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Monday, February 23rd, 2026
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2026
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Wiersma Visiting Professor Lecture: Dr. Stefano Fusi
The geometry of abstraction: from cognitive to spatial maps
Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
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7:30pm
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Watson Lecture: Chasing Sustainable Battery Chemistries for the Future with Kimberly See
Kimberly See,
professor of chemistry,
- Public Event
Thursday, February 26th, 2026
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Hydrogel Encapsulation of Sentinel Cells for Noninvasive Ultrasound Imaging of Inflammation"
Elizabeth (Liz) Hughes,
Graduate Student,
Shapiro Group,
12:00pm
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Friday, February 27th, 2026
11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Structural characterization of a filament-forming prokaryotic Argonaute protein
Katelyn Radford,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026
12:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Sohini Ramachandran
Variations on a theme of structure: leveraging recent relatedness and mixed-membership clustering to gain insights from high-dimensional genomics datasets
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
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Thursday, March 5th, 2026
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
TBA
Raj Mukkamala,
Graduate Student,
Newman & Kornfield Groups,
Friday, March 6th, 2026
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Cliff Tabin
Control of timing in the limb field
Cliff Tabin,
Chair, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School,
Monday, March 9th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Professor Taro Kitazawa
"Whole-genome single-cell history-tracing to reveal neuronal identity transition and memory formation"
Taro Kitazawa,
Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience, Associate Professor Aarhus University in Denmark,
12:00pm
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2026
10:30am
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Biology Seminar - Peter Walter
Targeting the Cell's Stress Pathways for Therapeutic Benefit
Peter Walter,
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco Investigator Emeritus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
2:00pm
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2026
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Thursday, March 12th, 2026
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
TBA
Lukas Moeller,
Graduate Student,
Elowitz Group,
Friday, March 13th, 2026
12:00pm
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2026
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Thursday, March 19th, 2026
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2026
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2026
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Watson Lecture - Katie Bouman
Katie Bouman,
associate professor of computing and mathematical sciences, electrical engineering and astronomy; Rosenberg Scholar; Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator,
- Public Event
Friday, March 27th, 2026
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
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Biology Seminar - Erica Larschan
X marks the spot: Identification of the X-chromosome for coordinated gene regulation
Erica Larschan,
Associate Prof. of Biology Brown University,
Department of Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology and Biochemistry Director,
Brown University,
Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Karen Adelman,
Edward S. Harkness Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology,
Harvard Medical School,
Tuesday, April 7th, 2026
12:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Blaise Agüera y Arcas
Blaise Agüera y Arcas,
Chief Technology Officer,
Technology & Society,
Google,
Thursday, April 9th, 2026
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
James Shorter,
Professor,
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics,
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania,
Friday, April 10th, 2026
8:00am
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4/11
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Monday, April 13th, 2026
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
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Biology Seminar - Itai Yanai
Itai Yanai,
Scientific Director,
Applied Bioinformatics Laboratories, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology,
New York University - Langone Health,
Tuesday, April 21st, 2026
12:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Junhyong Kim
Junhyong Kim,
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Biology Co-Director, Penn Program in Single Cell Biology Secondary Professor, Computer and Information Science,
University of Pennsylvania,
Thursday, April 23rd, 2026
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2026
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NB-CNS Seminar - Daniel Mucida
Daniel Mucida,
Professor Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Immunology, Virology, and Microbiology,
The Rockefeller University,