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Our research is diverse.
We model, simulate, and measure the actions of biomolecules.
We insert gene circuits into cells.
We design modulators of cell fate/decision processes.
We discover drug candidates.
We develop math and physics for deeper understanding of biological systems’ structure, dynamics, machinery, evolution, and interactions.
News & Events
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Congradulations to Carlos, on recieving ICB&DD Best Poster Award!
Carlos Ventura, PhD student in the Bahar Lab, recieved the Best Poster award for computational poster in the 20th Annual ICB&DD Symposium.
Congrats Carlos!
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Faculty Lunch Talk - David Glass
November 10th, 2026, 12:00 PmLaufer Center 107
Title: TBD
By Invitation Only
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Faculty Lunch Talk - Rafael D'Andrea
October 6th, 2026, 11:30am, Laufer Center 107
Title: “The Paradox of Similarity: Why Competition Can Produce Clusters of Similar Species”
By Invitation Only
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Seminar by Alex Mogilner - Friday, Oct 16th, 2026
Join us for a seminar by NYU Professor Alex Mogilner on “Prometaphase: Movements that Mater. Connections that Last”
Date: Friday, October 16th, 2026
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Laufer Center Lecture Hall: Room 101
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Chemistry Research Day - October 8, 2026
Come be apart of the annual celebration of chemistry at Stony Brook University with Chemistry Research Day!
Date: October 8, 2026
Location: Student Activities Center
Time: 11:00am to 7:00pm
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Congratulations to Isabelle, on receiving NIH F30 award!
Isabelle Kwan, MD/PhD student in the Bahar lab, received the competitive Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award designed for promising predoctoral students.
Way to go, Isabelle!
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Seminar by Hwan Kim - Friday Aug 28, 2026
Join us for the seminar by Hwan Kim on “Disarming Staphylococcus aureus virulence”
Time: 12:30 PM LC 101
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Dr Bahar's Summer Reception, 8/26/2026
*by invitation only
Date: Wednesday, August 26th
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Annual BBQ Social: Accelerator Physics × Laufer Center
Friday, August 7, 5:00 PM, Simons Center Garden.
Join us for burgers, veggie options, & fun times!
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Congratulations to Eugene Serebryany on His New Flagship Research Lab!
Laufer Center faculty member Eugene Serebryany has opened his laboratory in Stony Brook's newly renovated space, supported by New York State's investment in the University's research infrastructure.
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Seminar by Vikas Nanda - Thursday June 18, 2026
11:00Am , LC 101
Join us for the seminar by Vikas Nanda on “Let's Get Small - Tiny Enzymes and the Origins of Metabolism”
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Seminar by Jens Meiler - Monday June 15, 2026
11:30 AM, LC 101
Join us for the seminar by Jens Meiler on “ How artificial intelligence is reshaping protein structure prediction and therapeutic design”
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Seminar by Debswapna Bhattacharya - Tuesday, May 26. 2026.
12:00 PM, LC101
Join us for the seminar by Debswapna Bhattacharya "Artificial Intelligence for Biomolecular Modeling with Large Language Models and Generative Deep Learning"Host: Ivet Bahar
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Faculty Lunch talk - Jessica Seeliger
Tuesday, May 5, 2026 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, LC 107
Title: Measuring lipid membrane fluidity and adaptation in live mycobacteriaBy invitation only
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Ivet Bahar to Join AI in Life Sciences Panel at SUNY AI Symposium (April 14–15, 2026)
Ivet Bahar, Director of the Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, will be a panelist in a 75-minute discussion on AI applications in life sciences at the SUNY AI Symposium at Stony Brook University.
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Faculty Lunch talk - Steve Skiena
Tuesday, April 7, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, LC 107
Title: Identity and Well-BeingBy invitation only
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Seminar by Jin Wang - Friday, Mar 27, 2026.
12:00PM, LC101
Join us for the seminar by Jin Wang on “A Non-equilibrium Landscape and Flux Field Theory for Revealing Physical Mechanisms of Spatial Pattern Formation and Switching”
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Seminar by Grima Ramon - Wednesday, Mar 27, 2026
10:00 AM, LC101
Join Us for the seminar by Grima Ramon on “Stochastic Gene Expression: Modeling and Inference from Single-Cell Data” -
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Seminar by Yonatan Chemla - Wed, March, 11, 2026.
