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| Monday, February 2, 2009 |
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5:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
What Is Medicine? The History of Our Present Complaints
Heberden Society Lecture
Charles Rosenberg, Ph.D., Ernest Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences and professor of the history of science, Harvard University
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7:00 p.m. |
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Club Meetings
Improvisational Theater Group
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| Tuesday, February 3, 2009 |
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11:30 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Neural Mechanisms of the Most Common and Preventable Birth Defect
Melissa Noel, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Seminars
IQ Squared Storage
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4:00 p.m. |
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Pharmacology Seminars
Molecular Mechanism Controlling Estrogen Signaling and Gene Regulation
William Lee Kraus, Ph.D., associate professor, Cornell University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Biased Random Walks: How Do Eukaryotic Cells Find Hidden Targets?
Edward C. Cox, Ph.D., professor, Princeton University
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6:45 p.m. |
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Other Seminars
The Art Market Is Less Ethical than the Stock Market
IQ Squared U.S. Debate
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| Wednesday, February 4, 2009 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Seminars in Clinical Research
Just One More Bite: The Neurophysiology of Feeding in the Obesogenic Environment
Dana Small, Ph.D., assistant fellow, the John B. Pierce Laboratory, Yale University School of Medicine
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3:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Reprogramming of Somatic Cell Identity: Mechanisms and Potential Applications
Jacob Hanna, M.D., Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Apoptosis-based Drug Discovery for Cancer
John Reed, M.D., Ph.D., president and CEO, The Burnham Institute for Medical Research
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| Thursday, February 5, 2009 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
PIP2 Signaling at the Neuronal Synapse:
From Normal Physiology to Pathology
Gilbert Di Paolo, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of pathology and cell biology, Columbia University Medical Center
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Treating Thalassemia: From Transfusion to Engineered Stem Cells
Michel Sadelain, M.D., Ph.D., director, Gene Transfer and Somatic Cell Engineering Facility, and Stephen and Barbara Friedman Chair, department of molecular pharmacology and chemistry, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Evangelia Yannaki, M.D., George Papanicolaou Hospital, Greece, Stem Cell Mobilization in β-Thalassemic Subjects Farid Boulad, M.D., medical director, Pediatric Day Hospital, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, The Upcoming First U.S. Trial of Globin Gene Transfer
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| Friday, February 6, 2009 |
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1:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Molecular Imaging in Oncology: Targeted and Activatable Probes
Jan Grimm, M.D., nuclear medicine resident, department of radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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| Monday, February 9, 2009 |
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7:00 p.m. |
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Club Meetings
Improvisational Theater Group
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| Tuesday, February 10, 2009 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Of Mice and Men: Studying Innate and Adaptive Immunity against the Epstein-Barr Virus
Till Strowig, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Movement Planning under Risk
Laurence Maloney, Ph.D., professor, New York University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Monodisperse, Shape-specific Nanobiomaterials for Cancer Therapeutics and Imaging Agents
Joseph DeSimone, Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University
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| Wednesday, February 11, 2009 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Seminars in Clinical Research
Short Sleep, Poor Sleep: Novel Risk Factors for Obesity and Diabetes
Eve Van Cauter, Ph.D., professor of medicine, Pritzker School of Medicine, The University of Chicago
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7:00 p.m. |
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Other Arts Events
Van Cliburn Music Competition Kick-off Event
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| Thursday, February 12, 2009 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Computational Identification of Disease Genes and Pathways
Joel Bader, Ph.D., assistant professor, The Johns Hopkins University
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Arts Events
2009 Cliburn Competition NY Screening Recitals
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
A model of heat conduction
Jean-Pierre Eckmann, Ph.D., Professor, University of Geneva
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| Friday, February 13, 2009 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Special Events
CFC Valentine's Day Bake Sale
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7:00 p.m. |
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Other Arts Events
2009 Cliburn Competition New York Screening Recitals
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7:00 p.m. |
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Other Arts Events
Vagina Monologues
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| Saturday, February 14, 2009 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Arts Events
2009 Cliburn Competition NY Screening Recitals
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| Sunday, February 15, 2009 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Arts Events
2009 Cliburn Competition NY Screening Recitals
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| Monday, February 16, 2009 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Arts Events
2009 Cliburn Competition NY Screening Recitals
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| Tuesday, February 17, 2009 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Arts Events
2009 Cliburn Competition NY Screening Recitals
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Soft Squishy Tissue: Investigating the Depth-dependent Shear Properties of Cartilage
Itai Cohen, Ph.D., assistant professor, Cornell University
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| Wednesday, February 18, 2009 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Centrosome Positioning during Cell Migration
Sandrine Etienne-Manneville, Ph.D., professor, École Polytechnique; director, cell polarity and migration group, Pasteur Institute
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Arts Events
2009 Cliburn Competition NY Screening Recitals
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12:00 p.m. |
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Seminars in Clinical Research
Merkel Cell Polyomavirus: A New Human Cancer Virus
Patrick Moore, M.D., director, molecular virology program, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
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12:00 p.m. |
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Club Meetings
Yeast Club
James Moseley, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Rockefeller University
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
The Hormonal Etiology and Prevention of Breast, Endometrial and Ovarian Cancers
Malcolm Pike, Ph.D., Flora L. Thornton Professor and professor of preventive medicine, University of Southern California
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| Monday, February 23, 2009 |
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7:00 p.m. |
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Club Meetings
Improvisational Theater Group
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8:00 p.m. |
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Rockefeller Reels
Flash of Genius (2008), directed by Marc Abraham
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| Tuesday, February 24, 2009 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Other Seminars
Memorial Symposium
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Perceptual Learning of Object Shape
Doruk Golcu, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Seminars
A Scientific Symposium in Memory of Frederick Seitz
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
How T Cells “See” Antigen to Orchestrate Adaptive Immunity
Arup Chakraborty, Ph.D., professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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4:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Targeting messenger RNA The Twists and Turns of Nucleic Acid Drug Development
Alan Gerwitz, M.D., C. Williard Robinson Professor of Hematology/Oncology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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7:00 p.m. |
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Other Special Events
Psoriasis Support Group
support group
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| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
To Be Announced
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11:00 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Worms Can't Sniff without “Glue”: Glia Are Required for Sensory Neuron Function in C. elegans
Taulant Bacaj, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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12:00 p.m. |
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Seminars in Clinical Research
Personalized Medicine: Hype or Hope?
Barry S. Coller, M.D., physician in chief, vice president for medical affairs, David Rockefeller Professor and head, Allen and Frances Adler Laboratory of Blood and Vascular Biology, Rockefeller University
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
New Strategies to Identify Disease Alleles and Drug Targets in Leukemia
D. Gary Gilliland, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School
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| Thursday, February 26, 2009 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Anderson Cancer Center Lecture Series
Polyploidy, Aneuploidy and Cancer
David Pellman, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Systems Biology from Chemical Combinations
Joseph Lehar, CombinatoRX
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11:30 a.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Dissecting and Drugging the p53-HDM2-HDMX Axis in Solid Tumors
Federico Bernal, Ph.D., instructor in pediatrics, department of pediatric oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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| Friday, February 27, 2009 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Meiotic Recombination Hotspots: The Search for Hidden and Moving Genomic Sites
Bernard de Massy, Ph.D., group leader, department of genome dynamics and chromatin, Institute of Human Genetics
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
A New Geometric Principle in Virus Architecture and Its Implications for Virus Assembly and Viral Evolution
Reidun Twarock, Ph.D., University of York
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