Core Facilities Seminar Series - Spring 2021

Andrew Vinard, Director of UMass Core Facilities

Guest Speaker
Bob Stevens, IALS Systems Administrator

Jasna Fejzo, Director of Biological NMR

Guest Speaker
Dr. Marcel J.J. Blommers, CSO at Saverna Therapeutics AG, Basel, Switzerland

Amy Burnside, Director of Flow Cytometry

Guest Speaker
Brian Rosario and Gary Cuneo, Luminex–“Luminex Amnis ImageStream: Visualize a New Standard for Scientific Discovery.”

Guest Speaker
Natalia de Val, PhD, Thermo Fisher Scientific–“Introducing Tundra: A groundbreaking new way of bringing Cryo-EM for all.”

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.”

Keith Dusoe, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Polymer Science & Engineering, IALS–“Scanning Probe Microscopy: Capabilities and Possibilities.”

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”

Rajakumar Nagarajan, MR Physicist, hMRC

Guest Speaker
Gwenael Layec, Assistant Professor, Kinesiology Department and IALS–“Investigation of Muscle Function by MR Spectroscopy/Imaging”

Ravi Ranjan, Director

Guest Speaker
Elizabeth Rullo, 10X Genomics–“Uncover the Hidden Complexities of Biology with Single Cell Solutions”

Amy Burnside, Director

Guest Speaker
Eleanor Kincaid, PhD, SCYM(ASCM)CM
Regional Applications Manager, Cytek Biosciences

“Introduction to Spectral Cytometry with the Cytek Aurora”