Beyond OPF: External Events
External Events & Professional Development
This page is used to advertise non-OPF Events and Announcements that may be of interest to our community. Please contact us if you wish to have an announcement or event posted here.
Kick off the new academic year at the annual Welcome Block Party! All Harvard affiliates are welcome.
Whether you are new to Harvard or have been a part of the community for years, we can’t wait to celebrate with you.
Discover University-wide resources, enjoy lively music, cool down with a refreshing treat, capture memories at our photo booth, and meet new people over lawn games. Come connect, explore, and celebrate the start of an exciting new year!
This event is sponsored by Community and Campus Life in collaboration with Common Spaces.
Join us for our September Harvard Cancer Consortium (HCC) Pathfinder First-Author Journal Club series with DFCI's Prathyusha Konda, PhD (Srinivas Viswanathan Lab, DFCI; HCC Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics Program, HCC Prostate Cancer Program), who will share with us her recent paper: "Fusion-driven oncogenic programs shape the immune landscape in translocation renal cell carcinoma"
Link to paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40950046/
Registration link: https://dfci.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lE86cs5iT9OTNyhrftTpzg#/registration
What if your next research talk was in an art museum?
Science in the Galleries is an experimental science+art communication program at the Harvard Art Museums, culminating in a public event on December 12, 2026. We’re recruiting PhD students and postdocs in the life sciences to give a five‑minute talk for museum visitors, using one artwork from the museum’s collection as both the starting point and the sole visual for their story.
Applications are open until September 20. Learn more and apply here:
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/scientists-in-the-galleries/home
- HCC Core Facilities Spotlight Series: Spatial Technologies Unit (STU) - Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 12pm-12:45pm (Zoom)
Please join us for the launch of the HCC Core Spotlight Series with the Spatial Technologies Unit (STU)!
The Harvard Cancer Consortium (HCC) Core Facilities are central or “shared” laboratories that provide members with critical services to advance their research. This webinar series will highlight the services offered by HCC Core Facilities and will provide examples of how early career investigators have utilized them to support their research.
The STU is a production-grade facility at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center that supports HCC investigators in cutting-edge spatial tissue profiling and single-cell studies.
Presentations:
• Introduction to the Spatial Technologies Unit
Ioannis Vlachos, PhD (Director, STU) and Shuoshuo Wang, PhD (Scientific Director, STU)
• "Tumor-myeloid Crosstalk Drives Therapy Resistance in Localized Bladder Cancer"
Filipe De Carvalho, MD, PhD (Assistant Professor of Surgery, BWH)
• "Distinct Tumor Microenvironment Across Cholangiocarcinoma Anatomical Subtypes"
Soravis Alm Osataphan, MD, MPH (Attending Physician in Gastrointestinal Cancer, DFCI/BIDMC; Instructor of Medicine, HMS)
Learn more about the STU: https://www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/research/core-facilities/spatial-technologies-unit
Registration link: https://dfci.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dlyT312aRa21MmytGgY0mQ#/registration
Pathfinder Career Hub: Parenting and Science Careers - Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 1pm-2pm (Zoom)
Are you struggling with juggling parenthood with your postdoc or contemplating parenthood and wondering how this might affect the trajectory of your career? Join HCC Pathfinder for our first in a series of panels on Parenting and Science Careers. In this offering, we'll hear from former HCC-affiliated postdocs who will share their stories and strategies as parents pursuing scientific careers in industry and academia.
• Sam Linder, PhD, Associate Principal Scientist, Discovery, AstraZeneca
• Christopher Ott, PhD, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Krantz Center for Cancer Research, Mass General Hospital
• Chadene Tremaglio, PhD, Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Saint Joseph
Panelists will share tips and tricks for those contemplating or on the scientific career development and parenting pathway and will discuss strategies for career success as a parent scientist.
Registration link: https://dfci.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KJaXcKsHROCobGgzKTSEHg
Calling for Science in the News seminar facilitators!
We are now recruiting facilitators for the Fall 2026 SITN seminar series! This is a great opportunity to engage with the community, increase public awareness of your field/area of experise, and gain experience with science communication. We welcome academic researchers and industry professionals at all levels!
📆 WHEN: Fall semester is October-November (each facilitator will sign up for one date)
📍 WHERE: Online (Zoom)
‼️ WHAT: Short flash talk, followed by a roundtable discussion with students
👥 WHO: Beacon Hill Seminars is an adult learning community who is excited about new frontiers in science, technology and medicine. They are a passionate and curious group of students!
Apply here: Fall 2026 SITN-BHS Facilitator Application Form
Contact the organizer: scienceinthenews.bhs@gmail.com
LEARN MORE
- Beacon Hill Seminars: home page
- Harvard SITN: official website
- More SITN opportunities: general interest form
- Contact SITN: sitnboston@gmail.com
