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SUMMARY:ZOOM EHOS Safety Training
DESCRIPTION:ZOOM EHOS Safety Training Schedule for February 2023. \n\n\n\n\n\nJ Topic \n\n\n\n\nDate \n\n\n\n\nTime \n\n\n\n\nMeeting ID/Pass Code \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCryogenic Safety \n\n\n\n\nThursday \n2–02-23 \n\n\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM \n\n\n\n\n861 8303 3722/080382 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaser Safety Training \n\n\n\n\nThursday \n2-02-23 \n\n\n\n\n1:00PM – 2:00 PM \n\n\n\n\n827 5462 4355/738777 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nC14 FDNY Fire Safety \n\n\n\n\nTuesday \n2–07-23 \n\n\n\n\n4:00 PM – 5:30 PM \n\n\n\n\n857 6453 0185/850508 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLab Safety \n\n\n\n\nThursday \n2–09-23 \n\n\n\n\n10:00 AM –11:30 AM \n\n\n\n\n876 8607 8771/659257 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nOSHA Blood–borne Pathogens \n\n\n\n\nTuesday \n2–14-23 \n\n\n\n\n10:00 AM – 11:00 AM \n\n\n\n\n863 8349 6709/885895 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCryogenic Safety \n\n\n\n\nWednesdays \n2-15-23 \n\n\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM \n\n\n\n\n825 8366 1201/836013 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nC14 FDNY Fire Training \n\n\n\n\nThursday \n2-16-23 \n\n\n\n\n4:00 PM – 5:30 PM \n\n\n\n\n889 4692 1492/500395 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLab Safety \n\n\n\n\nTuesday \n2-21-23 \n\n\n\n\n10:00 AM –11:30 AM \n\n\n\n\n828 3017 4413/973018 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaser Safety Training \n\n\n\n\nTuesday \n2-21-22 \n\n\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM \n\n\n\n\n842 9291 8319/081338 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEPA Waste Management \n\n\n\n\nThursday \n2-23-23 \n\n\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:30 PM \n\n\n\n\n835 6934 6690/846542 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nC14 FDNY Fire Training \n\n\n\n\nTuesday \n2-28-23 \n\n\n\n\n10:00 AM – 11:30 AM \n\n\n\n\n819 2262 5728/349374 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nOSHA Blood–borne Pathogens \n\n\n\n\nTuesday \n2-28-23 \n\n\n\n\n11:00 AM – 12:00 PM \n\n\n\n\n832 6777 9452/826747 \n\n\n\n\n\nThe Zoom login information is on the schedule.  If you wish to preregister\, please use the Formstack program located on the ASRC website.  It is not required to preregister. \nWhat is required?  Attendees show-up\, login\, attend and provide the instructor with the required information at the end of the training to get credit\, a certificate for the training and credit on ASRC’s training records. \nFurther questions can be emailed to: \nThomas Dickson \nEnvironmental Health and Occupational Safety \nASRC – Graduate Center CUNY \nE: tdickson@gc.cuny.edu
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/zoom-ehos-safety-training/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230202T120000
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SUMMARY:Environmental Science Initiative Seminar: Anthony Cak\, PhD\, Nicolas Maxfield\, and Hussain Bokhari
DESCRIPTION:Inaugural speakers of this spring seminar series with the ASRC Environmental Science Initiative will include Anthony Cak\, PhD\, Nicolas Maxfield\, and Hussain Bokhari\, presenting “TechTalks” on: \n• “Using WebPlotDigitizer to Extract Data from Graphs” – Anthony D. Cak\, Ph.D.\n• “Downloading Water Quality Data from USGS and other Cool Tricks using R” – Nicolas Maxfield\n• “Linear Regression for Predictive Model Building” – Hussain Bokhari \nAbstract: Tech Talks are short talks to share with the community some insight into useful techniques for data processing (retrieval\, staging\, analysis and presentation). Contributions are open to anyone that has a cool technique to share. Tech Talks are generally structured as guided examples of the technique at hand\, along with links to further tutorials and documentation. \nBios: Anthony D. Cak\, Ph.D. is the Associate Director of the Environmental Sciences Initiative at the ASRC. His research interests include ecosystem ecology and hydrology\, geospatial technology\, data visualizations\, and science policy and communication. \nNicolas Maxfield is a third-year Ph.D. student at the CUNY Graduate Center with the Earth and Environmental Sciences program. His research is in water quality modeling\, focused specifically on how climate extremes influence the transport of nitrogen through rivers and to the coast of the United States. \nHussain Bokhari is a Research Assistant at the CUNY ASRC and a graduate student of the “Sustainability in the Urban Environment” master’s program at the City College of New York\, with an undergraduate background in physics. For the past 3 years\, Hussain’s research has specialized in integrated geospatial modeling to simulate food-energy-water systems dynamics at the regional scale and evaluate risks to the bulk sector in the U.S. \nThis seminar series will take place in the 1st Fl Seminar Room with the option to join via Zoom. \nPlease follow lobby signage directing you to the 1st Fl corridor windows where you will then walk right until reaching the 1st Fl Seminar Room. \nMeeting ID: 892 7906 4948 Passcode: 516742\nDial by your location: +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) \nFurther questions can be emailed to: \nDoris Switzer \nEnvironmental Science Initiative Coordinator \nswitzer@gc.cuny.edu
