Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center
@asrc-gc.bsky.social
We envision a world where human, societal, and environmental well-being are vastly improved by interdisciplinary scientific discoveries. Learn more at https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/
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CUNY ASRC, A World-Leading Center of Scientific Excellence in NYC
The CUNY ASRC is celebrating 10 years in cutting edge science, so we thought we’d give you peek at some of the innovative research that our scientists are exploring every day in our world-class labs and core facilities. Stay tuned for information on joining us on September 12, 2024 for a special day of celebration that will envision our future and look back on a decade of catalyzing change and producing visionary science for the public good. #ASRC10 #CUNY #STEM Learn more about the CUNY ASRC at: https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/
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Hello👋 to all of our new followers! For those who may not know, we're the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social), often referred to as the CUNY ASRC or the ASRC. bit.ly/4eXIWUQ
“I am thankful for the helpful community built here and the expertise of my colleagues has allowed me to thrive in pursuit of my Ph.D.” —Kenny Barriales
What are YOU #thankful for?
What are YOU #thankful for?
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
“I am thankful for the helpful community built here and the expertise of my colleagues has allowed me to thrive in pursuit of my Ph.D.” —Kenny Barriales
What are YOU #thankful for?
What are YOU #thankful for?
"Whenever I run into a problem, there are friendly staff members ready to help. I’ve grown in ways I could never have imagined before coming to the ASRC—each day here turns abstract ideas into hands-on experiments and real progress." —Yu Wang
What are YOU #thankful for?
What are YOU #thankful for?
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"Whenever I run into a problem, there are friendly staff members ready to help. I’ve grown in ways I could never have imagined before coming to the ASRC—each day here turns abstract ideas into hands-on experiments and real progress." —Yu Wang
What are YOU #thankful for?
What are YOU #thankful for?
"I am thankful for the collaborations I’ve had at the ASRC. Because of this community and the access to world-class core facilities, my creativity and passion for scientific inquiry have deepened. —Siedah Hall
What are YOU #thankful for?
What are YOU #thankful for?
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"I am thankful for the collaborations I’ve had at the ASRC. Because of this community and the access to world-class core facilities, my creativity and passion for scientific inquiry have deepened. —Siedah Hall
What are YOU #thankful for?
What are YOU #thankful for?
Join us at the CUNY ASRC IlluminationSpace on Dec. 9 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. to learn how to explain your research to a public audience. You’ll have a chance to record an on-camera interview and get feedback from your peers and the communications team. asrc.formstack.com/forms/taco_t...
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Join us at the CUNY ASRC IlluminationSpace on Dec. 9 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. to learn how to explain your research to a public audience. You’ll have a chance to record an on-camera interview and get feedback from your peers and the communications team. asrc.formstack.com/forms/taco_t...
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Join us at the CUNY ASRC IlluminationSpace on Dec. 9 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. to learn how to explain your research to a public audience. You’ll have a chance to
record an on-camera
interview and get
feedback from your peers
and the communications
team. https://bit.ly/4oiMKop
record an on-camera
interview and get
feedback from your peers
and the communications
team. https://bit.ly/4oiMKop
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Join us at the CUNY ASRC IlluminationSpace on Dec. 9 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. to learn how to explain your research to a public audience. You’ll have a chance to
record an on-camera
interview and get
feedback from your peers
and the communications
team. https://bit.ly/4oiMKop
record an on-camera
interview and get
feedback from your peers
and the communications
team. https://bit.ly/4oiMKop
Join us at the CUNY ASRC IlluminationSpace on Dec. 9 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. to learn how to explain your research to a public audience. You’ll have a chance to
record an on-camera
interview and get
feedback from your peers
and the communications
team. https://bit.ly/4oiMKop
record an on-camera
interview and get
feedback from your peers
and the communications
team. https://bit.ly/4oiMKop
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Join us at the CUNY ASRC IlluminationSpace on Dec. 9 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. to learn how to explain your research to a public audience. You’ll have a chance to
record an on-camera
interview and get
feedback from your peers
and the communications
team. https://bit.ly/4oiMKop
record an on-camera
interview and get
feedback from your peers
and the communications
team. https://bit.ly/4oiMKop
#CUNYTuesday is an opportunity to support students across the CUNY-verse. At the ASRC, we nurture some of the most inquisitive minds in STEM. Help our student scientists unlock their potential with your gift today. bit.ly/47QoiV0
