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SUMMARY:Photonics Initiative Seminar: Itai Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Itai Cohen\, Cornell University\nElectronically Integrated Autonomous Microscopic Robots\nAbstract – What would we be able to do if we could build electronically integrated machines the at a scale of 100 microns? At this scale\, semiconductor devices are small enough that we could put the computational power of the spaceship Voyager onto a machine that could be injected into the body. Such robots could have on board detectors\, power sources\, and processors that enable them to sense\, interact\, and control their local environment. In this talk I will describe several cutting edge technologies we are developing to achieve this vision. \nBio – Itai Cohen received his BS in Physics from the University of California at Los Angeles\, and his PhD in Physics from the University of Chicago. Following his graduate studies\, he was a Post-doctoral fellow in Physics and the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at Harvard University. In 2005 he joined Cornell and is currently a professor of Physics. \nZoom Meeting ID 851 4410 9109 Password 759514
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/photonics-initiative-seminar-itai-cohen/
LOCATION:ASRC Auditorium\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Photonics
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SUMMARY:Nanoscience Guest Speaker: Dr. Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay\, "Distributed AI Agents for Scientific Discovery and Real-World Decision-Making"
DESCRIPTION:Talk Topic: \nDistributed AI Agents for Scientific Discovery and Real-World Decision-Making \nSpeaker Bio: \nSaptarashmi Bandyopadhyay is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the City University of New York at the City College of New York and the Graduate Center. He graduated with his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Maryland\, College Park (UMD) advised by Prof. John Dickerson and Prof. Tom Goldstein\, in Summer 2025. His research on Multi-Agent AI for Autonomous Decision Making in the Real World addresses the challenges and opportunities of building AI Agents to plan\, reason\, and navigate in AR/VR\, Supply Chains\, Recommender Systems\, Robotics\, Self-Driving Cars\, Climate Conservation\, and other domains. He works with Reinforcement Learning\, Imitation Learning\, Model Predictive Control\, LLMs\, VLMs\, and Game Theory algorithms to train AI Agents with Social Intelligence to take actions and provide insights at scale. He has been a Ph.D. Student Researcher at Google Augmented Reality and Google DeepMind in the Multimodal Conversational AI and Astra AR teams creating Multimodal (Audio\, Vision and Language) AI Agents to proactively assist users. At UMD\, he has been the Lead PhD RA of a DoD project on Explainable AI Agents. Saptarashmi has published twenty-six research papers in top AI venues including AAAI\, ACM AAMAS\, NeurIPS\, EMNLP\, ACL\, SPIE\, and others. He chaired the Multi-Agent AI in the Real World Workshop at AAAI-25 and created the MARL Seminar at UMD\, hosting prominent speakers from industry and academia including Turing Award Laureates. Previously\, Saptarashmi was an AI Resident at Google X\, and did research internships at CNRS LORIA and INRIA in France (as a Charpak Scholar)\, and DFKI and the University of Saarland in Germany. He is a Do-Good Fellow and Dean’s Summer Fellow at UMD. Further research details can be found on his websites https://sites.google.com/view/saptarashmi/about and https://www.gc.cuny.edu/people/saptarashmi-bandyopadhyay  \nTalk Abstract: \nArtificial Intelligence (AI) Agents are increasingly being deployed in Robotics\, Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality\, Self-Driving Cars\, Scientific Discovery\, Network Communications\, and other domains. Agents need to reliably cooperate with humans using algorithms such as Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) and Imitation Learning (IL). In this talk\, Saptarashmi will introduce an imitate-then-commit algorithm for AI Agents by unifying concepts from IL and Computational Game Theory to cooperate and align in settings where they have similar goals but different priorities. Guarantees on this approach are stronger than a naive reduction of the alignment problem to IL. Saptarashmi will then share a Multimodal Agentic Model Predictive Control framework to allow fine-grained tuning of Imitation Learning demonstrations\, using VLMs\, to train autonomous vehicles with better spatio-temporal reasoning and improved control dynamics. Next\, Saptarashmi will share real-world applications of AI Agents\, including YETI (YET-to-Intervene) Multimodal Agents which efficiently detect when to autonomously intervene while interacting with users in AR for planning\, guidance\, navigation\, fixing mistakes or other tasks. He will introduce his research on improving automated scientific discovery in protein structures\, neuroscientific modeling\, accelerated photonics and material design. His focus on improving on scalable and dynamic exploration and dynamic prediction of protein structures has led to domain-specific improvements over Alphafold. He will introduce solutions to the problem of energy and system efficiency for these intelligent agents with a Multi-Agent AI Designer to reliably assist and stabilize these challenges. He will also share his research on AI Agents for Climate Conservation\, Education\, Supply Chain Orchestration\, Building Engineering Automation and other areas. Saptarashmi will highlight the importance of training such AI Agents at scale efficiently and introduce JAXMARL\, the fastest open-source MARL library with up to 12\,500× speedup over alternatives. Together\, his talk shows the promise of efficient and generalizable Deep Learning algorithms\, guiding AI Agents and Multi-Agent Decision Making with human interaction to solve real-world problems which add new capabilities to AI Agents such as planning\, reasoning and navigation while optimizing system performance by distributed processing.
