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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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| Monday, February 8, 2010 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Student and Postdoc Sponsored Seminars
Relating Molecular to Cellular Properties in Cadherin-mediated Cell-Cell Adhesion
Barry Honig, Ph.D., professor, department of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
C. elegans Innate Immunity
Fred Ausubel, Ph.D., professor of genetics, Harvard Medical School
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Contribution of Gene Duplications to the Evolution of Genetic Networks
Bernardo Pando, Ph.D., graduate student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| Tuesday, February 9, 2010 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Probing Mechanical Principles of Focal Contacts in Cell-matrix Adhesion in a Coupled Stochastic-elastic Modeling Framework
Huajian Gao, Ph.D., professor, Brown University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Transition State Analogues as Anticancer Agents
Vern Schramm, Ph.D., professor and Ruth Merns Chair, department of biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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| Thursday, February 11, 2010 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
Characterization of a Bacterial Flippase
Jonathan Dworkin, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of microbiology, Columbia University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Large-scale Organization of DNA in Chromosomes
Alexander Grosberg, Ph.D., professor, New York University
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| Tuesday, February 16, 2010 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
A Temporal Code in Inflammatory Signaling
Alexander Hoffman, Ph.D., associate professor, University of California, San Diego
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6:00 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Peggy Rockefeller Concert Buffet
Menahem Pressler
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8:00 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Menahem Pressler, piano
Performing works by Beethoven, Debussy and Schubert
Menahem Pressler
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| Wednesday, February 17, 2010 |
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1:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Optimality and evolution: from proteome size to affinity maturation
Jingshan Zhang, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
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3:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
From Human Genetics to Disease Pathways
Soumya Raychaudhuri, M.D., Ph.D., fellow in rheumatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
An Improbable Role of Nuclear Architecture in Human Aging and Cancer
Tom Misteli, Ph.D., senior investigator, cell biology of genomes, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
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| Thursday, February 18, 2010 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Eat to Live or Eat to Die: Molecular Basis of Autophagy and Its Role in Cell Death and Cancer
Xuejun Jiang, Ph.D., associate member, cell biology program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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5:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
William Osler Leaves Johns Hopkins for Oxford: A Case Study of Physician Burnout a Century Ago
Heberden Society Lecture
W. Bruce Fye, M.D., professor of medicine and medical history, Mayo Medical School
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8:00 p.m. |
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Harvey Society
How Telomeres Solve the End-protection Problem
Titia de Lange, Ph.D., Leon Hess Professor and head, Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics, Rockefeller University
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| Friday, February 19, 2010 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Statistical Mechanics and Next-generation Sequence Assembly
Adel Dayarian, Ph.D., Ph.D. candidate, Rutgers University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Control of Centrosome Biogenesis
Mónica Bettencourt-Dias, Ph.D., principal investigator, Cell Cycle Regulation Laboratory, Gulbenkian Institute of Science
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Moonlighting MHCI: Releasing the Brake on Synaptic Plasticity
Carla J. Shatz, Ph.D., professor of biology and neurobiology and director, Bio-X, Stanford University
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| Monday, February 22, 2010 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Student and Postdoc Sponsored Seminars
Is Aging a Treatable Disease?