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/environmental-science-initiative-seminar-anthony-cak-phd-fabio-corsi-phd-hussain-bokhari-and-nicolas-maxfield/
LOCATION:ASRC 1st Floor Seminar Room\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environmental Sciences
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SUMMARY:ASRC Photonics Initiative Seminar: Yonatan Sivan\, Ben-Gurion University
DESCRIPTION:In this one-hour seminar\, Yonatan Sivan\, Ben-Gurion University\, will be presenting a talk titled: \n“Hot” carriers in metal nanostructures – when they matter\, and when they do not… \nAbstract – In the last couple of decades\, “hot” carriers in metal nanostructures have been simultaneously an inspirational concept to which a series of effects were ascribed\, but also a source of confusion and hot debates. My talk would be aimed at improving our understanding of the role played by “hot” carriers in metals as well as transparent oxides via rigorous modelling of their generation process and dynamics. \nI will start by presenting a self-consistent theory of the steady-state electron distribution in metals under continuous-wave illumination which treats\, for the first time\, both thermal and non-thermal effects on the same footing. I will show that the number of non-thermal electrons (i.e.\, the deviation from thermal equilibrium) is very small\, so that the power that ends up generating these non-thermal electrons is many orders of magnitude smaller than the amount of power that leads to regular heating [1]. I will then review in detail a recent experimental quantitative confirmation of our theory obtained in current measurements through a plasmonic molecular junction [2]; peculiarly\, our interpretation of the experimental data is quite different from that offered in the original paper in which it appeared. \nIn the second part of the talk\, I shall discuss reports of observation of nonthermal electrons in two classes of experiments. First\, I will review our re-interpretation of the exciting claims on the possibility to enhance chemical reactions with non-thermal electrons from metals as pure thermal effects [3]\, showing that in many cases\, the role of thermal effects was grossly underestimated. Then\, I will show that non-thermal electrons do manifest themselves in metal photoluminescence experiments\, explain why they sometime “look” like thermal carriers and resolve several decade long disagreements in the literature [4]. \nAt the end of the talk\, I will discuss the role played by “hot” carriers generated by ultrafast pulses\, first in photoluminescence experiments\, and then in the determination of the nonlinear optical response of transparent conducting oxides [5]. \nReferences\n[1] Dubi & Sivan\, Light: Science & Applications 8\, 89 (2019)\, [2] Dubi\, Un & Sivan\, Nano Letters 22\, 2127 (2022)\, [3] Sivan & Dubi\, Applied Physics Letters: Perspectives 117\, 130501 (2020)\, [4] Sivan & Dubi\, ACS Nano 15\, 8724 (2021)\, [5] Sarkar\, Un & Sivan\, Phys. Rev. Applied 19\, 014005 (2023). \nBio – Prof. Yonatan Sivan is an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev\, Israel. In 2008 he earned a PhD in Physics from Tel-Aviv University. For more see: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4361-4179 \nThis seminar will take place in the ASRC auditorium while broadcast via Zoom.\nTo join via Zoom:\nID 810 4208 1203\nPasscode 151233\n\nFurther questions about this hybrid event can be emailed to:\nLeah Abraha\nlabraha@gc.cuny.edu
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/asrc-photonics-initiative-seminar-yonatan-sivan-ben-gurion-university/
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: Pilar Cossio\, Flatiron Institute
DESCRIPTION:In this weekly seminar series\, Pilar Cossio\, Research Scientist and Project Leader for the Structural & Molecular Biophysics Center for Computational Mathematics\, Flatiron Institute\, New York\, NY\, will present a one-hour talk titled: \n Free energies from cryoEM particles \nAbstract   Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is an experimental technique that measures single-particle projections of biomolecules. Although single-particle cryo-EM is widely used for 3D reconstruction\, it has the potential to provide information about a biomolecule’s conformational variability and provide quantitative measurements of probability distributions. However\, cryo-EM images are challenging to analyze due to their low signal-to-noise ratio. To address these issues\, we developed mathematical methods to infer free-energy profiles and their uncertainties from cryo-EM raw images. \nThis seminar will be presented in the ASRC Auditorium and broadcast via Zoom\, with snacks and refreshments to start at 11:30am in the cafe. \nTo join these ongoing events via Zoom\, please use the meeting info below: \nMeeting ID:  968 3104 2138\nPasscode:  ASRC-CDI \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-pilar-cossio-flatiron-institute/
LOCATION:ASRC Auditorium & Cafe\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Structural Biology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230209T100000
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SUMMARY:Photonics Seminar: Albert Polman\, AMOLF
