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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Environmental Sciences Seminar: Joint Briefing On Private Sector-Academic Partnerships In Sustainable Impact Investing

Selecting and managing financial assets based on social and environmental performance is undergoing rapid growth and fundamental change. Investors are increasingly pressed by asset owners to prove how one company's practices are more or less sustainable than those of another. Yet, sustainability measures that companies declare are hardly standardized and difficult to verify, with metrics

Nanoscience Seminar: Dimitri Deheyn, University of California, San Diego

Living Light: Towards Understanding the Fundamental Mechanism of Color & Light Production in Nature Speaker Dimitri Deheyn, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego Dimitri Deheyn is a Scripps marine biologist developing research in the field of biomimicry: the process of emulating Nature to support green and sustainable innovations for various industries. His research aims at

Career Choices for STEM Ph.D.s: Getting to Know the World of Work

In this workshop, Melanie Sinche will discuss the skills that Ph.D.s organically develop during the course of their graduate and postdoctoral training as well as how to translate them to employers in various fields. Sinche will draw on the results from a large survey she recently conducted to identify which sectors Ph.D.s in STEM fields

Environmental Sciences Seminar: Zachary Tessler, Environmental Sciences Initiative, ASRC

Workshop: Git for Scientific Software Development and Collaboration Speaker Zachary Tessler Environmental Sciences Initiative, ASRC Abstract Git is a software tool for managing and sharing code, and is often used for collaboration through GitHub (or Bitbucket, or GitLab, or …). If you write any code, or regularly use open-source software, git is a tool to

New York Glia Club Symposium

Faculty Host Carmen Melendez-Vasquez Agenda 2:00 p.m. - Mechanisms of lipid homeostasis in peripheral nerve myelination Corey Hefferman, Ph.D. Haesun Kim Lab, Rutgers University 2:30 p.m. - Age-dependent decline of TET1-mediated DNA hydroxymethylation impairs myelin regeneration after injury Sarah Moyon, Ph.D. Patrizia Casaccia Lab, Advanced Science ResearchCenter 3:00 p.m. - Epigenetic regulation of brain region-specific

Nanoscience Seminar: Young Jo Kim, University of New Hampshire

Bioinspired materials for powering next generation biomedical devices Speaker Young Jo Kim University of New Hampshire. Abstract Biodegradable electronics presents an emerging paradigm in biomedical applications by exhibiting various advantages afforded by electronically active devices systems and obviating issues with chronic implants such as infection, inflammation, and costly surgical procedures. Devices designed for oral administration

Neuroscience Seminar: Norman J. Haughey, Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Targeting neutral sphingomyelinase to improve remyelination Speaker Norman J. Haughey Ph.D. Professor and Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Neurology Professor of Neuroimmunology and Neurological Infections Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Abstract For reasons that are not completely understood, remyelination is often incomplete, resulting in thin myelin sheaths with a disorganized myelin

Joint Nanoscience & Structural Biology Seminar: Wilhelm Huck, Radboud University Nijmegen

Dissipative systems showing signs of life Speaker: Wilhelm Huck Radboud University Nijmegen Abstract Complex networks of chemical reactions together define how life works. We are familiar with the metabolic networks studied in biochemistry, and in recent decades many regularly recurring network motifs have been uncovered that are responsible for much of the functional behaviour in

Herman Z. Cummins Lecture V: Jörg Wrachtrup, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Nanoscale Quantum Sensing Guest Speaker Jörg Wrachtrup Institute for Quantum Science and Technology (IQST) and Center for Applied Quantum Technologies University of Stuttgart, Germany Abstract The accuracy of measurements is limited by quantum mechanics. Ingenious demonstrations, like measuring gravitational fields or time have explored accuracy limits and reached fundamental obstructions. Yet, precision measurements so far

2019 CUNY Biophysics Symposium

This symposium brings together CUNY theorists and experimentalists in the expansive field of biophysics, giving us a chance to share recent research findings and discuss plans for future joint endeavors. We are pleased to welcome the three following keynote speakers: Qiang Cui, Professor of Chemistry, Boston University – “Exploring Membrane Remodeling by Protein and Nanoparticles”

Structural Biology Special Seminar: Lina M. Gonzalez, MIT, Voight Lab

Resilient Living Materials Built By Printing Bacterial Spores Speaker Lina M. Gonzalez Postdoctoral Associate, MIT, Voight Lab Abstract A route to advanced multifunctional materials is to embed them with living cells that can perform sensing, chemical production, energy scavenging, and actuation. A challenge in realizing this potential is that the conditions for keeping cells alive

Lab Safety Training

Lab safety training for ASRC researchers and core facility users. For more information, please contact: Aldo Orlando aldo.orlando@asrc.cuny.edu 212.413.3351

Physics Workshop on 2D Material Science

Speaker Professor Gabriele Grosso, Physics Photonics Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center The Graduate Center, CUNY This is an intensive workshop on the physics of two-dimensional materials with particular emphasis to their electronic and optical properties. The most important classes of materials and functionalities will be covered, including graphene, semiconductor transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and insulator

LAMP: Liquid Art Media Project

Explore the art behind “Cell Biology’s New Phase” Join scientists, artists, and beyond for a free hands-on organic art experience using analog projection and fluid interactions, all inside the dome of the CCNY Planetarium! Registration Register online now » Hosted by: Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle, Ph.D. Structural Biology Initiative, The Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate

Brain & Body

Dr. Patrizia Casaccia will discuss how brain & body health are interconnected, followed by exercise practice with fitness expert Raven

Lab Safety Training

Lab safety training for ASRC researchers and core facility users. For more information, please contact: Aldo Orlando aldo.orlando@asrc.cuny.edu 212.413.3351

Soft Robotics and Robot Learning Workshop

Including educational sessions on various aspects of the state of the art in the field of Soft Robotics and Robot Learning, including: Sensing & Actuation; Material & Energy; Manipulation, Locomotion & Modeling; and clinical and industrial applications.

Engineering Academic Environments to Foster Invention and Innovation

In partnership with CCNY, the Invention Ambassadors are hosting a special event on fostering invention and innovation. Speakers Stephen Key, Mary Kombolias, Jason Grieves, Fang (Florence) Lu, Don McPhreson, Pratik Shah, Rachael Walker, Sabriya Stukes (moderator). Agenda 4:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m. - Introduction and Opening Remarks 4:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m. - Panel Discussion 5:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. -

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