| Fri 1/17/20 11:15 am | Rosenstiel 118 |
| Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks |
| First-Year BCBP PhD Students |
| First-Year Biochemistry & Biophysics Doctoral Student Rotation Talks |
| Rotation Talks will run from 11:15 am -- 12:20 pm. |
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| Fri 1/17/20 12:30 pm | Gerstenzang 123 |
| Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars |
| Juliet Bottorff (Turrigiano Lab) |
| Becca Fleming (Lee Lab) |
| Pizza will be served. |
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| Mon 1/20/20 12 noon | Gerstenzang 124 |
| Neurobiology Journal Club |
| NO NEURO JC - BRANDEIS HOLIDAY |
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| Tue 1/21/20 11 am | Abelson 307 |
| String Theory Seminar |
| Andrew Rolph (Brandeis University) |
| Replica wormholes and the black hole information paradox |
| Hosted by HEGT Group |
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| Tue 1/21/20 12:30 pm | Gerstenzang 121 |
| Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium (Distinguished Life Science Speaker) |
| Daniel Durocher (University of Toronto ) |
| Charting DNA Damage and Synthetic Lethality Networks |
| Hosted by Jim Haber |
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| Tue 1/21/20 2 pm | Goldsmith 317 |
| Topology Seminar |
| Rylee Lyman (Tufts Univerity) |
| McCullough–Miller Space at Infinity |
Let G be a finite free product of finite groups. In 1996, McCullough and Miller defined a contractible space on which Out(G), the group of outer automorphisms of G, acts properly with finite stabilizers. This is the analogue for Out(G) of Culler and Vogtmann's Outer Space for the outer automorphism group of a finite rank free group, and the Teichmüller space for the mapping class group of a surface of finite type. Like Outer Space, McCullough--Miller space admits a spine, an (n-2)-dimensional simplicial complex which is an equivariant deformation retract, where n is the Kurosh rank of G. The action on the spine is additionally cocompact. Vogtmann proved that the spine of Outer Space is simply-connected at infinity when the rank of the free group is at least 5. Bestvina and Feighn later proved that Outer Space is (2n-5)-connected at infinity. Analogously, we conjecture that McCullough--Miller space is (n-4)-connected at infinity. We describe a new understanding of McCullough--Miller space as a space of marked, metric orbigraphs, ways of moving around in it, and discuss progress towards this conjecture. |
| Hosted by Profs. Daniel Ruberman, Ruth Charney and Kiyoshi Igusa. |
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| Tue 1/21/20 3:30 pm | Goldsmith 226 |
| Combinatorics Seminar |
| Ira Gessel (Brandeis University) |
| Counting words with forbidden subwords |
will talk about the Goulden-Jackson cluster theorem, which counts words by the number of occurrences of given words as (consecutive) subwords. As a consequence, the noncommutative generating function for words that avoid a set of subwords is the reciprocal of a series with every coefficient 0, 1, or -1, and this result is closely connected to a theorem of Curtis Greene on posets with Möbius function 0, 1, or -1. |
| Hosted by Prof. Olivier Bernardi and Duncan Levear |
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| Wed 1/22/20 11 am | Rosenstiel 118 |
| Special Seminar (NEUROSCIENCE FACULTY SEARCH CANDIDATE) |
| Andrew Lutas (BIDMC) |
| Dopaminergic axons in basal amygdala enable state-specific learning |
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| Wed 1/22/20 12 noon | Goldmsmith 226 |
| Mathematical BIology Seminar |
| Alanna Hoyer-Leitzel (Mount Holyoke College. ) |
| Bifurcation structure and resilience in impulsive models of savannas |
A savanna ecosystem is affected by the frequency and intensity of regular fires. Modeling the interactions between trees and grass as a one-sided inhibitory Lotka-Volterra system, we add fire as a discrete disturbance, creating an impulsive dynamical system. We present the analysis of such a model, examining different bistability regimes between savanna and grassland, high and low tree density savanna, and a woodland state, that arise in the impulsive system. These bistability cases exist in the impulsive system but not in the non-impulsive competition model. Additionally, we identify the resilience of the savanna to different disturbance regimes via two definitions of resilience: one using basins of attraction, and one emphasizing the valued ratio of trees and grass that defines a savanna. |
