Benjamin P. Brown, MD, PhD

Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor

Department of Pharmacology

Center for AI in Protein Dynamics

Vanderbilt University

Talk Title: A Generalizable Deep Learning Framework for Structure-Based Protein-Ligand Affinity Ranking

Friday, October 24, 2025 in LC 101 at 12:30 PM

Evangelos Coutsias, host

Investiture ceremony for Gábor Balázsi, Henry Laufer Endowed Professor of Physical and Quantitative Biology, will take place on Friday, October 24, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. in the Charles B. Wang Center Theater.

By invitation only.

Stephanie Weber, Associate Professor at McGill University

October 17, 2025 in LC 101 @12:30 PM

Talk Title: “Multiphase behavior of the nucleolus throughout the C. elegans life cycle”

Lina Carlina, host

Ken Dill will be giving a talk on Developing Career Skills. The talk is open to everyone - students, postdocs, faculty - who are currently in the job market or will someday be.

Topics will include -- giving talks, making good slides, writing papers and grants, applying for jobs, etc.

More details to follow

The ICB&DD 19th Annual Symposium, "Drug Discovery & AI: Advances and New Directions" will be held at the Charles Wang Center on Thursday, October 2, 2025 (9:00AM–5:00PM; Reception 5:00–6:00PM).

September 30th, @11:30-12:30pm

Speaker: Joshua Rest, PhD

Department: Ecology and Evolution

“Unraveling the tempo and mode of protein structural evolution in mammals”

LC conference room 107

*By invitation only

September 26, 2025 at 12:30 pm

Prof. Alexandra Zidovska, Associate Professor of Physics at New York University, Center for Soft Matter Research, New York, New York

“Transcription-Dependent Mobility of Single Genes and Genome-Wide Motions in Live Human Cells”

Location: Laufer Center Lecture Hall 101

Sept. 19, 2025 at 12:30pm

Talk Title: “Detecting the First Hydration Shell Structures of Proteins and DNA”

LC 101

LC Seminar-Bill Kath

9/5 @12:30 in LC 101

Talk Title : Modeling the fly thermosensory system