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SUMMARY:Neuroscience Spring 2026 Seminar Series - Dominic Fareri
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Dominic Fareri\, associate professor of psychology and director of the neuroscience program in the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology at Adelphi University\, will give a talk titled “Social influences on reward-based decision-making”. \nJoin in person at the ASRC auditorium\, or Zoom (Meeting ID: 847 7327 5780 Passcode: 270822). \nView the abstract here.
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/neuroscience-spring-2026-seminar-series-dominic-fareri/
LOCATION:Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC)\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Neuroscience
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SUMMARY:Nanoscience Initiative: Systems Chemistry Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The Systems Chemistry Symposium brings together leading researchers working at the interface of systems chemistry\, supramolecular materials\, biomolecular condensates\, non-equilibrium self-assembly\, and life-like chemical systems. The symposium highlights how chemical systems can be programmed to exhibit emergent behaviors such as self-organization\, compartmentalization\, pattern formation\, metabolism-like activity\, and adaptive function. Through a series of talks spanning molecular design to complex reaction networks\, the event explores fundamental questions surrounding the origins of biological organization and the development of next-generation adaptive materials. \nRegister HERE! Space is limited.\n________________________________________________________________________________________________\nDr. Allie Obermeyer\, Associate Professor\, Chemical Engineering\, Columbia University\nTitle: Metabolic activity to animate coacervate materials \nAbstract: Protein de-mixing is essential to the organization of cellular components. These phase separated membraneless organelles\, termed biomolecular condensates\, create distinct environments that are essential to cellular processes ranging from signaling to gene expression and stress response. Equilibrium theories reasonably describe the formation of and biomolecule partitioning in these biomolecular condensates\, but cellular activities regularly create unstable nonequilibrium compositions. Here I share our efforts to understand how model biomolecular condensates respond when forced out of equilibrium. We create model condensates via the complex coacervation of an enzyme and a polyion. The phase behavior of the resulting liquid-like drops is coupled to their catalytic activity via the local pH. Reaction with chemical “fuel” lowers the pH\, creating unstable nonequilibrium conditions\, ultimately triggering the formation of internal vacuoles and size dependent droplet dissolution. These responses depend on the rate of reaction-induced pH changes relative to relaxation mechanisms inside the drops. Slow changes are controlled by equilibrium thermodynamics; faster pH changes couple to macromolecule transport on the drop scale. Finally\, we demonstrate that these findings translate to more biologically relevant condensates. \nBio: Allie Obermeyer is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University. The Obermeyer Group harnesses the biological and polymeric properties of proteins to create new materials. These studies blend approaches from chemical and synthetic biology\, protein engineering\, and polymer physics. Allie obtained her undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Rice University and performed undergraduate research in the laboratory of Seiichi P.T. Matsuda. She then joined the Department of Chemistry at UC Berkeley and earned a PhD degree under the guidance of Matthew Francis as a part of the Chemical Biology Graduate Program. She subsequently conducted postdoctoral training in the Chemical Engineering department at MIT as an Arnold Beckman postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Bradley Olsen. In 2017\, she started her independent career at Columbia University. She has been the recipient of an NSF CAREER and NIH MIRA award as well as a Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award and a Teaching Award from the Columbia Engineering Alumni Association. \n________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nDr. Dibyendu Das\, Professor\, Department of Chemical Sciences of IISER Kolkata\nTitle: When Matter Comes Alive: Life-Like Properties Emerging from Simple Chemical Systems \nAbstract: Life’s soft and wet machinery arose from spatially confined assemblies of biomolecules capable of replication\, integrated with metabolic reaction cycles that function far from equilibrium.[1] By methodically synthesizing and integrating these key elements\, i.e. replication\, metabolism\, and confinement under non-equilibrium conditions\, we can begin to explore how chemically constructed systems might acquire life-like\, evolving properties.