Events
Upcoming events for all programs and departments in the School of Science, Engineering and Technology for the next week.
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
"The dentate gyrus efficiently converges LEC and MEC inputs into multimodal, highly specific and reliable environmental representations"
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)
April 16, 2026
Thursday, 4/16/2026 12:20 pm-1:10 pm  Rosenstiel 118
Psychology Department Brown Bag
Nicolette Barber
Megan O'Connor
April 17, 2026
Friday, 4/17/2026 11 am-12:30 pm TBD
Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars (Senior Honors Talks)
Seif Selim (Turrigiano Lab)
Shruti Jha (Griffith/Kadener Labs)
April 17, 2026
Friday, 4/17/2026 11:10 am-1 pm Abelson 131/Online
Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks (BCHM Senior Honors & BCBP MS Thesis Talks)
Various
Host: Timothy Street. Contact biochemistry@brandeis.edu for more information.
April 17, 2026
Friday, 4/17/2026 3 pm-4 pm Volen 101
Thesis Seminar:
Jayeol Chun (Nianwen Xue research group)
"Subtask-Aware Uniform Meaning Representation Parsing"
Host: Nianwen Xue.
April 20, 2026
Monday, 4/20/2026 11:15 am-12:05 pm Gerstenzang 124
Neurobiology Journal Club
Connor Johnson
Fox Gourianova (Grienberger Lab)
April 20, 2026
Monday, 4/20/2026 4:10 pm-5:10 pm Gerstenzang 121
Chemistry Department Colloquium
Rebecca Ruck (Merck)
"Investments in enabling technologies to drive the Merck portfolio"
Host: Hao Xu.
April 21, 2026
Tuesday, 4/21/2026 11:30 am-12:30 pm Abelson 131
Physics Department Colloquium
April 21, 2026
Tuesday, 4/21/2026 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium
Steven Elledge (Harvard Medical School)
Host: Jim Haber.
April 21, 2026
Tuesday, 4/21/2026 3 pm-4 pm Gerstenzang 123
Chemistry Department Colloquium
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (HHMI Janelia Research Campus)
"Harnessing mRNA to Illuminate the Hidden World of Cells"
Host: Bing Xu.