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/nanoscience-guest-speaker-dr-saptarashmi-bandyopadhyay-distributed-ai-agents-for-scientific-discovery-and-real-world-decision-making/
LOCATION:ASRC 5th Floor Data Visualization Room\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Nanoscience
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SUMMARY:Spring '26 Biochem Seminar: Edward P. O'Brien\, Jr.
DESCRIPTION:How a novel class of protein misfolding is associated with changes in enzyme activity\, proteostasis\, aging\, and disease \nUtilizing simulations\, experimental data\, and data science\, my lab predicted the existence of a previously undiscovered\, widespread class of protein misfolding that can result in soluble\, loss-of-function states\, some of which evade the proteostasis network. This class of misfolding involves structural changes in geometric motifs called non-covalent lasso entanglements\, which are found in 70% of the native structures of globular proteins. In this talk\, I will synthesize six lines of evidence: (1) proteome-wide and atomistic simulations establish the prevalence and physical plausibility of self-entanglement; (2) translation-speed changes from synonymous mutations can re-partition folding trajectories into slowly interconverting\, near-native entangled ensembles with reduced catalytic efficiency; (3) native-like surfaces coupled to these topological barriers explain how some misfolded states bypass chaperones; that these misfolded states are associated with (4) increased nascent protein degradation through the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway in human fibroblast cells\, (5) with structural changes in proteins that occur during yeast mother cell aging\, and (6) with a higher likelihood of harboring pathogenic mutations in human diseases. Taken together\, simulations and experiments areconverging on a unified picture in which entanglement misfolding is common\, biologically consequential\, and measurable. \nPlease use this link to access Zoom. \nPlease contact Hyacinth Camillieri at hcamillieri@gc.cuny.edu if you have any questions.
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/spring-26-biochem-seminar-edward-p-obrien-jr/
LOCATION:ASRC Auditorium\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Structural Biology
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SUMMARY:Photonics Initiative Seminar: Javier Garcia De Abajo
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Javier Garcia De Abajo (ICREA) \nTitle: When free electrons meet light: Quantum interactions at the nanoscale \nAbstract: At the intersection of electron microscopy and attosecond science\, ultrafast electron microscopy has emerged as a research frontier aiming to investigate material excitations with an unprecedented combination of spatiotemporal resolution\, while also granting us access to quantum phenomena involving photonic nanostructures. In this context\, we will discuss the fundamental principles governing the interactions between free electrons\, light\, and photonic media\, with an emphasis on exploring quantum aspects that include electron decoherence caused by coupling to radiative modes\, the generation of quantum states of light\, and new approaches for quantum sensing and metrology\, highlighting the unique characteristics of free electron–light interactions that enable access to previously unexplored physics. \nBio: Javier García de Abajo is an ICREA Research Professor and leader of the Nanophotonics Theory Group at ICFO–Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques in Barcelona. His interests include electron microscopy\, light-matter interactions\, quantum optics\, condensed matter physics\, ultrafast phenomena\, and nanophotonics. His group applies theoretical and computational techniques to investigate new phenomena and explore their potential application in microscopy\, sensing\, and information processing. He has co-authored 450+ papers cited 70\,000+ times with an h index of 128 (Google Scholar\, Feb. 2025). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society\, the Optical Society of America\, and the Electromagnetic Academy. \nZoom Meeting ID894 3655 9130 Passcode 952358 \n2026 02 19 Photonics Seminar flier