[2-5] This ambitious goal lies at the heart of systems chemistry. In this talk\, I will outline recent insights into how reaction networks\, self-reproduction\, and compartmentalization can be brought together under non-equilibrium settings. \n[1] I will also delve into the interplay between reaction dynamics and transient compartmentalization\, and explore the development of self-replicating systems capable of sustained operation in far-from-equilibrium conditions.[1] \nBio: Dibyendu Das is Professor at the Department of Chemical Sciences of IISER Kolkata\, West Bengal\, India. He obtained his PhD at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS)\, India and postdoctoral training from Emory University\, USA. His research group is interested in emerging field of systems chemistry\, chemical evolution and peptide nanotechnology. \n________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nDr. Chris DelRe\, Assistant Professor\, Nanoscience Initiative\n\nTalk Title: Tunable and scalable solvent-free protein liquids \nAbstract: Proteins offer great promise to serve as the building blocks for nanomaterials due to their unprecedented combination of biocompatibility\, sustainability\, and functionality. However\, both aqueous and organic solvents pose fundamental challenges to protein stability\, solubility\, and function that prevent protein-based nanotechnologies from being fabricated or scaled up. Here we present a new approach to create ultra-concentrated (> 400 mg/mL) protein fluids that alleviate the limitations associated with traditional solvents. These new biofluids are manufactured in a scalable way; have bulk properties that are highly tunable; and can function in the liquid state or be processed into versatile solid-state materials. Considering their ease of production and vast potential design space\, these new biofluids are poised to drive fundamental advances in scalable protein-based technologies and medications.  \nBio: Chris received his BS/MS degree in materials science and engineering from Drexel University (2010 – 2015). He then received a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of California\, Berkeley (2015 – 2020). During his Ph.D.\, Chris focused on stabilizing enzymes and using enzymes as building blocks to design protein-based materials. His major research contributions involve manipulating the interactions between embedded enzymes and their host polymers\, leading to single-use plastics that can be depolymerized on-demand at the material’s end-of-life into recyclable and metabolizable by-products. After completing his Ph.D.\, Chris started a postdoctoral fellowship in chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University (2021 – 2023)\, where he interfaced proteins with porous nanocrystals to control their self-assembly\, stability\, and pore accessibility in water. The DelRe lab at ASRC and CUNY currently focused on engineering new materials based on confined proteins and synthetic polymers. \n________________________________________________________________________________________________\n\nDr. Charalampos Babis Pappas\, Group Leader\, University of Freiburg\n\nTalk Title: Why Nature Chose Acyl Phosphates? From Biology to Systems Chemistry \nAbstract: Acyl phosphates occupy a unique position at the interface of energy transduction\, molecular activation\, and chemical organization in biology.1 As high-energy intermediates\, they participate in central biochemical processes ranging from metabolic regulation to peptide bond formation and phosphoryl transfer. Despite their reactivity\, acyl phosphates operate efficiently under aqueous conditions\, enabling selective chemical transformations central to life. These characteristics suggest that acyl phosphates may have played a broader role in the emergence of primitive chemical systems prior to the evolution of complex enzymatic machinery. Herein\, we explore how aminoacyl phosphate esters can be repurposed as programmable activation motifs in systems chemistry. By tailoring the structure of the phosphate ester and the amino acid side chain\, we show how acyl transfer reactions shape supramolecular organization and pathway-selective oligomerization.2\,3 The interplay between activation and supramolecular organization enables control over esterification\, thioester formation\, peptide coupling\, and assembly processes in water. Our studies reveal that subtle molecular variations influence both reactivity and material state\, allowing activation pathways to encode distinct supramolecular and covalent outcomes.4\,5 These findings establish a conceptual bridge between biological phosphoryl chemistry and adaptive reaction networks\, highlighting acyl phosphates as versatile molecular motifs for constructing dynamic chemical systems. More broadly\, this work suggests that nature may have selected acyl phosphates not only because of their balance between stability and reactivity\, but also because they couple chemical activation with molecular organization within complex reaction networks. \nReferences \n\nWestheimer\, Science 1987\, 235\, 1173-1178\nDai\, M. D. Pol\, L. Saile\, A. Sharma\, B. Liu\, R. Thomann\, J. L. Trefs\, D. Qiu\, S. Moser\, S. Wiesler\, B. N. Balzer\, T. Hugel\, H. J. Jessen\, C. G. Pappas\, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023\, 145\, 26086-26094\nSharma\, K. Dai\, M. D. Pol\, A. Papadopoulou\, T. Pramod\, R. Thomann\, Y. Thomann\, C. G. Pappas\, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2026\, 48\, 8200-8212\nDai\, L. Saile\, M. D. Pol\, A. Sharma\, T. Pramod\, C. G. Pappas\, Chem. 2025\, 11\, 102589\nSaile\, K. Dai\, M. D. Pol\, T. Pramod\, R. Thomann\, C. G. Pappas\, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025\, 64\, e202508481\n\nBio: Charalampos (Babis) Pappas received his M.Sc. degree in 2012 from the University of Ioannina\, where he worked on the cis/trans isomerization of proline in model peptides. In 2016\, he obtained his Ph.D. degree entitled “Supramolecular Systems Chemistry using Peptides” from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow\, working in the group of Prof. Rein Ulijn. Following a short six-month postdoctoral stay at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at the City University of New York in the group of Prof. Rein Ulijn\, he was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship in 2017 and moved to the University of Groningen in the Netherlands\, where he worked with Prof. Sijbren Otto on dynamic folded macromolecules. In October 2020\, Babis joined the Cluster of Excellence Living\, Adaptive and Energy-autonomous Materials Systems (livMatS) at the University of Freiburg as a junior group leader. \n________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nDr. Ryou Kubota\, Group Leader\, Department of Applied Chemistry\, Graduate School of Engineering\, Kyushu University\nTalk Title: Nonequilibrium Supramolecular Dynamics Drives Hierarchical Hydrogel Patterning \nAbstract: Spatial patterning is abundant in living systems. In biological morphogenesis\, hierarchical and complex spatial patterns emerge from the orchestrated differentiation and apoptosis of cells. This sophisticated process is known to be governed by reaction-diffusion systems\, where gradients of signaling molecules\, morphogens\, dictate positional information across scales. In contrast\, most synthetic supramolecular assemblies are formed under thermodynamic control\, resulting in static structures that lack autonomous spatial complexity. \nBuilding on our recent discovery of supramolecular dynamic instability1\, the autonomous repetition of growth and shrinkage in peptide fibers triggered by anionic surfactants\, we have moved toward a more advanced framework: supramolecular morphogenesis2. In this study\, we demonstrate the spatial control over the differentiation and decomposition of synthetic self-assembled fibers by coupling non-equilibrium dynamics with molecular diffusion. Upon hybridization of peptide-based supramolecular fibers with cationic surfactants (as synthetic morphogens)\, the system undergoes a unique “break-and-build” cycle: the progenitor fibers decompose\, followed by the formation of differentiated co-assembled fibers. By allowing these morphogens to diffuse into a hydrogel matrix\, we successfully generated repeated propagating waves that produced macroscopic\, non-linear concentric patterns of chemically and morphologically distinct fibers. \nPublications \n(1)   Torigoe\, S.; Nagao\, K.; Kubota\, R.; Hamachi\, I. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024\, 146 (9)\, 5799–5805. \n(2)   Kubota\, R.; Ikuta\, Y.; Torigoe\, S.; Hamachi\, I. ChemRxiv\, 2025. https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-73bg1. \nBio: Ryou Kubota received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 2013 under the supervision of Prof. Mitsuhiko Shionoya. After working at Kyoto University as a postdoctoral fellow\, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in 2015 and a Junior Associate Professor in 2021 in Prof. Itaru Hamachi’s laboratory. In 2025\, he joined Kyushu University as a Full Professor. His current research interests include supramolecular chemistry\, soft materials\, and chemical biology.  \n ________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nDr. Ankit Jain\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry\, Brooklyn College \nTalk Title: Amyloidal control of multiphasic condensates \nAbstract: Spatial and temporal order are foundational for biological systems to maintain cellular homeostasis and execute complex physiological functions. Intracellular compartmentalization is critical to this regulation and is increasingly understood to rely on membraneless organelles formed via liquid-liquid phase separation. These biomolecular condensates coordinate distinct biochemical pathways within shared microenvironments. The nucleolus serves as a definitive model of this spatial organization. Within the nucleolus\, the highly regulated\, discrete assembly of specific proteins and nucleic acids sustains a