David A. Sinclair, Ph.D., associate professor and codirector, Paul F. Glenn Laboratories for the Molecular Biology of Aging, department of pathology, Harvard Medical School
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Selective Functions of Ikaros DNA-binding Zinc Fingers during Lymphocyte Development
Stephen Smale, Ph.D., professor, department of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics, University of California, Los Angeles
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2:00 p.m. |
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Cell Biology Seminars
At the Crossroads of Adhesion and Signaling in Epithelial Morphogenesis
Kathleen Green, Ph.D., Joseph L. Mayberry Professor, Northwestern University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Proteome Dynamics: System-wide Studies of Translation Regulation and Protein Turnover
Christine Vogel, Ph.D., research associate, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas, Austin
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| Tuesday, February 23, 2010 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
From Biological Networks to Complex Behaviors
Pankaj Mehta, Ph.D., postdoctoral scholar, Princeton University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Leveraging the Reactivity of Thioesters and Activated Hydrazones in the Development of New Synthetic Methods: Applications of Natural Products Synthesis
Don Coltart, Ph.D., associate professor, department of chemistry, Duke University
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7:00 p.m. |
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Other Meetings
Psoriasis Support Group
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| Wednesday, February 24, 2010 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Conserved Roles of Small RNAs in Genome Defense
Gregory Hannon, Ph.D., professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Thursday, February 25, 2010 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Systematic Identification of Small Molecule Targets with Quantitative Proteomics
Shao-En Ong, Ph.D., research scientist, proteomics platform, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
DNA Replication, Repair and Recombination: The Good, Bad and Ugly of Crystallographic Approaches
Wei Yang, Ph.D., senior investigator, Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
Regulation of Secretory and Membrane Protein Biosynthesis
Ramanujan Hegde, M.D., Ph.D., senior investigator, cell biology and metabolism program, National Institutes of Health
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Mechanics of Contractile Actomyosin Networks
Margaret Gardel, Ph.D., assistant professor, The University of Chicago
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| Friday, February 26, 2010 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Controlling Homologous Recombination
Simon Boulton, Ph.D., senior research scientist, DNA Damage Response Laboratory, Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Characteristic Chromatin Organization of Regulatory Regions in the Human Genome
Dustin Schones, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Macrophages Promote Tumor Progression and Metastasis
Jeffrey Pollard, Ph.D., Louis Goldstein Swan Chair in Womens Cancer Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Scattering theory approach to electrodynamic Casimir interactions
Sahand Jamal Rahi, Ph.D., Student, MIT
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Nuclear Reprogramming by Eggs and the Reversal of Cell Differentiation
Richard M. Furlaud Distinguished Lecture
John B. Gurdon, D.Phil, group leader, The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute
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| Saturday, February 27, 2010 |
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3:30 p.m. |
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Other Arts Events
The Bari Koral Concert
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3:30 p.m. |
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Other Arts Events
Child and Family Center Fundraiser
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| Monday, March 1, 2010 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Cellular Responses to Conflicting Signals
Tobias Bollenbach, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, department of systems biology, Harvard Medical School
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
How Blood Cell Progenitors Find the Thymus and Become T Cells
Avinash Bandoola, Ph.D., associate professor, department of pathology and laboratory medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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| Tuesday, March 2, 2010 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
One Vessel, One Stroke? Redundancy versus Fragility in Cortical Vascularization
David Kleinfeld, Ph.D., professor, University of California, San Diego
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5:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Tumor Ablation by Light-activated Vascular Occluding Agents: A New Paradigm for Cancer Management
Avigdor Scherz, Ph.D., Robert and Yadelle Sklare Professorial Chair in Biochemistry, department of plant sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science
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| Wednesday, March 3, 2010 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Genomic Strategies to Decipher the Complexity of Cancer
Jeffrey Chang, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Targeting Acyltransferases in Cancer and Metabolism
Philip Cole, M.D., Ph.D., E.K. Marshall and T.H. Maren Professor, department of pharmacology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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| Thursday, March 4, 2010 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Multiphenotype Genetic Networks in Cellular Metabolism
Daniel Segre, Ph.D., assistant professor, bioinformatics program, Boston University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Mechanisms of Cell Autofusion and Self-fusion in C. elegans: A Paradigm of Epithelial and Neuronal Sculpting
Benjamin Podbilewicz, Ph.D., professor, department of biology, and director, light microscopy unit, Technion Israel Institute of Technology
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| Friday, March 5, 2010 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Parameters of Functional microRNA Targets
Molly Hammell, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, program in genetics and molecular medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
On the Biorient Express: Examining Mechanisms Underlying Error-free Cell Division
Ph.D. Recruitment Lecture
Tarun Kapoor, Ph.D., Pels Family Professor and head, Laboratory of Chemistry and Cell Biology, Rockefeller University
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