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/photonics-initiative-seminar-garcia-de-abajo/
LOCATION:ASRC Auditorium\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Photonics
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SUMMARY:Spring '26 Biochem Seminar: Neil L. Kelleher
DESCRIPTION:Digitizing Proteoform Biology with Single Molecule & Single Cell Mass Spectrometry \nSince the completion of the Human Genome Project\, much has been made of the need to bridge the gap from genes and traits. As a key nexus for the many interacting ‘-omes’ (genome\,\ntranscriptome\, proteome\, metabolome\, etc.)\, the proteome should offer a tight link between genotype and phenotype. Proteoforms\, or all of the precise molecular forms of a protein\, capture all sources of variability in protein composition (i.e.\, SNPs\, isoforms\, posttranslational modifications)\, and thus provide crucial insights into regulation and function. Now\, “single ion” mass spectrometry is poised to convert genes to proteoform signatures at a far faster rate. Recently we developed proteoform imaging mass spectrometry (PiMS)\, with individual ion mass spectrometry. This platform has been extended now to single-cell Proteoform imaging Mass Spectrometry (scPiMS)\, boosting cell processing rates by >20-fold in the field while detecting proteoforms from single cells. \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/spring-26-biochem-seminar-neil-l-kelleher/
LOCATION:ASRC Auditorium\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Structural Biology
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SUMMARY:Neuroscience Spring 2026 Seminar Series - Edward Vessel
DESCRIPTION: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”. \nJoin in person at the ASRC auditorium\, or Zoom (Meeting ID: 893 5219 3004 Passcode: 026235). \nView the abstract here.
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/neuroscience-spring-2026-seminar-series-edward-vessel/
LOCATION:Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC)\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Neuroscience
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SUMMARY:Photonics Initiative Seminar: Giovanni Scuri
DESCRIPTION:Heterogeneously integrated photonic systems for quantum science \nPhotonic integration of solid-state quantum emitters offers a promising route to scalable on-chip quantum technologies. Achieving this goal requires combining material platforms that provide both strong opto-electronic tunability and robust qubit coherence. In this talk\, I will discuss our recent progress in characterizing and enhancing the coherence of emerging solid-state spin-qubit systems\, as well as in identifying materials with large electro-optic and piezoelectric nonlinearities at cryogenic temperatures\, where many quantum platforms operate. These results provide a pathway toward realizing heterogeneously integrated quantum devices for applications in quantum simulation and sensing. \nGiovanni Scuri is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University\, working in the group of Professor Jelena Vučković. His work bridges nonlinear optics and solidstate quantum systems\, aiming to build hybrid platforms that enable new capabilities in quantum sensing\, networking\, and simulation. He develops efficient spin-photon interfaces and coherent control techniques for solid-state qubits\, while also exploring novel materials with large electro-optic tunability for next-generation active photonic and quantum interconnect technologies. For this research\, he was awarded the Bloch Postdoctoral Fellowship in Quantum Science and Engineering from the Stanford-SLAC Quantum Initiative (QFARM). Giovanni received a B.A. in Physics from Columbia University and a PhD in Physics from Harvard University. As a doctoral student in Professor Hongkun Park’s group\, he studied excitonic physics in atomically thin semiconductors\, advancing both the understanding of strongly correlated electronic systems and the development of optoelectronic devices at the atomically thin limit.
