Upcoming Events & Seminars
Spring 2026 Schedule
Welcome! The Frontiers in Quantitative Biodesign seminar is an interdisciplinary seminar series designed to introduce the Duke community to the latest cutting-edge technologies and techniques in the field of quantitative biodesign. It aims to give an in-depth understanding of how mathematical and computational approaches can be harnessed to accelerate, de-risk, and optimize the design and engineering of biological systems and to create tools to control biological processes. Our format alternates between guest speakers from outside Duke and Student- & Postdoc-Focused Works-In-Progress talks centered around topics such as: AI, Quantitative Biology, or Biodesign. Explore this spring’s exciting presentations below.
| Date | Presenter 1 | Presenter 2 or Faculty Host |
| January 16, 2026 | ||
| January 23, 2026 | Kyungdo Kim (Dunn Lab, BME): tbd | Wendy Wu (Randles lab, BME): “Unravelling the Biomechanical Influence of Red Blood Cells and Circulating Tumor Cells in Driving Cancer Metastatic Transport” |
| January 30, 2026 | Aditya Pratapa (Singh Lab, CS/Cell Biology): “Spatial alignment techniques for near-serial section multi-omic profiling“ | Jingmei Qian (You Lab, BME) : “Plasmid coexistence prediction“ |
| February 6, 2026 | Kapil Devkota (Singh Lab, CS/Cell Biology): “Learning a PRECISE language for small-molecule binding“ | Erica Yan (Chory Lab, BME): tbd |
| February 13, 2026 | Po-An Lin (Arya Lab, MEMS): “Deep Inverse Design of Patchy Tiles for Mesoscale Architecture“ | Quanjun Lang (Lu Lab, Math): tbd, interacting agents work |
| February 20, 2026 | Lauren Onweller (Reker Lab BME): “Fine tuned machine learning discovery of novel drug excipient nanoparticles“ | Audrey Williams (Gladfelter Lab, Cell Biology): “Cell and population dynamics of extremotolerance in a new model fungus“ |
| February 27, 2026 | Yang-yu Liu, PhD (Harvard) | Faculty Host: Lingchong You |
| March 6, 2026 | Ameya Jalihal (Gladfelter Lab Cell Biology): “Mapping nuclear cooperation in multinucleate fungi” | Yuxin Li (Han Lab, SOM): tbd |
| March 20, 2026 | Rebeca Stiepel (Reker Lab, BME): tbd | Grace McLaughlin (Gladfelter Lab & MISM center): tbd |
| March 27, 2026 | Rozeanna Zia, PhD (Mizzou) | Faculty Host: Emma Chory |
| April 3, 2026 | Joff Silberg, PhD (Rice) | Faculty Host: Lingchong You |
*with guest speakers boldened
Time: 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Day of the Week: Friday (s)
Place: FITZPATRICK SCHICIANO A
Are you a grad student/postdoc looking to share your work to the Center for Quantitative BioDesign community? We would love to hear about your work in progress!Consider signing up to give a ~20-minute talk + 10 minutes for Q&A, we’ll provide food and drinks.
Preferences to presentation dates will be given on a first come-first serve basis! Contact Jiesi Lei (jiesi.lei@duke.edu) or Meg Taylor (meg.taylor@duke.edu) to present in a future semester!
