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 Wednesday, April 1, 2009
10:00 a.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Mechanochemical Feedbacks of Cellular Processes

Jian Liu, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher, department of chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

12:00 p.m.   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

1:30 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
Architecture of a Coat for the Nuclear Pore Membrane

Kuo-Chiang Hsia, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University

4:30 p.m.   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

 Thursday, April 2, 2009
11:00 a.m.   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

12:00 p.m.   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

2:00 p.m.   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

 Friday, April 3, 2009
12:00 p.m.   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

2:00 p.m.   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)

3:45 p.m.   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

 Monday, April 6, 2009
1:30 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
Promiscuity and Fidelity in Pre-mRNA Splicing

Duncan Smith, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University

1:30 p.m.   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

2:00 p.m.   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

7:00 p.m.   Club Meetings
Improvisational Theater Group
 Tuesday, April 7, 2009
11:30 a.m.   Thesis Presentations
Beware of Moving Parts! Structure and Dynamics of Nuclear Pore Complex Components

Martin Kampmann, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University

4:00 p.m.   Pharmacology Seminars
Growth Control by the mTOR Pathway

David M. Sabatini, M.D., Ph.D., member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; member, Koch Institute

4:00 p.m.   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

 Wednesday, April 8, 2009
10:00 a.m.   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

12:00 p.m.   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

2:00 p.m.   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

 Thursday, April 9, 2009
2:00 p.m.   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

 Monday, April 13, 2009
1:30 p.m.   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

7:00 p.m.   Club Meetings
Improvisational Theater Group
 Tuesday, April 14, 2009
10:30 a.m.   Thesis Presentations
Perceptual Learning, Long-range Horizontal Connections and Top-down Influences in Primary Visual Cortex

Valentin Piech, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University

4:00 p.m.   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

 Wednesday, April 15, 2009
12:00 p.m.   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

2:00 p.m.   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

2:00 p.m.   Other Seminars
How Women Become Pregnant and What Comes Next: Immunological Tolerance

Jack Strominger, M.D., Higgins Professor of Biochemistry, Harvard University

4:30 p.m.   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

 Thursday, April 16, 2009
11:00 a.m.   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

1:30 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
A Fox with Three Tales: Insulin-dependent Regulation of Foxa2 in the Liver, Hypothalamus and Lung

Jessica Howell, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University

1:30 p.m.   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

8:00 p.m.   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

 Monday, April 20, 2009
12:30 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
Hierarchy and Cis-regulation in Drosophila Segmentation: Rules for Pattern Formation and Clues to Evolution

Mark Schroeder, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University

1:30 p.m.   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

7:00 p.m.   Club Meetings
Improvisational Theater Group
 Tuesday, April 21, 2009
2:00 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
The Manipulation of Apical Dendritic Plasticity and the Consequences for the Effects of Chronic Stress

Trudy McCall, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University

3:00 p.m.   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

4:00 p.m.   Pharmacology Seminars
Transitions from Drug Discovery to Drug Development

Bruce Reidenberg, M.D., Ph.D., vice president, clinical development, Weill Cornell Medical College

4:00 p.m.   Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Characterization of Neural Response with Stochastic Stimuli

Eero Simoncelli, Ph.D., professor, New York University

6:45 p.m.   Other Seminars
It's Wrong to Pay for Sex
IQ Squared U.S. Debate
 Wednesday, April 22, 2009
10:00 a.m.   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

12:00 p.m.   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

1:30 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
Circuit Dynamics of Adult Visual Cortex

Homare Yamahachi, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University

4:30 p.m.   MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Micromanaging Myc Oncogene Function

Robert Eisenman, Ph.D., member, division of basic sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

 Thursday, April 23, 2009
11:00 a.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Drug Interactions and Evolution of Resistance

Roy Kishony, Ph.D., associate professor of systems biology, Harvard Medical School

2:00 p.m.   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

 Friday, April 24, 2009
11:00 a.m.   Thesis Presentations
Peaks and Valleys: Histone Signatures at the Boundaries of Polycistronic Transcription Units in Trypanosomes

Nicolai Siegel, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University

 Monday, April 27, 2009
9:30 a.m.   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

11:30 a.m.   Thesis Presentations
Yin and Yang in Recycle: Positive and Negative Regulation of Autophagy by Beclin 1 Interaction Proteins

Yun Zhong, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University

1:30 p.m.   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

7:00 p.m.   Club Meetings
Improvisational Theater Group
 Tuesday, April 28, 2009
12:45 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
Unraveling the Female Mystique: Physiological Effects of Estradiol in the Mouse Hippocampal Formation

Joanna Spencer, biomedical fellow, Rockefeller University

4:00 p.m.   Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Random Fluctuations in Cells

Johan Paulsson, Ph.D., assistant professor, Harvard University

7:00 p.m.   Other Special Events
Psoriasis Support Group
 Wednesday, April 29, 2009
12:00 p.m.   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

2:00 p.m.   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

6:00 p.m.   The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Peggy Rockefeller Concert Buffet
6:00 p.m.   The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Peggy Rockefeller Concert Buffet
Zuill
8:00 p.m.   The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Zuill Bailey, cello; Robert Koenig, piano
Performing works by Arvo Pärt, Dmitri Shostakovich, Felix Mendelssohn and Johannes Brahms
Zuill Bailey
 Thursday, April 30, 2009
11:00 a.m.   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

12:00 p.m.   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

1:30 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
Cellular Bouncers: How NPCs Control Passage in and out of the Nucleus

Jaclyn Novatt, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University

1:30 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Sara: Asymmetric Endocytic Trafficking during Asymmetric Cell Division

Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitan, Ph.D., professor, department of biochemistry, University of Geneva

 Friday, May 1, 2009
12:00 p.m.   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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