Who's up at BATS?
Rachel McGinn (Bryson Lab): “Bacterial Control of Antigen Presentation on MHC-I in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection”
James Jusuf (Hansen Lab): “Genome-Wide Absolute Quantification of Chromatin Looping”
https://be.mit.edu/our-community/seminars/
Engelward Lab research suggests that the chemical NDMA is much more likely to cause cancerous mutations after exposure early in life. https://ow.ly/LHns50YKzVM
Next BE Seminar this Thurs 4/9 at 4pm with Richard M. Murray, California Institute of Technology, 'Upscaling Engineering of Synthetic Biomachines via Synthetic Cells.' https://ow.ly/aX2850YIo1J
Huaiyao Peng (Belcher Lab): “Developing Organoid Models and AI-Driven Optical Imaging for Ovarian Cancer Early Detection”
Luka Karginov (Lauffenburger): “Learning Features and Paths of Vaccine-Mediated Protection in Tuberculosis via Partial Correlation”
https://be.mit.edu/our-community/seminars/
Who's up at BATS?
Amanda Chan (Birnbaum Lab): “A Library-Based Examination of T Cell Allorecognition”
Qingyang Henry Zhao (Birnbaum & Wittrup): “Decoding Endogenous Anti-Tumor T Cell Responses for Polyclonal TCR-T Therapy”
https://be.mit.edu/our-community/seminars/ #TCRrecognition #TILtherapy
BE Seminar Series this Thur, 4pm, 32-155
Melanie Graham, University of Minnesota "You Don’t Control the Immune System, You Design Around It” https://be.mit.edu/our-community/seminars/
We have many administrative and technical open positions in BE! Learn more: https://be.mit.edu/about/open-staff-positions/
A backup survival pathway can help tumor cells resist certain lung cancer and other drugs. The Forest White Lab reveals that combining therapies may offer a solution. https://ow.ly/U1rf50YARTo
BE Seminar Series continues this Thursday at 4pm with BE alum Jennifer L. Wilson, UCLA "Turning Bugs Into Features - Modeling Drug Off-Target Effects to Understand Cancer Neurology” https://be.mit.edu/our-community/seminars/
Who's up at BATS?
Myra Dada (Manalis & Hemann): “Investigating Cell Stiffness as a Determinant of CAR T Efficacy in B-ALL”
Connie Wang (Collins & Edelman): “Nanoengineering Materials to Probe Tissue-Implant Interactions”
https://be.mit.edu/our-community/seminars/
#CARTtherapy #ramanspectroscopy
Help the MIT School of Engineering empower the next generation of thinkers and doers by contributing today, during the MIT 24-Hour Challenge. mit24hourchallenge.mightycause.com/story/School-Of-Engineer...
BE Seminar tomorrow at 4pm with Dan Dongeun Huh, University of Pennsylvania “Microengineered Mimicry of Human Health and Disease" https://be.mit.edu/our-community/seminars/
Who's up at BATS?
Miles George (Voigt & Niles Labs): “Containment of Engineered Bacteria by ‘Locking’ them to an Engineered Plant”
Justine Shih (Blainey Lab): “Mapping Genetic Variants to Cellular Phenotypes with Targeted Optical Endogenous Sequencing (TOES)” https://ow.ly/AUip50Yn1TF
Who's up at BATS?
Evan Collins (Langer & Anderson Labs): “Data-Driven Approaches for Understanding and Improving mRNA Lipid Nanoparticles”
Nikita Podobedov (Blainey Lab): “Integration of Label-Free Imaging Modalities with Optical Pooled Screening”
https://be.mit.edu/our-community/seminars/
Who's up at BATS?
Anastasiya Grebin (Ribbeck Lab): “Mucus as a Host Lever in Recurrent Bacterial Vaginosis”
https://be.mit.edu/our-community/seminars/ #bacterialvaginosis #Cervicovaginalmucus #Host–microbeinteractions
Who's up at BATS?
Victoria Chen (Voigt Lab): “Tracking Recombinant Genes in Estonia 35 Years After Release”
Rachel Myers (Belcher & Hammond Labs): “Engineering Rare Earth Nanoparticles for Early Ovarian Cancer Detection”
https://ow.ly/CTAR50Y9SZH
This afternoon, Prof Doug Lauffenburger opened the BE Seminar Series Spring Term 2026 by sharing the history of BE.
Griffith Lab created a mini “liver-on-a-chip.” Tiny clusters of liver cells (shown in magenta) are embedded within a network of blood vessels (green) news.mit.edu/2026/new-tissue-models-c...
Scalable TCR synthesis and screening enable antigen reactivity mapping in vitiligo @cp-immunity.bsky.social
www.cell.com/immunity/ful... @mbirnbaum.bsky.social @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social
“Here is a pathogen that has probably killed more people in human history than any other pathogen, so you want to learn how to kill it,” says Bryan Bryson about tuberculosis. https://ow.ly/yhZ750Y4Z3V
New MIT research tackles one of medicine’s biggest threats — antibiotic resistance. Using synthetic biology and AI, Collins Lab researchers are developing programmable antibacterials to outsmart drug-resistant pathogens. https://ow.ly/u19v50Y4nQ7
Alumni & partners: help us spread the word! Our Career Fair is one month away, and we’re still accepting employer registrations. High-quality talent, low barrier to participation. https://ow.ly/ABIe50XXbty
Hiring? Looking for interns? The MIT BioEng Career Fair–Thur, 2/5, MIT campus–connects employers with exceptional engineering & science talent. Affordable, efficient, high-impact recruiting of UG, PhD, and Post-doc talent https://ow.ly/BuG450XVKAY
Professor Forest White among 18 MIT faculty honored as “Committed to Caring” for 2025-27.
news.mit.edu/2026/mit-faculty-committ...
Sean Luk has seen her grandparents’ cancer battles as a call for urgent action in immunotherapy. “The idea of creating something that is actually able to improve human health is what really drives me now,” Luk says. news.mit.edu/2026/addressing-urgent-n...
🚨 Recruiting employers! MIT's BioEngineering Career Expo is happening in ONE MONTH 2/5 on MIT campus.
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"'We created a new kind of protein therapeutic that can block glycan-based immune checkpoints and boost anti-cancer immune responses,' says Jessica Stark" https://ow.ly/pN1h50XKBui
Out now: We present antibody-lectin chimeras (AbLecs) as a molecular platform to target sugars, or glycans, for cancer immunotherapy.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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@mitkochinstitute.bsky.social @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social @mitcheme.bsky.social @stanford-chemh.bsky.social
Linda Griffith engineers human uterine endometrium in lab dishes, offering in vitro tools to study some uterine diseases and screen drugs to treat them. https://ow.ly/J6IB50XJZyZ
Who's up at BATS today?
Patrick Song (Belcher Lab): “Symbiotic Cultures of Bacteria and Yeast as Engineered Living Materials for Water Purification” https://be.mit.edu/our-community/seminars/
