Core Facilities Seminar Series
See the YouTube playlist of our previous Core Facilities Seminar Series virtual events to learn more about working with the UMass Core Facilities and subscribe to the IALS YouTube channel!
Fall 2023
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
ADDFab
Manmeet Buttar, Cadworks 3D–"3D Print Microfluidic Devices, No Molds Required: A presentation and Q&A session with the manufacturer of ADDFab’s newest printer, the Profluidics 285D"
Tuesday, September 19 2023
CPHM-Human Centered Robotic
Donghyun Kim, Assistant Professor CICS–"Human Centered Development of a Guide Dog Robot"
Spring 2023
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Mass Spectrometry
Steve Eyles, Director of Mass Spectrometry
Guest Speaker: Dominique Alfandari, Professor of Developmental Biology, Department of Veterinary & Animal Sciences –"Proteomics 101: A practical guide to preparing samples for proteomic analysis. Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask."
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Health Tech for the People: A New CPHM Research Thrust
Rae Walker-Elaine Marieb College of Nursing
Ravi Karkar-Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences
Directors, Health Tech for the People (HT4P), Center for Personalized Health Monitoring (CPHM)–"Ethics of technology and accountable, human-centered design, evaluation, and translation of health monitoring technologies for the public interest."
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
IALS Clinical Testing Center
Ashley Eaton, ICTC Manager
Guest Speaker: James Garner, PhD candidate in Department of Environmental Conservation–"Using Passive Genetic Tools - Environmental DNA (eDNA) - to Estimate the Seasonal Abundance of Three Migratory (Diadromous) Fish Species"
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Mass Spectrometry
Cedric Bobst, Associate Director of Mass Spectrometry
Guest Speaker: Matthew Stone, PhD, AB SCIEX–"Handle with care: Ensuring lipid nanoparticle quality for better genetic medicines"
Fall 2022
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Light Microscopy
James Chambers, Director of Light Microscopy
Guest Speaker: Joseph DiPietro, PhD–"Automating Your Experiments with NIS-Elements"
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
TaCore Tuesday-Core Facilities Showcase
Andrew Vinard, Director of Core Facilities
Learn how the cutting-edge resources in the UMass Core Facilities can enhance your R&D. Events from the day included Poster Competition, invited Student Presentations, Meet & Greet with our Experienced Directors, Plenary Talk–Distinguished Professor Lila Gierasch, Dinner–Taco Bar, Awards and Networking Reception
Watch on our YouTube channel using the timestamps for selective viewing (available by clicking on Show More in the event description box below the video window).
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Raman, IR, and XFR Spectroscopy
Lili He, Director of Raman, IR, and XFR Spectroscopy
Guest Speaker: Zili Gao–"Raman Spectroscopy for Food Analysis"
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Biological NMR
Jasna Fejzo, Director of Biology NMR
Guest Speaker: Robert Williams, Post-doc, Gierasch Lab–"Expanding the Toolbox for Structural Biology of Glycoproteins: Combining NMR Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry"
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Cell Culture
Michael Daley, Director of Cell Culture
Guest Speaker: James Sherley, Asymmetrex® LLC–"Kinetic Stem Cell (KSC) Counting – a new technology for routine determination of the specific fraction or dosage of therapeutic tissue stem cells "
Spring 2022
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Animal Models
Wei Cui, Director of Animal Models and Extension Assistant Professor Veterinary & Animal Sciences–"Learn about the services provided through the Animal Models Core Facility."
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Mass Spectrometry
Steve Eyles, Director of Mass Spectrometry
Guest Speaker: Erica Forsberg and Matt Willetts, Bruker Daltonics–"Expanding the Horizons of 4D-Metabolomics."
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Flow Cytometry
Amy Burnside, Director of Flow Cytometry
Guest Speaker: David Luther, (Rotello group) Department of Chemistry–"Quantifying cytosolic protein delivery through imaging flow cytometry."
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Raman, IR, and XFR Spectroscopy
Lili He, Director of Raman, IR, and XFR Spectroscopy
Guest Speakers: Haochen Dai and Zili Gao–"Introduction to Raman, IR, and XFR Spectroscopy."
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Center for Human Health & Performance
Michael Busa, Director of CH2P
Guest Speaker: Genny Beemyn, Director, The Stonewall Center–"Recognizing Gender Diversity in Research."
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
NMR
Weiguo Hu, Co Director–"Using NMR to Determine Polymer Molecular Weight and Explore Materials Morphology."
Fall 2021
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
UMass Glassblowing Lab
College of Natural Sciences
Sally Prasch, Director
Join us for a short tour of the glassblowing lab, a discussion on how and why glass is used in scientific research and a short demonstration of how one kind of scientific glass is made from start to finish.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Light Microscopy
James Chambers, Director of Light Microscopy
Guest Speaker
Pat Wadsworth, PhD and Carline Fermino Do Rosario, Biology and MCB–"Quantification of live cell dynamics with photoactivation and photobleaching"
Joseph DiPietro, PhD, Nikon–"Single molecule localization imaging; practical steps"
Friday, November 12, 2021
CH2P and CPHM Special Seminar
Guest Speaker
Mark Shelhamer, ScD, Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; former chief scientist of NASA’s Human Research Program–"How to Send People to Mars Without Killing Them: A Systems Approach to Health and Performance"
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
UMass WET Center
Patrick Wittbold, Director of WET Center
Guest Speaker
Michael Murphy, X20 Corp–"Developing a low cost, smartphone based water quality sensor."