1:00 - 2:00PM, LC101
Join us for the seminar by Yonatan Chemla on “Synthetic Biology Beyond the Lab: Engineering Hyperspectral Readouts and mRNATranslation Kinetics for Improved Genetic Design” -
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Seminar by Hongule Shi - Thursday, Feb 19, 2026
1:00 - 2:00PM, LC101
Join us for the seminar by Hongule Shi on “Conformational Penalties and Kinetic Barriers in Nucleic Acid Recognition and Function” -
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Seminar by Martin Falk - Tuesday, Feb 17, 2026
1:00 - 2:00 PM, LC101
Join us for a seminar by Martin Falk on “Design principles for adaptive molecular matter” -
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Seminar by Matthew Ryan King - Thursday, Feb 12, 2026
1:00 - 2:00 PM, LC101
Join us for a seminar by Matthew Ryan King on “Organize to Optimize: How intrinsically disordered proteins and condensates coordinate biochemical reactions in a partitionless nucleus” -
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Seminar by Stefan Niekamp - Monday, Feb 09, 2026
1:00 - 2:00 PM, LC101
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Wilson is an IRACDA Postdoctoral Scholar
Wilson Nieves Vasquez is an IRACDA Postdoctoral Scholar at the Laufer Center, combining research on cytoskeletal regulation of mitochondrial organization with innovative teaching through the IRACDA program.
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Seminar by Sergey Kryazhimskiy - Jan 23@12:30pm, LC101
Join us for the seminar by Sergey Kryazhimskiy at the Laufer Center.
Title: “Global epistasis and some side effects of adaptation”.
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Congrats to Ramana Davuluri!
Prof. Davuluri was recently honored as SBU Distinguished Faculty and will serve as the Biomedical Informatics Department Interim Chair starting January 5, 2026
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Warmest Congratulations to Isabelle!
The research proposal submitted by Isabelle Kwan (MD/PhD student in the Bahar Lab) to NIH for the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award received outstanding reviews.
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Gábor Balázsi Honored with SUNY Chancellor’s Award
Gabor has received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. It’s a wonderful milestone and a well-deserved acknowledgment of his work.
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Seminar by Jianhua - Dec 12 @12:30pm, LC 101
Jianhua Xing will be presenting a seminar at the Laufer Center.
Title: “How cells change state: an emerging frontier of chemical physics”
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Faculty Lunch Talk - Mehdi Damaghi
Tuesday, December 9, 2025 11:30 AM-12:30 PM, LC 107
Title: Ecology and Evolution of Breast carcinogenesisBy invitation only
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Seminar by Arvind Murugan - Dec 5, 12:30 PM
Join us for the seminar by Arvind Murugan (University of Chicago) on “Embodied learning and computation in molecular networks”
LC 101
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Seminar by Dr. Celia Schiffer - Nov 21, 2025
Join us for the seminar by Dr. Celia Schiffer (University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School) on “Pre-emptively Avoiding Drug Resistance: Lessons from viral proteases.”
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Seminar by David Glass at BME/IEDM - Nov 19 @11am, Javits 111
Join us for the seminar by David Glass (Department of Biomedical Engineering & Institute for Engineering - Driven Medicine) on “Engineering Synthetic Multicellularity for understanding Consortia and Tissue.”
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SBU iGEM Team Wins Gold Medal!
The Stony Brook iGEM team of undergraduates earned a Gold Medal at the 2025 international competition in Paris. Laufer Center faculty member Prof. Gábor Balázsi co-advised them together with Drs Gergen and Gunn.
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Eugene Serebryany Wins 2025 Cataract Research Award
Congratulations to Eugene Serebryany, recipient of the 2025 Early Career Cataract Research Award from the National Foundation for Eye Research, recognizing his innovative studies on lens protein biophysics and the mechanisms underlying cataract formation.
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Congratulations to Gábor
Laufer Center congratulates Professor Gábor Balázsi on his investiture as Henry Laufer Endowed Chair in Physical and Quantitative Biology
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Seminar by Dr. Benjamin P. Brown – November 7, 2025
Join us for a seminar by Dr. Benjamin P. Brown (Vanderbilt University) on “A Generalizable Deep Learning Framework for Structure-Based Protein-Ligand Affinity Ranking.”
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Welcome aboard, Ben!
The Laufer Center Welcomes Dr. Benjamin Lin as an Affiliate Faculty member. His research explores how cell behaviors are coordinated within complex biological systems.
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Faculty Lunch Talk - Gábor Balázsi
Dr. Gabor Balazsi will present a faculty lunch talk on the synthetic biology of cancer.