nested\, multilayered\, multiphasic architecture. This coexistence of immiscible liquid phases is essential for segregating the sequential steps of ribosome biogenesis\, demonstrating how controlled structural hierarchy directly dictates biological activity. Replicating these complex macromolecular morphologies through synthetic approaches offers a dual advantage for engineering and cell biology. \nTaking inspiration from the nucleolus\, in the current work\, we show that amyloidal motifs can be modulated to form discreet beta sheet assemblies resulting in controlled stabilization of the internal compartments in a multiphasic system (Figure 1). The study further elucidates the aggregation parameters\, to control the size distribution and dynamic ripening behavior of the internal compartments. We also detail the kinetic behavior to study its effect on the phase separation\, elaborating mechanistic insights. Finally\, we demonstrate how these ordered domains can host reaction centers. Developing systematic\, bottom-up strategies to generate multiphasic assemblies provides a deeper mechanistic understanding of the thermodynamic and kinetic rules governing discrete biomolecular organization. Concurrently\, such synthetic frameworks will help establish predictable design principles for engineering novel biomaterials. \nBio: Ankit obtained his B. Tech degree in Biotechnology from SASTRA University\, India. In 2011\, he joined Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR)\, India as a Ph.D. student with Prof. Subi J. George. His research work focused on dynamic charge transfer aggregates and temporal control of their self-assembly using aspects of systems chemistry. His work showed that reaction networks can be used to control the size\, growth\, and decay of supramolecular systems. Following this in 2017 he joined Prof. Rein Ulijn’s lab at Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) as a Simons postdoctoral fellow. One of the main focuses of his work was to develop disordered condensates that can stabilize localized ordered domains. He showed that with appropriate functionalization amyloidal domains can be restricted inside liquid droplets and can result in materials with higher partition coefficients for hydrophobic molecules.\nIn 2023 Ankit joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Brooklyn College as an Assistant Professor. In his lab\, he envisages using his systems chemistry expertise in conjunction with hybrid condensates to develop novel materials that have significant applications in wide-ranging areas like biomedicine\, energy and proto-cellular chemistry.
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/nanoscience-initiative-pre-grc-systems-chemistry-symposium/
LOCATION:ASRC 5th Floor Data Visualization Room\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fall '26 Biochem Seminar: Pranam Chatterjee
DESCRIPTION:Designing Programmable Biologics with Generative Sequence Models \nIn this talk\, I will share how my lab develops discrete generative models to design functional biologics for disease and bioremediation. Our work has centered on language models that de novo design peptides to bind and modulate undruggable targets\, with experimental validation across rare neurodegenerative disorders\, pediatric cancers\, and viral infections. Because therapeutic design depends on clinically-viable properties beyond binding (solubility\, half-life\, non-toxicity)\, we have developed discrete diffusion algorithms to generate peptides\, proteins\, mRNAs\, and heavy metal sequestrants that are Pareto-optimal across these properties. We have extended these frameworks to discrete flow matching models that generate isoform-specific\, domain- and motif-resolved binders under competing therapeutic objectives\, enabling the design of potent inhibitors and CAR T cell ligands. Finally\, we have recently pioneered Schrödinger Bridge Matching\, a new class of generative models that capture both biological states and the trajectories connecting them\, from protein folding to drug-induced cell-state transitions\, establishing a unified\, programmable framework for molecular modeling and design. \nPlease use this link to access Zoom. \nFor any questions\, please contact Hyacinth Camillieri at hcamillieri@gc.cuny.edu
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/fall-26-biochem-seminar-pranam-chatterjee/
LOCATION:ASRC Auditorium\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Structural Biology
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SUMMARY:Neuroscience Fall 2026 Seminar Series - Christina Kim
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Christina Kim\, Assistant Professor at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute at Princeton University\, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Freeman Hrabowski Scholar\, will give a talk titled “Isolating drug-activated ensembles using activity integrators”. \nJoin in person at the ASRC auditorium\, or Zoom (Meeting ID: 856 8679 1013 Passcode: 503671). \nView the abstract here.
