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SUMMARY:ASRC-CCNY Seminar Series in Biochemistry\, Biophysics and Biodesign: Marta Filizola
DESCRIPTION:Marta Filizola\, Professor of Pharmacological Sciences and Neuroscience\, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai\, New York\, NY\, will be giving a one-hour talk titled: \nModern Drug Discovery Using Enhanced Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Artificial Intelligence. \nABSTRACT By contributing distinctive atomic-level understanding of how drugs bind and activate their target receptors\, enhanced molecular dynamics simulations leveraged by artificial intelligence (AI)-based methods are playing a pivotal role in shedding light on the complexities of receptor pharmacology\, thus efficiently guiding the design of improved therapeutics. The opportunities offered by emergent technologies such as AI-based statistical machine learning and deep learning methods are unprecedented and finally made possible by access to ultra-large collections of compounds\, large amounts of data generated by increasingly more accurate biochemical and biophysical studies of complex biomedical systems\, as well as more powerful supercomputers and cloud computing. \nIn this presentation\, I will summarize recent efforts from my lab using various combinations of these technologies towards the discovery of safer therapeutics targeting the opioid receptors. Opioids continue to be gold standard medications for the treatment of moderate or severe pain\, but they usability is hindered by their wide spectrum of side effects\, including life-threatening respiratory depression and abuse liability. My lab has undertaken specific strategic directions to discover safer and yet efficacious opioid ligands\, and my presentation will provide an overview of our most recent accomplishments in this area. \n  \nThis seminar will be presented in the ASRC Auditorium and broadcasted via Zoom. \nTo join these ongoing events via Zoom\, please use the link below: \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nMeeting ID: 495 404 8198 \nFor more information about this hybrid event please contact: \nHyacinth Camillieri \nhcamillieri@gc.cuny.edu
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/asrc-ccny-seminar-series-in-biochemistry-biophysics-and-biodesign-marta-filizola/
LOCATION:ASRC Auditorium\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Structural Biology
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SUMMARY:Photonics Seminar: Mischa Bonn\, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Photonics Initiative for a one-hour talk from Mischa Bonn\, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research\, Mainz\, Germany\, titled: \nUltrafast Terahertz Photoconductivity of New Materials \nAbstract – For novel functional electronic materials\, we need to characterize the electrical properties of novel materials\, in particular electrical transport\, defined by electron and hole mobility. Classical approaches such as field-effect transistors and four-point probe measurements of mobility often pose challenges: crystalline regions in the material are typically smaller than the distance between electrodes. Then one needs to distinguish between transport within crystalline regions\, and transport between these regions. In my presentation\, I will show how noninvasive optical Terahertz spectroscopy methods can provide fundamental insights into new materials and their conductive properties. \nBio – Bonn serves as Max Planck Director and professor by special appointment in Amsterdam (Physics) and Mainz (Chemistry). The overall aim of Bonn’s research is to reveal the structure and dynamics of molecules and intermolecular interactions at interfaces\, as well as transport of molecules and charge across those interfaces. This is of fundamental interest\, but also highly relevant for environmental processes (e.g. chemical conversion on ice surfaces)\, biophysics (e.g. water\, lipids and proteins at membrane interfaces) and energy conversion (e.g. photovoltaics\, photocatalytic water splitting at interfaces and charge carrier dynamics across semiconductor nanostructures). To achieve these goals\, Bonn develops and implements state-of-the-art\, laser-based spectroscopic tools. \nThis one-hour seminar will be presented in the ASRC Auditorium and broadcasted via Zoom. \nTo access the zoom>>> \nMeeting ID: 834 5578 0079 \nPasscode: 070776 \nFor more information about this hybrid event\, please contact: \nLeah Abraha \nlabraha@gc.cuny.edu
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/photonics-seminar-mischa-bonn-max-planck-institute-for-polymer-research/
LOCATION:ASRC Auditorium\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Photonics
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SUMMARY:ASRC-CCNY Seminar Series in Biochemistry\, Biophysics and Biodesign: Daniel Rosenbaum
DESCRIPTION:Associate Professor Daniel Rosenbaum from the Department of Biophysics\, UT Southwestern Medical Center\, Dallas\, TX\, will be giving a one-hour talk titled: \nMolecular Mechanism of Cholesterol Homeostasis in Mammalian Cells. \nABSTRACT- The cholesterol-sensing protein Scap induces cholesterol synthesis by transporting membrane-bound sterol regulatory element-binding proteins (SREBPs) from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to the Golgi apparatus for proteolytic activation. We have used cryo-EM to elucidate structures of Scap alone and in complex with the ER retention protein Insig. These structures revealed different conformations of Scap\, with different arrangements of its transmembrane helices and luminal domain. We postulate that this conformational change halts Scap transport of SREBPs and inhibits cholesterol synthesis\, and we are currently working to understand the molecular mechanism of cholesterol binding and allosteric control of the Scap-Insig-SREBP complex. \nThis seminar will be presented in the ASRC Auditorium and broadcasted via Zoom. \nTo join these ongoing events via Zoom\, please use the link below: \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nMeeting ID: 495 404 8198 \nFor more information about this hybrid event please contact: \nHyacinth Camillieri \nhcamillieri@gc.cuny.edu
