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| Thursday, October 1, 2009 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
Regulation of Glutamate Receptor Trafficking in C. elegans by the Ubiquitin Signaling System
Peter Juo, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of physiology, Tufts University School of Medicine
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Programmed and Unprogrammed Cell Death in a Genetic Model
John Abrams, Ph.D., professor of cell biology, and chair, genetics and development graduate program, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Brain-wide Approaches to Nervous System Architecture
Partha Mitra, Ph.D., Crick-Clay Professor of Biomathematics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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| Monday, October 5, 2009 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Ubiquitin, Innate Immunity and Autoimmunity
Averil Ma, M.D., Rainin Distinguished Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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| Tuesday, October 6, 2009 |
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3:00 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Cutting Ties in Order to Move On
Microtubule Disassembly and Nuclear Reformation at the End of Mitosis
Eileen Woo, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Subcellular Trafficking of Ras
Mark Philips, M.D., professor of medicine, cell biology and pharmacology, associate director for basic science, New York University Cancer Institute and codirector, medical scientist training program, New York University School of Medicine
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| Wednesday, October 7, 2009 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Seminars in Clinical Research
Protective and Damaging Effects of Stress Mediators: Central Role of the Brain and the Social Environment
Bruce S. McEwen, Ph.D., Alfred E. Mirsky Professor and head, Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Rockefeller University
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
A Three-Dimensional "Epigenetic" View of Tumor Translocation and Cell Cycle Events
Michael Rosenfeld, M.D., Professor of Medicine, UCSD School of Medicine
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| Thursday, October 8, 2009 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Cascading Transcriptional Control Drives the Antiviral Response in Dendritic Cells
Steven Kleinstein, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of pathology, Yale University School of Medicine
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Mechanistic Insights into the Stimulation of Dot1L-mediated Methylation of Histone H3 by Semisynthetically Ubiquitylated Histone H2B
Robert McGinty, biomedical fellow, Rockefeller University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Establishing and Manipulating Pluripotency in the Early Embryo
Jennifer Nichols, Ph.D., assistant director of research, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge
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8:00 p.m. |
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Harvey Society
Terminal Differentiation of Epithelial Cells
Qais Al-Awqati, M.B., Ch.B., Robert F. Loeb Professor of Medicine, Columbia University
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| Friday, October 9, 2009 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Potential Clinical Utilities of Genetic Association Findings of Prostate Cancer
Jianfeng Xu, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology and prevention and cancer biology, and director, Center for Cancer Genomics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
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| Monday, October 12, 2009 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Targeting and Regulation of Class Switch DNA Recombination and Somatic Hypermutation
Paolo Casali, M.D., Donald L. Bren Professor of Medicine, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and director, Center for Immunology, University of California, Irvine; editor in chief, Autoimmunity
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2:00 p.m. |
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Cell Biology Seminars
Role of Skeletal Muscle in the Shaping of Organs, Tissues Cell Fate Choices
Boris Kablar, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dalhousie University School of Medicine
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3:00 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Peggy Rockefeller Concert Buffet Dinner
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8:00 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Alexei Volodin, piano
Performing works by Beethoven and Chopin
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| Tuesday, October 13, 2009 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Caspases and Apoptosis: The Kindest Cuts
Douglas Green, Ph.D., chair, immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
What Can Simple Models Teach Us about Protein Folding?
Sergey V. Buldyrev, Ph.D., professor, Yeshiva University
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| Wednesday, October 14, 2009 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
MicroRNAs and Other Small Regulatory RNAs
David Bartel, Ph.D., professor of biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| Thursday, October 15, 2009 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Computational, Biochemical and Genetic Studies Aimed at Predicting the Acetylome
Amrita Basu, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
"FAKs" Underlying Cell Motility and Survival Mechanisms
David Schlaepfer, Ph.D., professor, department of reproductive medicine; tumor growth, invasion and metastasis program, University of California, San Diego Medical Center, Moores Cancer Center
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
The Dynamical Properties of a Classical Wave-particle Association
Yves Couder, Ph.D., professor, University of Paris Diderot
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| Friday, October 16, 2009 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Emerging Roles of Centrosomes in Ciliopathies and Asymmetric Events during Mitosis
Stephen Doxsey, Ph.D., professor of molecular medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School
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| Monday, October 19, 2009 |
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8:00 p.m. |
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Rockefeller Reels
Sicko (2007), directed by Michael Moore
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| Tuesday, October 20, 2009 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Mechanics of Embryonic Tissues: Random and Oriented Cell Motility
Rudolph Winklbauer, Ph.D., professor, University of Toronto
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4:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Natural Products and New Synthetic Methods
Jon Njardarson, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry, department of chemistry and chemical biology, Cornell University, Ithaca
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| Wednesday, October 21, 2009 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Inhibiting the Anaphase Promoting Complex
Jonathan Robbins, biomedical fellow, Rockefeller University
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Targeting Hyperactive Ras in Cancer
Kevin Shannon, M.D., Auerback Distinguished Professor of Molecular Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
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| Thursday, October 22, 2009 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
Regulation of Signaling Receptors by Endocytic Membrane Traffic
Mark von Zastrow, Ph.D., professor, department of psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, Mission Bay Campus
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Dendritic Morphogenesis: Molecular Insights from Drosophila
Wesley Grueber, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of physiology and cellular biophysics and department of neuroscience, Columbia University Medical Center
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4:00 p.m. |
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Student and Postdoc Sponsored Seminars
From Prediction of Structure to Design of Function
David Baker, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington
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4:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Novel Insights into Cerebellum Development and Sporadic Tumorigenesis Using Clonal Analyses
Alexandra Joyner, Ph.D., member and lab head, developmental biology program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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5:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Sudden Cardiac Death in the 18th Century: The Strange Case of Dr. Anonymous
Heberden Society Lecture
Paul Kligfield, M.D., professor of medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
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| Friday, October 23, 2009 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Club Meetings
Yeast Club
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Notch Function in Angiogenesis
Jan Kitajewski, Ph.D., professor of pathology and obstetrics/gynecology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
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| Monday, October 26, 2009 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Genome-wide Localization and Novel Deposition Pathways of Histone Variant H3.3 in Embryonic Stem and Differentiated Cells
Aaron Goldberg, biomedical fellow, Rockefeller University
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Targeting and Regulation of Class Switch DNA Recombination and Somatic Hypermutation
Paolo Casali, M.D., Donald L. Bren Professor of Medicine, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and director, Center for Immunology, University of California, Irvine
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| Tuesday, October 27, 2009 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Single-molecule Kinetics under Force: Probing Protein Folding and Enzymatic Activity with Optical Tweezers
Wesley P. Wong, Ph.D., principal investigator, Rowland Institute
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7:00 p.m. |
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Other Special Events
Psoriasis Support Group
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| Wednesday, October 28, 2009 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Genome-wide Decoding of messenger RNP and microRNA Maps
Sung Wook Chi, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
The AML Genome
Timothy Ley, M.D., Lewis T. and Rosalind B. Apple Chair in Oncology and professor of medicine and genetics, Washington University Medical School
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| Thursday, October 29, 2009 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Prokaryotic Cell Biology: Insights into Chromosome Segregation, Cell Morphogenesis and the Transfer of Genetic Information
Christine Jacobs-Wagner, Ph.D., associate professor, department of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, microbial pathogenesis section, Yale University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Friday, October 30, 2009 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Lipin and the Art of Nuclear Shape Maintenance
Orna Cohen-Fix, Ph.D., senior investigator, Laboratory of Molecular and Cell Biology, National Institutes of Health
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