Will Skinner, a PhD Candidate in Bioengineering at the University of Oregon’s Knight Campus, will present his dissertation, “Developing a Magnetoelastic Monitoring System for Tracking Cell Density and Growth Kinetics in Real Time.” This presentation also serves as the opening seminar in the 2025–26 Department of Bioengineering Seminar Series. 

Andrew Ellington, Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, will present a seminar titled “Machine Learning for Protein Engineering: Successes and Failures, and How to Tell the Difference.” In this talk, Dr. Ellington will explore the evolving role of machine learning in the field of protein engineering, highlighting both its breakthroughs and limitations.

This event is part of the 2025–26 Bioengineering Seminar Series hosted by the Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering. All members of the university community are welcome to attend.

Calin Plesa, Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Oregon’s Knight Campus, will present his promotion and tenure talk during the regularly scheduled Bioengineering Seminar Series. His presentation, titled “Exploring Biological Sequence Space at Scale,” will highlight his lab’s work developing high-throughput methods to investigate how variations in DNA and protein sequences drive biological function.

All are welcome to attend this special seminar.