We are pleased to announce the return of our bi-weekly MIT Biophysics Seminar Series! Spring 2026 seminars will be held every other Wednesday at 10:45am in the Duboc Room (4-331) *unless otherwise noted.
Please find the offical dates and list of speakers below. This site will continue to be updated with more information as it comes in.
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Spring 2026 Biophysic Seminar Series Speakers:
February 10, 2026 – David Nelson, Harvard University- “title to come”
February 25, 2026 – Sharad Ramanthan, Harvard University- “title to come”
March 4, 2026 – Arvind Murugan, University of Chicago – “title to come”
April 1, 2026 – Anatoly Kolomeisky, Rice University- “When Will the Cancer Start?”
April 8, 2026 – Chiu-Fan Lee, Imperial College London- “title to come”
April 29, 2026 – Alexander Grosberg, New York University- “title to come”
May 13, 2026 – Jane Kondev, Brandeis University- “title to come”
Other Biophysic Seminar Speakers:
Previous Biophysics Seminar Speakers:
December 10, 2025 – Etienne Fodor, Luxembourg University
December 3, 2025 – Grant Rotskoff, Stanford University
December 1, 2025 – Roberto Di Leonardo, University of Rome
November 19, 2025 – Mustafa Aydogan, Columbia University
November 5, 2025 – Matthieu Wyart, John Hopkins University
October 22, 2025 – Herbert Levine, Northeastern University
October 15, 2025 – Nigel Goldenfeld, UCSD
October 1, 2025 – Buddhapriya Chakrabarti, Kansas State University
September 24, 2025 – Suri Vaikuntanathan, University of Chicago
September 10, 2025 – Tatiana Mishania, UCSD
April 30, 2025 – Shixin Liu, Rockefeller University
April 23, 2025 – Cengiz Pehlevan, Harvard University
April 16, 2025 – Benjamin Machta, Yale University
March 12, 2025 – Anthony Fitzpatrick, Columbia University
February 19, 2025 – Thierry Emonet, Yale University
February 4, 2025 – Ziming Liu, MIT
December 4, 2024 – William Jacobs, Princeton
December 11, 2024 – Leticia Cugliandolo, Sorbone Univeristy
November 20, 2024 – Melanie Ohi, University of Michigan
November 6, 2024 – Sarah Loos, University of Cambridge
October 23, 2024 – Armita Nourmohammad, University of Washington
October 9, 2024 – Knut Drescher, Biozentrum, University of Basel
September 25, 2024 – Ahmad Omar, University of California, Berkeley
September 11, 2024 – Ayusman Sen, Penn State University
May 8, 2024 – Yariv Kafri, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
April 10, 2024 – Daniel Segrè, Boston University
March 13, 2024 – Roya Zandi, University of California, Riverside
February 28, 2024 – Sebastian Streichan, University of California, Santa Barbara
December 6, 2023 – Ilya Nemenman, Emory University
November 29, 2023 – Thierry Mora, LPENS – The Ecole Normale Supérieure PSL
November 15, 2023 – Ingmar Riedel-Kruse, The University of Arizona
November 8, 2023 – Ada Altieri, Paris City University
November 1, 2023 – Frédéric van Wijland, Paris City University
October 18, 2023 – Ned Wingreen, Princeton University
October 4, 2023 – John Marko, Northwestern University
September 20, 2023 – Stefano Di Talia, Duke University
September 6, 2023 – Erwin Frey, University of Munich
Questions? Please email Tader Shipley ( tshipley@mit.edu )