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.
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.
The Advanced Bio-Imaging Camp at the ASRC is a week-long summer program for high school students and undergraduates that offers an opportunity for immersion in cutting-edge imaging technologies, neuroscience research, and interdisciplinary research.
Join the ASRC Neuroscience Initiative June 13th for their “First Epigenetics Core User Group Meeting” along with 10X Genomics and Partek.
Dear ASRC Community, We are excited to announce the ASRC Pride Open Mic and Art Showcase to celebrate self-expression, identity, art and have a joyous time with our colleagues! The event will take place on Thursday, June 15th 2023, 4-7pm in the ASRC Cafe. All are invited to share art projects and talents of any
EHOS Training Schedule August 2023 These are Zoom trainings. The login and Pass Code information are located on the schedule and registration is not required. After training, the instructor will then send you a certificate and our training records will be updated to show that you have completed all requirements before working in the labs
This year we’ve had the amazing opportunity to host over 90 high school and undergraduate summer students conducting research with mentors at the ASRC. Below are a number of events that will be taking place to celebrate and present the work of the students and the rest of the ASRC community. All are welcome to join and we looking forward to seeing you!
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To download the seminar flier: Photonics seminar flier Antonio Ambrosio For further information, please contact: Leah Abraha labraha@gc.cuny.edu
Join us for the first Biochem Seminar of the Fall on September 6th with Distinguished Professor, Rohit Pappu, from McKelvey School of Engineering at the Washington University in St. Louis!
Join the ASRC Photonics Initiative in this 4-part lecture series with Prof. Eitan Bachmat, exploring, "A multidisciplinary journey in science and technology, from airplane boarding to designing lenses in hyperbolic metamaterials via space-time geometry." To participate registering here by Tuesday 9/5/23. Lecture dates include: Wednesday September 6, 2:00pm - 5:00pm Friday September 8, 1:00pm - 4:00pm Monday
If you are interested in participating in this event or have questions, please contact Kendra Krueger at kkrueger@gc.cuny.edu
Join us for the fall semester ASRC-CCNY Seminar Series in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biodesign every Wednesday at noon!
Join us for the fall semester ASRC-CCNY Seminar Series in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biodesign every Wednesday at noon!
TO VIEW THE FULL AGENDA: ASRC Climate Stress Conference Agenda Join us for an exciting event exploring the impact of climate stress on our planet, from the tiniest molecules to complex organisms, we will delve into the challenges faced by Earth and its social systems. This in-person event will be held at the CUNY Advanced
Join us for the fall semester ASRC-CCNY Seminar Series in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biodesign every Wednesday at noon!
Join us on September 29, 2023, at 2 p.m. for our annual session with CUNY Graduate Center Science Librarian Mason Brown, who will be discussing how to access and use STEM research source materials on and off campus. Conducting science research on-campus or remotely can be done successfully with a few simple but critical tools.
Join us for the fall semester ASRC-CCNY Seminar Series in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biodesign every Wednesday at noon!
Download the flyer here: 10.5 Neuro Seminar
Please join the CCNY Division of Science for the 8th Annual Sharon Cosloy - Edward Blank Family Distinguished Scientist Lecture to be held in the ASRC Auditorium. Guest speaker and further details, including reservation link, to be announced. About Dr. Sharon Cosloy: Dr. Sharon Cosloy was a member of the City College Biology faculty for
Join us for the fall semester ASRC-CCNY Seminar Series in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biodesign every Wednesday at noon!
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 context can be determined. The focus of this symposium is to introduce integrative structural biology to our structural sciences community. The fields of light microscopy,
To join or learn more about this event, please the complete agenda here: Satellite Workshop 2023_10.18 Further questions can be emailed to Diana Strickland at dstrickland.gc.cuny.edu
Join us for the fall semester ASRC-CCNY Seminar Series in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biodesign every Wednesday at noon!
Join us for the fall semester ASRC-CCNY Seminar Series in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biodesign every Wednesday at noon!
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 endeavor to reach conclusions that are objective, but science exists in a world driven as much by opinion and perception as fact. Additionally, funding agencies
In this one-hour seminar, Stefano Gonella, University of Minnesota, will present a talk titled,
"From Maxwell bilayers to superkagome lattices.
The fate of topological edge modes under increased geometric complexity."
Join the ASRC Nanoscience Initiative in partner with Bruker for this four-day event, where presentations from distinguished research groups as well as Applications Expert, Dr. Ming Ye (Bruker) will be provided, showcasing the unique and powerful capabilities of the technique. We will also provide hands-on demonstrations with Bruker’s NanoWizard V BioAFM. Please see the attached
Join us for the fall semester ASRC-CCNY Seminar Series in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biodesign every Wednesday at noon!
