Physics and Astronomy Colloquium - John M. Beggs
John M. Beggs
Professor, Physics
Indiana University
February 10, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Location: Harriman Hall 137
Laufer Center Seminar - Stefan Niekamp
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
LC Seminar - Sergey Kryazhimskiy
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
Laufer Center Seminar - Jianhua Xing
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
12/09 Faculty Lunch Talk - Mehdi Damaghi
Mehdi Damaghi
Tuesday, December 9, 2025 11:30 AM-12:30 PM
LC 107
Title : Ecology and Evolution of Breast carcinogenesis
By invitation only.
Laufer Center Seminar by Arvind Murugan
Arvind Murugan
December 5, 2025 12:30 PM
Laufer Center LH 101
Embodied learning and computation in molecular networks
Laufer Center Seminar - Dr. Celia Schiffer
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
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
LC Seminar - Benjamin P. Brown, MD, PhD
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
SBU Investiture Ceremony
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.
April 26
Dr. Werner Krauth
CNRS and Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
“Mixing, stopping, coupling, lifting, and other keys to the second Markov-chain revolution”
Past Seminars
February 16
Dr. Gabriel Rocklin
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Northwestern University
”High-throughput discovery of protein folding stability and dynamics”