Events
Upcoming events for all programs and departments in the School of Science, Engineering and Technology for the next week.
March 6, 2026
Friday, 3/6/2026 11:10 am-12:10 pm Abelson 131
Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks
Hyunjun Yang (Dept. of Biochemistry, Brandeis University)
"The Good, the Bad, and the Weird of β-Sheets"
See: https://www.brandeis.edu/biochemistry/faculty/yang-hyunjun.html
Host: Niels Bradshaw. Contact biochemistry@brandeis.edu for more information.
March 6, 2026
Friday, 3/6/2026 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars (Admitted Students Day)
Adriana Prada (Turrigiano Lab)
Maira Majano (Garrity Lab)
March 6, 2026
Friday, 3/6/2026 3 pm-4:15 pm Volen 101/Online
Thesis Seminar:
Jin Zhao (Nianwen Xue research group)
"Computational Framing with Event-Based Methods"
Host: Nianwen Xue.
March 9, 2026
Monday, 3/9/2026 11:15 am-12:05 pm Gerstenzang 124
Neurobiology Journal Club (IPRC Speaker)
Patrick LaChance (Boston University)
"Distinct neural circuits for transforming sensory space into a sense of place"
See: https://www.bu.edu/hasselmo/personnel.html
March 9, 2026
Monday, 3/9/2026 4:10 pm-5:10 pm Gerstenzang 121
Chemistry Department Colloquium
Kyle Biegasiewicz (Emory University)
"Biocatalytic Heterocycle Synthesis Enabled by Vanadium-Dependent Haloperoxidase Enzymes"
Host: Chi Ting.
March 10, 2026
Tuesday, 3/10/2026 11:30 am-12:30 pm Abelson 131
Physics Department Colloquium
Paul Kushner (University of Toronto)
"Short-lived Climate Forcers: A Hazy Climate Physics Problem with Bright Spots"
See: https://www.pjk.atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca/
March 10, 2026
Tuesday, 3/10/2026 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium
William Theurkauf, PhD (University of Massachusetts Medical School)
"Defending the germline from retroviral invaders: Lessons Drosophila and wild koalas"
Host: Kaushik Ragunathan.
Wednesday, 3/11/2026 11 am-12 noon Abelson 333/Online
Thesis Seminar: Physics PhD Program
Valérie Bettaque (Swingle Lab)
"Magic and Wormholes in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model"
Please contact scigradoffice@brandeis.edu for Zoom password
March 11, 2026
Wednesday, 3/11/2026 11:15 am-12:05 pm Gerstenzang 124
Molecular Genetics Journal Club
Geoffrey Keane (Garrity Lab)
"Fat sensory cues in early life program central response to food and obesity"
Chi-Lin Hsu (Krauss)
"Keratin intermediate filaments mechanically position melanin pigments for genome photoprotection"
March 11, 2026
Wednesday, 3/11/2026 12:10 pm-1:10 pm Goldsmith 226
Mathematical Biology Seminar
Carina Curto (Brown University)
"Network Dominoes: Composable Building Blocks for Recurrent Networks"
Host: Sreshta Venkatakrishnan. Contact sreshtav@brandeis.edu for more information.
Thursday, 3/12/2026
Computational/Systems Neuroscience Journal Club
Sahil Moza (Zhang Lab, Harvard)
"Whole brain learning in C. Elegans"
March 12, 2026
Thursday, 3/12/2026 9:30 am-11 am Volen 101/Online
Thesis Seminar:
Jonne Saleva (Constantine Lignos research group)
"Improving Low-Resource Natural Language Processing using Prior Information"
Host: Constantine Lignos.
Thursday, 3/12/2026 11 am-12 noon Abelson 333/Online
Thesis Seminar: Physics PhD Program
Guglielmo Grimaldi (Headrick Lab)
"Covariant properties of holographic entanglement entropy"
Please contact scigradoffice@brandeis.edu for zoom password
March 13, 2026
Friday, 3/13/2026 11:10 am-12:10 pm Abelson 131
Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks
Lucas Farnung (Harvard Medical School & HHMI)
"Mechanisms of transcription and DNA replication through chromatin"
Host: Jeff Gelles. Contact biochemistry@brandeis.edu for more information.
March 13, 2026
Friday, 3/13/2026 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars
Emily Metcalf (Ragunathan Lab)
Rafael Gabriel (Jadhav/Katz Labs)
March 13, 2026
Friday, 3/13/2026 2:20 pm-3:20 pm Gerstenzang 124/Online
Thesis Seminar: Neuroscience PhD Program
Lisandro Martin (Grienberger Lab)
"Learning Dependent Feedback Regulation of Behavioral Timescale Synaptic Plasticity"
March 16, 2026
Monday, 3/16/2026 11:15 am-12:05 pm Gerstenzang 124
Neurobiology Journal Club
Laurie Chen
"Predatory aggression evolved through adaptations to noradrenergic circuits"
Richard Kuang
"DNA damage modulates sleep drive in basal cnidarians with divergent chronotypes"
March 16, 2026
Monday, 3/16/2026 4:10 pm-5:10 pm Gerstenzang 121
Chemistry Department Colloquium
Lucas Bao (Boston College)
"From Electrons to Ensembles, from Structures to Dynamics: Predictive Chemistry Made Simple"
Host: Yihan Shao.
March 17, 2026
Tuesday, 3/17/2026 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Lisman Memorial Lecture
Marla B. Feller, PhD (University of California, Berkeley)
"Riding Retinal Waves Through the Developing Visual System"
Host: Steve Van Hooser.
March 18, 2026
Wednesday, 3/18/2026 11:15 am-12:05 pm Gerstenzang 124
Molecular Genetics Journal Club
Cat Carmona (Kurmangaliyev Lab)
"Evolution of taste processing shifts dietary preference"
Sydney McFarland (Abruzzi/Rosbash Lab)
"Genetic elements promote retention of extrachromosomal DNA in cancer cells"