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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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| Monday, February 6, 2012 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Interplay between Transcription Factors and Chromatin during Motor Neuron Specification
Esteban Mazzoni, Ph.D., research associate, Columbia University
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Induction and Inhibition of Type I Interferon by RNA Viruses
Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, Ph.D., professor of microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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2:00 p.m. |
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Cell Biology Seminars
Molecular Mechanisms of Chromosome Segregation
Yinghui Mao, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of pathology and cell biology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
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| Tuesday, February 7, 2012 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Watching Single Ribosome Translation in Real Time: A Quantitative Study of Ribosome Helicase Activity
Xiaohui Qu, Ph.D., postdoctoral scholar, University of California, Berkeley
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Evolutionary Dynamics at High Resolution
Physics Fellow Candidate Seminar
Jean-Baptiste Michel, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Immunity to Hematopoietic Serine Proteases to Treat Leukemia
Jeffery Mollrem, M.D., professor of medicine, The University of Texas
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| Wednesday, February 8, 2012 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
An Expanding Job Description for the Master Transcriptional Regulator Blimp1/Prdm1 during Mammalian Development
Elizabeth Robertson, Ph.D., FRS, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford
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| Thursday, February 9, 2012 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
The Protein Folding Problem: Structure, Dynamics, Thermodynamics and Folding Pathways
Harold Scheraga, Ph.D., Todd Professor of Chemistry, emeritus, Baker Laboratory of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University
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| Friday, February 10, 2012 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Seminars
Epigenetic Regulation of Aging
Anne Brunet, Ph.D., associate professor of genetics, Stanford University
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Genome Regulation by Long Noncoding RNA
Howard Chang, M.D., Ph.D., early career scientist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; professor of dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, member, Stanford Cancer Center and Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
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| Sunday, February 12, 2012 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Arts Events
Bari Koral Family Rock Band, with special guest Kathryn Ulrich
Bari Koral
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| Monday, February 13, 2012 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Notch Signaling in the Immune System: Switching an Oncogene to a Tumor Suppressor
Iannis Aifantis, Ph.D., associate professor of pathology, NYU School of Medicine; early career investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Towards Personalized Medicine: Chemical and Genetic Approaches to Patient-specific Disease Models
Justin Ichida, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University
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| Tuesday, February 14, 2012 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Mitochondrial Structure and Dynamics
Suzanne Hoppins, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, University of California, Davis
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Statistical and Topological Characterization of Landscapes in Optimization, Biology and Physics
Physics Fellow Candidate Seminar
Christian Mueller, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, ETH Zurich
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| Wednesday, February 15, 2012 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Runx1-CBFbeta and the Origin of Hematopoietic Stem Cells
Nancy Speck, Ph.D., investigator, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute; professor of cell and developmental biology, University of Pennsylvania
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| Thursday, February 16, 2012 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Daily Tracking of Human Health, Behavior, and Gut Microbiota over One Year
Lawrence David, Ph.D., junior fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Sensory Processing in Random Cortical Circuits
Haim Sompolinsky, Ph.D., professor, The Hebrew University
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4:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
A Cell-cycle View of PDGF-induced Glioma
Andrew Koff, Ph.D., member and laboratory head, Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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8:00 p.m. |
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Harvey Society
Animal Regeneration and Tissue Homeostatis Regulation: Lessons from Planarian Flatworms
Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado, Ph.D., investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
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| Friday, February 17, 2012 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Characterizing Transcriptomes from High Throughput Sequencing Data: From Yeast to Mammals
Physics Fellow Candidate Seminar
Moran Yassour, graduate student, The Hebrew University
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Lipids Organizing Cell Membranes
Kai Simons, M.D., research group leader and director emeritus, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
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| Monday, February 20, 2012 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Molecular Mechanisms of Mitochondrial Division and Positioning
Laura Lackner, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, University of California, Davis
