Browse Events
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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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| Monday, April 5, 2010 |
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11:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Regulation of Limb Development: Linking Early Patterning, Growth and Morphogenesis
Susan Mackem, M.D., Ph.D., senior investigator and head, Regulation of Vertebrate Morphogenesis Section, Cancer and Developmental Biology Laboratory, National Cancer Institute
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12:00 p.m. |
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Student and Postdoc Sponsored Seminars
Light-Regulated Seedling Development as Applied to Breeding and Genomics in Strawberry
Kevin M. Folta, Ph.D., associate professor, Horticultural Sciences Department, Graduate Program in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Florida
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Micro and Macro Immunology: From T Cell Recognition to Human Health
Mark Davis, Ph.D., professor, department of microbiology and immunology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine
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| Tuesday, April 6, 2010 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Regulation of Surface Proteins Assembly on the Wall of Gram-positive Bacteria
Assaf Raz, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
The Back-Seat Driver: How the Passenger Directs Spindle Assembly
Boo Shan Tseng, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Bioresponsive Matrices: From Drug Delivery to Circuits
Debra Auguste, Ph.D., assistant professor, Harvard University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Human Monoclonal Antibodies against Cancer and Infectious Diseases
Dimiter Dimitrov, Ph.D., senior investigator, CCR Nanobiology Program, National Cancer Institute
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| Wednesday, April 7, 2010 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Exosporium Morphogenesis in Bacillus cereus and Bacillus anthracis
Monica Fazzini, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Seminars
The Making of an Inner Ear
Doris Wu, Ph.D., chief, Section on Sensory Cell Regeneration and Development, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NIDCD/NIH
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1:00 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
The Role of Bacteriophage in Survival of Streptococcus pyogenes
Chad Euler, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
The Functions and Protein Cofactors of C. elegans Small RNA Pathways
Gary Ruvkun, Ph.D., Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital
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8:00 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Peggy Rockefeller Concert: Pacifica Quartet
Pacifica Quartet
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| Thursday, April 8, 2010 |
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9:30 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Marching to Its Own Tune: Cellular Signaling in Development of the Cochlear Tonotopic Gradient
Lukasz Kowalik, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
Getting Mitochondria in Shape: A Lethal Mutation in the Mechanoenzyme Drp1 Affects its Recruitment and Assembly
Blake Hill, Ph.D., associate professor of biology and Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Life Cycle of the Cell Nucleus
Martin Hetzer, Ph.D., associate professor, department of molecular and cell biology, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
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| Friday, April 9, 2010 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Mechanisms of Controlled Proteolysis During Drosophila Spermatogenesis: Coordinate Action of Apoptotic Caspases and the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System
Maya Bader, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences
Channelrhodopsin - a Light-Gated Channel Just Made for Neurobiologists
Ernst Bamberg, Ph.D., professor and director of the department of biophysical chemistry, Max-Planck Institute of Biophysics Peter Hegemann, Ph.D., professor and chair of molecular biophysics, Institute of Biology, Humboldt University, From Algal Vision to Optogenetics Georg Nagel, Ph.D., professor of molecular plant physiology, University of Wuerzburg, From Chlamyrhodopsin to Channelrhodopsin-2: the End of Electrophysiology
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| Monday, April 12, 2010 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Unzipping Amyloid Fibrils: How a Novel Calcium Binding Protein, NUCB1, Prevents the Formation of Amyloid Fibrils
Neeraj Kapoor, Graduate Fellow, Rockefeller University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Active Organization of Cell Surface Molecules Induced by Cortical Actin: Implications to Sorting, Signaling and Endocytosis
Madan Rao, Ph.D., associate professor, Raman Research Institute, National Centre for Biological Sciences Bangalore
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| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 |
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2:30 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Discovery and Development of New Catalysts for the Synthesis of Small Molecules and Polymers
Geoffrey Coates, Ph.D., Tisch University Professor, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
The Dynamics of Conformity and Dissent
Tim Halpin-Healy, Ph.D., professor, Columbia University
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| Wednesday, April 14, 2010 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
How Sick Molecules Inform Biology: Insights From Diseases of Cholesterol
Joseph Goldstein, M.D., Regental Professor and Chairman, department of molecular genetics, University of Texas Southwwestern Medical Center
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| Thursday, April 15, 2010 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Mechanisms of Presynaptic CaV2 Calcium Channel Localization in Caenorhabditis elegans
Yasunori Saheki, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Regulation of Growth Factor Signaling Pathways in Mouse Development
Philippe Soriano, Ph.D., professor, department of oncological sciences, department of developmental and regenerative biology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Primates Versus Retroviruses in Ancient Times
Steven Soll, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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3:45 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Thesis Talk Practice
Joshua Riegelhaupt, graduate fellow, RU
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| Friday, April 16, 2010 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Rules of Meiotic Chromosome Fragmentation
Andreas Hochwagen, Ph.D., Whitehead Fellow, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
The Tail of HIV-1 Integrase is Only the Beginning of the Tale
Kevin Mohammed, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Transcriptional Control of B Cell Development
Meinrad Busslinger, Ph.D., senior scientist, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
The Superorganism: Communication and Cooperation in Ant Societies
Bert Hölldobler, Dr. rer. nat., Dr. habil., Foundation Professor, Arizona State University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
The Impact of Inflammation on Pancreatic Cancer Progression
Holger Kalthoff, Ph.D., professor of experimental oncology, University of Schleswig Holstein, Germany
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| Monday, April 19, 2010 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Student and Postdoc Sponsored Seminars