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10/17- LC Seminar
Stephanie Weber, Associate Prof at McGill U
Host: Lina Carlini
Title: “Multiphase behavior of the nucleolus throughout the C. elegans life cycle” @12:30 in LC 101
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Outstanding Poster Award - Satyaki Saha (Bahar Lab)
Satya, from the Bahar lab, received the Outstanding poster award for his work on GPCR activation and the development of a framework to differentiate activators and inhibitors
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Ken Dill - Career Talk
Ken Dill will be giving a talk on Developing Career Skills. The talk is open to everyone — students, postdocs, faculty.
Friday October 10, 2025 2:30 PMLaufer Center Lecture Hall 101
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Xiaowei Bogetti Receives Best Poster Award at ICB&DD Symposium
Xiaowei, from the Bahar Lab, received the Best Poster Award at the ICB&DD Symposium for her work on protein conformational dynamics and the development of FRETDy
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10/2- The ICB&DD 19th Annual Symposium
"Drug Discovery & AI: Advances and New Directions" organized by Ivet Bahar (Chair) and Dima Kozakov (Co-Chair) will be held at the Charles Wang Center on Thursday, October 2, 2025 (9:00AM–6:00PM)
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9/30 Faculty Lunch Talk
Joshua Rest, Professor of Ecology & Evolution
Title: “Unraveling the tempo and mode of protein structural evolution in mammals”
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9/26- LC Seminar @12:30 pm, LC101
Alexandra Zidovska, Assoc Prof of Physics, NYU
Host: Lina Carlini
Title: “Transcription-Dependent Mobility of Single Genes and Genome-Wide Motions in Live Human Cell”
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9/19- LC Seminar
Elsa C. Y. Yan, Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Host: Eugene Serebryany
Title: “Detecting the First Hydration Shell Structures of Proteins and DNA” @12:30 in LC 101
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Stony Brook Named One of America’s Best-in-State Employers
Forbes, partnering with market research firm Statista, has recognized Stony Brook University as one of America’s Best-in-State Employers for 2025.
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Researcher of the Month August 2025
Alexandria Lewkowski
Alexandra, recipient of 2025 Frances Valey Fellowship (undergrad, double major in Chemistry and Applied Mathematical Sciences) is a researcher in the Carlini Lab.
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Spring Faculty Lunch Talk- Vageli Coutsias
Talk Title: TBD
*By invitation only
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9/5 LC Seminar-
Bill Kath, National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology (NITMB)
Host: Vageli Coutsias
Title: Modeling the fly thermosensory system@12:30 in LC 101
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Cuts to NIH funding would gut American science and medicine
Recent Op-Ed by Ken Dill emphasizes how America became the world’s greatest engine of innovation and inventor of medicines because of federal investments in science, technology, and medicine.
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June 6-7, Professor Ojima's 80th Birthday Symposium!
with a symposium on “Research & Innovation at the Interface of Chemistry, Biology and Medicine” at the C. Wang Center - By invitation only
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Laufer Center 2025 Awards
Best Posters at 2025 Retreat:
Dzmitry Padhory (Kozakov lab) Hoang Nguyen (Bahar lab)
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Laufer Center 2025 Awards
Best Graduate Students
Anthony Chesebro (Mujica-Parodi lab) and Julia Gattozzi (Talos lab)
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Laufer Center 2025 Awards
Best Postdoctoral Fellows
Anthony Bogetti (Bahar & Dill labs) and Alyssa Kerning (Tongue lab)
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Warmest congratulations to Gabor
for receiving the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities!
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May 8th BCB Seminar - Lina Carlini
Title: Soft Barriers, hard decisions: the anaphase spindle as a physically distinct cytoplasm
Thursday, May 8th, 4:00 pm; Life Sciences, room 038
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May 2nd Seminar- Dr. Ramon Miranda-Quintana
@12pm in LC 101
Title: Efficient unsupervised learning techniques for chemical and conformational space exploration.
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Congratulations, Eugene Serebryany!
Warmest congratulations to Eugene Serebryany for his new NSF award!
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April 29th- Faculty Lunch Talk Barbara Hribar Lee
Host: Ken Dill
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at U of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Talk Title: “Modeling antibodies in pharmaceutical formulations”
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2025 Laufer Center Spring Retreat
The Old Field Club
86 West Meadow Road, Setauket, New York, 117331; Tuesday, April 22, 2025
*By invitation only
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April 15th- Faculty Lunch Talk
Speaker: Carlos Simmerling, PhD
Department: Chemistry; Laufer Center
Talk Title: "A neural network approach to improving continuum water models for biomolecular MD"
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Lilianne & Gábor's most recent trip to the Capitol!