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
A New Theory of How Visual Cortex Deals with Viewpoint Variation during Object Recognition
Geoffrey E. Hinton, Ph.D., professor, University of Toronto
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3:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
A Single Cell Systems Structured View of Immune Function and Cancer
Garry Nolan, Ph.D., Rachford and Carlota A. Harris Professor, director, NHLBI Proteomics Center for Systems Immunology, Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology, department of microbiology and immunology, Stanford University
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4:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Multiparameter Analysis of Regulatory Phenomena Driving B Cell Malignancies
Wendy Fantl, Ph.D., senior research scientist, Nolan Lab, Stanford University
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| Tuesday, February 21, 2012 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
A Quantitative Theory of Cortex
Leslie G. Valiant, Ph.D., professor, Harvard University
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| Wednesday, February 22, 2012 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Loops and Self-reference in Dictionaries
Jean-Pierre Eckmann, Ph.D., professor, University of Geneva
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
The Novel Endocrinology of Bone
Gerard Karsenty, M.D., Ph.D., Paul A Marks MD Professor; Chair, Dept of Genetics & Development; College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
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| Thursday, February 23, 2012 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Structure-based Ligand Discovery for Solute Carrier Transporters
Avner Schlessinger, Ph.D., postdoctoral scholar, department of bioengineering and therapeutic sciences, University of California, San Francisco
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
Revisiting Heuser and Reese in the 21st Century
Erik Jorgensen, Ph.D., investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; professor, department of biology, University of Utah
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3:00 p.m. |
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Other Seminars
Complete Sequencing and Human Disease: A Genetic Approach to Genomics
David B. Goldstein, Ph.D., director, Center for Human Genome Variation, professor of molecular genetics and of microbiology and biology, Duke University School of Medicine
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8:00 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Pacifica Quartet
Performing works by Beethoven, Shostakovich and Dvořák
Simin Ganatra, violin, Sibbi Bernhardsson, violin, Masumi Per Rostad, viola, Brandon Vamos, cello
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| Friday, February 24, 2012 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
G-protein Regulated Chemotaxis and Invasion in Breast Tumor Metastasis
John Condeelis, Ph.D., Judith and Burton P. Resnick Chair in Translational Research, professor and co-chair, anatomy and structural biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Space-filling Problems in Simple Animal Tissues
Physics Fellow Candidate Seminar
Ana Hocevar, Ph.D. student, University of Ljubljana
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
From Darwin to DNA: The Genetic Basis of Adaptive Morphology and Behavior
Fairfield Osborn Memorial Lecture
Hopi Hoekstra, Ph.D., Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, curator of mammals, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
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| Monday, February 27, 2012 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Metabolic Cell Signaling through Protein Glycosylation
Michael Boyce, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, University of California, Berkeley
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Mitochondria in Immune and Inflammatory Responses
Sankar Ghosh, Ph.D., Silverstein and Hutt Family Professor and chair, department of microbiology and immunology, Columbia University
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| Tuesday, February 28, 2012 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
The GluK4 Kainate Receptor Subunit Regulates Mood, Memory and Excitotoxic Neurodegeneration
Emily Lowry, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Pharmacology Seminars
Bacterial Conversations and the Discovery of New Natural Products
Weill Cornell Medical College Department of Pharmacology Fall/Winter 2011/2012 Seminar Series
Jon Clardy, Ph.D., professor, department of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology, Harvard Medical School
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7:00 p.m. |
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Other Meetings
Psoriasis Support Group
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| Wednesday, February 29, 2012 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Approaches to Study Small Molecule Inhibitors and Their Targets
Sarah Wacker, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
The Changing Landscape of Cancer Genomics
Kenneth Kinzler, Ph.D., Professor of Oncology; Director, Ludwig Center at Johns Hopkins University; Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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| Thursday, March 1, 2012 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
On the Road to Personalized Therapy a Systems Approach
Dana Pe'er, Ph.D., assistant professor, Columbia University
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11:00 a.m. |
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Anderson Cancer Center Lecture Series
A Systems Biology Approach to DNA Damage Signaling: Molecules, Modules, Networks and Patients
Michael Yaffe, M.D., Ph.D., David H. Koch Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| Friday, March 2, 2012 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Skin Stem Cells: In Morphogenesis, Wound Repair and Cancer
Ph.D. Recruitment Lecture
Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor and head, Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, The Rockefeller University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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