List of events
May 05, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Laufer Center 107
Title: Measuring lipid membrane fluidity and adaptation in live mycobacteria
By Invitation Only
Ivet Bahar to participate in the SUNY AI Symposium at Stony Brook
Scaling the NY AI Innovation Ecosystem April 14-15, 2026
Charles B. Wang Center
March 12, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Laufer Center 107
Title: Understanding tick-borne rickettsial pathogenesis and host immunity
By Invitation Only
Yonatan Chemla, PhD
Human Frontier Postdoctoral Fellow, Biological Engineering, MIT
March 11, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Laufer Center Lecture Hall 101
Feb 24, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Laufer Center 107
Title: Identity and Well-Being
By Invitation Only
Honglue Shi, PhD
Postdoc at University of California, Berkeley
February 19, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Laufer Center Lecture Hall 101
Martin Falk
Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Fellow, University of Chicago
February 17, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Laufer Center Lecture Hall 101
Debswapna Bhattacharya
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
Friday, February 13 at 2:00PM
Location: NCS 120
Matthew Ryan King, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
February 12, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Laufer Center Lecture Hall 101
Patricia Clark
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Notre Dame
February 11 at 12:30PM
Location: Chemistry 412, Refreshments 12:15 pm
John M. Beggs
Professor, Physics
Indiana University
February 10, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Location: Harriman Hall 137
Stefan Niekamp, Ph.D.
Damon Runyon and K99 Postdoctoral Fellow Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School
February 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Laufer Center Lecture Hall 101
Sergey Kryazhimskiy, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Ecology, Behavior & Evolution
UC San Diego
January 23, 2026 in LC 101 @12:30 PM
Talk Title: Global epistasis and some side effects of adaptation
Gabor Balazsi, host
Jianhua Xing, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Computational and Systems Biology
Department of Physics and Astronomy
December 12, 2025 in LC 101 @12:30 PM
Talk Title: How cells change state: an emerging frontier of chemical physics
Ivet Bahar, host
Mehdi Damaghi
Tuesday, December 9, 2025 11:30 AM-12:30 PM
LC 107
Title : Ecology and Evolution of Breast carcinogenesis
By invitation only.
Arvind Murugan
December 5, 2025 12:30 PM
Laufer Center LH 101
Embodied learning and computation in molecular networks
November 21, 2025 at 12:30 pm
Dr. Celia Schiffer
Pre-emptively Avoiding Drug Resistance: Lessons from viral proteases
UMass Med
Location: Laufer Center Lecture Hall 101
Seminar By David Glass - Engineering Synthetic Multicellularity
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Javits 111
Tittle: Engineering Synthetic Multicellularity for understanding Consortia and Tissue
Monday, December 16, 2024
@1:00 PM
“How tumors and microbial communities shape their final architecture”
Multicellular systems form, remodel, and disassemble through dynamic interactions among their constituent cells and the environment they inhabit–from tumors to microbial colonies in natural habitats.
Location: Laufer Center Lecture Hall 101
@2:00 PM
Title: “Enhancing transcription-replication conflict to target cancers driven by extrachromosomal DNA”
Location: Laufer Center Lecture Hall 101
@1:00 PM
Seminar
Monday, November 25, 2024
1:00 PM
“"The emergence and control of resistance in pathogens and cancer"”
Location: Laufer Center Lecture Hall 101
Joint Seminar: Laufer Center & SBU Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Dr. Ashley Wolf
Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology
University of California, Berkeley
@1:00 PM
“Engineering synthetic multicellularity for understanding consortia and tissue behavior”
Location: Laufer Center Lecture Hall 101