Browse Events
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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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| Monday, March 8, 2010 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Immune Regulatory Approaches to Counterbalance Graft-versus-Host Disease in Mice and Humans
Bruce Blazar, M.D., Regents Professor, Andersen Chair in Transplantation Immunology and chief, pediatric blood and marrow transplantation program, University of Minnesota
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
A Recursive Cortical Circuit Model for Invariant Sound Source Identification in Mixtures
Gonzalo Otazu, Ph.D., postdoctoral associate, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munchen
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| Tuesday, March 9, 2010 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
An Information-theoretic View of Signaling Pathways
Pablo Iglesias, Ph.D., professor, The Johns Hopkins University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
PKC and RasGRP, Therapeutic Targets in the Diacylglycerol Signaling Pathway
Peter Blumberg, Ph.D., chief, Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, molecular mechanisms of tumor promotion section, National Cancer Institute
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| Wednesday, March 10, 2010 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Regulating the Activity of microRNAs in Vertebrate Cells
Joan Steitz, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Thursday, March 11, 2010 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Geometry, Genetics and Evolution
Eric D. Siggia, Ph.D., professor and head, Laboratory of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Rockefeller University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Roles of DNA-dependent RNA Polymerases IV and V in siRNA-directed DNA Methylation and Gene Silencing
Craig Pikaard, Ph.D., Carlos O. Miller Professor of Plant Growth and Development, department of biology, Indiana University, Bloomington
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| Friday, March 12, 2010 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Modifiers of the p53 Tumor Suppressor Pathway
Guillermina Lozano, Ph.D., professor and chair, department of genetics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Antibodies in Immunity and Cancer
Ph.D. Recruitment Lecture
Michel C. Nussenzweig, M.D., Ph.D., Sherman Fairchild Professor, senior physician and head, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Rockefeller University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Monday, March 15, 2010 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Student and Postdoc Sponsored Seminars
Measuring and Modeling Cell Death Pathways
Peter Sorger, Ph.D., professor, department of systems biology, Harvard Medical School; professor, department of biological engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Cancer Immunoediting: Basic Mechanisms and Therapeutic Implications
Robert Schreiber, Ph.D., Alumni Endowed Professor, department of pathology and immunology, Washington University School of Medicine
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| Tuesday, March 16, 2010 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Pharmacology Seminars
Time for a Radical Change in the Drug Approval Process?
Alastair J.J. Wood, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medical College, Professor Emeritus of Medicine; Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Cellular Organization and Function of a Bacterial Biochemical Pathway
Pablo Meyer Rojas, Ph.D., postdoctoral research fellow, Columbia University
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| Wednesday, March 17, 2010 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Electron Cryomicroscopy: From Molecules to Systems
Wolfgang Baumeister, Ph.D., Director and Head of the Department of Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry
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5:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Rebalancing the Work-Life Norm: Providing Dependent Care and Work-Life Resources
Joan Girgus, Ph.D., professor of psychology, Princeton University
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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
The Albers Trio, accompanied by Yeol Eum Son, piano
Performing works by Beethoven, Franck, Saint-Saëns and Dvořák
The Albers Trio
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| Thursday, March 18, 2010 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Phylogenomic Methods for Improved Protein Function and Structure Prediction
Kimmen Sjölander, Ph.D., associate professor, departments of bioengineering and plant and microbial biology, University of California, Berkeley
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Shh-dependent Neuroendocrinopathies: A Matter of Time and Space
Douglas Epstein, Ph.D., associate professor, department of genetics, and chair, genetics and gene regulation program, cell and molecular biology group, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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4:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Mechanism and Regulation of Meiotic Recombination
Scott Keeney, Ph.D., member, molecular biology program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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8:00 p.m. |
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Harvey Society
Aquaporin Waterchannels: From Atomic Structure to Malaria
Peter C. Agre, M.D., James B. Duke Professor, departments of cell biology, biochemistry, medicine and chemistry, Duke University
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| Friday, March 19, 2010 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Jerry A. Weisbach Memorial Lecture
Marvin Minsky, Ph.D., Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and professor of electrical engineering and computer science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| Monday, March 22, 2010 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Responsiveness and Tolerance of NK Cells to Tumors and Normal Cells
David Raulet, Ph.D., professor, division of immunology, department of molecular and cell biology, University of California, Berkeley
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| Tuesday, March 23, 2010 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Programming Nucleic Acid Self-Assembly
Peng Yin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Harvard University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
New Approaches to Redox Catalysis
Tehshik Yoon, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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| Wednesday, March 24, 2010 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Virus-host Interaction in Crohn's Disease: a Novel Role for Autophagy Gene Atg16L1
Ken Cadwell, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, department of pathology and immunology, Washington University School of Medicine
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Mechanisms of Ubiquitination
Raymond Deshaies, Ph.D., professor, California Institute of Technology
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Control of Translation and mRNA Degradation in Eukaryotic Cells
Roy Parker, Ph.D., Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Regents' Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona
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| Thursday, March 25, 2010 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Taking Shape: Morphogenesis of Drosophila Renal Tubules
Helen Skaer, Ph.D., department of zoology, University of Cambridge
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| Friday, March 26, 2010 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Non-canonical Functions of STAT3
David Levy, Ph.D., D.Ch., Dr. Louis A. Schneider Professor of Molecular Pathology, New York University
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| Tuesday, March 30, 2010 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Modeling the Large-scale Dynamics of Bacterial Baths as an Active Suspension
Mike Shelley, Ph.D., Lilian and George Lyttle Professor of Applied Mathematics, New York University
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7:00 p.m. |
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Other Meetings
Psoriasis Support Group
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| Wednesday, March 31, 2010 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Novel Players in the Notch Pathway
Hugo Bellen, Ph.D., DVM, investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; professor and director, Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine
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| Thursday, April 1, 2010 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Structural and Functional Studies of pre-mRNA 3'-end Processing
Liang Tong, Ph.D., professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University
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| Friday, April 2, 2010 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Mutation Discovery in Cancer Using Next Generation Sequencing and Probabilistic Models
Sohrab Shah, Ph.D., postdoctoral research fellow, Centre for Translational and Applied Genomics & Molecular Oncology and Breast Cancer Research Program, BC Cancer Agency
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