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/photonics-initiative-seminar-giovanni-scuri/
LOCATION:Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC)\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Photonics
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SUMMARY:Spring '26 Biochem Seminar: James Fraser
DESCRIPTION:Statistical Structural Biology \nIn 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 of individual crystals) and use new statistical approaches to identify small molecule binders. This inspires new inhibitors\, allosteric modulators\, and enzyme design strategies. We also examine how experimental information encodes statistical distributions of conformations. This inspires software (e.g. qFit) that reveals hidden conformations\, new guidance frameworks for diffusion models that reveals memorization\, and experiments to extract even more information. These two aspects are synergistic in examining many aspects of biology. A current focus is the promiscuity of ligand binding in drug metabolism proteins\, as part of the OpenADMET. \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/spring-26-biochem-seminar-series-james-fraser/
LOCATION:ASRC Auditorium\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Structural Biology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260311T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260311T143000
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SUMMARY:Photonics Initiative Seminar: Dimitrios Sounas
DESCRIPTION:Wave Engineering with Active Metamaterials: Nonreciprocity\, Bandwidth Enhancement\, and Analog Computing \nModern technological systems are subject to escalating demands for miniaturization\, speed\, adaptability\, and energy efficiency. Conventional design approaches are increasingly approaching\nfundamental performance limits. Overcoming these constraints requires adopting novel material platforms that are not subject to the constraints of conventional materials. To this end\, time-modulated\, tunable\, and nonlinear metamaterials are particularly promising\, as they enable fundamentally new wave phenomena. In this talk\, I will present our recent theoretical and experimental advances toward the development of electromagnetic devices with unprecedented capabilities for communication and computing systems based on active metamaterials. I will discuss the fundamental physics of time modulated media and demonstrate how they can be engineered to overcome symmetry constraints and bandwidth limitations inherent to passive\ndevices. I will then highlight our progress in linear analog computing with metamaterials\, with particular emphasis on the design of programmable platforms. Finally\, I will present recent results on dynamic effects in nonlinear metamaterials and discuss how these phenomena may enable a new generation of wave-based computing architectures. \nBio: Dimitrios Sounas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Wayne State University. He focuses on the theory and design of active metamaterials\, with major contributions in the development of nonreciprocal devices. He has authored or co-authored over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals\, more than 180 conference abstracts\, 6 patents\, and he has received more than 15\,000 citations. \nDimitrios is a Senior Member of IEEE. He is the recipient of the 2020 EurAAP Leopold B. Felsen Award from the European Antennas and Propagation Society and the 2021 Brillouin Medal from the International Phononics Society. He has chaired and organized various sessions in international symposia. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine\, a guest editor for Optical Materials Express\, and a reviewer for more than 20 engineering and physics journals.
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/photonics-initiative-seminar-dimitrios-sounas/
LOCATION:Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC)\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Photonics
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SUMMARY:Nanoscience Joint Speaker Seminar: Dr. Sebastián Díaz and Dr. Katarzyna Szot-Karpińska
DESCRIPTION:  \nTalk Title: Peptide Based Liquid-Liquid Coacervates for Biosensing\, Degradation Resistance\, and as Biofoundries\nDr. Sebastián Díaz\, Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory \nAbstract: Imitating nature\, we combine various biotechnologies\, e.g. peptide-based liquid-liquid phase separations and DNA nanostructures\, to access advanced functionalities. Peptide-based liquid-liquid phase separated domains\, also known as coacervates\, are neither pure homogenous liquid phase nor a heterogenous aggregate\, displaying varying degrees of order. We’ve demonstrated that sequestration of DNA biosensors within coacervates allows for a >20-fold reduction of the limit of detection; an increase in the kinetics; and enhancement in the dye fluorescent quantum yields within the coacervates\, resulting in greater signal-to-noise. We have also found that coacervates protect DNA from nuclease degradation while subsequently allowing for release from the coacervate upon proper stimuli\, which could have implications for nucleotide delivery applications. In a third demonstration\, enzymatic cascades are sequestered into coacervates improving product flux through the system by exploiting