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/asrc-ccny-seminar-series-in-biochemistry-biophysics-and-biodesign-daniel-rosenbaum/
LOCATION:ASRC Auditorium\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Structural Biology
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SUMMARY:Bio-Inspired and Green (BIG) Science and Technology Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Click Here for the BIG Science and Technology Event Page »
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/bio-inspired-and-green-big-technology-symposium/
LOCATION:Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC)\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Nanoscience
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SUMMARY:ASRC-CCNY Seminar Series in Biochemistry\, Biophysics and Biodesign: Harel Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:Professor Harel Weinstein of the Physiology & Biophysics Department at Weill Cornell Medicine\, New York\, NY\, will be giving a one-hour talk titled: \nComputational biophysics illuminates the functional dynamics of molecular machines at the membrane. \nABSTRACT- Major advances in understanding mechanisms of cell physiology in health and disease rely on the ability to detect and interpret dynamic changes in macromolecular structure that are triggered in response to functional stimuli between the cell and its environment. The resulting information is central to practical applications including molecular engineering and the design of new therapies. With the development of ever more powerful experimental methods – crystallography\, NMR\, ultra-resolution microscopy and Cryo-EM – a veritable treasure of information at the required atomic resolution is available for this purpose. But the grand challenge addressed by computational simulation is to investigate the detailed dynamics of these systems under various conditions that determine their functional mechanisms. Our work takes advantage of the combination of structural and functional data to illuminate such mechanisms. Recent projects focus on mechanisms of molecular machines that (i)-Pierce and Fuse membranes (e.g.\, the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein)\, or (ii) Exchange lipids between membrane leaflets (e.g.\, the TMEM16 lipid scramblases\, or (iii) Transfer Signals and Substances across the cell membrane (e.g.\, GPCRs and Neurotransmitter Transporters). To perform their biological functions\, these molecular systems process and/or transmit a triggering signal to a distal function-determining site within the protein. This type of intramolecular “action at a distance” – termed allostery –is ubiquitous in biomolecular function\, but is rarely defined in structural detail and quantified. To extract this information from the necessarily very long Molecular Dynamics (MD) trajectories\, we use a variety of quantitative approaches such as the Information Theory-based NbIT framework we developed to discover the allosteric pathways underlying the dynamic functional mechanisms of complex proteins. This will be illustrated for neurotransmitter transporters. Signaling along such allosteric pathways revealed with NbIT\, involves conformational state-to-state transitions in response to triggers such as ligand binding. These are rare events in the dynamics of complex molecular machines described by the long MD simulations. To reveal such function-related transitions we developed a novel Rare Event Detection (RED) protocol which utilizes an unsupervised Machine Learning technique – named Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) that will be illustrated with application to yet another family of molecular machines – the GPCRs – to reveal the time-ordered specific ligand-determined functional mechanisms encoded in the MD trajectories \n  \nThis seminar will be presented in the ASRC Auditorium and broadcasted via Zoom. \nTo join these ongoing events via Zoom\, please use the link below: \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nMeeting ID: 495 404 8198 \nFor more information about this hybrid event please contact: \nLauren Gohara\nlgohara@ccny.cuny.edu\n(212) 650-8803
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/asrc-ccny-seminar-series-in-biochemistry-biophysics-and-biodesign-harel-weinstein/
LOCATION:ASRC Auditorium\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Structural Biology
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SUMMARY:CCNY Inaugural Harry Lustig Lecture: Arthur I. Miller
