This high profile seminar series is run by Trainees and Faculty Trainers. It provides immersive and interdisciplinary exposure to contemporary research in biotechnology with an emphasis on biomolecular science and engineering.
| Speaker(s) | Affiliation | Lecture(s) | Date |
| Andrew Berglund | University at Albany |
(Genomics, Vaccine and Antibody Treatment in the era of COVID-19) Deep Sequencing Reveals the Mutational Landscape of SARS-CoV-2 in Upstate NY |
2/24/2021 |
| Daniel G. Anderson | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
(Genomics, Vaccine and Antibody Treatment in the era of COVID-19) In vivo Delivery of Nucleic Acids, Genome Editing Tools and Cells |
1/27/2021 |
| Kathy High Abby Kinchy Brenda Miller Dan Walls |
RPI | Lead Poisoning and Environmental Justice | 9/9/2020 |
| Kang Zhou | National University of Singapore | New Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology Tools for Metabolic Engineering | 11/8/2019 |
| Andre van Wijnen | Mayo Clinic | Molecular Mechanisms and Engineering for Musculoskeletal Degeneration and Regeneration | 9/5/2019 |
| Fred Chung | Xylonix | Completing the Immunotherapy Revolution with Universal Cancer Cure Using "Oncology Parthanatos" and the Prediction Technology for Patient Response to T-cell Immunotherapy | 8/2/2019 |
| Jennifer (Jen) Westendorf | Mayo Clinic | Phlpp phosphatases: Novel Targets for Osteoarthritis Therapy | 3/26/2019 |
| Danielle Benoit | University of Rochester Medical Center | Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery Approaches for Bone Regeneration | 3/4/2019 |
| Gaetano Montelione | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | Proteins Flex to Function: The Role of Conformational Plasticity in Molecular Recognition | 10/11/2018 |
| Hani Awad | University of Rochester | Translational Approaches Towards Improving Regenerative Medicine | 6/18/2018 |
| Gina O'Connor | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | From the Lab to the Market: Large Mature Companies and the Challenges of Commercializing Breakthroughs | 5/2/2018 |
| Anil Bhansali | Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) | Type 2 Diabetes and its Management | 3/27/2018 |
| Sam Walcott | University of California, Davis | Using molecular mechanics to predict large-scale biological function: applications to muscle activation and intracellular transport | 3/21/2018 |
| David Mooney | Harvard University | Viscoelasticity: From Stem Cells to Medical Adhesives | 1/17/2018 |
| Marvin Bentley, Sally Temple, Gary Banker | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Neural Stem Cell Institute; Oregon Health and Science University (respectively) | The Cell Biology of the Neuron (Symposium) | 10/6/2017 |
| Karl Deisseroth | Stanford University | Integrated Brainwide-Structural and Functional Analysis | 9/8/2017 |
| Mina Bissell |
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
Why Don’t We Get More Cancer: The tales of ECM and p53 signaling | 4/13/2017 |
| Michael Feig | Michigan State University | Adventures with Computer Simulations of Biomolecules in Cellular Environment | 3/30/2017 |
| Marlene Belfort | University at Albany (SUNY) | Psyching Out the Reviewers | 2/8/2017 |
| Carrie Mason, Carl Lawton, Jorg Thommes, Steve Cramer | Lonza Biologics; UMass Lowell; Visterra, Inc.; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (respectively) | “Critical Aspects in Biomanufacturing” (Forum in Biomanufacturing) | 1/25/2017 |
| Alan Russell | Disruptive Health Technology Institute-Carnegie Mellon University | Polymer-Enhanced Biomacromolecular Systems | 11/30/2016 |
| Eben Alsberg | Case Western Reserve University | Instructive Systems for Engineering Complex Tissues | 9/29/2016 |
| Kaushal Rege | Arizona State University | Molecular and Nanoscale Technologies for Tissue Engineering and Repair | 9/15/2016 |
| Dan Gruskin, Wythe Marschall, Kathy High, Deepak Vashishth | Genspace, NY; Harvard University; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (respectively) | BioDesigning the Future of Medicine | 11/3/2015 |
| Doug Bartlett | University of California at San Diego | Microbial Life in Ultra-Deep Ocean Habitats of the Piezosphere | 10/14/2015 |
| Min-Gon Kim | Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) | Patterning and Design of Membranes for Smart Biosensing | 9/17/2015 |
| Shaomin Li | Brigham and Women's Hospital | Soluble Aβ Oligomers Impair Hippocampal LTP by Disrupting Glutamatergic/GABAergic Balance | 8/26/2015 |
| Song Li | University of California, Berkeley | Regeneration of Blood Vessels in situ and in vivo | 6/10/2015 |
| Sean Palecek | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Bioinspired Engineering of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Fate Choices | 6/9/2015 |
| N.L. Shasha Jumbe | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Global Health in Numbers | 2/4/2015 |
| Steven Feiner, Dawn Bardot, Paul Bleicher, S. Ebadollahi, M. Honeck |
Columbia University; Medical Device Consortium; Optum Labs; IBM; Disney Corp. (respectively) |
Models, Big Data and Healthcare (Symposium) | 11/5/2014 |
| Robert Filkins | GE Global Research | Digital and Molecular Imaging in Precision Medicine | 10/28/2014 |
| Scott Friedman | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | The Borderless World of Engineering, Biomedicine and Healthcare | 9/10/2014 |
| David Mendelson, Kusum Mathews, William L. Holden, Joseph L. Kannry | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | Big Data and Healthcare Analytics (Symposium) | 9/4/2014 |
| James Fitzpatrick | School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, University College Dublin | Towards the yeast of Eden: Metabolic Engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for the Hydrolysis and Fermentation of Cellulosic Substrates | 8/21/2014 |
| Gyoo Yeol Jung | POSTECH Korea | Novel Synthetic Biology tools for rational and evolutionary metabolic engineering | 8/6/2014 |
| Dmitri Ermolendo | University of Rochester | Mechanics of Ribosomal Translocation | 3/31/2014 |
| Herb Levine | Rice University | The Physics of Cancer | 3/6/2014 |
| Martin Chalfie | Columbia University | Lighting Up Life | 2/20/2014 |
| Ned Seeman | New York University | DNA Not Just the Molecule of Life | 2/12/2014 |
