Applications"
Edward Gordon, Ph.D. Student
Comparative Pharmacological Screening in Matched Human and Rodent 3D Brain Tissue Constructs Identifies Mitochondrial Calcium Dysregulation as a Translational Target for TBI”
Marilyn Kelly, Ph.D. Student