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| Monday, January 5, 2009 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Functional Genomics, Experimental Models and Cancer
William C. Hahn, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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| Tuesday, January 6, 2009 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Pharmacology Seminars
STAT Signaling in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Cancer
David A. Frank, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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| Wednesday, January 7, 2009 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Cell Biology Seminars
The Many Faces of Fat: From Membrane Organization to Lipid Storage
Tobias Walther, Ph.D., group leader, organelle architecture and dynamics, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
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12:00 p.m. |
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Seminars in Clinical Research
Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes
Farid Boulad, M.D., medical director, Pediatric Day Hospital, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Genetic Regulation of Genome Rearrangements in Yeast
Thomas Petes, Ph.D., professor and chair, department of molecular genetics and microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine
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| Thursday, January 8, 2009 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Confined Water, Hydrophobicity and Protein Stability in Vitro and in Vivo
Jeremy England, Ph.D., Stanford University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
A Genetic Map of the S. Cerevisiae Phosphorylation Network
Dorothea Fiedler, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, department of cellular and molecular pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco
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| Monday, January 12, 2009 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Evolution in Cell Groups
Joao Xavier, postdoctoral fellow, Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University
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7:00 p.m. |
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Club Meetings
Improvisational Theater Group
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| Tuesday, January 13, 2009 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
How simple animals navigate gradients
Aravi Samuel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Harvard University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Reinventing Amide-bond Formation
Jeffrey Bode, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
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| Wednesday, January 14, 2009 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Seminars in Clinical Research
To Be Announced
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Vesicular Traffic: Mechanism and Disease Connections
Randy Schekman, Ph.D., professor of cell and developmental biology, University of California, Berkeley
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| Thursday, January 15, 2009 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Small Molecule-mediated Signaling between Organisms
Rebecca Butcher, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, department of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology, Harvard Medical School
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
How Protein Sequestration Generates a Flexible Ultrasensitive Response
Nicolas Buchler, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Laboratory of Yeast Molecular Genetics, Rockefeller University
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3:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Center for Cell Engineering Second Annual Retreat
Rudolf Jaenisch, M.D., Whitehead Institute Konrad Hochedlinger, Ph.D., Harvard University, Epigenetic Reprogramming and Induced Pluripotency Lorenz Studer, M.D., MSKCC, Human Pluripotent Cells For Modeling Neural Development and Disease
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8:00 p.m. |
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Harvey Society
Fundamental Units of Synaptic Communication Between Brain Cells
Richard Tsien, , il, Stanford University
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| Friday, January 16, 2009 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Cell Biology Seminars
Assembly of the Mitotic Spindle Matrix, a Template for Coupling Cell Division and Cell Fate Choices?
Yixian Zheng, Ph.D., staff member, department of embryology, Carnegie Institution for Science; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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12:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Biology Seminars
Static and Dynamic Genome-wide Views of Yeast Chromatin
Oliver Rando, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School
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| Monday, January 19, 2009 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Deciphering the Function of Urm1, an Enigmatic Ubiquitin-related Modifier: An Unexpected Link to RNA Modification Pathways
Christian Schlieker, Ph.D., Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Identification, Molecular Characterization, Clinical Prognosis and Therapeutic Targeting of Human Bladder Tumor-initiating Cell Population
Keith Syson Chan, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Institute, Stanford University
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7:00 p.m. |
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Club Meetings
Improvisational Theater Group
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| Tuesday, January 20, 2009 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Self-Assembly of Spherical Particles at Low N
Natalie Arkus, Ph.D., Harvard University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
pHLIP Nanotechnology Platform for Cancer Imaging and Therapy
Yana Reshetnyak, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of physics, University of Rhode Island
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4:00 p.m. |
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Pharmacology Seminars
Targeting Signaling Pathways in Head and Neck Cancer
Jennifer R. Grandis, M.D., vice chair for research, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
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| Wednesday, January 21, 2009 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Seminars in Clinical Research
Transcription and Signaling Pathways and Their Therapeutic Targeting in Melanoma
David Fisher, M.D., Ph.D., director, melanoma program, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard University
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12:00 p.m. |
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Club Meetings
Yeast Club
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Understanding Quorum Sensing In Bacteria
Sidhartha Goyal, Ph.D., Princeton University
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| Thursday, January 22, 2009 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Optimization, Control and Flies: Quantitative Studies of Insect Flight
Gordon Berman, Ph.D., Cornell University
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| Friday, January 23, 2009 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
BubR1 in Mitosis, Cancer and Aging
Jan van Deursen, Ph.D., professor of pediatrics and adolescent medicine and of biochemistry and molecular biology, Mayo Clinic
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| Monday, January 26, 2009 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
GSK-3 as a Therapeutic Target in Cancer
Zhong Wang, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, department of pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
CD4 T Cells: Fates, Functions, Faults
William Paul, M.D., chief, Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
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2:00 p.m. |
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Cell Biology Seminars
Color Vision in Drosophila
Claude Desplan, Ph.D., professor, department of pathology, New York University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Geometric Phases in Stochastic Kinetics: New Design Principles in Molecular Robotics
Nikolai Sinitsyn, Ph.D., postdoctoral research associate, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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7:00 p.m. |
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Club Meetings
Improvisational Theater Group
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| Tuesday, January 27, 2009 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Seminars
A Scientific Symposium in Memory of Joshua Lederberg
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Action at a Distance in Eukaryotic Gene Regulation
Anirvan Sengupta, Ph.D., associate professor, Rutgers University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Elucidation of Molecular Foundation of Cancer: A Chemical Biology Approach
Weihong Tan, Ph.D., V.T. and Louis Jackson Professor of Chemistry and Physiology and associate director, Center for Research at the Bio/Nano Interface, University of Florida
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7:00 p.m. |
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Other Meetings
Psoriasis Support Group
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| Wednesday, January 28, 2009 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Analyzing Cancer at the Single Cell Level
Cathy Shachaf, Ph.D., instructor in medicine, Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Laboratory in Genetic Pharmacology, department of microbiology and immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine
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12:00 p.m. |
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Seminars in Clinical Research
Monocytes, Dendritic Cells and the Resolution of Inflammation
Gwendalyn Randolph, Ph.D., associate professor, gene and cell medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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12:15 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Regulation of Heterochromatin Protein 1 by Phosphorylation of Histone H3 and the HP1 Hinge Domain
Holger Dormann, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Structural View of Nonsense-mediated mRNA Decay
Elena Conti, Ph.D., director, department of biochemistry and structural cell biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
How Telomeres Protect Chromosome Ends
Titia de Lange, Ph.D., Leon Hess Professor and head, Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics, Rockefeller University
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| Thursday, January 29, 2009 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Anderson Cancer Center Lecture Series
Molecular Mechanisms of RNA Degradation
Elena Conti, Ph.D., director, department of structural cell biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
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6:00 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Peggy Rockefeller Concert Buffet
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8:00 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Andrew von Oeyen, piano
Performing works by Bach, Andrew von Oeyen, Debussy, David Newman and Liszt
Andrew von Oeyen
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