• Fall ’26 Biochem Seminar: Pranam Chatterjee

    Designing Programmable Biologics with Generative Sequence Models In this talk, I will share how my lab develops discrete generative models to design functional biologics for disease and bioremediation. Our work has centered on language models that de novo design peptides to bind and modulate undruggable targets, with experimental validation across rare neurodegenerative disorders, pediatric cancers,

  • Photonics Initiative Seminar: Keji Lai

    Dr. Keji Lai, University of Texas atAustin Microwave Microscopy of Topological Acoustics Abstract: Topological phononics offers numerous opportunities in manipulating elastic waves that can propagate in solids without being back-scattered. Due to the lack of nanoscale imaging tools that aid the system design, however, spatially resolved acoustic metamaterial studies have been mostly demonstrated in systems operating at kilohertz