Events
Upcoming events for all programs and departments in the School of Science, Engineering and Technology for the next week.
October 24, 2025
Friday, 10/24/2025 11:10 am-12:10 pm Gerstenzang 124
Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks
Sanjoy Adak (Center For Marine Biotechnology And Biomedicine, Scripps, Institution of Oceanography)
"From an eagle-killing cyanotoxin to skatole: A tale of two diiron biosynthetic enzymes"
Host: Maria-Eirini Pandelia. Contact biochemistry@brandeis.edu for more information.
October 24, 2025
Friday, 10/24/2025 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars
Kevin Clark (Marr Lab)
Connor Johnson (Jadhav/Katz Labs)
October 27, 2025
Monday, 10/27/2025 10 am-11 am Goldsmith 117
Math Probability Seminar
Olivier Bernardi (Brandeis University)
"Percolation on triangulations, and a bijective path to Liouville quantum gravity"
See: https://sites.google.com/brandeis.edu/bernardi/home
Host: Anna Babaie. Contact anahitababaie@brandeis.edu for more information.
October 27, 2025
Monday, 10/27/2025 11:15 am-12:05 pm Gerstenzang 124
Neurobiology Journal Club
Marie Doyle (Winder Lab, Dept. of Neurobiology, UMass Chan Medical School)
"Neural correlates of individual variability in Alcohol Use Disorder"
Host: IRPC.
October 27, 2025
Monday, 10/27/2025 4:10 pm-5:10 pm Gerstenzang 121
Chemistry Department Colloquium
Richard Liu (Harvard University)
"Altered Cross-Coupling Reactions: Repurposing Synthetic Intermediates"
Host: Chi Ting.
October 28, 2025
Tuesday, 10/28/2025 11:30 am-12:30 pm Abelson 131
Physics Department Colloquium
Eluned Smith (MIT)
See: https://physics.mit.edu/faculty/eluned-smith/
October 28, 2025
Tuesday, 10/28/2025 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium
Binyam Mogessie, PhD (Yale University)
"Synthetic oocyte aging uncovers cytoskeletal and centromeric safeguards of chromosome segregation"
See: https://eggsnchromosomes.org/
Host: Bruce Goode.
October 29, 2025
Wednesday, 10/29/2025 11:15 am-12:05 pm Gerstenzang 124
Molecular Genetics Journal Club
Sarah McCallister (Paradis Lab)
"Old World alphaviruses use distinct mechanisms to infect brain microvascular endothelial cells for neuroinvasion"
Mimi Kay (Kardon Lab)
"An updated inventory of genes essential for oxidative phosphorylation identifies a mitochondrial origin in familial Ménière's disease"
October 29, 2025
Wednesday, 10/29/2025 12:10 pm-1:10 pm Shapiro Science Center GL14
Mathematical Biology Seminar
Paul Miller (Professor of Biology and Program Chair of Neuroscience at Brandeis University)
"Stability versus instability when multiple homeostatic mechanisms combine in neurons"
See: https://www.brandeis.edu/biology/faculty/millerp-research/index.html
Host: Nate Sutton. Contact nsutton@brandeis.edu for more information.
October 30, 2025
Thursday, 10/30/2025 11 am-1 pm Abelson 333
Quantum Gravity Seminar
Jonah Kudler-Flam (IAS)
"Emergent Mixed States for Baby Universes and Black Holes"
October 30, 2025
Thursday, 10/30/2025 11:15 am-12:05 pm Volen 201
Computational/Systems Neuroscience Journal Club
Diego Morandi Zerpa (Jadhav Lab)
"Generative emergence of non-local representations in the hippocampus"
October 31, 2025
Friday, 10/31/2025 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123
Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars
Vincent Chen (Turrigiano Lab)
Tedy Markova (Berry Lab)
November 3, 2025
Monday, 11/3/2025 11:15 am-12:05 pm Gerstenzang 124
Neurobiology Journal Club
Michael Canori (Kadener Lab)
"GPCR signaling gates astrocyte responsiveness to neurotransmitters and control of neuronal activity"
Natalie D'Ambra (Griffith Lab)
"Central clock drives foraging rhythm through modulating food odor attraction in Drosophila"
November 4, 2025
Tuesday, 11/4/2025 12:45 pm-1:45 pm
Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium
David K. Breslow, PhD (Department of Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology, Yale University)
"Understanding Primary Cilia through Functional Genomics"
See: https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/david-breslow/
Host: Piali Sengupta.
November 5, 2025
Wednesday, 11/5/2025 11:15 am-12:05 pm Gerstenzang 124
Molecular Genetics Journal Club
Ryan Gossart (Kurmangaliyev Lab)
"One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants"
Pamela Rosales (Haber/Ragunathan Labs)
November 6, 2025
Thursday, 11/6/2025 11 am-1 pm Abelson 333
Quantum Gravity Seminar
Carolyn Zhang (Harvard)
November 6, 2025
Thursday, 11/6/2025 11:15 am-12:05 pm Volen 201
Computational/Systems Neuroscience Journal Club
November 6, 2025
Thursday, 11/6/2025 12:20 pm-1:30:01 pm Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library
Psychology Department Colloquium
Dikla Segel-Karpas, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Welfare Sciences, Department of Gerontology, University of Haifa)
"Growing old together: Connections and perceptions"
See: https://crsa.haifa.ac.il/2023/11/22/dr-dikla-segel-karpas-phd/
Host: Prof. Margie E. Lachman.
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)