List of events
Friday, October 16th, 2026 at 12:30pm
Laufer Center Lecture Hall 101
Title: “Prometaphase: Movements that Matter. Connections that Last”
October 6, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Laufer Center 107
Speaker: Rafael D'Andrea
Title: TBD
By Invitation Only
September 15th, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Laufer Center 107
Speaker: Markus Seeliger
Title: TBD
By Invitation Only
The 2026 State of the University Address will be held Monday, September 14 at the Staller Center for the Arts, from 1-2 pm. A reception will follow on the Staller Steps.
August 28, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Laufer Center Lecture Hall 101
Title: Disarming Staphylococcus aureus virulence
Vikas Nanda
Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Rutgers Health Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine
June 18, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Host: Ken Dill
Laufer Center Lecture Hall 101
Jens Meiler
Distinguished Research Professor
Departments of Chemistry, Pharmacology, and Biomedical Informatics
Vanderbilt University
June 15, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Host: Ivet Bahar
Laufer Center Lecture Hall 101
Debswapna Bhattacharya
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
May 26, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Host: Ivet Bahar
Laufer Center Lecture Hall 101
May 05, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Laufer Center 107
Title: Measuring lipid membrane fluidity and adaptation in live mycobacteria
By Invitation Only
The Old Field Club
86 West Meadow Road
Setauket, New York, 117331
Thursday, April 23, 2026
*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
Location: Charles B. Wang Center
Apr 07, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Laufer Center 107
Title: Identity and Well-Being
By Invitation Only
Jin Wang, Professor, (Chemistry and Physics)
March 27, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Laufer Center Lecture Hall 101
Host: Ivet Bahar
Ramon Grima, Ph.D.
Professor (Chair of Mathematical Biology), School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, UK
March 25, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Laufer Center Lecture Hall 101
Yonatan Chemla, PhD
Human Frontier Postdoctoral Fellow, Biological Engineering, MIT
March 11, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Laufer Center Lecture Hall 101
Honglue Shi, PhD
Postdoc at University of California, Berkeley
February 19, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Laufer Center Lecture Hall 101
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