Events
Upcoming events for all programs and departments in the School of Science, Engineering and Technology for the next week.
March 20, 2026
Friday, 3/20/2026 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars (Admitted Students Day)
Natalie D'Ambra (Griffith Lab)
Laura Westhoff (Rodal Lab)
March 23, 2026
Monday, 3/23/2026 11:15 am-12:05 pm Gerstenzang 124
Neurobiology Journal Club
James Holland (Griffith Lab)
Masha Glyavina (Turrigiano Lab)
"Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network"
March 24, 2026
Tuesday, 3/24/2026 10:30 am-11:30 am Bassine 208/Online
Thesis Seminar:
Josh Perlmutter (Abbott Research Group)
"The Morse Local-to-Global Property and Relatively Hierarchically Hyperbolic Groups"
March 24, 2026
Tuesday, 3/24/2026 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium
Michal Rabani
"Timing the message: control of maternal mRNA dynamics in embryos"
March 24, 2026
Tuesday, 3/24/2026 2 pm-3 pm Rosenstiel 118/Online
Thesis Seminar:
Tommy Cottle (Kardon Lab)
"Feedback regulation of heme biosynthesis by mitochondrial CLPXP"
March 25, 2026
Wednesday, 3/25/2026 12:10 pm-1:10 pm Goldsmith 226
Mathematical Biology Seminar
Anmar Khadra (McGill University)
"Intrinsic Dynamics Under Synaptic Bombardment: Mechanisms of Burst Firing and Spiking Heterogeneity In Vivo"
Host: Sreshta Venkatakrishnan. Contact sreshtav@brandeis.edu for more information.
March 25, 2026
Wednesday, 3/25/2026 12:15 pm-1:15 pm Shapiro Campus Center Room 236
Quantitative Biology Lunch
Jim Haber (faculty)
"Somatic mutation and selection at population scale"
Contact Laura St Clair for more information.
Thursday, 3/26/2026 Volen 201
Computational/Systems Neuroscience Journal Club
Maddie Severson (Van Hooser Lab)
March 26, 2026
Thursday, 3/26/2026 11:15 am-1:15 pm Abelson 333
Quantum Gravity Seminar
Hong-Ye Hu (Harvard)
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)
Richard Kuang (Griffith Lab)
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 7, 2026
Tuesday, 4/7/2026 2 pm-3 pm Gerstenzang 124/Online
Thesis Seminar: Neuroscience PhD Program
Zachary Pranske (Paradis Lab)
"to be announced"
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.