Browse Events
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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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| Monday, March 7, 2011 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
TCR Affinity in Thymic Selection of Conventional and Non-conventional T Cells
Kristin Hogquist, Ph.D., professor, department of laboratory medicine and pathology, University of Minnesota
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| Tuesday, March 8, 2011 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
From Correlations to Interactions: How Can One Solve the Inverse Ising Problem?
Remi Monasson, Ph.D., professor, Ecole Normale Superieure
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4:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
The Enzymatic Activity of Sirtuins Uncovers New Protein Posttranslational Modification
Hening Lin, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of chemistry and chemical biology, Cornell University
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| Thursday, March 10, 2011 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
How Viral Fusion Proteins Promote Viral Entry: An HIV-1 gp41 Story
Michael Root, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor, department of biochemistry, Thomas Jefferson University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Merlin and the ERM Proteins Organize the Cortex of Single Cells
Andrea McClatchey, Ph.D., associate professor, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
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| Friday, March 11, 2011 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
MicroRNAs in Development and Disease
Scott Hammond, Ph.D., associate professor, department of cell and developmental biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
How to Build an HIV
Paul Bieniasz, Ph.D., associate professor, head of the Laboratory of Retrovirology and Aaron Diamond Associate Professor, The Rockefeller University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Monday, March 14, 2011 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Investigating the Impact of GTP-Metabolism on Cancer
Atsuo Sasaki, Ph.D., instructor in medicine, division of signal transduction, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
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| Tuesday, March 15, 2011 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Simple Binding Reactions: The Evo-Devo Problem and, in Particular, the "Cchromatin Accessibility" Problem
Mark Ptashne, Ph.D., Ludwig Chair of Molecular Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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| Wednesday, March 16, 2011 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
MicroRNA Pathways in Animal Development
Victor Ambros, Ph.D., professor, program in molecular medicine, and co-director, RNA Therapeutics Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School
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| Thursday, March 17, 2011 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Modeling Cell Fate Transitions and a Variance-based Approach to Studying Human Disease
Jessica Mar, Ph.D., department of biostatistics and computational biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard School of Public Health
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Transcriptional Control of Neuronal Diversity
Jane Johnson, Ph.D., professor, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
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8:00 p.m. |
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Harvey Society
Translational Control of Cancer
Nahum Sonenberg, Ph.D., FRS, James McGill Professor, department of biochemistry, Goodman Cancer Research Centre, McGill University
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| Friday, March 18, 2011 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Human Skin Pigmentation: Its Evolution and Consequences for Disease
Nina Jablonski, Ph.D., professor and head, department of anthropology, Pennsylvania State University
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| Monday, March 21, 2011 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Student and Postdoc Sponsored Seminars
Histone Variant Dynamics and Epigenetics
Steven Henikoff, Ph.D., investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and member, basic sciences division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Commensals in Autoimmunity
Alexander Chervonsky, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor, department of pathology, University of Chicago
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4:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Palladium- and Nickel-catalyzed Coupling Reaction of Alkyl Electrophiles
Gregory Fu, Ph.D., Firmenich Professor of Chemistry, department of chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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6:00 p.m. |
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Insight Lecture Series
Good News and Bad News about American Higher Education and What Rockefeller Is Doing Right
Claudia Dreifus, adjunct associate professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; contributing writer, The New York Times
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| Tuesday, March 22, 2011 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Understanding Individual Lung Cancers with Whole-genome Sequencing
William Lee, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, bioinformatics and computational biology, Genentech, Inc.
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Models of Cancer Drug Response Heterogeneity Based on High-content Automated Microscopy
Vito Quaranta, M.D., professor of cancer biology; director, Center for Cancer Systems Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Coding Visual Information with Correlated Neural Populations
Michael J. Berry II, Ph.D., associate professor, Princeton University
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
DNA-mediated Signaling of Damage and Repair
Jacqueline Barton, Ph.D., Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemistry; chair, division of chemistry and chemical engineering, California Institute of Technology
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| Thursday, March 24, 2011 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
Designer Binding Proteins as Enabling Tools for Molecular and Cellular Biology
Shohei Koide, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, University of Chicago
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Roads We Take: Mechanisms of Mitotic Spindle Assembly in Human Cells
Alexey Khodjakov, Ph.D., research scientist, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health
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| Friday, March 25, 2011 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Tumor Suppression by Eph Receptor Tyrosine Kinases
Elena Pasquale, Ph.D., professor, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Dynamic Regulation of DNA Methylation in Stem Cell and Development
Yi Zhang, Ph.D., investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Kenan Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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| Monday, March 28, 2011 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Regulation of T Cell Effector Function
Chen Dong, Ph.D., professor, department of immunology; director, Center for Inflammation and Cancer, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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| Tuesday, March 29, 2011 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Models of Cancer Drug Response Heterogeneity Based on High-content Automated Microscopy
Vito Quaranta, M.D., Center for Cancer Systems Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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7:00 p.m. |
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Other Meetings
Psoriasis Support Group
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| Wednesday, March 30, 2011 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
An RNA Regulatory Network Controls C. elegans Germline Stem Cells
Judith Kimble, Ph.D., investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Vilas Professor, department of biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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8:00 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Peggy Rockefeller Concert
Kate Lindsey, mezzo soprano
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| Thursday, March 31, 2011 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
Molecular Targeted Therapies: Quo Vadis?
Raffaella Sordella, Ph.D., assistant professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Integration at Junctions: Cadherin Adhesion and the Actin Cytoskeleton
Alpha Yap, M.D., Ph.D., professor, The University of Queensland
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| Friday, April 1, 2011 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Mammalian DDB2 (XP-E): Its Role in the Regulation of the UV DNA Damage Response(s) by Assessing the Extent of Damage
Stuart Linn, Ph.D., professor, graduate school division of biochemistry and molecular biology, University of California, Berkeley
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Systems Paleobiology
Andrew Knoll, Ph.D., Fisher Professor of Natural History and professor of earth and planetary sciences, Harvard University; curator, Paleobotanical Collections, Harvard University Herbaria
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