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Mass Spectrometry
Stephen Eyles, Director of Mass Spectrometry
Guest Speaker
Kevin Dagbay, Senior Scientist, Scholar Rock-"Integrative Structural Biology Approach to Discover the Mechanism of Action of Antibody-Based Therapeutics Targeting the TGF-β Superfamily of Growth Factors."
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Roll to Roll Fabrication & Processing Facility
Jeff Morse, Director–“Scalable Fabrication of Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE): Unique Capabilities of the Advanced Print and Roll-to-Roll Facility”
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Sleep Monitoring Laboratory
Rebecca Spencer, Director and Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences–“Assessing Sleep Physiology and Function”
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Genomics Resource Laboratory
Ravi Ranjan, Director
Guest Speaker
Rosha Poudyal, 10X Genomics–“Biology at True Resolution: Resolve Biological Complexities with
Single Cell and Spatial Solutions”
Guest Speaker
Jennifer Rauch, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and IALS–“Introduction to the 10X Visium System and Applications”
Spring 2021
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
TechTalks with Flow Cytometry
Amy Burnside, Director
Guest Speaker
Eleanor Kincaid, PhD, SCYM(ASCM)CM
Regional Applications Manager, Cytek Biosciences
“Introduction to Spectral Cytometry with the Cytek Aurora”
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Genomics Resource Laboratory
Ravi Ranjan, Director
Guest Speaker
Elizabeth Rullo, 10X Genomics–“Uncover the Hidden Complexities of Biology with Single Cell Solutions”
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Human Magnetic Resonance Center (hMRC)
Rajakumar Nagarajan, MR Physicist, hMRC
Guest Speaker
Gwenael Layec, Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
Department and IALS–“Investigation of Muscle Function by MR Spectroscopy/Imaging”
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Center for Human Health & Performance (CH2P)
Michael Busa, Director of Ch2P
Guest Speaker
Nader Naghavi, Embr Labs, Visiting Scientist-UMass Amherst Kinesiology Department–“How Artificial Intelligence and Wearable Technologies Can Improve Quality of Life”
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Atomic Force Microscopy
Keith Dusoe, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Polymer Science & Engineering, IALS–“Scanning Probe Microscopy: Capabilities and Possibilities.”
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Electron Microscopy
Alex Ribbe, Director of Electron Microscopy
Guest Speaker
Satyam Srivastava, PhD candidate, Polymer Science & Engineering–“Imaging of Nanoparticle on Liquid Surfaces in Scanning Electron Microscopy.”
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Special Core Facilities Seminar: Cryo-EM
Guest Speaker
Natalia de Val, PhD, Thermo Fisher Scientific–“Introducing Tundra: A groundbreaking new way of bringing Cryo-EM for all.”
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Flow Cytometry
Amy Burnside, Director of Flow Cytometry
Guest Speaker
Brian Rosario and Gary Cuneo, Luminex–“Luminex Amnis ImageStream: Visualize a New Standard for Scientific Discovery.”
This is an edited version of the seminar. The full replay is only available to the UMass community by using your NetID.
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
Jasna Fejzo, Director of Biological NMR
Guest Speaker
Dr. Marcel J.J. Blommers, CSO at Saverna Therapeutics AG, Basel, Switzerland
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
CORUM 2.0
Andrew Vinard, Director of UMass Core Facilities
Guest Speaker
Bob Stevens, IALS Systems Administrator
Fall 2020
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Biophysical Characterization
Lizz Bartlett, Director of Biophysical Characterization
Guest Speaker
Lake Paul, President and Founder, BioAnalysis, LLC
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Raman, IR, XFR Spectroscopy
Lili He, Director of Raman, IR, XFR Spectrocopy
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Histology-BRaMA
Sallie Schneider, Director of Biospecimen Resource and Molecular Analysis Facility, Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Mass Spectrometry
Stephen Eyles, Director of Mass Spectrometry
Guest Speaker
Cristina Silvescu, Imaging Application Scientist, Bruker Daltonics
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
CT and Optical Imaging
Amy Burnside, Director of Animal Imaging and Flow Cytometry
Guest Speaker
Sarah Guyette, Field Application Scientist, PerkinElmer
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Introduction to CORUM
Andrew Vinard, Director of UMass Core Facilities
Guest Speaker
Bob Stevens, IALS Systems Administrator
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Advanced Digital Design & Fabrication (ADDFab)
David Follette, Director
Guest Speaker
Meghan Huber, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Light Microscopy
James Chambers. Director
Guest Speakers
Yousef Bagheri, You Lab, Department of Chemistry and Joe DePietro, Nikon Instruments
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Computational Modeling
Chungwen Liang, Director
Guest Speaker
Prof. Michael Fayer, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University
