Convening meetings, workshops, seminars, and public programs is a key part of the mission at the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center promoting collaboration between campus-based faculty, ASRC faculty, theorists, and experimentalists across New York City.

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Event and Space Rentals

The ASRC offers event and meeting spaces that can accommodate up to 100 guests for your next conference, reception, meeting, workshop, film shoot, or private event.

New York City Integrative Structural Biology Symposium

Integrative structural biology is a powerful approach to understand biological macromolecular systems. By combining computational methods with structural science disciplines, spatial and temporal models of macromolecular targets in their in-situ

The Science Op-Ed Writing

Join us on October 27, 2023, at 2 p.m. for the Science of Op-Ed writing with Deb Stead, a former New York Times op-ed editor and CUNY Journalism School writing coach. Scientists

ASRC Community Night Series: Neuroscience

Join us for an evening to learn about what’s happening in the neuroscience initiative with Director Dr. Patrizia Casaccia. Participants can also try out our new EEG headset experience, in our immersive visitor center, which visualizes electrical activity in the brain in real-time!

From Journal Paper to Book Author

Join us on Jan. 26 at 2 p.m. for our next Communicating Your Science webinar, "From Journal Paper to Book Author." From memoirs such as "The Disordered Cosmos" to scientific narratives

ASRC Community Science Night

Join us for another interactive evening in the ASRC’s Illumination Space to learn about upcoming opportunities at the ASRC and greater Harlem, including events open to the community!

ASRC-CCNY Seminar Series in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biodesign: Thomas Kurtzman, Lehman College, City University of New York

Join the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative in welcoming Professor Thomas Kurtzman, Lehman College, City University of New York, as the first guest speaker in this Spring 2024 Biochem Seminar Series! This series takes place every Wednesday, with refreshments in the cafe at 11:30 and the seminar to follow in the auditorium at 12pm.

ASRC-CCNY Seminar Series in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biodesign: Christiane Riedel, École Normale, Supérieure de Lyon, France

Join the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative in welcoming Professor Christiane Riedel, École Normale, Supérieure de Lyon, as this week's guest speaker in the Spring 2024 Biochem Seminar Series! This series takes place every Wednesday, with refreshments in the cafe at 11:30am and the seminar to follow in the auditorium at 12pm.

ASRC-CCNY Seminar Series in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biodesign: Amy L. Kenter, Univ. of Illinois, College of Medicine at Chicago

Join the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative in welcoming Professor Amy L. Kenter, Univ. of Illinois, College of Medicine at Chicago, as this week's guest speaker in the Spring 2024 Biochem Seminar Series! This series takes place every Wednesday, with refreshments in the cafe at 11:30am and the seminar to follow in the auditorium at 12pm.

ASRC-CCNY Seminar Series in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biodesign: Brian Kelch, Univ. of Massachusetts, Chan Medical School

Join the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative in welcoming Professor Brian Kelch, Univ. of Massachusetts, Chan Medical School, as this week's guest speaker in the Spring 2024 Biochem Seminar Series! This series takes place every Wednesday, with refreshments in the cafe at 11:30am and the seminar to follow in the auditorium at 12pm.

ASRC Spring Luncheon: Networking Across ASRC/CCNY

RSVP now to join us for a networking lunch on the terrace! Enjoy the fresh air with friends from around the ASRC, as well as CCNY Engineering and Architecture faculty, on

ASRC Brain Awareness Community Science Night

Join us for another interactive evening in the ASRC’s Illumination Space to learn about upcoming opportunities at the ASRC and greater Harlem- this month it's all about Neuroscience!

ASRC-CCNY Seminar Series in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biodesign: Special Seminar by Varda Shoshan-Barmatz, Ben-Gurion University in Israel

In this special seminar, we are joined online by Dr. Varda Shoshan-Barmatz, Professor of Molecular Physiology at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, presenting a talk titled, "Mitochondrial gatekeeper VDAC1 overexpression and oligomerization lies at the intersection of programmed cell death, inflammation and disease."

Bring Your Friends/Family to Work Day

All visitors must be added to the building access list by noon April 24th. Along with registering for activities, please ensure all non-ASRC members names have been provided to your

ASRC Earth Week Community Science Night

Join us for another interactive evening in the ASRC’s Illumination Space to learn about upcoming opportunities at the ASRC and greater Harlem, including events open to the community!

CUNY Student SciCom Symposium: Communicating Your Science

Wrap up the academic year with CUNYSciCom’s annual Communicating Your Science Symposium where students can win prizes for the best science presentations. The annual symposium challenges student scientists to present

Seminar in Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Biodesign

The SBI Initiative of the ASRC presents Benjamin S. Schuster, Assistant Professor of the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, speaking on "Negative noodles, and positive ones too: Engineering intrinsically disordered proteins".

