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| Tuesday, February 1, 2011 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Visualizing Transcription at Nucleotide Resolution by Nascent Transcript Sequencing
Stirling Churchman, Ph.D., postdoctoral pellow, University of California, San Francisco
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Starting a microbial genetic screen to learn about plant cell cycle control
Fred Cross, Ph.D., Professor, The Rockefeller University
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| Wednesday, February 2, 2011 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
Global Biochemical Profiling Delineates Biomarkers and Drug Mechanism of Action
John A. Ryals, Ph.D., president and CEO, Metabolon, Inc.
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| Thursday, February 3, 2011 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Statistical Mechanics Approaches to Real Biological Networks
William Bialek, Ph.D., professor of physics, Princeton University
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Structure and Function of an ATP-gated P2X Receptor Ion Channel
Toshimitsu Kawate, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, National Institutes of Health
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| Friday, February 4, 2011 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Active Sensing for 3-D Spatial Perception: What the Bat's Voice Tells the Bat's Brain
Cynthia Moss, Ph.D., professor, department of psychology, Institute for Systems Research Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, University of Maryland
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| Monday, February 7, 2011 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Special Seminar Series
TIRC
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Not a Hair Out of Place: Planar Cell Polarity in the Mammalian Epidermis
Danelle Devenport, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, The Rockefeller University
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12:00 p.m. |
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Student and Postdoc Sponsored Seminars
Linking Action to Reward: A Dynamic Systems Approach to Prefrontal Cortex Activity
Bill Newsome, Ph.D., professor, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine
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1:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Advanced Proteomics Capabilities to Facilitate Drug Discovery and Development
Ronald Hendrickson, Ph.D., head of proteomics, molecular profiling, Merck Research Labs
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Oncogenomics of B cell Lymphoma
Riccardo Dalla-Favera, M.D., director, Institute for Cancer Genetics, Percy and Joanne Uris Professor of Clinical Medicine, and professor of pathology and genetics and development, Columbia University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Streams, Stromatolites, and the Geometry of Growth
Alexander Petroff, graduate student, department of earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| Tuesday, February 8, 2011 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Strategies to Enhance Efficacy of EGFR Targeted Therapies
Pasi Janne, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
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| Wednesday, February 9, 2011 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Rewiring of Metabolism in the Development of Human Cancer
Jason Locasale, Ph.D., research fellow, department of systems biology, Harvard Medical School
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11:00 a.m. |
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Chemical Biology Seminar Series
Active Center Tuning in RNA Polymerase Explains High Fidelity of Rranscription
Arkady Mustaev, Ph.D., senior scientist, The Public Health Research Institute Center
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1:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Quantitative Analysis of Ubiquitin-dependent Signaling Networks
Eric J. Bennett, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University
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| Thursday, February 10, 2011 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Deterministic and Stochastic Models of the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle
John Tyson, Ph.D., professor of biological sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Shaping the Chromatin Landscape through Ubiquitin-dependent Degradation
Sigurd Braun, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, University of California, San Francisco
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
Membrane Protein Folding and Misfolding: Structural Insights into Retinitis Pigmentosa and Alzheimer's Disease
Steven O. Smith, Ph.D., professor and director of structural biology, department of biochemistry and cell biology, Stony Brook University
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| Friday, February 11, 2011 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Mechanism of T cell specificity for pathogens: implications for the influence of host genetics on HIV control
Andrej Kosmrlj, graduate student, laboratory for computational immunology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Title TBA
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| Monday, February 14, 2011 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Transcriptional Pausing: A Unique Mechanism in the Regulation of Hematopoietic Differentiation
Xiaoying Bai, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Children's Hospital, Boston, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Harvard Medical School
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12:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Single-walled Carbon Nanotube Optical Biosensor Technologies
Daniel Heller, Ph.D., Damon Runyon Fellow, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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1:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
On the Morphological Complexity of the Endocytic Machinery
Min Wu, Ph.D., HHMI Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University School of Medicine
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Targeting Tumors with T Cells: "You Can't Always Get What You Want, But If You Try Sometime, You Might Find You Get What You Need"
Phil Greenberg, M.D., member and head, immunology program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Transcription Factor Dynamics and Germ Layer Differentiation: Discovering Relevant Variables for Dissecting Cell Fate Choice
Matthew Thomson, graduate student, Harvard University
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| Wednesday, February 16, 2011 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
The Expanding Diversity of Noncoding RNA in Bacteria
Ronald Breaker, Ph.D., investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and chair and Henry Ford II Professor, department of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology, Yale University
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| Thursday, February 17, 2011 |
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8:00 p.m. |
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Harvey Society
Construction of Complex Brain Circuits
Alexandra Joyner, Ph.D., professor, Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University, and Courtney Steel Chair in Pediatric Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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| Friday, February 18, 2011 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Spatial Control of Endocytosis in Sprouting Angiogenesis by Polarity Proteins
Masanori Nakayama, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Integrative Moral Cognition
Joshua Greene, Ph.D., assistant professor, Harvard University
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| Tuesday, February 22, 2011 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Transcriptional Elongation in the Neural Crest and Melanoma: Insights from Zebrafish Chemical Screening
Richard White, M.D., Ph.D., instructor, department of medical oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Children's Hospital
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2:00 p.m. |
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Cell Biology Seminars
Role of LRP1 in Protecting the Vasculature
Dudley K. Strickland, Ph.D., professor, surgery and physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine
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7:00 p.m. |
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Other Meetings
Psoriasis Support Group
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| Thursday, February 24, 2011 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Temporal Dynamics of the Human Vaginal Microbiota
Jacques Ravel, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology and immunology, and associate director for genomics, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine
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| Friday, February 25, 2011 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Modeling Human Cancers Associated with Loss of RB Function to Identify Novel Therapeutic Targets
Julien Sage, Ph.D., assistant professor in pediatrics and genetics, Stanford University
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Metabolic Inputs into Cancer Epigenetics
Philip Levine Memorial Lecture
Craig Thompson, M.D., president and chief executive officer, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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| Monday, February 28, 2011 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Molecular Basis of Transcription Preinitiation and Initiation by RNA Polymerase II
Xin Liu, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Stanford University School of Medicine
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Immune Bee-Hive: Motility, Interaction, and Collective Behavior
Matthew Krummel, Ph.D., associate professor, department of pathology, University of California, San Francisco
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Life at the Single Molecule Level
Sunney Xie, Ph.D., Mallinckrodt Professor, Harvard University
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| Tuesday, March 1, 2011 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Development and Delivery of Cancer-specific RNAi Therapeutics
Michael Goldberg, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Life at the Single Molecule Level
Sunney Xie, Ph.D., professor, Harvard University
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| Wednesday, March 2, 2011 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Forward Genetic Screens for Cancer Initiation and Progression Genes
David Largaespada, Ph.D., Margaret Harvey Schering Land Grant Chair in Cancer Genetics, associate director for basic research, Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota
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8:00 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Peggy Rockefeller Concert
Ysaÿe Quartet
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| Thursday, March 3, 2011 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Mapping the Eukaryotic Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactome
Tim Hughes, Ph.D., professor, Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
Moving Macromolecules across Membranes
Briana Burton, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of molecular and cellular biology, Harvard University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
From Morphogen to Mechanism - Grading the Sonic Hedgehog Response
Andy McMahon, Ph.D., professor of science, Harvard University
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| Friday, March 4, 2011 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Wiring the Brain: Common Mechanisms of Axon Guidance, Regeneration and Degeneration
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Ph.D., executive vice president, Genentech; president-elect, The Rockefeller University
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