Age-associated Phenotypes: How Cellular Subsystems Break Down
Dan Gottschling, Ph.D., principal investigator, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Role of StARD4 in Lipid Metabolism and Intracellular Cholesterol Transport
Joshua Riegelhaupt, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Genomic and Functional Analyses of New Genes and Pathways in Inflammation and Infection
Jenny Pan-Yun Ting, Ph.D., William Kenan Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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| Tuesday, April 20, 2010 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Thesis Talk Practice
Patrick Bhola, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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3:00 p.m. |
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Science and Media Lecture Series
New Science Media: Audio, Video and the Social Web
Christie Nicholson, freelance science journalist
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Nanoscale Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Christian Degen, Ph.D., assistant professor, MIT
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5:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Optically Active Allenes in Asymmetric Synthesis
Joseph Ready, Ph.D., associate professor, department of biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
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| Wednesday, April 21, 2010 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Structural and Functional Characterization of B. anthracis UDP-GlcNAc 2-Epimerase and Salmonella Secreted Effector I
Shyam Bhaskaran, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Cooperation of Cadherin and Cytoskeleton in Cell Junction Remodeling
Masatoshi Takeichi, Ph.D., director, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology
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| Thursday, April 22, 2010 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
Chemical Reporters for Interrogating Lipidated Proteins at the HostPathogen Interface
Howard Hang, Ph.D., assistant professor, Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Microbial Pathogenesis, Rockefeller University
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Dynamics of Apoptotic Events in Single Cells
Patrick Bhola, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
A Tale of Two Nuclei: Cell Division in the Intestinal Parasite and Highly Divergent Eukaryote Giardia intestinalis
W. Zacheus Cande, Ph.D., professor of cell and developmental biology, department of molecular and cell biology, University of California, Berkeley
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| Friday, April 23, 2010 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Modularity and Design Principles in the Sea Urchin Embryo Gene Regulatory Network
Detlev W. Bronk Alumni Lecture
Eric Davidson, Ph.D., Norman Chandler Professor of Cell Biology, division of biology, California Institute of Technology
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| Monday, April 26, 2010 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
In Pursuit of the "Scaredy Rat": Structural and Molecular Correlates of Individual Differences in Anxiety Behavior and the Response to Stress
Melinda Miller, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Cohesins Control Gene Expression and Genome Organization in T Cell Development
Matthias Merkenschlager, Ph.D., professor of cell biology, division of clinical sciences, Imperial College, London
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5:30 p.m. |
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Lewis Thomas Prize
From Big Bang to Biosphere
Martin Rees, Ph.D., professor of cosmology and astrophysics and master, Trinity College, Cambridge University; president, The Royal Society; Astronomer Royal; member, House of Lords, United Kingdom
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| Tuesday, April 27, 2010 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
A One Way Ticket to the Cytoplasm: Structural and Biochemical Analysis of Nup214 and its Role in mRNA Export
Johanna Napetschnig, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Pharmacology Seminars
Membrane Sphingolipids: Paving the Road to Type 2 Diabetes
Joseph T. Brozinick Jr., Ph.D., research advisor, Eli Lilly and Co.; adjunct assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, Indiana University School of Medicine
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Nascent Adhesions are Noisy, Floppy and Responsive
Eric Dufresne, Ph.D., assistant professor, Yale University
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5:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Identification and Characterization of Human Cancer Stem Cells
Carlos Cordon-Cardo, Ph.D., professor and vice chair, department of pathology and cell biology; professor, department of urology; associate director, Hebert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University
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7:00 p.m. |
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Other Meetings
Psoriasis Support Group
support group
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| Wednesday, April 28, 2010 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Structural Studies on the Regulation of Sporulation in Bacillus
Matthew Bick, graduate fellow, Rockefeller University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
A Physical and Regulatory Map of Host-Influenza Interactions
Sagi Shapira, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Third Generation Anti-Angiogenic Agents: Strategies, Mechanisms, and Therapeutic Potential
Peter Carmeliet, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine; director, Vesalius Research Center, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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8:00 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Richard Stoltzman, clarinet; Yehudi Wyner, piano
Performing works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Yehudi Wyner, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms and George Gershwin
Richard Stoltzman, clarinet; Yehudi Wyner, piano
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| Thursday, April 29, 2010 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
SREBP Controls Adaptation to Hypoxia in Fungi
Peter Espenshade, Ph.D., associate professor, department of cell biology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Protein Modules That Mediate Signal Transduction in Circadian Clock Light Sensors and Bacterial Taxis Responses
Brian Crane, Ph.D., associate professor, department of chemistry and chemical biology, Cornell University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Specification of Primordial Germ Cells in C. elegans
Rueyling Lin, Ph.D., associate professor, department of molecular biology, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center
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8:00 p.m. |
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Harvey Society
Following Single messenger RNA Molecules from Cradle to Grave
Robert H. Singer, Ph.D., professor and cochair, anatomy and structural biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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| Friday, April 30, 2010 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Understanding Hearing Mechanisms: Advances Rooted in the Genetic Approach
Christine Petit, M.D., Ph.D., professor, College de France; Chair of Genetics & Cellular Physiology; head, Unit of Genetics and Physiology of Hearing, Institut Pasteur
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