Events
Upcoming events for all programs and departments in the Division of Science for the next week.April 17, 2026
Friday, 4/17/2026 11:10 am-12:30 pm Abelson 131/Online
Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks (BCHM Senior Honors Talks Day 2)
Various
Host: Timothy Street. Contact biochemistry@brandeis.edu for more information.
April 17, 2026
Friday, 4/17/2026 11:30 am-12:30 pm Volen 101
Computer Science Seminar
Anna Rumshisky (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
"AI at Two Levels: from Efficient Pre-Training to Co-Creative Science"
Host: Liuba Shrira.
April 17, 2026
Friday, 4/17/2026 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars
Seif Selim (Turrigiano Lab)
Shruti Jha (Griffith/Kadener Labs)
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
"Attention-like regulation of theta sweeps in the brain's spatial navigation circuit"
Fox Gourianova (Grienberger Lab)
April 20, 2026
Monday, 4/20/2026 4:10 pm-5:10 pm Gerstenzang 121
Chemistry Department Colloquium [CANCELLED]
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
Michael Brenner (Harvard University)
"Building a Science Assistant"
See: https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/brenner
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.
Wednesday, 4/22/2026 11 am-12 noon Abelson 333/Online
Thesis Seminar: Physics PhD Program
Smriti Pradhan (Hagan and Baskaran Labs)
"Understanding Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) assembly using coarse-grained computer simulations"
Please contact scigradoffice@brandeis.edu for zoom password
April 22, 2026
Wednesday, 4/22/2026 11:15 am-12:05 pm Gerstenzang 124
Molecular Genetics Journal Club
Justin Curran (Hedstrom Lab)
"Structure of the Huntingtin F-actin complex reveals its role in cytoskeleton organization"
Pranav Ojha (Rosbash Lab)
April 22, 2026
Wednesday, 4/22/2026 12:15 pm-1:15 pm Shapiro Campus Center Room 236
Quantitative Biology Lunch
Jane Kondev
Contact Laura St Clair for more information.
Thursday, 4/23/2026 Volen 201
Computational/Systems Neuroscience Journal Club
Eytan Sieger (Nelson Lab)
"Cerebellar acceleration of learning in an evidence-accumulation task"
April 23, 2026
Thursday, 4/23/2026 11:15 am-1:15 pm Abelson 333
Quantum Gravity Seminar
Daine Danielson (Harvard & MIT)
April 23, 2026
Thursday, 4/23/2026 12:20 pm-1:30 pm Shiffman 219
Psychology Department Colloquium
Jeremy M. Wolfe (Professor of Ophthalmology &Â Radiology, Harvard Medical School, & Visual Attention Lab, Department of Surgery, Brigham & Women's Hospital)
"How did I miss that? How we 'look but fail to see' in the lab, the clinic, and the world"
See: https://eye.hms.harvard.edu/jeremywolfe
Host: Angela Gutchess.
Friday, 4/24/2026 Abelson 131
Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks [CANCELLED]
Iris Nava (Kadener Lab)
Richard Kuang (Griffith)
April 24, 2026
Friday, 4/24/2026 11:10 am-12:10 pm Abelson 131
Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks
Ryan Flynn (Boston Children's/Harvard)
"Functional roles of glycosylated RNAs"
Host: Isaac Krauss. Contact biochemistry@brandeis.edu for more information.
April 24, 2026
Friday, 4/24/2026 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars
Iris Nava (Kadener Lab)
Richard Kuang (Griffith Lab)
April 24, 2026
Friday, 4/24/2026 1 pm-2 pm Rosenstiel 118
Chemistry Honors Research Presentations
Jacob Hillemann
"Thesis Title: Towards Fool's Gold Solar Cells: Rietveld Refinement of Mackinawite-like Iron Sulfide Nanocrystals in Pyrite Synthesis for Identification of Phase Evolution"
Noah Michaud
"Thesis Title: Characterizing the Surface of Colloidal Nanocrystals Using NMR and Photoluminescence Spectroscopy"
Grace Delaney
"Thesis Title: Promoting Photoluminescent Quantum Yield from Iron Sulfide Quantum Dots"
April 27, 2026
Monday, 4/27/2026 11:15 am-12:05 pm Gerstenzang 124
Neurobiology Journal Club
Kader Geraldo, PhD (Fai Lab)
Rafael Gabriel (Jadhav/Katz Labs)