Events
Upcoming events for all programs and departments in the Division of Science for the next week.November 7, 2025
Friday, 11/7/2025 11:10 am-12:10 pm Gerstenzang 124
Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks
Josué Flores Kim (Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology, UMass Chan Medical School)
"Coordination between surface glycopolymer and cell wall biogenesis modulates envelope integrity and virulence in a bacterial pathogen"
Host: Alex Johnson. Contact biochemistry@brandeis.edu for more information.
November 7, 2025
Friday, 11/7/2025 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars
Brian Zhang (Paradis/Grienberger Labs)
Rico Rodriguez (Van Hooser Lab)
November 10, 2025
Monday, 11/10/2025 8 am-10 am Volen 101/Online
Thesis Seminar:
Bingyang Ye (Pustejovsky Research Group)
"Addressing Linguistic Ambiguities in Anaphora Resolution"
November 10, 2025
Monday, 11/10/2025 10 am-11 am Goldsmith 117
Probability Seminar
Spyros Garouniatis (Brandeis University)
"Large Deviations and Limit shapes for multiplicative ensembles of integer partitions and their Limit shapes (Part 2)"
Host: Anahita Babaie (on behalf of the organizers). Contact anahitababaie@brandeis.edu for more information.
November 10, 2025
Monday, 11/10/2025 11:15 am-12:05 pm Gerstenzang 124
Neurobiology Journal Club
Mike Vivian (Grienberger Lab)
"Distinct synaptic plasticity rules operate across dendritic compartments in vivo during learning"
Kirsten Judge (Sengupta Lab)
"Glia detect and transiently protect against dendrite substructure disruption in C. elegans"
November 10, 2025
Monday, 11/10/2025 4:10 pm-5:10 pm Gerstenzang 121
Chemistry Department Colloquium
Wenyi Wei (Harvard University)
"Targeting protein post-translational modification pathways for cancer therapies"
Host: Bing Xu.
November 11, 2025
Tuesday, 11/11/2025 11:30 am-12:30 pm Abelson 131
Physics Department Colloquium
Shu-Heng Shao (MIT)
"What's Done Cannot Be Undone: Non-Invertible Symmetries"
See: https://physics.mit.edu/faculty/shu-heng-shao/
November 11, 2025
Tuesday, 11/11/2025 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium
Haitham Amal (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Visiting Professor, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard)
"Unmasking the Multi-Layered Molecular Mechanisms Orchestrating Autism Spectrum Disorder"
See: https://www.amal-lab.com/haitham-amal
Host: Avital Rodal.
November 12, 2025
Wednesday, 11/12/2025 11:15 am-12:05 pm Gerstenzang 124
Molecular Genetics Journal Club
Maira Majano (Garrity Lab)
"A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis"
Mariko Tsuji (Meisel Lab)
"METTL17 is an Fe-S cluster checkpoint for mitochondrial translation"
November 12, 2025
Wednesday, 11/12/2025 12:10 pm-1:10 pm Goldsmith 300/Online
Mathematical Biology Seminar
Irving Epstein (Brandeis University)
"Sleeping with One Eye (or Half a Brain) Open: Folded Singularities, Cartesian Product Quilts, and Coupled Oscillators"
See: https://www.brandeis.edu/chemistry/faculty/epstein.html
Host: Nate Sutton. Contact nsutton@brandeis.edu for more information.
MathBio seminars this Fall will now be held in Goldsmith 300.
November 13, 2025
Thursday, 11/13/2025 10 am-11 am Rosenstiel 118
Thesis Seminar:
Tara Azam (Street Lab)
"Mechanistic and Conformational Studies of Heat Shock Proteins BiP and Grp94"
Host: Timo Street.
November 13, 2025
Thursday, 11/13/2025 11 am-1 pm Abelson 333
Quantum Gravity Seminar
DinhDuy Vu (Harvard)
November 13, 2025
Thursday, 11/13/2025 11:15 am-12:05 pm Volen 201
Computational/Systems Neuroscience Journal Club
Morgan Brooke-deBock (Wang Research Group)
November 13, 2025
Thursday, 11/13/2025 12:10 pm-1:10 pm Abelson 229/Online
MRSEC Seminar
Dr. Sunghan Ro (Harvard University Physics Dept)
"Fate of Motility-Induced Phase Separation in Quenched Disorder"
See: https://www.sunghanro.com/
Host: Brandeis MRSEC. Contact mrsec-admin@brandeis.edu for more information.
Pizza will be served.
November 14, 2025
Friday, 11/14/2025 11:10 am-12:10 pm Gerstenzang 124
Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks
Alexander Ploss (Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University)
"What Lurks in the Shadows: Lessons from Emerging and Re-Emerging Flaviviruses"
Host: Maria-Eirini Pandelia. Contact biochemistry@brandeis.edu for more information.
November 14, 2025
Friday, 11/14/2025 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars
Neha Arora (Ragunathan Lab)
Katie Andre (Bisson Lab)
November 17, 2025
Monday, 11/17/2025 4:10 pm-5:10 pm Gerstenzang 121
Chemistry Department Colloquium
Chongzhao Ran (Massachusetts General Hospital)
"Application of Molecularly Produced Light for In Vivo Imaging, Therapy, and Liquid Biopsy in Neurodegenerative Disease"
Host: Yihan Shao.
November 19, 2025
Wednesday, 11/19/2025 11:15 am-12:05 pm Gerstenzang 124
Molecular Genetics Journal Club
OPEN FOR RESCHEDULING
November 19, 2025
Wednesday, 11/19/2025 12:15 pm-1:15 pm Shapiro Campus Center Room 236
Quantitative Biology Lunch
Andrew Stone (Brandeis Light Microscopy)
Contact lstclair@brandeis.edu for more information.
November 19, 2025
Wednesday, 11/19/2025 1:30 pm-2:30 pm Goldsmith 117/Online
Thesis Seminar:
Rebecca Rohrlich (Huang Research Group)
"Results on the p-adic Laplacian"
Host: An Huang.
Please attend in person if possible!