IALS Seminar Series

Meghan Lemay, Regional Manager of Alzheimer's Association of Western MA, joins us for a presentation on understanding Alzheimer's disease and dementia, including current treatments and risk factors. The program will also provide tips on how to better interact and communicate with individuals living with dementia. You will also learn about resources available to support families impacted by Alzheimer's disease or dementia.

Wei Cui, Director of Animal Models and Extension Associate Professor Veterinary & Animal Sciences. The Animal Models Core Facility continues to provide essential services like in vitro fertilization (IVF), embryo transfer, transgenics, and CRISPR-mediated knockouts (KOs) and knock-ins (KIs) in mice.

Come learn about the facility's new cryo-EM capabilities! Introducing the Tundra cryo-TEM, followed by a research talk on how cryo-EM is helping one lab uncover the molecular mechanisms of long-term memory.

Speaker(s) : Emily Agnello, PhD - Assistant Director, EM Core Facility; Meg Stratton, PhD - Associate Professor, MCB Program Director; Ruth Adafia - PhD candidate in the Stratton Lab

Featuring an expert panel discussion about creating more just and equitable futures for health technologies and presentations by six HT4P-sponsored student and postdoctoral fellows from across the UMass campus!

Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques and Super Resolution. Part 3 of Light Microscopy Three-Part Seminar Series. 

Presenter: Dhimitraq Nikolla, 2nd year core summer intern. (pizza will be provided)

Fluorescence Microscopy and Optimization for Perfect Image Acquisition. Part 2 of Light Microscopy Three-Part Seminar Series. 

Presenter: Dhimitraq Nikolla, 2nd year core summer intern. (pizza will be provided)

Fundamentals and Advanced Techniques Using Transmitted Light. Part 1 of Light Microscopy Three-Part Seminar Series. 

Presenter: Dhimitraq Nikolla, 2nd year core summer intern. (pizza will be provided)

Elena Pobezinskaya, Center for Bioactive Delivery, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences. An in vivo mouse tumor model that allows to track intercellular transfer of cytoplasm from tumor cells to immune cells based on fluorescent signal.

Alissa Rothchild, Veterinary & Animal Science. As the first cells infected in the lung by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, alveolar macrophages play and important role of initiating the host immune response. This seminar will cover research by the Rothchild lab on the sentinel responses of alveolar macrophages within the lung environment.

Sarah Perry, Department of Chemical Engineering. Complex coacervates are self-assembling materials that are analogous to biological condensates found in cells. We explore the use of these materials to uptake proteins and viruses, and improve their thermal stability.

Lili He, Director of Raman Spectroscopy. This presentation will review basic principles and analytical capabilities of MRR, focusing on analyses that are challenging for other analytical techniques. The demonstrated MRR applications are highly diverse, ranging from stereoselective reaction monitoring and direct quantitative analysis of isomer mixtures to analysis of volatiles including residual solvents. Potential applications in other areas including the food industry will also be discussed.

Pablo Visconti, Veterinary and Animal Sciences.

Presented by IALS Animal Imaging Staff. Hosted by Jim Chambers, Director of Light Microscopy, and Said Akli, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.

Paul Katz, Models to Medicine Center, Departments of Biology and Chemistry. Ferroptosis is a form of regulated cell death characterized by the iron-dependent accumulation of lipid peroxides, and its induction has shown promise as a novel approach in cancer therapy. By targeting the vulnerability of cancer cells to ferroptosis, we aim to exploit a unique mechanism that distinguishes cancer cells from normal cells, potentially enhancing the efficacy of anticancer treatments.

Rachid Skouta, Models to Medicine Center, Departments of Biology and Chemistry. Ferroptosis is a form of regulated cell death characterized by the iron-dependent accumulation of lipid peroxides, and its induction has shown promise as a novel approach in cancer therapy. By targeting the vulnerability of cancer cells to ferroptosis, we aim to exploit a unique mechanism that distinguishes cancer cells from normal cells, potentially enhancing the efficacy of anticancer treatments.

Rebecca Spencer, Director of Sleep Lab.  Sleep science is a rapidly expanding field that has tentacles into many other fields from neuroscience and public health to tech and economics. With this comes wildly new ideas about sleep that might just blow your mind! 

Dr. Jones Lee from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Host: Jungwoo Lee, Chemical Engineering. Dr. Lee's research will bring broad attention to our communities, including Cancer Biology, Kinesiology, Nursing, Engineering, Immunology, etc., as well as bring attention to the public community.

Deepak Ganesan, Director of the Center for Personalized Health Monitoring.
Learn more about Prof. Ganesan's research

Thai Thayumanavan, Director of the Center of Bioactive Delivery.

Peter Chien, Director of Models to Medicine Center.