Schedule 2026
BioLunch will run this year from May 20th until August 5th, with a seminar every Wednesday!
| Date | Presenter's Name | Email Address | Presenter PI/Lab | Talk Title | Add to Calendar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20-May | Dr. Blake Rasor | bjrasor@ncsu.edu | - | Cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) for sustainable biomanufacturing | 📅 Add to Calendar |
| 27-May | Niesha Cantu | scantu@ncsu.edu | Gavin Williams | Biosensor-guided directed evolution of polyketide assembly lines | 📅 Add to Calendar |
| 3-Jun | Open — speaker TBD | ||||
| 10-Jun | Nicole Burroughs | nlesch@ncsu.edu | Will Petry | Rules, Randomness, and the Repeatability of Community Assembly | 📅 Add to Calendar |
| 10-Jun | Peng Chen | pchen26@ncsu.edu | Jingjie Hu | From Soft Particles to Vascular Blockage: Mechanics-Guided Design of Embolic Microspheres | 📅 Add to Calendar |
| 17-Jun | Emily Allego | eallego@ncsu.edu | Melanie Simpson | Identification and Functional Validation of UDP-Glucose Dehydrogenases Interactions | 📅 Add to Calendar |
| 17-Jun | Jade Fluharty | jmfluhar@ncsu.edu | Melanie Simpson | Integrative transcriptomic and metabolomic analysis provides insights into metabolic reprogramming by UDP-glucose dehydrogenase | 📅 Add to Calendar |
| 24-Jun | Mahsa Bagi | mbagi2@ncsu.edu | Qingshan Wei | Detecting Disease-Associated RNA Biomarkers Using Split-CRISPR-Cas12a Assay and Plasmid Reporter Read Out | 📅 Add to Calendar |
| 24-Jun | Haoyu Wang | hwang226@ncsu.edu | Carol Hall | Design self-assembling peptides with user-defined constraints | 📅 Add to Calendar |
| 1-Jul | Selen Dalgan | asdalgan@ncsu.edu | Qingshan Wei | Fully Integrated Paper-Based CRISPR Diagnostics for Advancing Point-of-Care Applications | 📅 Add to Calendar |
| 1-Jul | Open — speaker TBD | ||||
| 8-Jul | Shohag Das | scdas@ncsu.edu | Yang Zhang | Investigation Of The Binding Mechanism Of Photo-Switchable Fluorescent DNA Binders For Super-Resolution Chromatin Imaging | 📅 Add to Calendar |
| 8-Jul | Melanie Sadecki | msadeck@ncsu.edu | Kevin Flores | Scientific Machine Learning to Recover System Dynamics of B-Cell state transitions from scRNAseq data | 📅 Add to Calendar |
| 15-Jul | Katie Stennette | kastenne@ncsu.edu | John Godwin | Estrogen receptor expression in the brain of the bluehead wrasse, a sexually plastic fish with three distinct phenotypes | 📅 Add to Calendar |
| 15-Jul | Grace Fuller | mafuller@ncsu.edu | Rodolphe Barrangou | Exploring the Application of Large Serine Recombinases in Lactobacillus gasseri | 📅 Add to Calendar |
| 22-Jul | Abby Williams | aewill25@ncsu.edu | Elisa Crisci | Systemic-Mucosal maternal vaccination enhances lactogenic immunity and reduces neonatal influenza morbidity | 📅 Add to Calendar |
| 22-Jul | John Cheadle | jbcheadl@ncsu.edu | Nathan Crook | Metagenomic libraries and functional screening - from plates to plants | 📅 Add to Calendar |
| 29-Jul | Open — speaker TBD | ||||
| 5-Aug | Open — speaker TBD | ||||