
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,
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.

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,
Get ready for a hands-on exploration of the single cell gene expression analysis journey! This interactive boot camp takes you from experimental design to data interpretation using real single-cell datasets

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"Harnessing dynamic covalent chemistry for reprocessable elastomers" Dr. Luke A. Baldwin, Research Chemist, Air Force Research Labs (AFRL) Abstract: Covalent adaptable networks (CANs) are a promising route to develop next-generation

Anna Orr, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College, will give a talk titled "Astrocytes in Neurocognitive Function and Dementia Pathogenesis". Join in person at the ASRC
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

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
Dr. Rainer Hillenbrand, CIC nanoGUNE Polaritonic Insights from Near-field Nanoscopy: Flat-Band Ultrastrong Coupling and Plasmons in Gold Monolayers Abstract - Scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) and nanoscale Fourier-transform infrared

Patrizia Casaccia, M.D., Ph.D., Einstein Professor of Biochemistry, Biology and Neuroscience of the CUNY Graduate Center, Founding Director of ASRC Neuroscience Initiative, will give a talk titled "A multiscale approach
Dr. Itai Cohen, Cornell University Electronically Integrated Autonomous Microscopic Robots Abstract - What would we be able to do if we could build electronically integrated machines the at a scale

Talk Topic: Distributed AI Agents for Scientific Discovery and Real-World Decision-Making Speaker Bio: Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the City University of New York
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
Dr. Javier Garcia De Abajo (ICREA) Title: When free electrons meet light: Quantum interactions at the nanoscale Abstract: At the intersection of electron microscopy and attosecond science, ultrafast electron microscopy
Digitizing Proteoform Biology with Single Molecule & Single Cell Mass Spectrometry Since the completion of the Human Genome Project, much has been made of the need to bridge the gap

Edward Vessel, Ph.D., Eugene Surowitz Assistant Professor of Psychology of The City College of New York, will give a talk titled "An interactionist approach to the neuroscience of aesthetics". Join
Heterogeneously integrated photonic systems for quantum science Photonic integration of solid-state quantum emitters offers a promising route to scalable on-chip quantum technologies. Achieving this goal requires combining material platforms that
Statistical Structural Biology In a post-"structure prediction is solved" world, our lab is obsessed with the concept of statistical structural biology. We collect large datasets (X-ray fragment screens from 1000s
Wave Engineering with Active Metamaterials: Nonreciprocity, Bandwidth Enhancement, and Analog Computing Modern technological systems are subject to escalating demands for miniaturization, speed, adaptability, and energy efficiency. Conventional design approaches are

Talk Title: Peptide Based Liquid-Liquid Coacervates for Biosensing, Degradation Resistance, and as Biofoundries Dr. Sebastián Díaz, Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Abstract:

Metasurfaces, subwavelength optical interfaces that control the amplitude, phase, and polarization of light, have transformed flat optics, yet extending this control from static wavefront shaping to dynamic, real-time manipulation remains

Wave-domain programmability emerges as technological enabler of next-generation microwave systems for wireless communications, sensing, and wave-domain computing. In this talk, Professor Philipp Del Hougne will describe his lab's recent progress
Universal wave-control framework for extremely tunable microwave systems Wave-domain programmability emerges as technological enabler of next-generation microwave systems for wireless communications, sensing, and wave-domain computing. In this talk, I will
Join us on Tuesday, March 24th, for Jacquelyn Tomaio's Dissertation Defense Seminar titled "Aging Drives Selective Vulnerability of Dopamine–Glutamate Projections to the Lateral Entorhinal Cortex, Weakening Dopamine Release and Novelty
Speaker: Ventsislav K. Valev Title: Polarization-Resolved Nonlinear Optical Activity in Scattering Abstract: Nonlinear optical activity in scattered light, first predicted in 1979, has recently become experimentally accessible. The original theory encompassed
Tuning a Master Kinase: How CaMKII variants are deployed and degraded Ca²⁺/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) is a central signaling enzyme that regulates neuronal plasticity, fertilization, and cardiac function. Although
Join us on Tuesday, March 31st, for Anna Flury's Dissertation Defense Seminar titled "Elucidating the Mechanisms of Microglia-Mediated Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease"! Attend in person at the CUNY ASRC Auditorium
AI augmented molecular simulations for predicting protein and RNA structural ensembles AI is now everywhere in chemistry, from structure prediction to molecule generation to automated synthesis. The excitement is real,
Inverting Biophysics: From Function to Ensembles Most of computational biology is predicated upon the sequence → structure → function → phenotype paradigm. Thanks to artificial intelligence and the availability of
Dr. Hari Padma, Case Western Reserve University Decoding light-driven quantum materials Abstract: Driving quantum materials with intense optical pulses offers a powerful means to control their behavior, leading to remarkable