Events
Upcoming events for all programs and departments in the School of Science, Engineering and Technology for the next week.
March 27, 2026
Friday, 3/27/2026 11:10 am-12:10 pm Abelson 131
Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks
Ross Cheloha (NIH/NIDDK)
"Connecting peptides and antibodies to probe cell surface receptors"
Host: Hyunjun Yang. Contact biochemistry@brandeis.edu for more information.
March 27, 2026
Friday, 3/27/2026 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars
Pamela Rosales (Haber/Ragunathan Labs)
March 27, 2026
Friday, 3/27/2026 3:30 pm-4:30 pm Gerstenzang 121/Online
Thesis Seminar: Neuroscience PhD Program
Josh Harrison (Birren Lab)
"Satellite Glial Cells Drive Homeostatic Synaptic and Structural Plasticity in Sympathetic Neurons"
Monday, 3/30/2026
Neurobiology Journal Club [CANCELLED]
Monday, 3/30/2026 11 am-12 noon Abelson 333
Thesis Seminar: Physics PhD Program
Naren Sundararajan (Hagan Lab)
"Viral Capsid Assembly coupled to Liquid Liquid Phase Separation"
March 31, 2026
Tuesday, 3/31/2026 11:30 am-12:30 pm Abelson 131
Physics Department Colloquium
Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro (Simons Foundation)
"The Denario Project: Deep Knowledge AI Agents for Scientific Discovery"
See: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/people/francisco-villaescusa-navarro/
March 31, 2026
Tuesday, 3/31/2026 11:30 am-12:30 pm Abelson 131
Physics Department Colloquium [CANCELLED]
March 31, 2026
Tuesday, 3/31/2026 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium
Bence Ölveczky, PhD (Harvard University)
Host: Shantanu Jadhav.
April 2, 2026
Thursday, 4/2/2026 12:10 pm-1:10 pm Abelson 229/Online
MRSEC Seminar
Dr. Luke Neville (MIT)
"How an active chiral fluid breaks"
See: https://sites.google.com/view/lukeneville/home
Contact mrsec-admin@brandeis.edu for more information.
Pizza will be served.
April 7, 2026
Tuesday, 4/7/2026 2 pm-3 pm Gerstenzang 124/Online
Thesis Seminar: Neuroscience PhD Program
Zachary Pranske (Paradis Lab)
"Coordination of synaptic protein dynamics underlying inhibitory synapse assembly by Sema4D/PlexinB1 signaliing"
Wednesday, 4/8/2026 11 am-12 noon Mandel G12/Online
Thesis Seminar: Neuroscience PhD Program
Claire Ciampa (Berry Lab)
"Dopaminergic Mechanisms of Cognitive Aging"
April 9, 2026
Thursday, 4/9/2026 1 pm-2 pm Gerstenzang 124/Online
Thesis Seminar:
Jiahua Chen (Pandelia Lab)
"Metallobiology of Infection: Iron-Sulfur Clusters in Viral and Bacterial Pathogen Proteins"
April 10, 2026
Friday, 4/10/2026 11:10 am-12:10 pm Abelson 131
Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks
Arminja Kettenbach (Dartmouth)
"Phosphorylation Signaling by Phosphoprotein Phosphatases"
Host: Niels Bradshaw. Contact biochemistry@brandeis.edu for more information.
April 10, 2026
Friday, 4/10/2026 11:10 am-12:10 pm Rosenstiel 118
Chemistry Department Colloquium
Zhi-Xiang Yu (Peking University)
"Transition Metal Catalyzed Ring Formation Reactions and a Mild Arene Hydrogenation Method"
Host: Hao Xu.
April 10, 2026
Friday, 4/10/2026 12:40 pm-1:40 pm Rosenstiel 118/Online
Thesis Seminar:
Brandon Singh (Ting Lab)
"Chemoenzymatic synthesis of verruculogens and mechanistic studies of FtmOx1"
April 13, 2026
Monday, 4/13/2026 11:15 am-12:05 pm Gerstenzang 124
Neurobiology Journal Club
Jin Wu
April 14, 2026
Tuesday, 4/14/2026 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium
Matthew Lovett-Barron, PhD (University of California San Diego)
"Neurobiology of collective behavior in schooling fish"
Host: Piali Sengupta.
April 15, 2026
Wednesday, 4/15/2026 11:15 am-12:05 pm Gerstenzang 124
Molecular Genetics Journal Club
David Kotlikoff (Kurmangaliyev Lab)
Neha Arora (Ragunathan)
Thursday, 4/16/2026 Volen 201
Computational Neuroscience Journal Club
Gabrielle Gutierrez (Barnard College)
"Using network science to discover neural circuits in the Drosophila connectome"
April 16, 2026
Thursday, 4/16/2026 11:15 am-1:15 pm Abelson 333
Quantum Gravity Seminar
Sam Alterman (Tufts)