The Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering hosts research seminars throughout the year. Talks typically take place Mondays from 1:00-2:00pm with a short reception immediately following.
Date | Speaker | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|
9/22/25 | Will Skinner (PhD Candidate, Bioengineering, UO Knight Campus) | “Developing a Magnetoelastic Monitoring System for Tracking Cell Density and Growth Kinetics in Real Time” (Opening seminar & dissertation presentation) |
9/29/25 | Andrew Ellington (Professor, University of Texas at Austin) | External Speaker: Machine Learning for Protein Engineering: Successes and Failures, and How to Tell the Difference |
10/6/25 | Calin Plesa (Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering) | Tenure Talk: Exploring Biological Sequence Space at Scale |
10/13/25 | Pascal Achenbach (Postdoctoral Scholar, Dalton Lab) and Sarea Recalde Phillips (Postdoctoral Scholar, Benoit Lab) | TBD |
10/20/25 | Loren Reith (West Virginia University) | External Speaker: TBD |
10/27/25 | Felix Deku (Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering) | Mid-Tenure Review: TBD |
11/3/25 | Kelly Leguineche (Bioengineering PhD Candidate, Guldberg Lab) and Saumya Keremane (Biology PhD Candidate, Ambati/Taylor Labs) | TBD |
11/10/25 | Undergraduate Student Presentations | TBD |
11/17/25 | Kelly O’Neill (Bioengineering PhD Defense, Dalton Lab) | TBD |
11/24/25 | Colleen Witzenburg (University of Wisconsin–Madison) | TBD |
12/1/25 | No seminar scheduled | — |
12/8/25 | First-Year PhD Student Flash Talk | TBD |
Note: Future seminar titles are TBD. Check back for updates.