enzyme stabilization and intermediate channeling. We present some of our latest work integrating biotechnologies with inorganic nanoparticles to combine and further their novel materials capabilities. \nBio: Sebastián Díaz received his Licentiate in Chemistry from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Georg-August Universität Göttingen (Germany) while working at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. He is currently a research chemist at the Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington\, D.C. His research focuses on the functionalization of nanoparticles for probe development\, controlling energy transfer pathways at the nanoscale\, and interfacing nanotechnology with biology and soft matter for novel materials and catalysis. \n— \nTalk Title: Peptide Probes for Molecular Recognition of C-Reactive Protein: A Combined Study\nDr. Katarzyna Szot-Karpińska\, Institute of Physical Chemistry\, Polish Academy of Sciences\, 01-224 Warsaw\, Poland \nAbstract: We investigate the interactions between C-reactive protein (CRP) and newly developed CRP-binding peptides using biological and physicochemical experiments supported by computational modelling. Three specific CRP-binding peptides (P2\, P3\, P9) have been identified using M13 phage-display technology. The binding properties of the phage displayed peptides to CRP were demonstrated using biological assays. Fibres of the selected phages/peptides interact differently due to different compositions of amino acid sequences on the exposed peptides\, which was confirmed by transmission electron microscopy. Numerical and experimental studies consistently showed that the P3 peptide is the best CRP binder. A combination of theoretical and experimental methods demonstrates that identifying the best binder can be done cheaply and quickly. Such an approach has not been reported previously for peptide screening and demonstrates a new trend in science\, where calculations can replace or support laborious experimental techniques. Finally\, the best CRP binder – the P3 peptide – was used for CRP recognition on silicate-modified indium tin oxide-coated glass electrodes. The obtained electrodes exhibit a wide operational range (1.0-100 µg mL-1) and a detection limit (LOD = 3σ/S) of 0.34 µg mL-1. The dissociation constant (Kd) of 35 ± 1.2 nM was determined from the change in the current. The selectivity of the obtained electrode was demonstrated in the presence of three interfering proteins [1]. Moreover\, the affinity of the P3 peptide for CRP was demonstrated under biologically relevant conditions. The P3 peptide was used as a recognition element in a point-of-care testing sequential microfluidic device. The device was tested with serum\, plasma\, and whole blood samples to validate its applicability\, yielding satisfactory results and a very low limit of detection compared to an antibody-based device on the same platform. These results indicate that the P3 peptide is a promising CRP‑binding ligand that could serve as an alternative to specific antibodies [2]. \nBio: Katarzyna Szot-Karpińska received her M.Sc. in chemistry at the University of Warsaw in 2007. She completed a PhD with honours at the Institute of Physical Chemistry\, Polish Academy of Sciences (IPC PAS) in 2012. From 2012 to 2014\, she was a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Gdansk\, Poland. After her postdoc\, she joined the Surface Nanoengineering for Chemo- and Bio-Sensors at IPC PAS\, where she completed her habilitation in 2024 and is currently an assistant professor. She gained her scientific experience in Germany\, France\, the United Kingdom\, Italy\, Slovenia and the United States. She also completed postgraduate studies in 2025\, in Organization and Management of Clinical Trials\, at Lazarski University\, Warsaw\, Poland\, “Therapeutic peptides in clinical trials”. Her research interests focus on studies on protein-peptide/protein interactions\, molecular recognition\, and the development of new bioreceptors for biosensors\, using biological (phage display technology) and physicochemical (microscopic\, spectroscopic and electrochemical) methods. \n 
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/nanoscience-joint-speaker-seminar-dr-sebastian-diaz-and-dr-katarzyna-szot-karpinska/
LOCATION:ASRC 5th Floor Data Visualization Room\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Nanoscience
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SUMMARY:Heterogeneously Integrated Photonic Systems for Quantum Science
DESCRIPTION: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 a central challenge. In this talk\, scientist Prasad P. Iyer will show how his lab’s research addresses this challenge across increasing levels of complexity: from steering coherent laser beams\, to directing spontaneous emission\, to controlling quantum light. Join us in person at the CUNY ASRC or remotely on Friday\, March 20! \nZoom:\nMeeting ID: 869 1553 7863 Passcode: 073925\nMeeting Link: https://bit.ly/4sBL9Nz \n \nDownload flyer
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/heterogeneously-integrated-photonic-systems-for-quantum-science/
LOCATION:Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC)\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Photonics
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SUMMARY:Universal Wave-Control Framework  for Extremely Tunable Microwave Systems
