Browse Events
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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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| Monday, March 5, 2012 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Dissecting Synaptic Vesicle Endocytosis
Moritz Armbruster, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Evolution of Adaptive Immune Systems
Max Cooper, M.D., professor, Emory University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Cell Biology Seminars
Reproductive Organ Development, Homeostasis and Regeneration
Richard Behringer, Ph.D., professor and Ben F. Love Chair for Cancer Research, department of genetics, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
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| Tuesday, March 6, 2012 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Prins-based Strategies for the Synthesis and Biological Studies
Karl Scheidt, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry, Northwestern University
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| Wednesday, March 7, 2012 |
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3:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Elucidating Telomerase Function Using Genetically Defined Human Stem Cell Models
Dirk Hockemeyer, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, The Whitehead Institute
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| Thursday, March 8, 2012 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Negative Feedbacks Linking Growth and Proliferation in Cancer Cells
Ran Kafri, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher and lecturer, Harvard Medical School
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Heterogeneity and Decision-making in NF-kappaB and Other Signaling Systems
David Rand, Ph.D., director, Warwick Systems Biology Centre, University of Warwick
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Assembling the Face: Variant Histones, Neural Crest and Epithelial Morphogenesis
Gage Crump, Ph.D., assistant professor, University of Southern California
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| Friday, March 9, 2012 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Conversion from Mouse Embryonic to Extraembryonic Stem Cells Reveals Roles for Fgf Signaling and GATA Transcription Factors
Kathy Niakan, Ph.D., junior group leader, Center for Trophoblast Research, University of Cambridge
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Genome-wide Inter-relationships between Chromatin and the Transcription Machinery
B. Franklin Pugh, Ph.D., Willaman Professor of Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
The Paradox of Immunity
Ph.D. Recruitment Lecture
Jeffrey V. Ravetch, M.D., Ph.D., Theresa and Eugene M. Lang Professor and head, Leonard Wagner Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Immunology, The Rockefeller University
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| Tuesday, March 13, 2012 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Dynamic Interaction between the Mucosal Barrier and the Innate Immune System
Thomas Clarke, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher, University of Pennsylvania
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Paleobiology of Life in Amber
David Grimaldi, Ph.D., curator, American Museum of Natural History
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| Wednesday, March 14, 2012 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Consequences of Aneuploidy
Angelika Amon, Ph.D., investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; professor of biology and Kathy and Curt Marble Professor of Cancer Research, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| Thursday, March 15, 2012 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
Dynamics of Endocytosis
Tom Kirchhausen, Ph.D., professor of cell biology, Harvard University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Using C. elegans to Dissect Mitotic Mechanisms
Karen Oegema, Ph.D., professor, University of California, San Diego
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4:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
MicroRNAs in Cancer and Development
Andrea Ventura, M.D., Ph.D., assistant member and lab head, Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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8:00 p.m. |
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Harvey Society
Watching Individual Proteins Working on Single Molecules of DNA: From Biophysics to Cancer
Stephen C. Kowalczykowski, Ph.D., professor, University of California, Davis
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| Friday, March 16, 2012 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Partner and Pathway Choice during Meiotic Recombination
Michael Lichten, Ph.D., senior investigator, National Institutes of Health
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Sphingolipids and Oxysterols in B Cell Immunity and Cancer
Jason Cyster, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco
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| Monday, March 19, 2012 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Autophagy and Neurodegeneration
David Rubinsztein, Ph.D., professor, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Natural Killer T Cells: Fighters at the Front Lines for Defense Against Microbes?
Mitchell Kronenberg, Ph.D., president and chief scientific officer, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
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2:00 p.m. |
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Cell Biology Seminars
Tales from the Cellular Underworld: Normal and Disease-associated mRNA Decay
Lynne E. Maquat, Ph.D., J. Lowell Orbison Endowed Chair and professor, department of biochemistry and biophysics, University of Rochester
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| Tuesday, March 20, 2012 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Living on the Edge: Regulation of Host-Microbiota Interactions by Inflammasomes
Till Strowig, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher, department of immunobiology, Yale University
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Molecular and Cellular Basis of Breast Cancer Formation
Yi Li, Ph.D., associate professor, Baylor College of Medicine
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Examining Intracellular Phosphorylation Gradients during Cell Division
Lei Tan, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Information Passing and Collective Animal Behavior
Naomi Leonard, Ph.D., professor, Princeton University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Science and Media Lecture Series
Harnessing the Brain for Language and Music
4:00 p.m.: Mark Changizi, Ph.D., director of human cognition, 2AI
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Design and Development of New Reactions Driven by the π-Acidity
Weiping Tang Tang, Ph.D., assistant professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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7:00 p.m. |
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Science and Media Lecture Series
Setting the Research Record Straight
Science Online NYC (SoNYC)
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| Wednesday, March 21, 2012 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Human Genome Structural Variation and Disease
Evan Eichler, Ph.D., investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; professor of genome sciences, University of Washington
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8:00 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Rachel Barton Pine, violin
Performing Niccoló Paganini's Twenty-Four Caprices
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| Thursday, March 22, 2012 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
Membrane Fusion: 5 Lipids, 4 SNAREs, 3 Chaperones, 2 Nucleotides, and a Rab, Dancing in a Ring!
William Wickner, M.D., professor of biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School
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| Friday, March 23, 2012 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Lost in Translation: Ribosomes, MicroRNAs and Cancer
Carl Novina, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology and immunobiology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
How Telomeres Solved the End-protection Problem
Cancer Biology Lecture
Titia de Lange, Ph.D., Leon Hess Professor and head, Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics, The Rockefeller University
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| Monday, March 26, 2012 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Integrative Genomics and Genetics: From Yeast Evolution to Human Disease
Nathalie Pochet, Ph.D., Broad Fellow; Postdoctoral Fellow, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
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| Tuesday, March 27, 2012 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Universal Patterns of Stem Cell Fate in Adult Tissues
Allon Klein, Ph.D., postdoctoral associate, Harvard University
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7:00 p.m. |
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Other Meetings
Psoriasis support group
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| Wednesday, March 28, 2012 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Chemical Biology Seminar Series
Chemical Thinking about Neural Circuits
Scott Sternson, Ph.D., group leader, HHMI: Janelia Farms
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Hit the SAC: How PP1 Facilitates Mitotic Fidelity by Putting the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint to Bed
Jessica Scott Rosenberg, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Two Vignettes: Computational Purification of Tumor Expression Profiles & Predicting Protein-mRNA Interactions
Quaid Morris, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Toronto
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Beyond the Double Helix: Varying the Histone Code
C. David Allis, Ph.D., Joy and Jack Fishman Professor; Head, Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics, The Rockefeller University
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| Thursday, March 29, 2012 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Social Evolution in Microbes
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
p21-Activated Kinases as Anti-Cancer Targets
Jonathan Chernoff, M.D., Ph.D., professor, Fox Chase Cancer Center
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| Friday, March 30, 2012 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
The Role of miR-126 in Breast Cancer Metastasis: Modulation of Endothelial Recruitment by Cancer Cells
Kim Png, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Topoisomerase I and Genome Stability in Yeast
Sue Jinks-Robertson, Ph.D., professor, Duke University Medical Center
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Mitochondria and Neurodegeneration
Hugo Bellen, Ph.D., D.V.M., investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; professor, departments of molecular and human genetics and neuroscience, director, Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine
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