Throughout the series, we will be featuring both individual core facilities and their relevant technologies, as well as hearing from faculty about how they use these technologies in their research. All seminars are on Tuesdays from 2-3 p.m.
This is a great opportunity to discover what great resources that the centralized UMass Core Facilities offer to our campus community and the New England region. Our goal is to make these events informational and interactive.
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
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"
Donghyun Kim, Assistant Professor CICS–"Human Centered Development of a Guide Dog Robot"
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."
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."
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"
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"
James Chambers, Director of Light Microscopy
Guest Speaker: Joseph DiPietro, PhD–"Automating Your Experiments with NIS-Elements"
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).
Lili He, Director of Raman, IR, and XFR Spectroscopy
Guest Speaker: Zili Gao–"Raman Spectroscopy for Food Analysis"
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"
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 "
Wei Cui, Director of Animal Models and Extension Assistant Professor Veterinary & Animal Sciences–"Learn about the services provided through the Animal Models Core Facility."
Steve Eyles, Director of Mass Spectrometry
Guest Speaker: Erica Forsberg and Matt Willetts, Bruker Daltonics–"Expanding the Horizons of 4D-Metabolomics."
Amy Burnside, Director of Flow Cytometry
Guest Speaker: David Luther, (Rotello group) Department of Chemistry–"Quantifying cytosolic protein delivery through imaging flow cytometry."
Lili He, Director of Raman, IR, and XFR Spectroscopy
Guest Speakers: Haochen Dai and Zili Gao–"Introduction to Raman, IR, and XFR Spectroscopy."
Michael Busa, Director of CH2P
Guest Speaker: Genny Beemyn, Director, The Stonewall Center–"Recognizing Gender Diversity in Research."
Weiguo Hu, Co Director–"Using NMR to Determine Polymer Molecular Weight and Explore Materials Morphology."
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.
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"
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"
Patrick Wittbold, Director of WET Center
Guest Speaker
Michael Murphy, X20 Corp–"Developing a low cost, smartphone based water quality sensor."
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."
Jeff Morse, Director–“Scalable Fabrication of Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE): Unique Capabilities of the Advanced Print and Roll-to-Roll Facility”
Rebecca Spencer, Director and Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences–“Assessing Sleep Physiology and Function”
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”
Amy Burnside, Director
Guest Speaker
Eleanor Kincaid, PhD, SCYM(ASCM)CM
Regional Applications Manager, Cytek Biosciences
“Introduction to Spectral Cytometry with the Cytek Aurora”
Ravi Ranjan, Director
Guest Speaker
Elizabeth Rullo, 10X Genomics–“Uncover the Hidden Complexities of Biology with Single Cell Solutions”
Rajakumar Nagarajan, MR Physicist, hMRC
Guest Speaker
Gwenael Layec, Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
Department and IALS–“Investigation of Muscle Function by MR Spectroscopy/Imaging”
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”
Keith Dusoe, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Polymer Science & Engineering, IALS–“Scanning Probe Microscopy: Capabilities and Possibilities.”
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.”
Guest Speaker
Natalia de Val, PhD, Thermo Fisher Scientific–“Introducing Tundra: A groundbreaking new way of bringing Cryo-EM for all.”
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.
Jasna Fejzo, Director of Biological NMR
Guest Speaker
Dr. Marcel J.J. Blommers, CSO at Saverna Therapeutics AG, Basel, Switzerland
Andrew Vinard, Director of UMass Core Facilities
Guest Speaker
Bob Stevens, IALS Systems Administrator
Lizz Bartlett, Director of Biophysical Characterization
Guest Speaker
Lake Paul, President and Founder, BioAnalysis, LLC
Lili He, Director of Raman, IR, XFR Spectrocopy
Sallie Schneider, Director of Biospecimen Resource and Molecular Analysis Facility, Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute
Stephen Eyles, Director of Mass Spectrometry
Guest Speaker
Cristina Silvescu, Imaging Application Scientist, Bruker Daltonics
Amy Burnside, Director of Animal Imaging and Flow Cytometry
Guest Speaker
Sarah Guyette, Field Application Scientist, PerkinElmer
Andrew Vinard, Director of UMass Core Facilities
Guest Speaker
Bob Stevens, IALS Systems Administrator
David Follette, Director
Guest Speaker
Meghan Huber, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
James Chambers. Director
Guest Speakers
Yousef Bagheri, You Lab, Department of Chemistry and Joe DePietro, Nikon Instruments
Chungwen Liang, Director
Guest Speaker
Prof. Michael Fayer, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University