DESCRIPTION: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 toward establishing a universal framework for controlling waves in extremely tunable microwave systems. Join us in person at the CUNY ASRC or remotely on Monday\, March 23! \nZoom:\nMeeting ID: 854 4777 9784\nPasscode: 947054\nMeeting Link: https://bit.ly/4siDO54 \n \nDownload flyer
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/universal-wave-control-framework-for-extremely-tunable-microwave-systems/
LOCATION:Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC)\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Photonics
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SUMMARY:Photonics Initiative Seminar: Philipp Del Hougne
DESCRIPTION:Universal wave-control framework for extremely tunable microwave systems \nWave-domain programmability emerges as technological enabler of next-generation microwave systems for wireless communications\, sensing\, and wave-domain computing. In this talk\, I will\ndescribe our recent progress toward establishing a universal framework for controlling waves in extremely tunable microwave systems. The predominance of reconfiguration mechanisms based on tunable lumped elements leads to a universal abstraction of these systems in terms of a multiport-network representation\, capable of accurately capturing all relevant electromagnetic interactions between the tunable elements. I will explain how we experimentally calibrate such models for diverse systems such as dynamic metasurface antennas and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces. Then\, I will describe how we navigate the design space based on these models to identify fundamental bounds on realizable functionalities\, as well as configurations closely approaching these bounds. I will outline how these results contribute to the development of a prototype-aware electromagnetic information theory for programmable channels. Finally\, I will discuss principles for system\ndesign to maximize the wave-domain flexibility\, including enhanced dwell times\, non-local programmability\, and time modulation
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/photonics-initiative-seminar-philipp-del-hougne/
LOCATION:Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC)\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Photonics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T110000
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SUMMARY:Dissertation Defense - Jacquelyn Tomaio (Neuroscience)
DESCRIPTION: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 Discrimination“! \nAttend in person at the CUNY ASRC Auditorium or via Zoom (Meeting ID: 839 0024 9544 Passcode: 452588). Please refer to the flyer for more details. \n 
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/dissertation-defense-jacquelyn-tomaio/
LOCATION:Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC)\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Neuroscience
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T110000
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SUMMARY:Photonics Initiative Seminar: Ventsislav K. Valev
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ventsislav K. Valev \nTitle: Polarization-Resolved Nonlinear Optical Activity in Scattering \nAbstract:  Nonlinear optical activity in scattered light\, first predicted in 1979\, has recently become experimentally accessible. The original theory encompassed both elastic scattering and its inelastic counterpart\, hyper-Raman. In elastic scattering\, depending on the ratio between particle size and wavelength\, light scattering is typically classified into Rayleigh\, Mie\, and Tyndall regimes. Their nonlinear counterparts\, hyper-Rayleigh\, hyper-Mie\, and hyper-Tyndall scattering\, arise when the emitted light occurs at harmonic frequencies of the excitation. In chiral systems\, these processes give rise to optical activity\, manifesting as differences in the scattered intensity for opposite polarizations. Recent experiments have established nonlinear optical activity across multiple scattering regimes and harmonic orders; even and odd order nonlinearities follow distinct selection rules and probe different aspects of nanomaterials. We have further shown that chiral nanoparticles can transfer chirality to achiral molecules\, giving riseto both Raman and hyper-Raman optical activity. \nSo far\, however\, nonlinear optical activity in scattering has primarily been detected through intensity-based measurements. In this talk\, I will present some of our latest results demonstrating that chirality can also be directly encoded in the polarization state of the scattered light. This observation opens another dimension for probing nonlinear chiral light–matter interactions\, in both elastic and inelastic scattering regimes. \nBio: Ventsislav K. Valev is a Professor of Physics – Laser Nanoscience\, and Associate Dean (Research) at the University of Bath\, UK. He is internationally recognized for his work in nanophotonics and nonlinear optics\, and is a Fellow of Optica\, SPIE\, the Institute of Physics\, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2023\, he was awarded the Thomas Young Medal by the Institute of Physics\, and he has developed a substantial\, award-winning outreach program.