DESCRIPTION:In this one-hour seminar\, Albert Polman\, Center for Nanophotonics\, NWO Institute\, AMOLF\, will be presenting a talk titled: \nOptical metasurface performing mathematical operations and making better solar cells. \nAbstract – I will present our recent collaborative work together with Andrea Alù’s group at CUNY and Nader Engheta’s group at the University of Pennsylvania on the design\, fabrication and operation of silicon-based optical metasurfaces that perform mathematical operations in an analog way\, using light fields as input and output signals. We show how the precise interplay between scattering components in silicon gratings creates a transmission spectrum and angular dependence that creates a mathematical second derivative on an input image. Inspired by a design for the millimeter-wave regime in Engheta’s group\, we then designed a metasurface that solves an integral equation using light in the visible spectral range\, using grating orders in a periodicgeometry as input and output ports. \nInterestingly\, a similar scattering matrix formalism as for the equation solver also helps create a new geometry to enhance the efficiency of silicon-based multijunction solar cells. Using substrate-conformal soft imprint technology we create a metallodielectric metasurface backcontact for a Si/GaAs/GaInP triple-junction solar cell\, with the semiconductor layers fabricated at Fraunhofer ISE (Freiburg)\, in which the scattering matrix is designed to optimize light trapping in the Si bottom cell. This results in a very high photovoltaic conversion efficiency of 35.6%. I will present a future perspective of this concept for other geometries\, including silicon-perovskite tandem solar cells. \nBio – Albert Polman is Scientific Group Leader at AMOLF\, one of the research institutes of the Dutch research counsel (NWO) in Amsterdam\, the Netherlands. Polman received his master’s degree in physics (1985) and his Ph.D. degree in materials science and engineering (1989) from the University of Utrecht. From 1989 to 1991 he was a post-doctoral staff researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill\, New Jersey). Since 1991 he has been associated with AMOLF\, first as a group leader\, since 1999 also as a department head. Polman is one of the pioneers of the research field of nanophotonics: the control\, understanding\, and application of light at the nanoscale. He is best known for inventing optical doping\, i.e.\, the incorporation and optical activation of optically active ions in thinfilm materials by ion implantation. Polman’s research group at AMOLF specializes in fundamental studies at the interface between optical physics and materials science. Polman is an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and recipient of three ERC Advanced Investigator Grants (2011\, 2016\, 2021). He is Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS) and the Optical Society of America (OSA) and was awarded the Frew Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Sciences (2017)\, the EPS Research into the Science of Light Prize (2017)\, the Physica Prize of the Dutch Physical Society (2014) and the Julius Springer Award for Applied Physics (2014). Polman’s group has published over 340 articles in international journals that are cited over 37.000 times. In addition to his present group\, Polman has educated over 40 PhD students and postdocs\, and over 30 master students. The LMPV program that he leads has educated more than 100 PhD students\, postdocs and master students. \nThis seminar will be presented in-person\, with the option to join online via Zoom. \nTo join via Zoom: \nID: 871 5275 2281 \nPasscode: 700656 \nFor further information\, please contact: \nLeah Abraha \nlabraha@gc.cuny.edu
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/photonics-seminar-albert-polman-nwo-institute-amolf/
LOCATION:ASRC Auditorium\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Photonics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T120000
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SUMMARY:ASRC-CCNY Seminar Series in Biochemistry\, Biophysics and Biodesign: Tanja Mittag\, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
DESCRIPTION:In this weekly seminar series\, Tanja Mittag\, Member of the Structural Biology Department Faculty\, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital\, Memphis\, TN\, will present a one-hour talk titled: \nConcepts in phase separation – from sequence-encoded driving forces to material properties \nABSTRACT Phase transitions underlie cellularcompartmentalization and mediate fundamental biologicalprocesses. How the driving force for phase separation is encodedin the protein sequence is therefore an important question. Here\,we use biophysical experiments\, theory\, and simulations togenerate a conceptual stickers-and-spacers framework tounderstand phase behavior of intrinsically disordered prion-likelow-complexity domains (PLCDs) of RNA-binding proteins.Stickers form non-covalent inter-and intramolecular crosslinks\,whereas spacers enable or suppress the formation of thesecrosslinks. We have previously shown that aromatic residues arethe stickers in the PLCD of hnRNPA1. Here\, we demonstrate thatsticker residues mediate networking and spacer residues influencephase separation through their effective solvation volume. Ouranalytical and coarse-grained models accurately predict PLCDphase behavior. Based on the resulting stickers-and-spacersmodel\, we can think of condensates as network fluids. We areextending our stickers-and-spacers framework to understandmaterial properties of condensates and how their aging processes\,which have been linked to neurodegenerative diseases\, areinfluenced by network structure and interfaces. \nThis seminar will be presented in the ASRC Auditorium and broadcast via Zoom\, with snacks and refreshments to start at 11:30am in the cafe. \nTo join these ongoing events via Zoom\, please use the link below: \nMeeting ID: 968 3104 2138 \nPasscode: ASRC-CDI \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-tanja-mittag-st-jude-childrens-research-hospital/
