Seminars

Spring 2026 Seminar Series

Seminars are held at SciTech Center, Room 136 from 12:00pm-1:00pm. Please contact ChBE@tufts.edu if you have any questions.

Monday, January 26 
"Rechargeable Aluminum Batteries: From Molecular-Level Understanding to Potential Applications"
Dr. Robert Messinger
City College of New York

Monday, February 2 
"Programming Bioelectronic Bacteria as Real-time, Multiplexed Sensors”
Dr. Caroline Ajo-Franklin
Rice University

Monday, February 9 
“Building Molecular Intuition into Deep Learning Models for Small Molecule Design, Synthesis, and Analysis”
Dr. Connor Coley
MIT

Monday, March 2 
"Optogenetic Tools to Understand and Control Signaling in Microbes"
Dr. Megan McClean
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Monday, March 9 
"Exploring and Designing Protein Selectivity with and without Deep Learning”
Dr. Sagar Khare
Rutgers University

Monday, March 30 
"Catalysis on Crowded Surfaces"
Dr. Aditya Bhan
University of Minnesota

Monday, April 6 
"Development of Mesoporous Zeolites for Reactions with Bulky Molecules"
Dr. Wei Fan
University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Monday, April 13 
Jean and Martin Sussman Endowed Lecture in Chemical and Biological Engineering
"Ionic Compatibilization of Plastics to Reduce Environmental Impacts"
Rachel Segalman, Edward Noble Kramer Distinguished Professor and Vice Chancellor for Research, UC Santa Barbara

Registration is full.

Monday, April 27 
Dr. Joerg Werner
Boston University