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/photonics-initiative-seminar-ventsislav-k-valev/
LOCATION:ASRC 1st Floor Seminar Room\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Photonics
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SUMMARY:Spring '26 Biochem Seminar: Margaret Stratton
DESCRIPTION:Tuning a Master Kinase: How CaMKII variants are deployed and degraded \nCa²⁺/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) is a central signaling enzyme that regulates neuronal plasticity\, fertilization\, and cardiac function. Although its catalytic and oligomerization domains are highly conserved\, extensive alternative splicing within a variable linker region generates numerous CaMKII proteoforms whose functional roles remain unclear. Transcript sequencing of human hippocampus reveals three CaMKIIα splice variants in human hippocampal tissue. Biochemical and cellular analyses show that linker composition tunes CaMKII activation by Ca²⁺/calmodulin\, with electrostatic effects that modulate regulatory segment accessibility. In addition to activation control\, CaMKII signaling is regulated by selective degradation: activated CaMKII is targeted by the ubiquitin–proteasome system. Together\, these results reveal how alternative splicing and ubiquitin-dependent turnover cooperate to tune the activity of this master kinase. \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/spring-26-biochem-seminar-margaret-stratton/
LOCATION:ASRC Auditorium\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Structural Biology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260331T130000
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SUMMARY:Dissertation Defense - Anna Flury (MCD)
DESCRIPTION: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“! \nAttend in person at the CUNY ASRC Auditorium or via Zoom (Meeting ID: 829 1434 2008 Passcode: 351468). Please refer to the flyer and the thesis abstract for more details. \n 
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/dissertation-defense-anna-flury-mcd/
LOCATION:Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC)\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Neuroscience
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260415T120000
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SUMMARY:Spring '26 Biochem Seminar: Pratyush Tiwary
DESCRIPTION:AI augmented molecular simulations for predicting protein and RNA structural ensembles\nAI is now everywhere in chemistry\, from structure prediction to molecule generation to automated synthesis. The excitement is real\, but so is the unease about what is genuinely predictive and what is closer to impressive memorization. In this colloquium I will take a statistical physicist’s perspective and use examples from my group’s work to argue for cautious\, but clear\, enthusiasm for AI in chemistry and allied fields. I will show how we combine generative AI with statistical mechanics to learn Boltzmann weighted ensembles from limited training data\, and then extrapolate across temperature\, pressure\, and other thermodynamic conditions reducing the need for explicit\, expensive simulations or experiments. I will highlight the breadth of these methods through applications that include nucleation of crystal polymorphs under nanoconfinement\, prediction of protein and RNA structural ensembles\, and conformation selective drug discovery efforts aimed at Alzheimer’s disease and hypertension. Time permitting\, I will discuss briefly what I think are the biggest challenges facing chemistry research and education as we proceed with the perhaps inevitable adoption of AI. \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/spring-26-biochem-seminar-pratyush-tiwary/
LOCATION:ASRC Auditorium\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Structural Biology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260429T120000
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SUMMARY:Spring '26 Biochem Seminar: Abhishek Singharoy
DESCRIPTION:Inverting Biophysics: From Function to Ensembles \nMost of computational biology is predicated upon the sequence → structure → function → phenotype paradigm. Thanks to artificial intelligence and the availability of data at various scales\, researchers have been trying to bridge gaps between the different tiers of this process\, starting from the age-old genotype–phenotype modeling to CASP and Alphafold’s sequence-structure up to recent attempts to go from sequence to ensemble. However\, physical causality is often missing in the traditional bioinformatic models\, thus far sidelining the AIdriven advances only to predictions of the forward direction. The lecture will introduce physical ideas to conceive generative models that backmap phenotypes down to an ensemble of structures and sequences. For example\, leveraging our work on modeling the diffusion of charge carriers in bioenergetic membranes\, we computed the mechanism of chemokine binding to the Oxford CovidVaccine. With AstraZenaca\, we computationally redesigned the adenovirus vector to prevent potential clotting disorders. Using Google’s inception network algorithm\, we invert this immune recognition function into a generalizable learning strategy of electrostatic structures across proteins. We are now using this electrostatic network to study disease association in patients\, as well as design peptide therapeutics\, and search of hidden toxins\, covering the entire human proteome\, generalizing the molecular function-to-ensemble paradigm. \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/spring-26-biochem-seminar-abhishek-singharoy/
LOCATION:ASRC Auditorium\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Structural Biology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T120000
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SUMMARY:Neuroscience Spring 2026 Seminar Series - Mike Beckstead
DESCRIPTION:Mike Beckstead\, Ph.D.\, Professor and Hille Family Foundation Chair in Neurodegenerative Disease Research\, Aging & Metabolism Research Program\, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation\, will give a talk titled “Hyperexcitability of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons in mouse Alzheimer’s models”. \nJoin in person at the ASRC auditorium\, or Zoom (Meeting ID: 829 2182 1802 Passcode: 491508). \nView the abstract here.
