2025 Harvard LMA Research Cores Poster Showcase

Join us for the 2025 Harvard LMA Research Cores Showcase, bringing together cutting-edge research core facilities and shared resources from leading Longwood Medical Area institutions. Discover innovative technologies and network with experts across the research community.

Date: November 5th, 2025  |  Time: 2:00-5:00 PM

Location: Martin Conference Center in the Veritas Sciences Center

77 Ave. Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA

Co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC). 

Participating institutions: 

• Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center (BIDMC)

• Boston Children's Hospital (BCH)

• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI)

• Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH)

• Harvard FAS Division of Science (FAS)

• Harvard Medical School (HMS)

• Mass General Brigham (MGB)

• Joslin Diabetes Research Center

  Learn more on the Harvard and Longwood Medical Area Research Cores website.

The full list of posters from participating research core facilities can be found here.

Confirmed Speakers & Topics:

Moderated by

Praju Vikas Anekal, HMS MicRoN Core

Stephanie Mohr, HMS Arthropod Cell Screening Facility Core Director

• 2:00p – Opening Remarks

  Caroline Shamu, Harvard Medical School 

  Carla Reimold, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC)

• 2:20p - Ricardo Bango Da Cunha Correia, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

  “HSPH - BSL3 Imaging Core Facility”

  (Work carried out in the Advanced BioImaging Center for Pathogens in BSL3 Containment)

• 2:40p - Jon Andersen, Harvard Medical School

  "Sweat the Small Stuff: How MINFLUX nanoscopy can illuminate the mysteries of the synapse"

  (Work carried out in the HMS Neurobiology Imaging Facility)

• 3:00p - Georg Gerber, Brigham Women’s Hospital

  (Work carried out in the BWH Host-Microbiome Center)

  Short Break

• 3:30p – Thorsten Schlaeger, Boston Children’s Hospital

  “Leveraging the Yokogawa Cell Voyager Live Cell Confocal Imager to Optimize Production of hiPSC-derived HSCs and Cytotoxic T Cells”

  (Work carried out in the BCH Stem Cell Imaging and Therapeutics Center)

• 3:50p - Anusuya Ramasubramanian, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

  “Harnessing facile platforms for screening immunotherapy libraries to engineer effective & safe cell therapies”

  (Work carried out in the DFCI Immunotherapy Platform for Antibody and CAR Therapeutics Discovery and Translation (IMPACT2))

• 4:10p - Ioannis Vlachos, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

  “Cutting-edge Production-grade Single Cell and Spatial Tissue Profiling Capabilities at the BIDMC-DF/HCC Spatial Technologies Unit”

  (Work carried out in the BIDMC-DF/HCC Spatial Technologies Unit)

• 4:30p - Catherine Brownstein, Boston Children’s Hospital

  "Long-read technologies to inform the diagnostic odyssey”

  (Work carried out in the BCH Molecular Genetics Core)