| Hosted by Profs. Jonathan Touboul and Thomas Fai and Dr. Youngmin Park |
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| Thu 1/23/20 11 am | Volen 201 |
| Computational Neuroscience Journal Club |
| Steve Van Hooser (Brandeis University) |
| Neuroscience data interfaces: building solutions to the problem of sharing data and analyses |
| Pizza will be served. |
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| Thu 1/23/20 12 noon | International Lounge, Usdan |
| Special Seminar (Faculty Position Job Talk ) |
| Monica Waszczuk (Stony Brook University ) |
| Genetic vulnerability to affective psychopathology across the life span |
| Hosted by Paul DiZio |
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| Thu 1/23/20 12 noon | Gerstenzang 124 |
| Molecular Genetics Journal Club |
| Cancelled |
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| Thu 1/23/20 3 pm | Goldsmith 226 |
| Dynamics and Number Theory |
| Thomas Hille (Yale University) |
| Effective bounds for the least solutions of homogeneous quadratic Diophantine inequalities |
Let Q be a non-degenerate indefinite quadratic form in dvariables. In the mid 80's, Margulis proved the Oppenheim conjecture, which states that if d ≥3 and Q is not proportional to a rational form then Q takes values arbitrarily close to zero at integral points. In this talk we will discuss the problem of obtaining bounds for the least integral solution of the Diophantine inequality |Q [x]|< ϵfor any positive ϵ if d ≥5. We will review historical, as well as recent results in this direction and show how to obtain explicit bounds that are polynomial in ϵ−1, with exponents depending only on the signature of Qor if applicable, the Diophantine properties of Q. This talk is based on joint work with P. Buterus, F. Götze and G. Margulis. |
| Hosted by Profs. Dmitry Kleinbock and Lam Pham |
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| Fri 1/24/20 11:30 am | Rosenstiel 118 |
| Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks |
| Timothy Street |
| How do Hsp90 inhibitors work? |
| **Please note later start time.** |
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| Fri 1/24/20 12:30 pm | Gerstenzang 123 |
| Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars |
| Chloe Greppi (Garrity Lab) |
| Derek Wise (Nelson Lab) |
| Pizza will be served. |
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| Mon 1/27/20 12 noon | Gerstenzang 124 |
| Neurobiology Journal Club |
| John Carlson (Yale University ) |
| Molecular logic and evolution of bitter taste in flies |
| Hosted by Leslie Griffith |
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| Mon 1/27/20 12 noon | Alumni Lounge, Usdan Campus Center |
| Special Symposium (Faculty Search Job Talk ) |
| Tristen Inagaki (University of Pittsburgh) |
| Receiving and Giving Care: Neurobiological Mechanisms of Social Connection |
| Hosted by Paul DiZio |
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| Tue 1/28/20 12:30 pm | Gerstenzang 121 |
| M.R. Bauer Distinguished Guest Lecture Series |
| John Carlson (Yale University ) |
| Chemoperception in the Fly |
| Hosted by Leslie Griffith |
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| Tue 1/28/20 4 pm | Abelson 131 |
| Physics Department Colloquium |
| Kristan Jensen (San Francisco State University) |
| TBA |
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| Wed 1/29/20 12 noon | Gerstenzang 124 |
| Special Seminar (NEUROSCIENCE FACULTY SEARCH CANDIDATE) |
| Yvette Fisher (Harvard Medical School) |
| Sensorimotor experience remaps visual input to a heading direction network |
| Hosted by Leslie Griffith |
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| Thu 1/30/20 11 am | Volen 201 |
| Computational Neuroscience Journal Club |
| Cancelled |
