Browse Events
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| Wednesday, April 1, 2009 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Mechanochemical Feedbacks of Cellular Processes
Jian Liu, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher, department of chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
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12:00 p.m. |
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Seminars in Clinical Research
Claudin01, a Tight Junction Protein, Is Dysregulated in Atopic Dermatitis
Lisa Beck, M.D., associate professor of dermatology, University of Rochester School of Medicine
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Architecture of a Coat for the Nuclear Pore Membrane
Kuo-Chiang Hsia, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Genetic Mining of the Cancer Genome
Stephen Elledge, Ph.D., professor of genetics, Harvard Medical School; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Thursday, April 2, 2009 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Ultraconserved Nonsense: Regulating Genes with Alternative Splicing and RNA Surveillance
Steven Brenner, Ph.D., associate professor, department of plant and microbial biology, University of California, Berkeley
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
Membrane Interaction Dynamics of Ras, Src and Focal Adhesion Proteins
Yoav Henis, Ph.D., The Zalman Weinberg Chair in Cell Biology, faculty of life sciences, Tel Aviv University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Tumor Cell Invasion: Lessons from the Embryonic Neural Crest
Paul Kulesa, Ph.D., director, Imaging Center, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
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| Friday, April 3, 2009 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Role of Lysine Methyl Transferases and Demethylases in Stem Cells and Cancer
Kristian Helin, Ph.D., director, Biotech Research and Innovation Centre, University of Copenhagen
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Collective animal behavior: Theories and experiments on starling flocks
Andrea Cavagna, Ph.D., Researcher, INFM-CNR (Rome, Italy)
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Eavesdropping on Bacterial Conversations
Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences
Bonnie Bassler, Ph.D., Squibb Professor, department of molecular biology, Princeton University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Monday, April 6, 2009 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Promiscuity and Fidelity in Pre-mRNA Splicing
Duncan Smith, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Differential Origins and Functions of Intestinal Lamina Propria Dendritic Cells
Steffen Jung, Ph.D., senior scientist, department of immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Seminars
Using the Structure of Class II MHC Proteins to Design a New Drug for the Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis and How It Works
Jack Strominger, M.D., Higgins Professor of Biochemistry, Harvard University
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7:00 p.m. |
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Club Meetings
Improvisational Theater Group
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| Tuesday, April 7, 2009 |
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11:30 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Beware of Moving Parts! Structure and Dynamics of Nuclear Pore Complex Components
Martin Kampmann, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Pharmacology Seminars
Growth Control by the mTOR Pathway
David M. Sabatini, M.D., Ph.D., member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; member, Koch Institute
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
A Possible Signal of Dark Matter from a Satellite Experiment
Andrea Vacchi, Ph.D., director, National Institute of Nuclear Research, Trieste, Italy
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| Wednesday, April 8, 2009 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Part I: Mobile Elements Impact Gene Regulatory Networks; Part II: UCSC Cancer Genomics Browser
Ting Wang, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher, Center for Biomolecular Sciences and Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz
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12:00 p.m. |
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Seminars in Clinical Research
Toward an Integrative Immunobiology of Human Disease: Reconciling Basic Paradigms with the Clinical Reality
Rabindra Tirouvanziam, Ph.D., instructor, department of pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Detection strategies for PET imaging of small animals and beyond
Paul Vaska, Ph.D., scientist, Brookhaven National Laboratory
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| Thursday, April 9, 2009 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Pathways that regulate intestinal stem/progenitor cells: insights into GI diseases
Rob Ramsay, Ph.D., National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Fellow, Professor, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia
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| Monday, April 13, 2009 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
MAGUK Family Polarity Genes in Lymphocyte Development and Cancer
Wojciech Swat, Ph.D., associate professor, department of immunology and pathology, Washington University School of Medicine
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7:00 p.m. |
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Club Meetings
Improvisational Theater Group
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| Tuesday, April 14, 2009 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Perceptual Learning, Long-range Horizontal Connections and Top-down Influences in Primary Visual Cortex
Valentin Piech, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Encoding of Natural Signals in Olfaction and Audition
Maria Geffen, Ph.D., fellow in physics and biology, Rockefeller University
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| Wednesday, April 15, 2009 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Seminars in Clinical Research
The Endogenous Opioid System and Alcohol Dependence
Gary Wand, M.D., professor of endocrinology and metabolism, and director, Endocrine Training Program, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Quantitative Questions about Dynamics and Mechanisms of Microbial Evolution
Daniel S. Fisher, Ph.D., professor, Stanford University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Seminars
How Women Become Pregnant and What Comes Next: Immunological Tolerance
Jack Strominger, M.D., Higgins Professor of Biochemistry, Harvard University
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Neural Circuit Assembly in the Mammalian Central Nervous System
Thomas Jessell, Ph.D., Claire Tow Professor, department of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University
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| Thursday, April 16, 2009 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Of Microbes and microRNAs: Mechanisms of RNA Interference and messenger RNA Degradation
Joel Belasco, Ph.D., professor, structural biology program, department of microbiology, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University School of Medicine
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
A Fox with Three Tales: Insulin-dependent Regulation of Foxa2 in the Liver, Hypothalamus and Lung
Jessica Howell, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Line up and Listen: Planar Cell Polarity Regulation in the Ear
Ping Chen, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of cell biology, Emory University
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8:00 p.m. |
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Harvey Society
Fueling Cancer Cell Growth
Craig Thompson, M.D., professor of medicine, chair, department of cancer biology, and director, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania
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| Monday, April 20, 2009 |
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12:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Hierarchy and Cis-regulation in Drosophila Segmentation: Rules for Pattern Formation and Clues to Evolution
Mark Schroeder, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Regulation of Innate and Adaptive Immunity by Integrin-mediated Activation of Transforming Growth Factor β
Dean Sheppard, M.D., professor of medicine and director, Lung Biology Center, University of California, San Francisco
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7:00 p.m. |
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Club Meetings
Improvisational Theater Group
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| Tuesday, April 21, 2009 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
The Manipulation of Apical Dendritic Plasticity and the Consequences for the Effects of Chronic Stress
Trudy McCall, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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3:00 p.m. |
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Other Seminars
Ubiquitin and UBA Domains: New Players in the Coordination between Transcription and messenger RNA Nuclear Export
Catherine Dargemont, Ph.D., group leader, nucleocytoplasmic transport, Jacques Monod Institute
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4:00 p.m. |
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Pharmacology Seminars
Transitions from Drug Discovery to Drug Development
Bruce Reidenberg, M.D., Ph.D., vice president, clinical development, Weill Cornell Medical College
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Characterization of Neural Response with Stochastic Stimuli
Eero Simoncelli, Ph.D., professor, New York University
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6:45 p.m. |
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Other Seminars
It's Wrong to Pay for Sex
IQ Squared U.S. Debate
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| Wednesday, April 22, 2009 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Understanding Large-scale Interactome Networks
Haiyuan Yu, Ph.D., research fellow, department of cancer biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and department of genetics, Harvard Medical School
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12:00 p.m. |
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Seminars in Clinical Research
The IgA Response in Acute Kawasaki Disease Targets Cytoplasmic Inclusion Bodies in KD Tissues
Anne Rowley, M.D., professor of pediatrics and microbiology/immunology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Circuit Dynamics of Adult Visual Cortex
Homare Yamahachi, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Micromanaging Myc Oncogene Function
Robert Eisenman, Ph.D., member, division of basic sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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| Thursday, April 23, 2009 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Drug Interactions and Evolution of Resistance
Roy Kishony, Ph.D., associate professor of systems biology, Harvard Medical School
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Reprogramming of Gene Expression by Genome Organizer SATB1 in Breast Cancer and T Cells
Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu, Ph.D., senior scientist, department of genome dynamics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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| Friday, April 24, 2009 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Peaks and Valleys: Histone Signatures at the Boundaries of Polycistronic Transcription Units in Trypanosomes
Nicolai Siegel, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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| Monday, April 27, 2009 |
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9:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Instability of the hCEB1 Minisatellite Forming G-quadruplex Structures
Alain Nicolas, Ph.D., director of research, first class, CNRS; group leader, recombination and genetic instability, Curie Institute
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11:30 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Yin and Yang in Recycle: Positive and Negative Regulation of Autophagy by Beclin 1 Interaction Proteins
Yun Zhong, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Transplantation across Allogeneic and Xenogeneic Barriers: From Hematopoietic Stem Cells to Embryonic Precursor Tissues
Yair Reisner, Ph.D., chairman, department of immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science
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7:00 p.m. |
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Club Meetings
Improvisational Theater Group
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| Tuesday, April 28, 2009 |
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12:45 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Unraveling the Female Mystique: Physiological Effects of Estradiol in the Mouse Hippocampal Formation
Joanna Spencer, biomedical fellow, Rockefeller University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Random Fluctuations in Cells
Johan Paulsson, Ph.D., assistant professor, Harvard University
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7:00 p.m. |
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Other Special Events
Psoriasis Support Group
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| Wednesday, April 29, 2009 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Seminars in Clinical Research
Molecular Mechanisms of Cell-based Cardiac Repair
Marc S. Penn, M.D., Ph.D., medical director, cardiac intensive care unit, Cleveland Clinic
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Unraveling oncogenic EGFR signaling networks in glioma using quantitative phosphoproteomics
Paul Huang, Ph.D., Institute Fellow, Section of Cell and Molecular Biology, The Institute of Cancer Research
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6:00 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Peggy Rockefeller Concert Buffet
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6:00 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Peggy Rockefeller Concert Buffet
Zuill
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8:00 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Zuill Bailey, cello; Robert Koenig, piano
Performing works by Arvo Pärt, Dmitri Shostakovich, Felix Mendelssohn and Johannes Brahms
Zuill Bailey
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| Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Evolution of Gene Regulation in and the Origin of Pregnancy in Mammals
Gunter Wagner, Ph.D., professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, Yale University
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
The Structural Biology of Parkinson’s Disease
Gregory A. Petsko, Ph.D., Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor and chair, department of biochemistry, Brandeis University
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Cellular Bouncers: How NPCs Control Passage in and out of the Nucleus
Jaclyn Novatt, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Sara: Asymmetric Endocytic Trafficking during Asymmetric Cell Division
Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitan, Ph.D., professor, department of biochemistry, University of Geneva
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| Friday, May 1, 2009 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
A Developmental Perspective on Brain Cancer
David Rowitch, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pediatrics and neurological surgery, Children's Hospital, University of California, San Francisco Medical Center; chief of neonatology, Institute for Regeneration Medicine; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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