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/neuroscience-fall-2026-seminar-series-christina-kim/
LOCATION:Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC)\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Neuroscience
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SUMMARY:Fall '26 Biochem Seminar: Crina Nimigean
DESCRIPTION:Mechanism of Lipid Modulation in Ion Channels \nMembrane proteins are continuously exposed to the complex lipid environment of cellular membranes\, yet how specific lipids regulate their function remains poorly understood. In this talk\, I will discuss two examples illustrating how membrane lipids tune ion-channel activity through defined structural mechanisms. First\, I will describe how lipids regulate temperature sensitivity in SthK\, a\nbacterial ion channel that is activated by cold temperatures. We find that a functionally important\, state-dependent intersubunit salt bridge acts as a temperature sensor\, while lipid binding tunes temperature sensitivity by modulating the strength of this interaction. These findings suggest a general mechanism by which thermosensitivity can emerge from the interplay between protein energetics and the membrane environment. Second\, I will discuss regulation of rod photoreceptor cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) channels by the signaling lipid PI(4\,5)P2 (PIP2). Although PIP2 was known to inhibit CNG channels\, its very low abundance in rod outer segments raised questions about the physiological relevance of this effect. We show that\nPIP2 potently inhibits CNG channels at physiologically relevant concentrations (<0.2 mol%) and identify its binding site and mechanism of action. PIP2 binds to an allosteric site that stabilizes the closed channel and impedes conformational changes required for opening. Identification of this regulatory site also reveals a potential target for pharmacological modulation of CNG channels.\nTogether\, these studies demonstrate how specific lipid–protein interactions can reshape the energetic landscape of ion channels to control physiologically important aspects of their function. \nPlease use this link to access Zoom. \nFor any questions\, please contact Hyacinth Camillieri at hcamillieri@gc.cuny.edu
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/fall-26-biochem-seminar-crina-nimigean/
LOCATION:ASRC Auditorium\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Structural Biology
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SUMMARY:FloodNet Community Session: Building Community Together – Lessons from 2023 to Now
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of At the Intersection of Science\, Policy\, and Community: The FloodNet NYC Community Engagement Strategy\, a public-facing guide that shares the community engagement approaches\, tools\, and lessons developed through FloodNet NYC.  \nGrounded in community-based participatory research (CBPR)\, the guide highlights practical strategies for building meaningful collaborations across science\, policy\, and communities through outreach\, education\, and action. This event will bring together community partners\, community-engaged researchers\, students at CUNY and NYU\, and other stakeholders to explore how these approaches can support equitable\, community-centered climate research and urban resilience initiatives. \nRegister to attend at https://bit.ly/3VaJcvl
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/floodnet-community-session-building-community-together-lessons-from-2023-to-now/
LOCATION:Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC)\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environmental Sciences,Nanoscience,Neuroscience,Photonics,Structural Biology
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SUMMARY:Photonics Initiative Seminar: Keji Lai
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Keji Lai\, University of Texas atAustin\nMicrowave Microscopy of Topological Acoustics\nAbstract: Topological phononics offers numerous opportunities in manipulating elastic waves that can propagate in solids without being back-scattered. Due to the lack of nanoscale imaging tools that aid the system design\, however\, spatially resolved acoustic metamaterial studies have been mostly demonstrated in systems operating at kilohertz to megahertz frequencies. In this talk\, I will discuss the visualization of gigahertz valley Hall and spin Hall effects in nanoelectromechanical membranes. Propagation of elastic wave through phononic crystals is directly observed by microwave microscopy with unprecedented sensitivity (sub-100fm) and spatial resolution (sub-100nm). The topologically protected edge states are vividly seen in both real space and momentum space. The robust transport is evident from the wave transmission across local disorder and around sharp corners\, as well as the power distribution into multiple edge channels. Our work paves the way to exploit topological physics in integrated acousto-electronic systems for classical and quantum information processing in the microwave regime. \nBio: \nProfessional