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| Thu 1/30/20 12 noon | International Lounge, Usdan |
| Special Symposium |
| James Howard (Northwestern University) |
| TBD (Psychology Faculty Search Job Talk) |
| Hosted by Paul DiZio |
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| Thu 1/30/20 12 noon | Gerstenzang 124 |
| Molecular Genetics Journal Club |
| Alexandre Bisson (Brandeis University) |
| Building cells across domains of life |
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| Thu 1/30/20 4 pm | Abelson 131 |
| Physics Department Colloquium |
| Grant Remmen (University of California, Berkeley) |
| Journey to the Limits of Quantum Field Theory |
Hints of new physics are encoded as higher-dimension operators in effective field theory. The couplings of these operators, "dial settings" in the low-energy laws of physics, can be bounded using methods independent of the ultraviolet completion, relying only on principles like causality, unitarity of quantum mechanics, and properties of scattering amplitudes. In this talk, I will show how such infrared consistency techniques can be used to constrain a wide variety of quantum field theories, from the effective field theory of the Standard Model to quantum corrections of Einstein gravity. These constraints have important implications, in contexts ranging from near-term experimental observations to the long-term behavior of black holes, and provide us with powerful means to test the tenets of quantum field theory itself. |
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| Thu 1/30/20 4:30 pm | Goldsmith 100 |
| Mathematics Seminar (Martin Weiner Lecture Series) |
| Chuck Doran (University of Alberta) |
| TBD |
TBD |
| Hosted by Prof. Bong Lian |
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| Fri 1/31/20 11:15 am | Rosenstiel 118 |
| Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks |
| Eric Strieter (UMass Amherst) |
| Uncovering the Cryptic Functions of Deubiquitinases |
| Hosted by Liz Hedstrom |
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| Fri 1/31/20 12:30 pm | Gerstenzang 123 |
| Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars |
| Rabia Anjum (Paradis Lab) |
| Albert Yu (Rosbash Lab) |
| Pizza will be served. |
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| Mon 2/3/20 12 noon | Gerstenzang 124 |
| Neurobiology Journal Club |
| Mark Rossi (University of Washington) |
| Lateral hypothalamic contributions to feeding and obesity |
| Hosted by Don Katz |
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| Mon 2/3/20 12 noon | TBA |
| Neurobiology Journal Club (NEUROSCIENCE FACULTY SEARCH CANDIDATE) |
| Mark Rossi (University of Washington) |
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| Tue 2/4/20 12:30 pm | Gerstenzang 121 |
| Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium (Neuro Student Speaker) |
| Josh Huang (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ) |
| Genetic dissection of cortical circuits: from cell types to motor control |
| Hosted by Ryan Kirk and Jasmine Le |
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| Tue 2/4/20 4 pm | Abelson 131 |
| Physics Department Colloquium |
| TBA |
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| Wed 2/5/20 12 noon | Levine-Ross, Hassenfeld |
| Special Seminar |
| Elizabeth Holly (University of Pennsylvania) |
| TBD (Psychology Faculty Search Job Talk) |
| Hosted by Paul DiZio |
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| Thu 2/6/20 11 am | Volen 201 |
| Computational Neuroscience Journal Club |
| Alex Cao (Van Hooser Lab) |
| Pizza will be served. |
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| Thu 2/6/20 12 noon | Gerstenzang 124 |
| Molecular Genetics Journal Club |
| Chloe Greppi (Garrity Lab) |
| Weijin Xu (Rosbash Lab) |
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| Thu 2/6/20 4:30 pm | Goldsmith 100 |
| Joint Mathematics Colloquium |
| Jennifer Hom (Georgia Institute of Technology) |
| TBD |
TBD |
| Hosted by Prof. Daniel Ruberman |
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| Fri 2/7/20 11:15 am | Rosenstiel 118 |
| Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks |
| John Engen (Northeastern University) |
| Multiprotein systems in protein folding and unfolding |
| Hosted by Julia Kardon |
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| Fri 2/7/20 12:30 pm | Gerstenzang 123 |
| Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars |
| Jasmine Le (Rosbash Lab) |
| Amy Scalera (Rodal Lab) |
| Pizza will be served. |
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| Mon 2/10/20 12 noon | Gerstenzang 124 |
| Neurobiology Journal Club |
| TBA |
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| Mon 2/10/20 3:40 pm | Gerstenzang 121 |
| Chemistry Department Colloquium |
| Alan Sellinger (Colorado School of Mines) |
| Organic Materials for Application in Radiation Detection, Solar Cells, and Lighting |
| Hosted by Klaus Schmidt-Rohr |
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| Mon 2/10/20 4:30 pm | Abelson 131 |
| Physics Department Colloquium |
| Brian Swingle (University of Maryland) |
| TBA |
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| Tue 2/11/20 12:30 pm | Gerstenzang 121 |
| Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium |
| Brendan Manning (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) |
| Metabolic effectors of PI3K-mTOR signaling |
| Hosted by Liz Hedstrom |
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| Tue 2/11/20 4 pm | Abelson 131 |
| Physics Department Colloquium |
| Mark Mezei (Simons Center for Geometry and Physics) |
| TBA |
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| Thu 2/13/20 12 noon | Gerstenzang 124 |
| Molecular Genetics Journal Club |
| Suhaily Caban-Penix (Bradshaw Lab) |
| Alexis Ryan (Bradshaw Lab) |
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| Thu 2/13/20 4 pm | Abelson 131 |
| Physics Department Colloquium |
| Shu-Heng Shao (Institute for Advanced Study) |
| TBA |
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| Fri 2/14/20 12:30 pm | Gerstenzang 123 |
| Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars |
| Tyler Hill (Sengupta Lab) |
| Michela Zaffagni (Kadener Lab) |
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| Mon 2/17/20 12 noon | Gerstenzang 124 |
| Neurobiology Journal Club |
| NO NEURO JC - BRANDEIS HOLIDAY |
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| Tue 2/18/20 12:30 pm | Gerstenzang 121 |
| Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium |
| NO TALK - FEBRUARY BREAK |
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| Fri 2/21/20 12:30 pm | Gerstenzang 123 |
| Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars |
| NO PIZZA TALK - MID-TERM BREAK |
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| Mon 2/24/20 12 noon | Gerstenzang 124 |
| Neurobiology Journal Club |
| TBA |
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| Tue 2/25/20 12:30 pm | Gerstenzang 121 |
| Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium |
| Diomedes Logothetis (Northeastern University) |
| TBA |
| Hosted by Don Katz |
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| Tue 2/25/20 4 pm | Abelson 131 |
| Physics Department Colloquium |
| TBA |
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| Wed 2/26/20 | |
| Chemistry Department Colloquium |
| Tianning Diao (NYU) |
| Hosted by Isaac Krauss |
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| Thu 2/27/20 12 noon | Gerstenzang 124 |
| Molecular Genetics Journal Club |
| Rebecca Fleming (Lee Lab) |
| Ane Anduaga (Kadener Lab) |
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| Thu 2/27/20 4 pm | Abelson 229 |
| MRSEC Seminar |
| Sam Walcott (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) |
| TBA |
| Hosted by John Berezney |
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| Fri 2/28/20 12:30 pm | Gerstenzang 123 |
| Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars |
| Brian Cary (Turrigiano Lab) |
| Rey Aguilar Lopez (Goode Lab) |
| Pizza will be served. |
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| Mon 3/2/20 12 noon | Gerstenzang 124 |
| Neurobiology Journal Club |
| Mara Rue (Marder Lab) |
| Benjamin Ballintyn (Miller Lab) |
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| Mon 3/2/20 3:40 pm | Gerstenzang 121 |
