Friday, December 12, 2025
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Boston University Photonics Center
Colloquium Room 906, 9^th Floor
8 St. Mary’s Street, Boston, MA 02215

AGENDA

9:00 a.m. – Breakfast Reception

9:30 a.m. – Welcome and Introductions

9:45 a.m. – Dr. Denis Wirtz, Vice Provost for Research and Theophilus Halley Smoot Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Pathology, and Oncology, Director of Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

10:30 a.m. ­– Dr. Hadi Nia, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University

11:15 a.m. – Dr. Yingze Yang, Professor of Developmental Biology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine

12:00 p.m. – Lunch Break

1:00 p.m. – Trainee Poster Session

2:30 p.m. – Dr. Sandra Shefelbine, Associate Dean of Space and Special Initiatives, Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and of Bioengineering, Northeastern University

3:15 p.m.  – Dr. Bob Varelas, Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Boston University Chobanian & Advisian School of Medicine

4:00 p.m. – Dr. Jude M. Phillip, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Chemical and Bimolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

4:45 p.m. – Closing Remarks: Dr. Katherine Yanhang Zhang, Director of CMTM and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Materials Science & Engineering, Boston University

All members members of the scientific and academic communities are welcome to join us for this free event.

Please contact us if you have any questions or require reasonable accommodations for the event.

If you are a current undergraduate, M.S. or Ph.D. student or postdoctoral associate, and are interested in presenting a poster during our symposium’s poster session, visit the call for posters site here.

*Banner image courtesy of Dr. Denis Wirtz, Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.