Donate to ASRC x #CUNYTUESDAY
Join me in giving to The Graduate Center's campaign ASRC x #CUNYTUESDAY
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November 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
#CUNYTuesday is an opportunity to support students across the CUNY-verse. At the ASRC, we nurture some of the most inquisitive minds in STEM. Help our student scientists unlock their potential with your gift today. bit.ly/47QoiV0
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November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The CUNY ASRC Photonics Initiative is hiring a professor! https://bit.ly/49LzOE3
November 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The CUNY ASRC Photonics Initiative is hiring a professor! https://bit.ly/49LzOE3
#CUNYTuesday is approaching, and we’re thrilled to participate! We’re raising money to support our student scientists as they work to make new discoveries and solve urgent societal problems. CUNY Tuesday is 12/2, but you can start donating today through 12/31. No gift is too small. bit.ly/47QoiV0
Donate to ASRC x #CUNYTUESDAY
Join me in giving to The Graduate Center's campaign ASRC x #CUNYTUESDAY
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November 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
#CUNYTuesday is approaching, and we’re thrilled to participate! We’re raising money to support our student scientists as they work to make new discoveries and solve urgent societal problems. CUNY Tuesday is 12/2, but you can start donating today through 12/31. No gift is too small. bit.ly/47QoiV0
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Our next Family Night — exploring how the environment affects the brain — is Tuesday, Nov. 18 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. RSVP today to join the IlluminationSpace for an exciting evening of hands-on science activities for all ages. https://bit.ly/4qYc5Gu
November 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Our next Family Night — exploring how the environment affects the brain — is Tuesday, Nov. 18 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. RSVP today to join the IlluminationSpace for an exciting evening of hands-on science activities for all ages. https://bit.ly/4qYc5Gu
Congrats! Andrea Alù, Distinguished Prof. & director of the ASRC Photonics Initiative, his team, & an international group of colleagues were awarded European Research Council (ERC)'s highly competitive Synergy Grant. They aim to revolutionize how data travels through the air. https://bit.ly/43xH9TH
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Congrats! Andrea Alù, Distinguished Prof. & director of the ASRC Photonics Initiative, his team, & an international group of colleagues were awarded European Research Council (ERC)'s highly competitive Synergy Grant. They aim to revolutionize how data travels through the air. https://bit.ly/43xH9TH
Our next Family Night — exploring how the environment affects the brain — is Tuesday, Nov. 18 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. RSVP today to join the IlluminationSpace for an exciting evening of hands-on science activities for all ages. https://bit.ly/4qYc5Gu
November 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Our next Family Night — exploring how the environment affects the brain — is Tuesday, Nov. 18 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. RSVP today to join the IlluminationSpace for an exciting evening of hands-on science activities for all ages. https://bit.ly/4qYc5Gu
CUNY ASRC researchers — led by Andrea Alù, Distinguished and Einstein Professor of Physics at the CUNY Graduate Center and director of our Photonics Initiative, — and colleagues' recent discovery could revolutionize quantum communication and ultra-compact photonic devices. https://bit.ly/49cq4lT
November 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
CUNY ASRC researchers — led by Andrea Alù, Distinguished and Einstein Professor of Physics at the CUNY Graduate Center and director of our Photonics Initiative, — and colleagues' recent discovery could revolutionize quantum communication and ultra-compact photonic devices. https://bit.ly/49cq4lT
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Congratulations to my PHD student Georgie Humphries @asrc-gc.bsky.social for sharing her poster on our recent trial AUV #phytoplankton and #waterquality survey in #JamaicaBay. #CERF2025
November 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Congratulations to my PHD student Georgie Humphries @asrc-gc.bsky.social for sharing her poster on our recent trial AUV #phytoplankton and #waterquality survey in #JamaicaBay. #CERF2025
Join us on Thursday, Nov. 13 at the CUNY ASRC for the second Nanofabrication Research Showcase Day! The day will feature presentations by ASRC Nanofab users, an interactive poster session, and more. Don't miss out on this opportunity to connect with peers. RSVP today. https://bit.ly/499Nkko
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Join us on Thursday, Nov. 13 at the CUNY ASRC for the second Nanofabrication Research Showcase Day! The day will feature presentations by ASRC Nanofab users, an interactive poster session, and more. Don't miss out on this opportunity to connect with peers. RSVP today. https://bit.ly/499Nkko
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#WritingTip: Sometimes it can be helpful to step away from the screen and do something more tactile. For instance, write out your key points on index cards and test out different structures, draft a paragraph longhand to slow yourself down, or print a draft and annotate it to plan for revision.
