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 Tuesday, April 3, 2012
10:00 a.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Friend or Foe? Host Tolerance of Pathobionts in Health and Disease
1:30 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
Vocal Handedness: The Emergence of Lateralization at Fledging

Rudy Bellani, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

4:00 p.m.   Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Towards the Principles of Self Assembly

Michael Brenner, Ph.D., professor, Harvard University

4:00 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Targeting Cell Survival Signaling for Protein-Protein Interaction Modular Discovery

Haian Fu, Ph.D., professor and molecular discovery director, Emory University

 Wednesday, April 4, 2012
11:00 a.m.   Thesis Presentations
Chemical Reporters for Bacterial Pathogenesis and Beyond

Markus Grammel, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

4:30 p.m.   MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Controlling Antigen Receptor Signal Transduction

Arthur Weiss, M.D., Ph.D., Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Ephraim P Engleman Distinguished Professor, University of California San Francisco

 Thursday, April 5, 2012
10:30 a.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Transcription Factor Binding Sites, Histone Modifications and Two Promoter Classes

Martin Vingron, Ph.D., director of molecular genetics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics

11:00 a.m.   Anderson Cancer Center Lecture Series
Growth Control through the mTOR Pathway

David Sabatini, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of biology, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT

2:00 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Extrinsic and Intrinsic Inhibitors of Synapse Formation in C. elegans

Kang Shen, Ph.D., associate professor, Stanford University School of Medicine

 Friday, April 6, 2012
3:45 p.m.   Friday Lecture Series
Biological Motility and Mechanotransduction
Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences

Michael Sheetz, Ph.D., William R. Kenan Jr. Professor, Columbia University, Myosin Pulling and Mechanotransduction

James Spudich, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry, Stanford School of Medicine, Hypertrophic and Dilated Cardiomyopathies: Single Molecule Analysis of Human Cardiac Myosin

Ronald Vale, Ph.D., professor, University of California, San Francisco; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Structure and Mechanism of the Dynein Motor Protein

 Monday, April 9, 2012
1:30 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
It Takes Guts: Two Faces of Mucosal Memory T Cells
6:00 p.m.   Insight Lecture Series
Expanding the STEM Pipeline in America: Institutional Culture Change in STEM Teaching and Learning

Freeman A. Hrabowski III, Ph.D., president, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

 Tuesday, April 10, 2012
9:00 a.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Redesigning Drug Design

John Chodera, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, University of California, Berkeley

4:00 p.m.   Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Methanogenic Blow-up in the End-Permian Carbon Cycle

Daniel H. Rothman, Ph.D., professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 Wednesday, April 11, 2012
1:00 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
The Yeast Hunger Games: A New Protein Trilogy Involved in the Chromatin Response to Oxidative and Nutrient Stresses

Lindsey Baker, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

4:30 p.m.   MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Disruptions on the Highways of Cell Communication

Dario Alessi, Ph.D., director, MRC protein phosphorylation and ubiquitylation unit, University of Dundee

 Thursday, April 12, 2012
10:30 a.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Epigenetic Regulation of T Cell Differentiation

Keji Zhao, Ph.D., senior investigator and director, Systems Biology Center, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

1:30 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
Structural and Functional Studies of SLO K+ Channels: Mechanisms of Gating by Intracellular Signaling

Manuel Leonetti, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

2:00 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
A Chemical Approach to Studying Mitochondrial Protein Translocation

Carla Koehler, Ph.D., professor, University of California, Los Angeles

 Friday, April 13, 2012
12:00 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Remarkable New Roles for ncRNAs in Transcriptional and Post-transcriptional Silencing in Fungi

Hiten Madhani, Ph.D., professor, University of California, San Francisco

3:45 p.m.   Friday Lecture Series
Immune Control and Immune Failure in HIV Infection
Philip Levine Memorial Lecture

Bruce Walker, M.D., principal investigator, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard

 Tuesday, April 17, 2012
4:00 p.m.   Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Millisecond-long Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Proteins on a Special-purpose Machine

David E. Shaw, Ph.D., chief scientist, D. E. Shaw Research

 Wednesday, April 18, 2012
10:30 a.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
How Drugs Bind and Control Their Targets: Characterizing GPCR Signaling Through Long-timescale Simulation

Ron Dror, Ph.D., senior research scientist, D. E. Shaw Research

3:45 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
The Expression of Zinc Finger zDC Defines the Classical Dendritic Cell Lineage

Matthew Meredith, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

4:30 p.m.   MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Design of Selective Catalysts for Complex Molecule Synthesis

Robert Grubbs, Ph.D., Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

 Thursday, April 19, 2012
12:00 p.m.   Biochemistry Lectures
Synaptic Protein Conformations and Dynamics Observed with Single Molecule FRET

Keith Weninger, Ph.D., associate professor, North Carolina State University

12:45 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
Light It Nup: Organization of Nuclear Pore Complex Proteins Studied by Fluorescence Polarization Microscopy

Claire Atkinson, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

2:00 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Specification, Maintenance and Elimination of Neuromesodermal Axial Progenitors

Val Wilson, Ph.D., lecturer, University of Edinburgh

3:30 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
Chemical Reporters for Investigating Lipidated Proteins at the Host-pathogen Interface

Guillaume Charron, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

4:30 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Regulation of Intramembranal Proteolysis in Alzheimer's Disease and Cancer

Yueming Li, Ph.D., member and lab head, molecular pharmacology and chemistry program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

8:00 p.m.   Harvey Society
Development and Sensory Transduction in the C. elegans Touch Receptor Neurons

