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.

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.

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense: Daniela Kroiss

"Minimalistic peptide-based supramolecular systems relevant to the chemical origin of life" Daniela Kroiss Ph.D. Candidate, Biochemistry Hunter College City University of New York (CUNY) Thesis Advisor: Professor Rein Ulijn, Hunter College

Social Media for Scientists Lunch & Learn Workshop

Want to Become a Science Influencer? Then please join Graduate Center Social Media Coordinator Coralie Carlson for an hour-long brown bag lunch & learn where she’ll cover how you can effectively use social media to promote science! This workshop is for ASRC faculty, students and staff who want to quickly bone up on best practices

Photonics Seminar: Kevin Cognee, AMOLF

Hybrid metallo-dielectric nanophotonic platforms: how can we benefit from coupling plasmonic antennas and dielectric cavities?

CUNY Nano Day

Join the Nanoscience community at the Advanced Science Research Center to share your exciting research and recent achievements!

Lab Safety Training

Lab safety training for ASRC researchers and core facility users. Contact: Aldo Orlando, aldo.orlando@asrc.cuny.edu

AFOSR MURI Review Meeting

Principal Investigators (PIs), Co-PIs, postdocs and students will present and review findings of the first year of research activities for the AFOSR MURI project.

Anniversary Lecture: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Ph.D., MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK 

Anniversary Lecture: Termination of Translation in Bacteria and Eukaryotes Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Ph.D. MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK Thursday, September 26, 2019 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm ASRC Auditorium In all domains of life, the termination of protein synthesis during translation is triggered by the entry of a stop codon on mRNA into the A

Lab Safety Training

Lab safety training for ASRC researchers and core facility users. Contact: Aldo Orlando, aldo.orlando@asrc.cuny.edu

Lab Safety Training

Lab safety training for ASRC researchers and core facility users. Contact: Aldo Orlando, aldo.orlando@asrc.cuny.edu

New York Cryo-EM Meeting

Structural biology meeting about the latest advances in cryo-EM from the New York area. Program details TBD.

The ASRC @ 5: Showcasing Interdisciplinary Excellence

The CUNY ASRC is designed to inspire and enable interdisciplinary research that brings together scientists from across CUNY’s 25 campuses and beyond to create solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges. As we mark our fifth year of work, we invite fellow faculty, staff, and students from across CUNY and beyond to join

U.S./Middle East Conference on Photonics

This conference seeks to strengthen engagement between U.S., European, and Middle Eastern scientists by providing a forum for discussion of cutting edge photonics research.

Lab Safety Training

Lab safety training for ASRC researchers and core facility users. Contact: Aldo Orlando, aldo.orlando@asrc.cuny.edu.  

New York Area Clocks Club

This is the longstanding New York Area Clocks Club. Every few months researchers in Biological Rhythms in the New York Area, including New Jersey and Philadelphia, get together to present and discuss new research.

Glia Club Symposium

Glia Club Symposium will be held in Rutgers Univ. in Newark, NJ. Engelhard Hall Rm 100 Rutgers-Newark 190 University Ave Newark, NJ 07102

Lab Safety Training

Lab safety training for ASRC researchers and core facility users.

Cybersecurity for Small Business

The Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, NY District Attorney's Office, and NYC & Company have partnered to offer "Cybersecurity for Small Business", to provide information and tools for NYC businesses. The expert panel will discuss threats, best practices, and tools available to mitigate risk.

Lab Safety Training

Lab safety training for ASRC researchers and core facility users. Contact: Aldo Orlando, aldo.orlando@asrc.cuny.edu

Glia Club Meeting

Glial symposium hosted by ASRC Neuroscience Initiative.

STEM Undergraduate Summer Research Info Session

This event will feature a number of undergraduate summer research programs which place students with mentors at the CUNY ASRC and other local institutions. Many programs offer stipends and other support packages. Participants will also have the opportunity to meet with a representative from The Graduate Center's Office of Admissions, tour ASRC labs, mingle with

RNAScope

This event aims to promote and facilitate scientific discussions and exchanges among existing and future RNAscope® and Basescope® assays users from various institutions who want single-molecule sensitive detection of target expression in disease and normal tissue.

March for Science Information Session

March for Science NYC is the official satellite of March for Science, a volunteer network of scientists committed to science for a common good. In NYC, we are expanding our team and programming in 2020! This information session will give an introduction to our organization and our plans for 2020, including our upcoming march and

Lab Safety Training

Lab safety training for ASRC researchers and core facility users. Contact: Aldo Orlando, aldo.orlando@asrc.cuny.edu

CUNY STEM Postdoc Town Hall

Come share your insights on the professional development, career navigation, and networking needs of CUNY’s STEM postdocs with the goal of shaping future programs from the ASRC and Graduate Center. Refreshments will be served during a reception after the townhall so you can meet your colleagues. Please register to attend in-person or online by Monday,

RNAScope

This event aims to promote and facilitate scientific discussions and exchanges among existing and future RNAscope® and Basescope® assay users from various institutions who want single-molecule sensitive detection of target expression in disease and normal tissue.

GRAPHENE FOR US

New York (USA) will host the 3rd edition of the Graphene & 2D Materials International Conference and Exhibition (GrapheneforUS).

(ONLINE) Call to Action: Research Against COVID-19 Webinar

Post event update: The registration for this event is closed. Watch the webinar below or on YouTube, and read more about the event. For more information on how you can participate in the programs at ASRC Sensor CAT, please visit the Sensor CAT website or contact Tavis Ezell at tezell@gc.cuny.edu. The ASRC Sensor Center for

(ONLINE) Lab Safety Training

Lab safety training for ASRC researchers and core facility users. For more information about joining in on Zoom, contact Aldo Orlando by April 7th aorlando@gc.cuny.edu