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| Wednesday, January 4, 2012 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
When Ion Channel Meets Transporter: Structure and Mechanism of a Eukaryotic CLC Transporter
Liang Feng, Ph.D., postdoctoral associate, The Rockefeller University
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| Thursday, January 5, 2012 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Role of the Nuclear Pore Complex in Chromatin Organization, Transcription and Development
Maya Capelson, Ph.D., research associate, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
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| Friday, January 6, 2012 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Structural Biology and an HIV-1 Vaccine:
From Epitope to Antibody Origin and Back
Peter Kwong, Ph.D., structural biology section, Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health
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| Monday, January 9, 2012 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
T Cell Differentiation during Acute and Chronic Viral Infections
E. John Wherry, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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| Tuesday, January 10, 2012 |
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2:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Crossing Cellular Barriers: Targeting and Insertion of Membrane Proteins
Malaiyalam Mariappan, Ph.D., postdoctoral research fellow, National Institutes of Health
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| Thursday, January 12, 2012 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Cellular Collective Behaviors
Pascal Silberzan, Ph.D., professor, Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Controlling Stochastic Gene Expression in the Drosophila Retina
Robert Johnston, Ph.D., Jane Coffin Child Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
Ras Trafficking and Signaling
Mark Philips, M.D., professor of medicine, cell biology and pharmacology, associate director, basic science, director, MST (M.D.-Ph.D.) Program, NYU Cancer Institute
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2:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Center for Cell Engineering Fifth Annual Retreat
Gordon Keller, Ph.D., director, McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Directed Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Igor Slukvin, M.D., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Mesodermal Specification and Hematopoietic Commitment of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Mick Bhatia, Ph.D., McMaster Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute, Programming Human Hematopoiesis Shahin Rafii, M.D., Weill Cornell Medical College, Vascular Niche-derived Angiocrine Factors in Organ Regeneration
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| Tuesday, January 17, 2012 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
A Lipid-centric and Cell Biological View of Alzheimer's Disease: Lessons from Lipidomics
Gilbert Di Paolo, Ph.D., assistant professor, pathology and cell biology, Columbia University
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| Thursday, January 19, 2012 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Cilia, Centrosomes and Signaling
Kathryn Anderson, Ph.D., chair and lab head, developmental biology program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Cilia, Centrosomes, and Signaling
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8:00 p.m. |
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Harvey Society
The Commensal Microbiota as the Fulcrum for a Balanced Immune System
Dan R. Littmann, M.D., Ph.D., Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Professor of Molecular Immunology and professor of pathology and microbiology, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Friday, January 20, 2012 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Neuronal Diversity and Neural Plasticity
Jerry A. Weisbach Memorial Lecture
Fred Gage, Ph.D., Vi and John Adler Chair for Research on Age-Related Neurodegenerative Diseases, head, laboratory of genetics, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
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| Monday, January 23, 2012 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Lin28/let-7 Axis in Mammalian Development
Hao Zhu, Ph.D., instructor in medicine, postdoctoral fellow, Harvard Medical School; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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11:00 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Using "Designer" Nucleosomes to Study Crosstalk between Histone Ubiquitylation and Histone Methyltransferases
Sarah Whitcomb, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Unraveling the Mysteries of Unconventional Receptor Tyrosine Kinases
Hsin-Yi Henry Ho, Ph.D., research fellow, Harvard Medical School
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Life-threatening Infectious Diseases of Childhood: Single-gene Inborn Errors of Immunity?
Jean-Laurent Casanova, M.D., Ph.D., professor, head, St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, senior attending physician, The Rockefeller University
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| Tuesday, January 24, 2012 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Protein Folding, Environmental Stress and the Inheritance of New Phenotypes
Daniel Jarosz, 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
Intracellular Information Transfer: Understanding Bit by Bit
Andre Levchenko, Ph.D., principal investigator, Johns Hopkins University
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| Wednesday, January 25, 2012 |
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3:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Endogenous Retroviruses Coordinate Gene Expression and Cell Fate during Embryonic Development
Todd Macfarlan, Ph.D., senior research associate, The Salk Institute
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Towards Unification of the Cancer Stem Cell and Clonal Evolution Models of Cancer
John Dick, Ph.D., senior scientist, Campbell Family Institute for Cancer Research, Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network; professor, department of molecular genetics, University of Toronto; director, Program in Cancer Stem Cells, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
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7:00 p.m. |
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Science and Media Lecture Series
Thinking Digital: Giving your research more reach (and making sure others can find it)
Science Online NYC (SoNYC)
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8:00 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Colin Balzer, tenor, with pianist Erika Switzer
Colin Balzer, tenor with pianist Erika Switzer
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| Thursday, January 26, 2012 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Structures and Mechanism of Lin28, a Multifunctional microRNA Regulator
Yunsun Nam, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Harvard Medical School
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| Friday, January 27, 2012 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Genetic Features of Pancreatic Cancer Progression
Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue, M.D., Ph.D., professor in pathology, oncology and surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
X-Chromosome Inactivation as a Model for Epigenomic Regulation by Long Noncoding RNAs
Richard M. Furlaud Distinguished Lecture
Jeannie T. Lee, M.D., Ph.D., professor of genetics and pathology, Harvard Medical School, investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Monday, January 30, 2012 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Mechanisms and Programs of Neuronal Splicing Regulation
Douglas Black, Ph.D., professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics, University of California, Los Angeles; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Tuesday, January 31, 2012 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Dealing With Mistakes: A New Form of Proofreading on the Ribosome
Hani Zaher, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
New Approaches to Studying the Growth and Size Regulation of Mammalian Cells
Marc W. Kirschner, Ph.D., professor, Harvard University
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7:00 p.m. |
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Other Meetings
Psoriasis Support Group
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| Wednesday, February 1, 2012 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Examining Mechanisms of Cell Death in Response to Anti-mitotic Drug Treatment
Emily Arias Foley, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, The Rockefeller University
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
What Do We Really Know about p53?
Wei Gu, Ph.D., professor of pathology and cell biology, Institute for Cancer Genetics, Herbert Irving Cancer Research Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
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| Thursday, February 2, 2012 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Universal Patterns of Stem Cell Fate in Adult Tissues
Allon Klein, Ph.D., postdoctoral research fellow, Systems Biology Departmental Fellow, Harvard Medical School
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Genetic Dissection of the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niche
Lei Ding, Ph.D., research fellow, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
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11:00 a.m. |
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Anderson Cancer Center Lecture Series
Chemical Inhibition of Bromodomains
James Bradner, M.D., assistant professor, department of medicine, Harvard Medical School; investigator, department of medical oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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| Friday, February 3, 2012 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
TGF-beta and BMP Receptors: Distinct Modes of Oligomeric Interactions and Implications for Signaling
Yoav Henis, Ph.D., professor, department of neurobiology, Tel Aviv University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Effective Models for Gene Networks
Gemunu Gunaratne, Ph.D., professor and associate chairman, department of physics, University of Houston
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Epigenetic Regulation in Adult Stem Cells: Common Regulatory Mechanisms Underlying Cell Mobilization
David Sassoon, Ph.D., director, INSERM Unit, Pitie Salpetriere Medical School
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
microRNA Pathways in Animal Development
Joshua Lederberg Distinguished Lectureship in Molecular Genetics
Victor Ambros, Ph.D., Silverman Professor of Natural Science, co-director, RNA Therapeutics Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School
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