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
#WritingTip: Sometimes it can be helpful to step away from the screen and do something more tactile. For instance, write out your key points on index cards and test out different structures, draft a paragraph longhand to slow yourself down, or print a draft and annotate it to plan for revision.
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www.cell.com/cell-reports... new paper in cell reports sustainability with @asrc-gc.bsky.social colleagues
A Climate BioStress Sentinel System: Identifying climate impacts from the genome to the urbanized biosphere
Since its beginnings deep in Earth’s history, life has confronted a dynamic climate,
whose biological impacts play out across scales from milliseconds to millennia and
from genetics to the global bios...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
www.cell.com/cell-reports... new paper in cell reports sustainability with @asrc-gc.bsky.social colleagues
An interdisciplinary team of CUNY ASRC scientists unveil a groundbreaking conceptual model & integrative monitoring framework designed to reveal how climate change stresses life across the planet. This study could transform how detect, understand, & respond to climate threats. https://bit.ly/4p06rBU
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
An interdisciplinary team of CUNY ASRC scientists unveil a groundbreaking conceptual model & integrative monitoring framework designed to reveal how climate change stresses life across the planet. This study could transform how detect, understand, & respond to climate threats. https://bit.ly/4p06rBU
Prof. @pinar-ayata.bsky.social, CUNY ASRC Neuroscience Initiative, and colleagues identified a previously unrecognized protective state of microglia (the brain’s primary immune cells) that may open new avenues for treating Alzheimer’s disease. Check out their paper in Nature! go.nature.com/3JMJovx
Lymphoid gene expression supports neuroprotective microglia function - Nature
PU.1low CD28-expressing microglia may act as suppressive cells in Alzheimer’s disease, mitigating its progression by reducing neuroinflammation and amyloid plaque load, indicating potential immunother...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Prof. @pinar-ayata.bsky.social, CUNY ASRC Neuroscience Initiative, and colleagues identified a previously unrecognized protective state of microglia (the brain’s primary immune cells) that may open new avenues for treating Alzheimer’s disease. Check out their paper in Nature! go.nature.com/3JMJovx
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Props to my colleague here at the @asrc-gc.bsky.social , @fravallese.bsky.social , for this wonderful piece about the uniquely strong structural biology community here in NYC. I often feel lucky to be here. Let's keep up the good vibes and forward momentum -- exciting times for struct bio!
Being part of a community has always been essential for me. Finding a vibrant structural biology community in New York shaped my decision to stay in this City. Thank you @natsmb.nature.com for the opportunity to share it on your pages.
New online: New York City’s structural biology mosaic
November 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Props to my colleague here at the @asrc-gc.bsky.social , @fravallese.bsky.social , for this wonderful piece about the uniquely strong structural biology community here in NYC. I often feel lucky to be here. Let's keep up the good vibes and forward momentum -- exciting times for struct bio!
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Prof. Delaram Kahrobaei shares her path to mathematics and her research www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQrp...
Delaram Kahrobaei - Portrait
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November 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Prof. Delaram Kahrobaei shares her path to mathematics and her research www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQrp...
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A\Prof. Qiushi Guo of @asrc-gc.bsky.social giving his Feliks Gross/Henry Wasser award lecture @cunyacademygc.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A\Prof. Qiushi Guo of @asrc-gc.bsky.social giving his Feliks Gross/Henry Wasser award lecture @cunyacademygc.bsky.social
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@asrc-gc.bsky.social Halloween social!
October 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
@asrc-gc.bsky.social Halloween social!
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Helping staff this awesome space today (Climate w/ @asrc-gc.bsky.social ), tomorrow (Innovating For Inclusion), & Wednesday (Community Engagement), with @beta.nyc, @cunypitlab.bsky.social . Check out the schedule & come by, or watch the stream at twitch.tv/cunypitlab! @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Helping staff this awesome space today (Climate w/ @asrc-gc.bsky.social ), tomorrow (Innovating For Inclusion), & Wednesday (Community Engagement), with @beta.nyc, @cunypitlab.bsky.social . Check out the schedule & come by, or watch the stream at twitch.tv/cunypitlab! @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social