| Chemistry Department Colloquium |
| Geoffrey Coates (Cornell) |
| Hosted by Bing Xu |
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| Tue 3/3/20 12:30 pm | Gerstenzang 121 |
| Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium |
| TBA |
| TBA |
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| Thu 3/5/20 12 noon | Gerstenzang 124 |
| Molecular Genetics Journal Club |
| Ana Feiszbein (Chris Burge Lab, MIT) |
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| Thu 3/5/20 4:30 pm | Goldsmith 100 |
| Joint Mathematics Colloquium |
| Margaret Beck (Boston University) |
| TBD |
TBD |
| Hosted by Prof. Daniel Ruberman |
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| Fri 3/6/20 12:30 pm | Gerstenzang 123 |
| Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars |
| Jenna Harris (Kadener Lab) |
| Erick Barrios (Nelson Lab) |
| Pizza will be served. |
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| Mon 3/9/20 12 noon | Gerstenzang 124 |
| Neurobiology Journal Club |
| J. Arvid Ågren (Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University) |
| The evolution of conflict and cooperation from cells to societies |
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| Mon 3/9/20 3:40 pm | |
| Chemistry Department Colloquium |
| Angie Louie (UC Davis) |
| Hosted by Grace Han |
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| Mon 3/9/20 3:40 pm | Gerstenzang 121 |
| Chemistry Department Colloquium |
| Angie Louie (UC Davis ) |
| Hosted by Grace Han |
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| Tue 3/10/20 12:30 pm | Gerstenzang 121 |
| Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium (Brandeis Diverse Students Initiative) |
| Daniel Alfonso Colón Ramos (Yale) |
| TBA |
| Hosted by Emmanuel Rivera-Rodriguez |
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| Tue 3/10/20 4 pm | Abelson 131 |
| Physics Department Colloquium |
| Dillon Brout (University of Pennsylvania) |
| TBA |
| Hosted by Marcelle Soares-Santos |
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| Fri 3/13/20 12:30 pm | Gerstenzang 123 |
| Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars |
| Raul Ramos (Turrigiano Lab) |
| Dani Gallagher (Haber Lab) |
| Pizza will be served. |
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| Mon 3/16/20 12 noon | Gerstenzang 124 |
| Neurobiology Journal Club |
| Jasmine Quynh Le (Rosbash Lab) |
| Nathan Harris (Sengupta Lab) |
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| Tue 3/17/20 12:30 pm | Gerstenzang 121 |
| Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium |
| Eric Greene (Columbia University) |
| TBA |
| Hosted by Jim Haber |
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| Fri 3/20/20 12:30 pm | Gerstenzang 123 |
| Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars |
| Meghan Harris (Marr Lab) |
| Mohamed Adel (Griffith Lab) |
| Pizza will be served. |
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| Mon 3/23/20 12 noon | Gerstenzang 124 |
| Neurobiology Journal Club |
| Tyler Hill (Sengupta Lab) |
| Juliet Bottorff (Turrigiano Lab) |
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| Mon 3/23/20 3:40 pm | Gerstenzang 121 |
| Chemistry Department Colloquium |
| Ivan Aprahamian (Dartmouth College) |
| Hosted by Grace Han |
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| Tue 3/24/20 12:30 pm | Gerstenzang 121 |
| Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium |
| Bob Kingston (MGH) |
| TBA |
| Hosted by Michael Marr |
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| Tue 3/24/20 4 pm | Abelson 131 |
| Physics Department Colloquium |
| David Hogg (New York University) |
| TBA |
| Hosted by Marcelle Soares-Santos |
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| Thu 3/26/20 4 pm | Abelson 229 |
| MRSEC Seminar |
| Lidia Mrad (Mount Holyoke College) |
| TBA |
| Hosted by John Berezney |
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| Fri 3/27/20 12:30 pm | Gerstenzang 123 |
| Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars |
| Susannah Slepian (Paradis Lab) |
| Munzareen Khan (Sengupta Lab) |
| Pizza will be served. |
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