LOCATION:ASRC Auditorium & Cafe\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Structural Biology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230216T120000
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SUMMARY:Environmental Science Initiative Seminar: Maria Diuk-Wasser\, PhD\, Columbia University
DESCRIPTION:Continuing this spring seminar series\, the ASRC Environmental Science Initiative is excited to host Maria Diuk-Wasser\, PhD\, Director of Graduate Studies and Professor in the Dept. of Ecology\, Evolution and Environmental Biology at Columbia University\, presenting a talk on: \n Tick-Bone Zoonoses in the New York Metropolitan area: A Coupled Natural-Human System \nAbstract: The nature of the linkage between biodiversity and infectious disease risk has been frequently debated. Discussions have centered on the shape\, directionality\, generality and scale of this association. Tick-borne diseases continue to emerge as a public health threat and have been used as a model system to study the biodiversity-disease relationship. Framing tick-borne diseases as a coupled natural-human system\, I will discuss the differential roles of habitat fragmentation\, host community assembly\, human exposure and protective behaviors in mediating the biodiversity-disease relationship. Disentangling these multiple determinants can help guide policy decisions for biodiversity conservation and public health. \nBio: Maria is a Professor in the Department of Ecology\, Evolution\, and Environmental Biology (E3B). Her research integrates empirical and analytical tools to disentangle the ecological and environmental drivers for the emergence of vector-borne diseases\, particularly tick-borne. Current research focuses on the role of pathogen interactions\, host community composition\, climate and land use change in the epidemics of multiple tick-borne pathogens in the United States. Other research interests include landscape ecology\, evolutionary ecology\, behavioral ecology and conservation biology. \nThis seminar series will take place in the 1st Floor Seminar Room with the option to join via Zoom. \nPlease follow lobby signage directing you to the 1st Fl corridor windows where you will then walk right until reaching the 1st Fl Seminar Room. \nMeeting ID: 892 7906 4948 Passcode: 516742\nDial by your location: +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) \nFurther questions can be emailed to: \nDoris Switzer \nEnvironmental Science Initiative Coordinator \nswitzer@gc.cuny.edu
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/environmental-science-initiative-seminar-maria-diuk-wasser-phd-columbia-university/
LOCATION:ASRC 1st Floor Seminar Room\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environmental Sciences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230222T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230222T130000
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SUMMARY:ASRC-CCNY Seminar Series in Biochemistry\, Biophysics and Biodesign: Giovanna Ghirlanda\, Arizona State University
DESCRIPTION:In this weekly seminar series\, Giovanna Ghirlanda\, professor at the School of Molecular Sciences\, Arizona State University\, Tempe\, AZ\, will be presenting a one-hour talk titled: \nArtificial metalloproteins by design \nABSTRACT Hybrid metalloproteins incorporating organometallic active sites not found in nature within a protein scaffold are emerging as a viable avenue to catalyze a wide range of reactions\, with applications ranging from synthetic organic chemistry to sustainable fuel production. This approach is particularly appealing when coupled with light as a source of energy to drive the synthesis of clean energy sources. We have designed artificial enzymes capable of producing molecular hydrogen and reducing carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide and formate under irradiation with UV-vis light and in the presence of photosensitizers. The active site in these designs is either anchored to protein scaffolds using noncanonical amino acids\, or obtained by swapping heme for cobalt protoporphyrin IX in natural and designed heme-binding proteins. Intriguingly\, these constructs are active in aerobic conditions. We found that incorporation in a protein scaffold increases activity by 10-20 folds compared to the isolated organometallic complex. Transient spectroscopy analysis demonstrates that this effect correlates with increased lifetime of the catalytically active redox state. Current work examines the activity of these constructs within bacterial cells. \nThis seminar will be presented in the ASRC Auditorium and broadcast via Zoom\, with snacks and refreshments to start at 11:30am. \nTo join these ongoing events via Zoom\, please use the link below: \nMeeting ID: 968 3104 2138\nPasscode: ASRC-CDI \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-giovanna-ghirlanda-arizona-state-university/
LOCATION:ASRC Auditorium & Cafe\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Structural Biology
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