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| Tuesday, September 4, 2007 |
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6:30 p.m. |
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Conversational English
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| Wednesday, September 5, 2007 |
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11:30 a.m. |
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Seminars in Clinical Research
Vaccines for Nicotine Addiction: Targeting the drug instead of the brain
Paul Pentel, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology
Director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology
Hennepin County Medical Center, University of Minnesota
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Identification of loss of specific FMRP-RNA interactions as a cause of Fragile X Syndrome
Julie Zang, Biomedical Fellow, RU
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| Thursday, September 6, 2007 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Other Meetings
Meeting President's Office
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
Novel Regulation of Posttranslational Modifications in the Golgi Apparatus: From Basic Science to Diseases
Carlos B. Hirschberg, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology, Boston U. Medical Center
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1:00 p.m. |
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Department and Lab Meetings
Laboratory Course. Introduction to Safety
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5:00 p.m. |
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Department and Lab Meetings
The New York Minority Graduate Student Network
BBQ Roundup and Welcome
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6:30 p.m. |
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Conversational English
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| Tuesday, September 11, 2007 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Diffusion Methods for Population-Genetic Inference
Joshua Plotkin, University of Pennsylvania
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4:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Mycalamide A and Related Natural Products: From Total Synthesis to Identification of Biological Target
Viresh Rawal, Ph.D., Professor, University of Chicago
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| Wednesday, September 12, 2007 |
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11:30 a.m. |
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Seminars in Clinical Research
Genetic dissection of QT interval variation and sudden cardiac death
Christopher Newton-Cheh, M.D., MPH, Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Semi-synthesis of the transcription factor Smad2 containing caging
groups and phosphoaminoacid analogues
Michael Hahn, Biomedical Fellow, RU
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
The differential involvement of striatonigral and striatopallidal
neurons in psychostimulant and antipsychotic responses: A dual role for DARPP-32
Helen Bateup, Graduate Fellow, RU
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6:30 p.m. |
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Conversational English
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| Thursday, September 13, 2007 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Seminars in RNA Biology
MicroRNAs in cervical cancer and their possible roles in human papillomavirus infection
Zhi-Ming Zheng, M.D., Ph.D., Principal Investigator, HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute/NIH
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6:30 p.m. |
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Conversational English
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| Friday, September 14, 2007 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Student and Postdoc Sponsored Seminars
MicroRNAs and Cancer
Anderson Cancer Symposium
Gary Ruvkun, (Harvard Medical School), Scott Hammond (UNC-Chapel Hill), Reuven Agami (Netherlands Cancer Institute), Dansesh Moazed (Harvard Medical School)
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Seminars
PDA Alternative Career Seminar
Navdeep Jaikaria, Ph.D., Managing Director and Senior Biotechnology Analyst, Rodman and Renshaw
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| Monday, September 17, 2007 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Immunological Voyeurism: Visualizing Dendritic Cells with Transgenic Mice
Randall Lindquist, Biomedical Fellow, The Rockefeller University
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| Tuesday, September 18, 2007 |
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12:30 p.m. |
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Other Seminars
To Be Announced
Jeff Smith, Ph.D.
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Controlling Bacterial Transcription : Regulation of the Sigma Factor
Edmund Schwartz, Graduate Fellow, RU
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Reflections on Eyes
Mitchell Feigenbaum, The Rockefeller University
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6:30 p.m. |
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Conversational English
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| Wednesday, September 19, 2007 |
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8:00 a.m. |
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Other Seminars
Keck Site Visit
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11:30 a.m. |
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Seminars in Clinical Research
Modeling Human Epilepsies in Mice
Jeffrey L. Noebels, M.D., Ph.D., Prof., Depts of Neurology and Molecular & Human Genetics, Division of Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Mammalian Small-RNA-Mediated Gene Regulation
Thomas Tuschl, Ph.D., Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Associate Professor, The Rockefeller University
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| Thursday, September 20, 2007 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
Regulation of the Cell Cortex by ERM Proteins and Their Friends
Anthony Bretscher, Ph.D., Professor of Cell Biology, Associate Director, Cornell Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology, Cornell U. - ITHACA
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2:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
The Role of GDF-3 in Patterning the Early Embryo
Ariel Levine, Biomedical Fellow, RU
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6:30 p.m. |
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Conversational English
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| Monday, September 24, 2007 |
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7:30 p.m. |
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Club Meetings
Improvisational Theater Club
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8:00 p.m. |
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Rockefeller Reels
Rockefeller Film Series
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| Tuesday, September 25, 2007 |
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3:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
From Pluripotency to Old Age: The Life Cycle of Dopamine Neurons
Ronald McKay, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), NIH
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Topological Transitions and Singularities in Fluids: The Life and Death of a Drop
Sidney Nagel, University of Chicago
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4:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Systems Biology Driven in vitro and in vivo Diagnostic Technologies for Cancer
James R. Heath, Ph.D., Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor, Caltech Chemistry
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6:30 p.m. |
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Conversational English
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| Wednesday, September 26, 2007 |
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11:30 a.m. |
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Seminars in Clinical Research
Adaptive immunity induced by antitumor antibody treatment
Raphael Clynes, Announced, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Microbiology
Asst. Prof., Dept. of Medicine- Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care, Columbia University
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3:00 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Peggy Rockefeller Concert
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4:00 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Peggy Rockefeller Concert
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Nuclear Receptors: Metabolic Engineering and the Dawn of Synthetic Physiology
Ronald M. Evans, Ph.D., Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, March of Dimes Chair in Molecular & Developmental Biology, Professor, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
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8:00 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Jonathan Biss, piano & Miriam Fried, violin
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| Thursday, September 27, 2007 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Cell Biology Seminars
Polysomes, P-bodies and stress granules: Spacial control of mRNA translation/decay
Paul Anderson, M.D., Ph.D., K. Frank Austen Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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6:30 p.m. |
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Conversational English
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| Monday, October 1, 2007 |
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7:30 p.m. |
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Club Meetings
Improvisational Theater Club
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9:30 p.m. |
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Other Arts Events
Darwins Finches
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| Tuesday, October 2, 2007 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Estimation of information from neural data: why it is challenging, and why many approaches are useful
Jonathan Victor, Cornell Medical School
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6:30 p.m. |
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Conversational English
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| Wednesday, October 3, 2007 |
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11:30 a.m. |
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Seminars in Clinical Research
Assembly and function of the cell wall envelope of gram-positive bacterial pathogens
Olaf Schneewind, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology, University of Chicago
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
CREB and the Search for Memory Enhancers
Timothy Tully, Ph.D., Chief Science Officer, Dart Neuroscience LLC, Acting Chief Scientific Officer, Helicon Therapeutics, Inc., Adjunct Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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| Thursday, October 4, 2007 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
The Molecular Evolution of Multi-Subunit RNA Polymerases
William Lane, Biomedical Fellow, RU
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3:00 p.m. |
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Other Seminars
Chemical Approaches to Understanding Copper and
Peroxide Biology in the Brain
Christopher Chang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
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6:30 p.m. |
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Conversational English
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