Seminar Title: Academic Scholarship vs. Entrepreneurship: Research choices in pursuing a career in academia at Northeastern Location: 108 Snell Engineering Center Abstract: Success as a faculty member at a Tier 1 research university—fair or unfair—still depends heavily on securing research funding and producing independent, high-quality scholarship with those resources. Yet, over the past two decades, […]
Seminar Title: Stimulating Excitable Cells with Optosomes: Development of a Non-viral Cell Derived Vesicle Capable of Stimulating Excitable Cells in Response to Light Stimulus Location: 108 Snell Engineering Center Abstract: For years, researchers have studied and developed neuromodulation techniques meant to stimulate and/or inhibit excitable cells both in research and clinical settings. A method to […]
Seminar Title: Developing Soldering Nanomaterials for Advanced Materials Joining and Bonding Location: 108 Snell Engineering Center Abstract: Joining and bonding methods are not only necessary, but also quite often critical in materials forming and electronic device manufacturing processes. Among various joining methods, soldering is one of the most widely used ones, due to its electrical […]
Seminar Title: Electrosynthesis of Conducting Polymer Thin Films at a Polarizable Liquid | Liquid Interface Location: 108 Snell Engineering Center Abstract: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a diverse family of highly fluorinated and persistent anthropogenic chemicals first synthesized in the 1940s that are not known to degrade under natural conditions. They are broadly used […]
Seminar Title: TBD Location: 108 Snell Engineering Center Abstract: TBD The Rafat Lab works at the interface of engineering and cancer biology. We examine the biological, chemical, and physical cues that influence cancer metastasis and recurrence. Current studies focus on the effect of radiation and surgery on tumor and immune cell migration dynamics, the molecular […]