Fall Seminar Series 11_2_Flyer
This seminar has been CANCELLED as of 11/6. Please check back for the date in which it will be rescheduled for.
Join us for the fall semester ASRC-CCNY Seminar Series in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biodesign every Wednesday at noon!
Join us for the fall semester ASRC-CCNY Seminar Series in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biodesign every Wednesday at noon!
Join the ASRC Photonics Initiative for a one hour talk with guest speaker Philippe Lalanne from CNRS, Institut d'Optique, Bordeaux, France.
Join Professor Ng for a one-hour talk in the ASRC auditorium titled,
"Flexible Electronics to See Deeper and go Farther."
Join us for the fall semester ASRC-CCNY Seminar Series in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biodesign every Wednesday at noon! This week's speaker, Julien Orts, Assistant Professor in the Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Vienna, Austria, will be presenting a talk titled, “Lead Generation without an X-Ray Crystal Structure: An NMR Method to Probe
Join us on Friday December 1, 2023, at 2 p.m. for Same Science/New Look: Refreshing Your Science Visuals for Different Audiences with CUNYSciCom co-founder and Graduate Center Ph.D. candidate Katherine Anderson who will share how she repurposes, refreshes and revises images and graphics for various audiences. Whether you’re in the field or in a lab, scientists conduct
Join the ASRC Photonics Initiative for a one hour talk with guest speaker Nicolò Maccaferri from Umeå University.
Join the ASRC Photonics Initiative for a one hour talk with guest speakers Alexey Chernikov and Florian Dirnberger from Dresden University of Technology.
Join us for the fall semester ASRC-CCNY Seminar Series in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biodesign every Wednesday at noon!
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!
Join the ASRC Neuroscience Initiative for their final seminar of 2023 with Laura Duvall int he ASRC auditorium!
Ultrafast nanophotonics: harnessing light and manipulating matter through femtosecond multidimensional spectroscopies Abstract – Ultrafast manipulation of light-matter interactions in photonic nano-architectures has unlocked unprecedented opportunities in the field of nanophotonics, ranging from high speed signal processing to the control of photophysical material functionalities. Especially, using optical means, e.g. femtosecond laser light pulses, to actively drive
Join the ASRC Photonics Initiative in their first seminar of the year with guest speaker Matteo Mitrano from Harvard University.
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 such as "The Sixth Extinction," scientists and journalists around the world offer up gripping stories that illuminate human nature, the cultural landscape and the STEM
Join the ASRC Neuroscience Initiative for this monthly seminar series welcoming speakers from around the country exploring numerous topics on environmental factors in relation to neurodevelopment, the use of AI in interdisciplinary research and more.
Join us for an evening in the ASRC's Illumination Space to learn about upcoming opportunities and events open to the community including:
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!
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.
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.
Join the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative in welcoming Professor Stephen Burley, Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, 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.
Join the ASRC Neuroscience Initiative for this monthly seminar series welcoming speakers from around the country exploring numerous topics on environmental factors in relation to neurodevelopment, the use of AI in interdisciplinary research and more.
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.
Join the ASRC Neuroscience Initiative for this month's opportunity to learn more about mental wellness and the mind from guest speakers, activities and more!
Join the ASRC Photonics Initiative in welcoming guest speaker Zhen Peng, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, for a titled," Physics-oriented Statistical Wave Analysis Integrating Order and Chaos," in the 1st Floor Auditorium.
Join the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative in welcoming Professor Anthony Mittermaier, McGill University, 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 ASRC Main Auditorium at 12PM.
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.
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 March 28th from 12PM- 2PM on the North Terrace. Lunch provided, with vegetarian options available. This event is open to all ASRC members; please contact
Join the ASRC Nanoscience Initiative in welcoming special guest speaker, Dr. Rina Tannenbaumn, The Stony Brook University Cancer Center, for a talk titled, “Nanocomposites from Renewable Resources: Synthesis, Processing and Applications.“
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!
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."
Join the ASRC Neuroscience Initiative for a special seminar in this monthly seminar series, welcoming speakers from around the country exploring numerous topics on environmental factors in relation to neurodevelopment, the use of AI in interdisciplinary research and more.
Join the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative in welcoming Assistant Professor Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle, CUNY ASRC- SBI, 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 12:00pm.
Join the ASRC Neuroscience Initiative for this monthly seminar series welcoming speakers from around the country exploring numerous topics on environmental factors in relation to neurodevelopment, the use of AI in interdisciplinary research and more.
Join the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative in welcoming Professor Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Princeton University, 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.
