Events
Upcoming events for all programs and departments in the Division of Science for the next week.February 6, 2026
Friday, 2/6/2026 11:10 am-12:10 pm Abelson 131
Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks
Gene Cordes (Vertex Pharmaceuticals)
"All You Need to Know about Drug Discovery: An Adventure Story.."
Host: Douglas Theobald. Contact biochemistry@brandeis.edu for more information.
February 6, 2026
Friday, 2/6/2026 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars (MCB/Neuro Interview Day)
Michael Satchell (Jadhav/Miller Labs)
Ryan Gossart (Kurmangaliyev Lab)
Monday, 2/9/2026 11 am-12 noon Abelson 333
Engineering-Physics Seminar
Tianren Zhang (University of Delaware)
"Computational Design of Programmable Soft Materials: From Peptide Self-Assembly to Machine Learning-Guided Discovery"
Host: W. Benjamin Rogers.
February 9, 2026
Monday, 2/9/2026 11:15 am-12:05 pm Gerstenzang 124
Neurobiology Journal Club
Eviatar Yemini (University of Massachusetts Medical School)
February 9, 2026
Monday, 2/9/2026 4:10 pm-5:10 pm Gerstenzang 121
Chemistry Department Colloquium
Jinjun Shi (Brigham and Women's Hospital)
"RNA Delivery for Cancer Immunotherapy and Beyond"
Host: Bing Xu.
February 10, 2026
Tuesday, 2/10/2026 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium
Britt Adamson (Princeton)
"Mapping the cellular determinants of genome editing in human cells"
See: https://molbio.princeton.edu/people/britt-adamson
Host: Jim Haber.
February 11, 2026
Wednesday, 2/11/2026 11:15 am-12:05 pm Gerstenzang 124
Molecular Genetics Journal Club (Faculty Search)
Maxime Chevee (Vanderbuilt University)
"Hunger accelerates reward learning through a movement specific dopamine signal"
See: https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/neurogenomics/person/maxime-chevee/
February 11, 2026
Wednesday, 2/11/2026 12:10 pm-1:10 pm Goldsmith 117
Mathematical Biology Seminar
Alp Sunol (Harvard University)
"Physics-based digital twins of living matter: from intracellular transport to digital rheometry"
Host: Nate Sutton. Contact nsutton@brandeis.edu for more information.
February 11, 2026
Wednesday, 2/11/2026 12:15 pm-1:15 pm Shapiro Campus Center Room 236
Quantitative Biology Lunch
Caroline Martin (Yevick Lab)
Contact Laura St Clair for more information.
Thursday, 2/12/2026 11 am-12 noon Shapiro Science Center GL14
Engineering-Physics Seminar
Carl Goodrich (IST Austria)
"Building Function from First Principles: From Self-Assembly to Active Nanomachines"
Host: W. Benjamin Rogers.
February 12, 2026
Thursday, 2/12/2026 11:15 am-1:15 pm Abelson 333
Quantum Gravity Seminar
Daniel Mark (MIT)
February 12, 2026
Thursday, 2/12/2026 12:20 pm-1:30 pm Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library/Online
Psychology Department Colloquium
Joseph DeGutis, Ph.D. (Harvard Medical School, Boston Attention & Learning Laboratory, VA Boston Healthcare System)
"Developmental Prosopagnosia: Perceptual, Memory, & Neural Mechanisms of Impaired Face Recognition"
Host: Lachman Research Group.
February 13, 2026
Friday, 2/13/2026 11:10 am-12:10 pm Abelson 131
Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks
Amy Weeks (UWisconsin)
Host: Lizbeth Hedstrom. Contact biochemistry@brandeis.edu for more information.
February 13, 2026
Friday, 2/13/2026 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars
Katelyn Strauss (Ragunathan Lab)
James Holland (Griffith Lab)
Monday, 2/23/2026
Neurobiology Journal Club
Laurie Chen
"DNA damage modulates sleep drive in basal cnidarians with divergent chronotypes"
Richard Kuang (Griffith Lab)
"An enhancer-AAV toolbox to target and manipulate distinct interneuron subtypes"
Monday, 2/23/2026 11 am-12 noon Abelson 333
Engineering-Physics Seminar
Michael Howard (Auburn University)
"Modeling and design of drying-induced self-assembly of colloidal particles"
Host: W. Benjamin Rogers.
February 23, 2026
Monday, 2/23/2026 4:10 pm-5:10 pm Gerstenzang 121
Chemistry Department Colloquium
Fleur Ferguson (University of California, San Diego)
"Interrogating the druggable genome with proximity pharmacology"
Host: Lizbeth Hedstrom.
February 24, 2026
Tuesday, 2/24/2026 11:30 am-12:30 pm Abelson 131
Physics Department Colloquium
February 24, 2026
Tuesday, 2/24/2026 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium
Amy Gladfelter, PhD (Duke University)
"Cellular computing in syncytial cells"
Host: Kaushik Ragunathan.
February 25, 2026
Wednesday, 2/25/2026 11:15 am-12:05 pm Gerstenzang 124
Molecular Genetics Journal Club
Kevin Clark (Marr Lab)
Nate Zaccardi (Goode Lab)