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| Monday, January 4, 2010 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Modulating Protein-Protein Interactions Using Natural and Designed Molecules
Alexander Statsuk, Ph.D., postdoctoral associate, department of cellular and molecular pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco
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| Wednesday, January 6, 2010 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Siderophore Biosynthesis in Plant Pathogens and Symbionts
Elizabeth Sattely, Ph.D., Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, department of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology, Harvard Medical School
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Understanding Melanoma Progression through in Vivo Modeling
Elsa Quintana, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Center for Stem Cell Biology, University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Insulin Action and Insulin Resistance in Control of Apoptosis and Tumorigenesis
C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., Mary K. Iaccoca Professor, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School
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| Thursday, January 7, 2010 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Integration of Genomic Data from The Cancer Genome Atlas Data Based on Gene Expression Subtypes Provides New Insights in the Pathogenesis of Glioblastoma and Serous Ovarian Cancer
Roel Verhaak, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, department of medical oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
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| Friday, January 8, 2010 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Systems Architecture of the Bacterial Cell Cycle
Lucy Shapiro, Ph.D., Ludwig Professor and director, Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
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| Monday, January 11, 2010 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Student and Postdoc Sponsored Seminars
Structure and Mechanism of the 6-Deoxyerythronolide B Synthase
Chaitan Kholsa, Ph.D., professor, departments of chemistry, chemical engineering and (by courtesy) biochemistry, Stanford University
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Developmental Biology of a Simple Organism
Richard Losick, Ph.D., Maria Moors Cabot Professor, department of molecular and cellular biology, Harvard University
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| Tuesday, January 12, 2010 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
The Language of Cells: Forceful and Dynamic
Ramaswamy Krishnan, Ph.D., research associate, Harvard University School of Public Health
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| Wednesday, January 13, 2010 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Lipid Chemistry and Membrane Tension Modulate Kv Channel Function
Daniel Schmidt, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Targeting the p53-mdmx Interaction for Retinoblastoma
R. Kiplin Guy, Ph.D., Robert J. Ulrich Chair in Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital
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| Thursday, January 14, 2010 |
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2:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Center for Cell Engineering Third Annual Retreat
Engineering Lineage Specification
Thomas Graf, Ph.D., professor, Centre for Genomic Regulation Juan Carlos Zuniga-Pflucker, Ph.D., professor, department of immunology, University of Toronto, Enhancing Thymus Reconstitution with in Vitro-generated Human Progenitor T Cells Thomas Perlmann, Ph.D., professor of molecular development biology, Karolinska Institute, Transcription Factor Programming of Neurons in Vivo and in Stem Cells Sui Huang, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor, Institute of Biocomplexity and Informatics, University of Calgary, Cell Fate Decisions in Multipotent Cells: Toward a Formal Description of Waddingtons Epigenetic Landscape
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8:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Initiating and Controlling Immunity with Dendritic Cells
Ralph M. Steinman, M.D., Henry G. Kunkel Professor, senior physician and head, Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Immunology, Rockefeller University
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8:00 p.m. |
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Harvey Society
Initiating and Controlling Immunity with Dendritic Cells
Ralph M. Steinman, M.D., Henry G. Kunkel Professor and head, Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Immunology, Rockefeller University
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| Monday, January 18, 2010 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Polycomb Complex in Mammalian Skin Development and Stem Cells
Elena Ezhkova, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Rockefeller University
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| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
GRASPing the Gordian Knot: Visualizing Synaptic Specificity in the Central Nervous System
Evan Feinberg, biomedical fellow, Rockefeller University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Pharmacology Seminars
New Roles in Exocytosis and in Platelet Function for the Lipid Signaling Enzymes Phospholipase D1 and D2
Michael A. Frohman, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chairman, department of pharmacological sciences, and director, Medical Scientist Training Program Center for Developmental Genetics, Stony Brook University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Cell Biology and Active Liquid Crystals: Reevaluating the Tactoid Hypothesis of Spindle Structure
Daniel Needleman, Ph.D., assistant professor, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
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| Thursday, January 21, 2010 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Causal Pathway Inference by Noise Propagation
Robert Prill, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Computational Biology Center, IBM Research
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
Some Unique Features of Protein-Protein Interactions on Opposing Cell Surface
Jia-huai Wang, Ph.D., associate professor, department of medical oncology and cancer biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
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| Monday, January 25, 2010 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Student and Postdoc Sponsored Seminars
Exploring Transcription and Metabolism in Plasmodium falciparum
Manuel Llinás, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of molecular biology, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Understanding the Role of Stem Cells and Cell-state Perturbations in Cancer
Piyush Gupta, Ph.D., postdoctoral associate, Broad Institute
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Targeting of V(D)J Recombination and Somatic Hypermutation
David Schatz, Ph.D., professor, department of immunobiology, Yale University Medical Center; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Tuesday, January 26, 2010 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Information Processing in Small Gene Regulatory Networks and Cascades
Aleksandra Walczak, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Princeton University
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7:00 p.m. |
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Other Meetings
Psoriasis Support Group
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| Wednesday, January 27, 2010 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Functional Genomics in Cancer and in Stem Cells
Guillaume Bourque, Ph.D., senior group leader and associate director, Genome Institute of Singapore
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6:00 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
Capuçon-Angelich Trio
Performing works by Beethoven, Shostakovich and Brahms
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| Friday, January 29, 2010 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
A View from the Outside-in: The Tumor Microenvironment in Cancer Progression and Therapy Resistance
Pete Nelson, M.D., member, divisions of clinical research and human biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Pathogenic and Symbiotic Interactions between the Virome and the Genome: New Paradigms and New Players
Ernst A.H. Friedheim Memorial Lecture
Skip W. Virgin, M.D., Ph.D., Edward Mallinckrodt Professor and chairman, department of pathology and immunology, professor of molecular microbiology and medicine, and director and principal investigator, Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, Washington University School of Medicine
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| Monday, February 1, 2010 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Molecular Pathways of Immune Tolerance
Christophe Benoist, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pathology, Harvard Medical School
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2:00 p.m. |
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Cell Biology Seminars
X-chromosome Inactivation: Sex, Heterochromatin, X-X Pairing and Pluripotency
Mary E. Donohoe, Ph.D., director of cellular therapies, Burke Medical Research Institute; assistant professor, Weill Cornell Medical College
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| Tuesday, February 2, 2010 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
A Database Schema for the Global Dynamics of Multiparameter Nonlinear Systems
Konstantin Mischaikow, Ph.D., professor, Rutgers University
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| Wednesday, February 3, 2010 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Mechanisms of Removing and Preserving Cohesins, a Balance Act of Sister-chromatid Separation and Transcription Regulation
Hui Zou, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of molecular biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
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| Thursday, February 4, 2010 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
Multiple Steps of Insulin Action on Glut4 Vesicle Exocytosis
Derek Toomre, Ph.D., associate professor, department of cell biology, Yale University School of Medicine
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Model-based Strategies for Biomedical Image Analysis
James S. Duncan, Ph.D., Ebenezer K. Hunt Professor of Biomedical Engineering and professor of diagnostic radiology and electrical engineering, Yale University
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| Friday, February 5, 2010 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Anna Karenina as a Model for the Genetics of Complex Disease: How Every Unhappy Family Is Unhappy in Its Own Way
Joshua Lederberg Memorial Lecture
Mary-Claire King, Ph.D., American Cancer Society Professor, departments of genome sciences and medicine, University of Washington, Seattle
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6:00 p.m. |
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Club Meetings
NYC-MGSN Winter Meeting / Social
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