DESCRIPTION:Please join the CCNY Physics Department for a one- hour lecture from alumni\, Arthur I Miller. The topic of his lecture will be art-science-technology\, based on his recent book The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity. \nAIs are already creating works that we recognize as art. But does this make them truly artists? Can AIs possess the attributes of living beings even though they are alien life forms? If and when this is the case\, their intelligence will no longer be ‘artificial’ but as real as ours. In my talk I will focus on the exciting art\, literature and music already being created by artificial neural networks and consider the key issue of whether machines can be creative like us. \n  \nArthur I. Miller is a CCNY Physics graduate\, went on to MIT PhD.  After faculty positions at U of Massachusetts and Harvard\, he became in 1991 Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at UCL.  He is the author of a groundbreaking theory of creativity which applies to both humans and machines. He has written many critically acclaimed books\, including the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Einstein\, Picasso: Space\, Time\, and the Beauty that Causes Havoc; 137: Jung\, Pauli\, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession; and The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity. \n____________________________________________________________ \nThe Harry Lustig Lecture is supported by the Harry Lustig Fund\, established 2020 in honor of Harry Lustig\, a 1948 CCNY Physics graduate who from 1964 as Dept Chair\, Dean of Science\, and Vice-President for Academic Affairs & Provost of CCNY helped transform CCNY from world-class teaching institution into a world-class research institution.  After retirement 1993\, he went on to be treasurer of American Physical Society and Acting Executive Secretary. \n  \nThis hybrid event will take place in the ASRC Auditorium at 4pm\, with drinks and food served beforehand\, at 3:30pm. \nPlease register here  for the event. For those unable to attend in person\, zoom link will be emailed. \nHosted by: \nVinod M. Menon \nProfessor & Chair of Physics \nCity College of New York \nPlease contact Shelby Truitt at asrc.event@gc.cuny.edu with further questions. \n 
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/ccny-inaugural-lustig-lecture-arthur-i-miller/
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:Symposium on Impact of Climate Crisis on Ecosystem and Human Health (Hybrid)
DESCRIPTION:Join the Neuroscience Initiative for CUNY Think Tank: A two-day symposium on the impact of climate crisis on the ecosystem and human health.  \n  \n\nA two-day hybrid symposium on the impact of climate crisis on the ecosystem and human health on April 28-29\, 2022. The symposium will be hosted online via Zoom\, and in person at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center. \nThe meeting highlights the latest work on environmental science at CUNY and invites a dialogue with representatives from federal\, state and city agencies. \nThere will be opportunities for networking and small group discussions among scientists\, nurses and executive officers\, all sharing an interest and different perspectives on how to tackle the climate change challenge. \nThe research goal is to identify current gaps of knowledge and areas of need\, and to discuss potential collaborations to be translated into interdisciplinary research proposals and grant opportunities. \nThe educational goal is to work towards the development of novel integrated curricula. \n\n\nThe symposium is supported by CUNY’s Interdisciplinary Climate Crisis Research Grant awarded to: \n\nPatrizia Casaccia\, Advanced Science Research Center\nJoshua Cheng\, Brooklyn College\nShiraz Mujtaba\, Medgar Evers College\nHamid Norouzi\, New York City College of Technology\n\n  \nTo see the full schedule and to register\, please click here.  \nFor further questions\, please contact Kevin Wang\, at kwang@gc.cuny.edu \n 
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/symposium-on-impact-of-climate-crisis-on-ecosystem-and-human-health-hybrid/
LOCATION:Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC)\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environmental Sciences,Neuroscience
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SUMMARY:Meet the Reporter: Shaping STEM Research for the General Media
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, April 29\, 2022 at 2 p.m. for a media-skills building session that includes an opportunity to talk about your research with working science reporters from Scientific American\, Science Friday\, PBS and more. \nNow more than ever it’s critical for science to be accessible and understandable to the public. In this Communicating Your Science Workshop\, hosted in partnership with CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism\, we will cover how to distill your complex science into compelling talking points for the public and communicate your work to science reporters. \nAll are welcome\, but you must reserve an interview slot and complete a short talking points worksheet as part of your registration if you want to meet with a reporter. One-on-one interviews are available to 21 registrants on a first come\, first serve basis. Activities include:\n•    A briefing from science journalist (New York Times\, Newsweek and Scientific American) and Craig Newmark School of Journalism Director of Health and Science Reporting Emily Laber-Warren\n•    Help perfecting your elevator pitch for different audiences\n•    A one-on-one interview with a working journalist\n•    A feedback and wrap-up session \nRegistration for this event is now open. Once registered\, you will receive a link that will allow you to sign up for a one-on-one reporter interview.  \nREGISTER: https://bit.ly/3r9AJqG
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/meet-the-reporter-shaping-stem-research-for-the-general-public-in-partnership-with-the-cuny-craig-t-newmark-graduate-school-of-journalism/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Environmental Sciences,Nanoscience,Neuroscience,Photonics,Structural Biology
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