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/neuroscience-spring-2026-seminar-series-mike-beckstead/
LOCATION:Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC)\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Neuroscience
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260521T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260521T110000
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SUMMARY:Photonics Initiative Seminar: Hari Padma
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Hari Padma\, Case Western Reserve University\nDecoding light-driven quantum materials\nAbstract: Driving quantum materials with intense optical pulses offers a powerful means to control their behavior\, leading to remarkable emergent phenomena such as photoinduced magnetic\, ferroelectric\, and superconducting phases. However\, such phenomena are usually transient\, limited to the sub-picosecond duration of the optical pulse or decaying shortly thereafter. Advancing the design and control of light-driven quantum materials therefore requires targeted strategies to achieve long-lived\, metastable phases. In this talk\, I will describe how symmetry protection leads to electronic metastability in a prototypical cuprate ladder material\, Sr14Cu24O41. This finding is enabled by femtosecond resonant x-ray spectroscopy\, which provides unprecedented access to correlated electronic phenomena far from equilibrium. Our measurements show that the metastability is driven by a transfer of holes from chain-like charge reservoirs into the ladders. This ultrafast charge redistribution arises from the optical dressing and activation of a hopping pathway that is otherwise forbidden by symmetry. Relaxation back to equilibrium is hence suppressed once the optical pulse ceases. Remarkably\, we find that this trapped nonequilibrium electronic distribution hosts a propagating\, collective charge mode that is absent at equilibrium\, representing a possible precursor to superconducting pairing. Our results demonstrate how dressing quantum materials with electromagnetic fields can provide a rational design strategy for nonequilibrium phases of matter. \n\nPadma\, et al. Symmetry-protected electronic metastability in an optically driven cuprate ladder\, Nature Materials 24\, 1584 (2025)\nPadma\, et al. A light-induced charge order mode in a metastable cuprate ladder\, arXiv:2510.24686 (2025)\n\nBio: Hari Padma is an experimental condensed matter physicist and the Frederick Reines Assistant Professor of Physics at Case Western Reserve University. Prior to joining the faculty at Case in 2026\, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physics at Harvard University. He earned his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Penn State University in 2021. His research addresses fundamental problems in quantum materials\, with a focus on probing and controlling nonequilibrium electronic phases using advanced ultrafast optical and x-ray techniques. \nZoom ID 823 5514 7219 Passcode 906987 \n2026 05 21 Photonics Seminar flier
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/photonics-initiative-seminar-hari-padma/
LOCATION:ASRC Auditorium\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Photonics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T120000
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SUMMARY:Epigenetics Core Lunch & Learn: New Application Updates
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on May 28\, 2026\, for a seminar on the latest single-cell application updates at the ASRC Epigenetics Core. Featuring: \n\nVisium HD spatial transcriptomics on the Visium CytAssist platform\nFlex single cell gene expression on the Chromium iX controller\n\nKey Highlights: \n\nWhole transcriptome spatial gene expression analysis at single-cell scale.\nFlex gene expression allows single-cell RNA-seq on fixed cells/nuclei and reduced costs.\nConsiderations for sample preparation and sequencing\n\nAttend in person at ASRC 5th fl Data Viz room (lunch is provided!) or join by Zoom. Meeting ID: 83399148619 Passcode: 284160 \nCheck out the flyer here. \nFor further details\, contact:\nJia Liu at Epigenetics Core Facility\n212.413.3183\nEmail: jliu1@gc.cuny.edu
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/epigenetics-core-lunch-learn-new-application-updates/
LOCATION:Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC)\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Neuroscience
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260618T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260618T170000
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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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