Preparation:  \n\nTsinghua University Electrical Engineering B.S. 2001\nPrinceton University Electrical Engineering Ph.D. 2006\nStanford University Applied Physics Postdoc 2006 – 2011\nStanford University Applied Physics Research scientist 2011 – 2012\n\nAppointments:  \n\nProfessor: Physics\, University of Texas at Austin 2024 – Present\nAssociate Professor: Physics\, University of Texas at Austin 2018 – 2024\nAssistant Professor: Physics\, University of Texas at Austin 2012 – 2018\n\nAwards:  \n\nGordon and Betty Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator 2023 – 2028\nTrull Centennial Professorship in Physics\, University of Texas at Austin 2022 – 2025\nPresidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) 2016\nInternational Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) C10 Young Scientist Prize in the Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter 2015\nDepartment of Energy EARLY CAREER Award 2013\nKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Global Research Partnership Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Stanford University 2008 – 2011\nKarel Urbanek Postdoctoral Fellowship\, Stanford University 2006 – 2008\n\nSelected Publications (~ 100 publications\, ~ 11\,000 citations\, h-index: 49): \n\nD. Lee\, Y. Jiang\, X. Zhang\, S. Jahanbani\, C. Wen\, Q. Zhang\, AT C. Johnson\, K. Lai\, “Klein tunneling of gigahertz elastic waves in nanoelectromechanical metamaterials”\, Device 2\, 100474 (2024).\nQ. Zhang\, D. Lee\, L. Zheng\, X. Ma\, S. I. Meyer\, L. He\, H. Ye\, Z. Gong\, B. Zhen\, K. Lai\, A.T. Johnson\, “Gigahertz topological valley Hall effect in nanoelectromechanical phononic crystals”\, Nature Electron. 5\, 157 (2022).\nX. Ma\, F. Zhang\, Z. Chu\, J. Hao\, X. Chen\, J. Quan\, Z. Huang\, X. Wang\, X. Li\, Y. Yan\, K. Zhu\, and K. Lai\, “Superior photo-carrier diffusion dynamics in organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites revealed by spatiotemporal conductivity imaging”\, Nature Commun. 12\, 5009 (2021).\nZ. Chu\, L. Zheng\, and K. Lai\, “Microwave Microscopy and Its Applications”\, Annual Review of Materials Research 50\, 105 (2020).\nZ. Chu\, C.-Y. Wang\, J. Quan\, C. Zhang\, C. Lei\, A. Han\, X. Ma\, H.-L. Tang\, D. Abeysinghe\, M. Staab\, X. Zhang\, A. H MacDonald\, V.Tung\, X. Li\, C.-K. Shih\, and K. Lai\, “Unveiling defect-mediated carrier dynamics in monolayer semiconductors by spatiotemporal microwave imaging”\, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 117\, 13908 (2020).\n\nZoom ID 834 5040 8099 Passcode 522476 \n2026 10 15 Photonics Seminar flier Keji Lai
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/photonics-initiative-seminar-keji-lai/
LOCATION:ASRC Auditorium\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Photonics
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SUMMARY:Registration Open: 2026 Music Has Power® Symposium & Awards
DESCRIPTION:2026 Music Has Power® Symposium & Awards\nMusic\, Vibration\, and Frequency:\nHow Sound and Music Affect Mental and Physical Health\nPresented by the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function (IMNF) in collaboration with the Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center\, CUNY. \nNovember 9\, 2026 | 12:00 pm-5:30 pm | CUNY Graduate Center\, Concourse Level \nFree and open to the public. Continuing Education Credits available for an additional fee. \nREGISTER NOW \nWe’re excited to announce that registration is now open for the 2026 Music Has Power® Symposium & Awards! \nHosted by the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function in collaboration with the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center and held at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City\, this year’s symposium will explore the relationship between music\, vibration\, frequency\, and their effects on mental and physical health. \nJoin leading researchers\, clinicians\, music therapists\, healthcare professionals\, technologists\, educators\, and artists for an afternoon of thought-provoking presentations\, panel discussions\, student research\, and networking. The day concludes with the Music Has Power® Awards Ceremony\, celebrating individuals whose work is advancing the field of music and brain health. \nWhether you’re a healthcare professional\, researcher\, student\, caregiver\, musician\, or simply someone who believes in the power of music\, we hope you’ll join us. \nEvent Highlights \n\nLeading experts in neuroscience\, music therapy\, medicine\, and technology\nThree interdisciplinary panel discussions\nStudent Research Showcase (submission due by November 1)\nNetworking with colleagues and innovators\nMusic Has Power® Awards Ceremony\nContinuing Education Credits available (additional fee)\n\nClick here for the event flyer. For more details\, visit the main event page.
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/save-the-date-2026-music-has-power-symposium-awards/
LOCATION:CUNY Graduate Center\, 365 Fifth Ave.\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Neuroscience
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