MIT Department of Biological Engineering

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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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November 6, 2026 Seminar

BATS
Start Time: 12:00 PM
Location: 32-155
Hosted By: Douglas A. Lauffenburger

  • Majo Duran

    Weiss Lab Birnbaum Lab

    Cell therapies encode their behavior at the point of design, yet the diseases they treat change in location, intensity, and duration. Genetic circuits offer a route to conditional control, but those reaching the clinic compute in binary and rely on bacterial and viral proteins that the immune system recognizes. Here, we build neuromorphic circuits implemented entirely in non-coding RNA, weighing multiple inputs against tunable thresholds to produce graded output, and apply them to a broad antiviral defense in airway epithelium.

  • Sean Pascoe

    Lauffenburger Lab

    Endometriosis is a common debilitating disease characterized by the growth of endometrium-like tissue outside of the uterus. Endometriosis is known to be inflammatory, yet the specific mechanisms of persistence remain unclear. Using patient-derived in vitro models of the endometrium, we recapitulate the inflammatory signatures that are associated with disease. Further, we combine targeted measurement and mathematical models to assess the effects of putative drug treatments on crosstalk between macrophages and endometrial fibroblasts in disease.

November 13, 2026 Seminar

BATS
Start Time: 12:00 PM
Location: 32-155
Hosted By: Bevin P. Engelward

  • Kylie Akiyama

    Belcher Lab Furst Lab

  • Nan Jiang

    Koehler Lab

November 19, 2026 Seminar

Start Time: 4:00 PM
Location: 32-141
Hosted By: Mark Bathe

November 20, 2026 Seminar

BATS
Start Time: 12:00 PM
Location: 32-155
Hosted By: Bevin P. Engelward

  • Lauren Hoorens van Heyningen

    White Lab Spranger Lab

  • Michael Ni

    Bryson Lab Blainey Lab

December 3, 2026 Seminar

Start Time: 4:00 PM
Location: 32-141
Hosted By: Douglas A. Lauffenburger

December 4, 2026 Seminar

BATS
Start Time: 12:00 PM
Location: 32-155
Hosted By: Bryan Bryson

  • Karla Manzanares

    Shalek Lab

  • Hyery Yoo

    Shalek Lab