Communicating Your Science Series Open House Event

Join us for our rescheduled kickoff of our 2024/25 Communicating Your Science Series, which helps CUNY STEM students, postdocs and faculty bone up on their science communications skills. Sponsored by

Boosting Your Academic Career Though Science Communications

Are you looking to elevate your STEM career? Effective science communication is key to standing out as a researcher, securing funding, fostering collaborations, and broadening the impact of your work.

CUNYSciCom’s 2025 Symposium

A panel of judges (a science professor, a trained public liaison, and an undergraduate student) will give feedback to all participants, and cash prizes of up to $500 will be

Structural Biology Special Seminar

Mycobacteriophage structure reveals the molecular architecture for its host interaction and viral genome ejection Recent reports highlight the efficacy of engineered mycobacteriophages to treat non-tuberculosis mycobacterial disease. Molecular-level insights into

Harlem Community Job Fair

Calling all Harlem Residents and students! Attend our job fair on Friday, July 18, 2025, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. to learn about local career opportunities and job training

Fall ’25 Biochem Seminar: Associate Editor Antonio Cerullo

Publishing in Structural Biology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics Scientific progress and publishing are fundamentally intertwined. Therefore, scientists must master both the pipette and the pen. Antonio Cerullo (CUNY ASRC – Ph.D.

Fall ’25 Biochem Seminar: Professor Tarun Kapoor

Chemical activators of VCP, an unfoldase required for proteostasis I will discuss our recent efforts to identify and characterize chemical activators of ATPase mechanoenzymes. The loss of function of AAA

Fall ’25 Biochem Seminar: Associate Professor Kimberly Reynolds

Mapping and modeling the impact of protein biochemical variation on growth rate phenotype Individual proteins can be expressed, purified, and exquisitely characterized in terms of their biochemical and biophysical parameters

Fall ’25 Biochem Seminar: Professor Michael Sattler

Dynamic RNA-protein interactions in A-to-I editing and biomolecular condensates in non- coding RNA pathways We employ integrative structural biology, combining solution NMR with complementary techniques and molecular dynamics to study

Family Science Night

Don't be afraid of science; join us for Family Science Night at the CUNY ASRC. We will have fun science activities for all ages, braaiiinns, crystals, lasers, and more! Plus,

Fall ’25 Biochem Seminar: Professor Lillian Chong

Catching Rare Events in Action with Weighted Ensemble MD Rare biological and chemical events often lie beyond the reach of conventional simulations. The weighted ensemble (WE) path sampling strategy overcomes

Fall ’25 Biochem Seminar: Professor Peter B. Moore

Structural Biology: Past, Present and Future Between ~1950 and ~2010, X-ray crystallography was the experimental technique of choice for determining the structures of biological macromolecules at atomic resolution. It is

The Brain and The Environment Family Night

Join us for The Brain and The Environment Family Night at the CUNY ASRC on Nov. 18 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. This fun and educational evening will explore how

Fall ’25 Biochem Seminar: Professor Olga Boudker

Dynamics and Evolution of Glutamate Transporters Glutamate transporters in the human brain remove the neurotransmitter glutamate from the synaptic cleft, enabling repeated cycles of neurotransmission and preventing glutamate-induced excitotoxicity. These

Fall ’25 Biochem Seminar: Associate Professor Rupal Gupta

Structure, Dynamics and Assembly of Human Antimicrobial Protein Antimicrobial proteins in humans sequester zinc to curtail infection. Although well established as key components of the immune response, the mechanisms of

Alumni and Friends Community Science Night

Join us on Tuesday, Dec. 16 to reconnect and learn all about what's happening at the CUNY ASRC! All are welcome — especially former and current students, interns, summer researchers,

Spring ’26 Biochem Seminar: Christine Mayr

Structure, Dynamics and Assembly of Human Antimicrobial Protein More than 2,700 human mRNA 3′UTRs have hundreds of highly conserved (HC) nucleotides, but their biological roles are unclear. A large fraction

LinkedIn Training for Academics

Join us for a practical, beginner-friendly workshop on how academics can use LinkedIn to showcase their expertise, expand professional networks, and increase the visibility of their research and teaching. This session will

Spring ’26 Biochem Seminar: Edward P. O’Brien, Jr.

How a novel class of protein misfolding is associated with changes in enzyme activity, proteostasis, aging, and disease Utilizing simulations, experimental data, and data science, my lab predicted the existence