Martin Chalfie, Ph.D., William R. Kenan Jr. Professor, Columbia University

 Friday, April 20, 2012
10:30 a.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Elegant Role of Structural Symmetry in Solute Transport Across Membranes

Lucy Forrest, Ph.D., Max Planck research group leader, Max Planck Institute for Biophysics

12:00 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
DNA Methylation Dynamics in Development

Alexander Meissner, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of stem cell and regenerative biology, Harvard University; senior associate member, Broad Institute

3:45 p.m.   Friday Lecture Series
RNP Assembly and Transport in the Drosophila Oocyte

Anne Ephrussi, Ph.D., head, Developmental Biology Unit and head, International Center for Advanced Training, European Molecular Biology Laboratory

 Monday, April 23, 2012
1:30 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Transcriptional and Epigenetic Control of Helper T Cell Differentiation

John O'Shea, M.D., scientific director and chief, molecular immunology and inflammation branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases

4:00 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Synthesis of Bioactive Carbohydrates and Allylic Fluorides for PET Imaging

Hien Nguyen, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry, University of Iowa

 Tuesday, April 24, 2012
1:30 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
Mycobacterial Metabolism: Insights Into the Host Environment

Manisha Lotlikar, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

4:00 p.m.   Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Dissecting the Mitotic Trigger

James E. Ferrell, Ph.D., department chair and professor, chemical and systems biology, Stanford University

7:00 p.m.   Other Meetings
Psoriasis support group
 Wednesday, April 25, 2012
1:30 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
rRNA Promoters as Targets for Transcription Factors: Structural and Functional Studies of PhERI and CarD

Joseph Osmundson, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

4:00 p.m.   Science and Media Lecture Series
The Story Collider: The Power of Personal Stories about Science

Ben Lillie, Ph.D., co-founder, The Story Collider

4:30 p.m.   MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Surprising Insights Into BRCA1 Function

David Livingston, M.D., Emil Frei Professor of Genetics and Medicine; Harvard Medical School; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Deputy Director, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center

 Thursday, April 26, 2012
10:30 a.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Swarming Motility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: A Unique Model of Multicellular Behavior

Eric Deziel, Ph.D., professor and investigator, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) University

12:00 p.m.   Biochemistry Lectures
Modulation of PPAR-gamma and Insulin Sensitization: The Long March toward Novel Therapeutics

Alexander Banks, Ph.D., postdoctoral research fellow, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

12:00 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Mining the Microbial Universe for Gene Targeting Reagents: Structures, Evolution and Engineering of Homing Endonucleases and TAL Effectors

Barry Stoddard, Ph.D., member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

1:00 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
Enter the Dicty: Conserved and Novel Properties of Clathrin-mediated Endocytosis in Dictyostelium

Laura Macro, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

 Friday, April 27, 2012
12:00 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
MicroRNAs as Targeted Therapeutics and Therapeutic Targets in Cancer

Frank Slack, Ph.D., professor, department of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, Yale University

2:00 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
New Role for a Sirtuin-like Regulator in Streptococcal Virulence

Barbara Juncosa, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

 Monday, April 30, 2012
1:30 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
Phe Fi Fo Fum: Giant Molecules in the Cavity of a Potassium Channel

Disan Davis, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

2:00 p.m.   Cell Biology Seminars
The Dynamics of Accessing DNA

Michelle D. Wang, Ph.D., professor, department of physics, Cornell University

 Tuesday, May 1, 2012
1:30 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
The Diversity of Cortical Interneurons

Miho Nakajima, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

4:00 p.m.   Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Encoding Cellular Information through p53 Dynamics in Individual Cells

Galit Lahav, Ph.D., associate professor, Harvard University

4:00 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Reengineering Vancomycin for Antimicrobial Activity against Vancomycin-resistant Bacteria

Dale Boger, Ph.D., professor of chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute

 Wednesday, May 2, 2012
1:30 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
Greasing the Wheels of Signal Transduction: Regulation of Meiotic Commitment by Protein Palmitoylation

Mingzi Zhang, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

4:30 p.m.   MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Gene Regulatory Networks, Polycomb Repression and Cancer

Stuart Orkin, M.D., investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; David G. Nathan Professor, Harvard Medical School; chairman, department of pediatric oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

 Thursday, May 3, 2012
11:00 a.m.   Anderson Cancer Center Lecture Series
Wnt Signaling and Asymmetric Divisions of Stem Cells

Roel Nusse, Ph.D., professor of developmental biology, Stanford University

12:00 p.m.   Biochemistry Lectures
Ca2+ Sensors for Neuronal Exocytosis

Edwin Chapman, Ph.D., investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; professor, department of neuroscience, University of Wisconsin

12:00 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine — Special Seminar Series

Hanspeter Naegeli, Ph.D., deputy director, University of Zürich-Tierspital, Nucleotide Excision Repair in Chromatin

2:00 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Re-thinking Stroma: Lessons from the Blood

David Scadden, Ph.D., Gerald and Darlene Jordan Professor, Harvard University

 Friday, May 4, 2012
12:00 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Understanding the Dynamics of Cancer: from Developmental Pathways to In Vivo Imaging

12:00 p.m.: Tannishtha Reya, Ph.D., professor, department of pharmacology, University of California, San Diego

1:30 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
The Ministry of Silly Walks: Quantitative Analysis of Patterns of Behavioral Change

David Jordan, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

3:00 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Fate Specification and Self-Renewal of Skin Stem Cells

3:00 p.m.: Ting Chen, Ph.D., Research Associate, Rockefeller University, Fate Specification and Self-Renewal of Skin Stem Cells





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