MIT Department of Biological Engineering

Seminars

Our faculty and students invite researchers and academics worldwide to share and discuss their groundbreaking work at the BE Seminar Series. Doctoral students present their cutting-edge research at the Bioengineering & Toxicology Seminars (BATS).
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  • Thursday, February 6, 2025 Seminar

    Start Time: 4:00PM
    Location: 32-155
    Hosted By: Christopher A. Voigt
    • Speaker: Lena Gamboa (Port Therapeutics and Georgia Institute of Technology)
      Programming Synthetic Immunity for Cancer Immunotherapy and Beyond

  • Thursday, February 13, 2025 Seminar

    Start Time: 4:00PM
    Location: 32-155
    Hosted By: Christopher A. Voigt
    • Speaker: Zhiliang Bai (Yale University)
      Decoding Human Immunobiology with Spatial Omics Innovation

  • Friday, February 14, 2025 Seminar

    BATS
    Start Time: 12:00PM
    Location: 32-155
    Hosted By: Bevin P. Engelward
    • Speaker: Nikolaos Meimetis (Lauffenburger Lab)
    • Speaker: Kaiyi Jiang (Birnbaum Lab)

      Directed protein evolution is vital for biomedicine but faces challenges like experimental complexity and inefficient optimization. While protein language models can guide fitness landscapes, they struggle with diverse protein families. We present EVOLVEpro, a few-shot active learning framework combining PLMs and regression models to enhance protein activity. It achieves up to 100-fold property improvements across six proteins in RNA, genome editing, and antibody applications, opening new possibilities for AI-guided protein engineering.

  • Thursday, February 27, 2025 Seminar

    Start Time: 4:00PM
    Location: 32-155
    Hosted By: Angela Koehler

  • Friday, February 28, 2025 Seminar

    BATS
    Start Time: 12:00PM
    Location: 32-155
    Hosted By: Bevin P. Engelward
    • Speaker: Jacob Hochfelder (Bryson Lab)
    • Speaker: Maureen Buckley (Irvine Lab)

  • Thursday, March 6, 2025 Seminar

    Start Time: 4:00PM
    Location: 32-155
    Hosted By: BE Graduate Students