
Tuesday, December 8, 2026
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Koch Institute at MIT
500 Main Street, Building 76
Cambridge, MA 02139
Join us in person at the MIT Koch Institute to learn about MIT technology core facilities and research capabilities in the life sciences. This full-day event will convene technology core facilities from MIT ranging from biomaging to proteomics and data science, all accessible to the biotech community.
The goal of the event is to strengthen MIT's engagement with the broader startup and pharma ecosystems, and inspire new collaborative opportunities between academia and industry.
Featured core facilities include:
- Athinoula Martinos Imaging Center of the McGovern Institute
- Bioimaging and Chemical Analysis Facilities Core
- Biophysical Instrumentation Facility
- Biopolymers & Proteomics
- CryoEM Facility at MIT.nano
- Data Science and Multimodal Integration
- Department of Chemistry Instrumentation Facility
- Flow Cytometry Core
- Functional Genomics Platform
- Genome Technology Core
- High Content Imaging
- High Throughput Sciences
- Integrated Genome Technologies
- MIT Center for Clinical and Translational Research
- Nanotechnology for Integrative BioEM
- Preclinical Imaging & Testing
- Preclinical Modeling
- Quantitative Proteomics Core
- Structural Biology Core Facility
- Spatial Imaging
- Tissue Processing
- W.M. Keck Imaging Innovation Center
- Zebrafish
Agenda
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Registration and breakfast
9:00 a.m. – 9:05 a.m.
Welcoming remarks
9:05 a.m. – 10:05 a.m.
Technology core lightning talks
10:05 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Coffee break
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Technology core lightning talks
11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Panel discussion
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 PM
Lunch and poster session
1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Technology core facility tours
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Networking reception
Featuring
Iain M. Cheeseman, Professor of biology, member of Whitehead Institute
Tarek Fadel, Director of Strategic Alliances, MIT Koch Institute
Angela Koehler, Professor, MIT Department of Biological Engineering
Abigail Lytton-Jean, Scientific Director, Nanotechnology for Integrative BioEM, MIT Koch Institute
Shanu Mehta, Scientific Director, Nanowell Cytometry, MIT Koch Institute
Matthew Vander Heiden, Director, MIT Koch Institute