3rd Annual CAT Symposium This symposium will showcase CUNY-wide academic-industry research and workforce development partnerships that further innovation and entrepreneurship in NY State. Specifically, the event will feature CUNY entrepreneurs and start-up founders in conversation with industry leaders to discuss the present and future of hard technology development and applications to advance human and planetary
Bio-Inspired and Green (BIG) Science and Technology Symposium The Bio-Inspired Green (BIG) Science & Technology Symposium is an annual meeting at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) that brings together researchers who develop solutions to environmental problems. Held during Earth Week, the symposium will highlight advances in science, engineering, and policy that push us closer
Join the ASRC Neuroscience Initiative for this month's opportunity to learn more about mental wellness and the mind from guest speakers, activities and more!
Join the ASRC Photonics Initiative in welcoming guest speaker Jacob B. Khurgin, Johns Hopkins University, for a talk titled, "Photonic Time Crystals and Parametric Amplification: similarity and distinction," in the 1st Floor Auditorium.
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 initiative's admin coordinator or Genevieve Nieson at <GENEVIEVE.NIESON94@LOGIN.CUNY.EDU>
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!
Join the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative in welcoming Senior Investigator, R. Andrew Byrd., NIH, Ctr. for Cancer Research, 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 12:00pm.
Join the ASRC Neuroscience Initiative for this monthly seminar series welcoming speakers from around the country exploring numerous topics on environmental factors in relation to neurodevelopment, the use of AI in interdisciplinary research and more.
Join the ASRC Photonics Initiative in welcoming guest speaker Kota Katsumi, New York University, for a talk titled, "Terahertz-driven nonlinear responses in cuprate superconductors," in the 1st Floor Auditorium.
Visit the webpage of the 2nd Annual NanoBioNYC Symposium The 2nd Annual NanoBioNYC Symposium will highlight CUNY student and faculty researchers making advancements in Bio-Inspired Nanoscience. This all-day, in-person event will feature talks from NanoBioNYC mentors and fellows exploring diverse topics from Green Materials and Energy Solutions to Cross-Cutting Computational Research. Join us to learn about
Join the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative in welcoming Assistant Professor Alisha Jones, New York University, 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 12:00pm.
Join the ASRC Photonics Initiative in welcoming Miranda Vinay, Nature Communications Engineering, for a 3-part lecture series at the ASRC!
Join the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative in welcoming Assistant Professor Daniel Keedy, CUNY ASRC- SBI, 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 12:00pm.
Join the ASRC Neuroscience Initiative for this month's opportunity to learn more about mental wellness and the mind from guest speakers, activities and more!
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 and explain their research to two different audiences—their peers and the general public—in short, contained presentations that include contextual descriptions of the work, visual aids,
Join the ASRC Neuroscience Initiative for this monthly seminar series welcoming speakers from around the country exploring numerous topics on environmental factors in relation to neurodevelopment, the use of AI in interdisciplinary research and more.
Zhi Ning Chen National University of Singapore Date: Friday, June 14, 2024 Time: 10:30am – 11:30am Location: 5th Fl. Data Viz Room Prior-knowledge Guided Machine-learning Enabled Metalens Antenna Design Abstract – The design of antennas aims to meet the specific requirements of a system. This design relies on materials, fabrication processes, and design methodologies. Besides
Join us at the Advanced Science Research Center on July 18th from 3-5:30pm for STEAM activities and cold snacks! We will have revolving stations combining art, and science, and our interactive visitor center will also be open for exploration. Come explore the five initiatives with the IlluminationSpace Team!
The ASRC Neuroscience Initiative will host a Special Seminar, featuring Hala Harony-Nicolas, PhD on August 14th in the Data Visualization Room. She will present on the "Neural Circuits of Social Behavior and Their Deregulation in Shank3 Deficiency".
Peptoid Self-Assembly: from Minimal Peptoids to Cell Membrane Interactions King Hang Aaron Lau, PhD Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Materials and Bionanotechnology Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK Abstract- N-substituted glycine “peptoids” are close structural isomers of peptides and can be synthesized with both natural and non-natural sidechains. Their self-assembly is
In this Special Seminar, Michael Yassa, PhD, will speak on some of the recent work on developing new biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease during the preclinical stage and that excitation-inhibition imbalance may be a major culprit in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease.
The ASRC Structural Biology Initiative will be hosting a special seminar on Monday September 9, featuring Associate Professor Andreas Winkler. He will be speaking on sensor-effector modularity in light-regulated diguanylate cyclases.
The ASRC Neuroscience Initiative presents Special Seminar. Aiman S. Saab, PhD will be speaking on the "Elucidating Mechanisms of Neuroglia Homeostasis and Metabolism" on September 10th in the Data Visualization Room.
Come see Associate Professor Reginald McNulty speak on the "Innovative Drug Inhibition and Unexpected Glycosylase Activity for Therapeutic Advancements" Wednesday September 11th.