Lilianne and Gabor represented Stony Brook University in their meeting with congressional officers to discuss the importance of robust federal funding for biomedical research
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Gábor Balázsi a newly elected AIMBE Fellow!
Gábor was elected on March 31, 2025 a fellow of the AIMBE (American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering). Attached is a photo with SBU BME department chair.
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Dima Kozakov success during the CASP16!
Dima Kozakov – top performer in CASP/CAPRI and CASP/Pharmaceutical Ligand Contests
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March 25th- Faculty Lunch Talk Helmut Strey
Talk Title: "Scientific Machine Learning in Neuroblox "
LC conference room 107
*By invitation only
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Dec 19th-Laufer Center Holiday Gathering
Holiday Gathering! ❄️ By invitation only
4:00 - 5:00 PM in the LC Hub
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Nov. 21st - Seminar-Ashley Wolf
Joint Seminar: Laufer Center and SBU Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Talk Title: “Interplay between the gut microbiome and infectious disease”
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SBU Brings Home Gold Medal at the iGEM Competition
November 13, 2024 – For the third time ever, Stony Brook University’s International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) team brought home the gold medal from the iGEM Giant Jamboree.
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Nov. 15, 2024 LC Seminar
Speaker: Benjamin Lin, PhD
Assistant Professor, Cell dynamics and motility (Biochemistry & Cell Biology) Talk Title: " Deconstructing amoeboid cell migration in vivo”
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Nov. 12, 2024- Faculty Lunch Talk
Speaker: Maria Nagan, PhD
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Join Us! SBU Investiture Ceremony
On Friday, October 25, a celebration featuring four of our Laufer Center faculty in recognition of their outstanding research and scholarship:
IVET BAHAR, LINA CARLINI, KEN A. DILL, CARLOS SIMMERLING
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October 10, 2024 Ivet Bahar- ICB&DD Annual Symposium Speaker
1:00 pm - Dr. Ivet Bahar, Louis and Beatrice Laufer Endowed Chair and Director of the Laufer Center
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Researcher of the Month
Yuu-u (Loy) Hashimoto
Major: Biology
Research Mentors: Dr. Eugene Serebryany, Physiology & Biophysics (current); Dr. Natasha Vitek, Ecology & Evolution (previous)
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Markus Seeliger
2024 Faculty Awards: Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring: Markus Seeliger
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Carlos, invited to ABRCSM Leadership Development Academy
Laufer Center student Carlos Ventura is invited to participate in the Leadership Development Academy
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Eugene Serebryany
Cracking the Code at the NSF Ideas Lab on Protein Design!
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Now Hiring!
AI3 Director search
Stony Brook launched a search for the inaugural director of a new AI Innovation Institute. craig.smith@opuspartners.netJeffrey.stafford@opuspartners.net
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Now Hiring!
The Laufer Center is recruiting a Tenure-track Endowment Assistant Professor. We seek creative individuals who will do cutting-edge research and lead collaborative research initiatives.
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Celebrating Excellence: Matthew Named NIH T32 Fellow in CBTP!
We are thrilled to announce that Matthew Licht has been selected as a NIH T32 Fellow in the prestigious Chemical Biology Training Program (CBTP) at Stony Brook University.
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Young Minds, Big Discoveries
Thank you to all who participated in the Laufer Center’s symposium for high school students carrying out protein research!
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President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student
Congratulations to Lauren Raguette for 2024 Graduate School Award! Lauren is a PhD candidate in Chemistry and member of the Simmerling lab. Way to go, Lauren!
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Ivet Bahar elected 2024 Biophysical Society fellow
Congratulations to Ivet Bahar for being elected 2024 BPS Fellow! This award honors the Society’s distinguished members who have demonstrated excellence in science and contributed to the expansion of the field.
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Congratulations, Charles!
The Laufer Center extends its warmest congratulations to PhD student, Charles Kocher, for winning the SBU Dept of Physics and Astronomy’s Award for 2024 Outstanding Theoretical Physics Thesis!
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Turning Drug Resistance Against Itself
Gábor Balázsi and his lab members investigate how DNA amplification in cancer could halt chemoresistance!
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Congratulations, Josh Rest!
Stony Brook Dean's Award for Excellence in Service
