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 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

 Monday, May 7, 2012
2:00 p.m.   Cell Biology Seminars
Where Cell Polarity and Seizures Meet: Creating Epileptic Flies

John Manak, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of biology and pediatrics, and researcher, Roy J. Carver Center for Genomics, University of Iowa

 Tuesday, May 8, 2012
4:00 p.m.   Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Integration of Chemical and Mechanical Signals in Cell Migration

Gaudenz Danuser, Ph.D., professor, Harvard University

 Wednesday, May 9, 2012
8:00 p.m.   The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Tao Lin, piano
Performing works by Johannes Brahms, Maurice Ravel and Sergei Rachmaninoff
Tao Lin
 Thursday, May 10, 2012
3:30 p.m.   MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Guarding the Genome: Centromeres, Aneuploidy and Tumorigenesis

Don Cleveland, Ph.D., departmental chair of cellular and molecular medicine; professor of medicine, neurosciences and cellular and molecular medicine; member, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of California, San Diego

4:30 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Multi Catalysis in Chemical Synthesis

David MacMillan, Ph.D., department chair, chemistry, Princeton University

 Friday, May 11, 2012
10:30 a.m.   Thesis Presentations
Variability in Singing and in Song in the Zebra Finch

Cameron Wellock, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

3:00 p.m.   Science and Media Lecture Series
Radical Openness: Growing TED by Giving it All Away

3:00 p.m.: June Cohen, executive producer, TED Media, TED

3:45 p.m.   Friday Lecture Series
Molecular Sociophysiology of Sexual Preference  

Yi Rao, Ph.D., investigator, National Institute of Biological Sciences; dean, school of life sciences, Peking University, Beijing

 Monday, May 14, 2012
12:00 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Cell Cycle Regulation of Mitosis

Frank Uhlmann, Ph.D., Senior Group Leader, London Research institute

12:00 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Cell Cycle Regulation of Mitosis

Frank Uhlmann, Ph.D., senior group leader, Cancer Research UK

 Tuesday, May 15, 2012
4:00 p.m.   Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Directed Eukaryotic Motility

Herbert Levine, Ph.D., professor, University of California, San Diego

4:00 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Using Small Molecules to Engineer and Explore Human Immunity

David Spiegel, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry, Yale University

 Wednesday, May 16, 2012
12:00 p.m.   Molecular Biology Seminars
Case Studies in Multiscale Approaches to Biology: Drug Targets and Molecular Epidemiology

1:00 p.m.: Andrew Kasarskis, Ph.D., vice chair, department of genetic and genomic sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

4:30 p.m.   MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Deconstructing Cancer Immunoediting

Robert Schreiber, Ph.D., Alumni Professor, pathology and immunology; professor, molecular microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine

 Thursday, May 17, 2012
9:30 a.m.   Thesis Presentations
Identification of a Novel Regulator of ER Stress-induced Apoptosis in Drosophila

Genevieve Joseph, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

12:00 p.m.   Biochemistry Lectures
Cdc42: Some New and Unexpected Discoveries or a Tale of Two Biologies

Richard A. Cerione, Ph.D., Goldwin Smith Professor of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Cornell University

4:30 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Development of Therapies Selectively Targeting Cancer Stem Cells

Malcolm Moore, D.Phil., member and lab head, cell biology program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

8:00 p.m.   Harvey Society
The Behavior of Mitochondria

Jodi Nunnari, Ph.D., professor and chair, molecular and cell biology, University of California, Davis

 Friday, May 18, 2012
12:00 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Aging and Stem Cells

Anne Brunet, Ph.D., associate professor of genetics, Stanford University

1:30 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
NS5A, Cyclophilin A and Models of HCV Regulation

Thomas Oh, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

3:45 p.m.   Friday Lecture Series
Reading the Human Genome

Sydney Brenner, D.Phil., senior distinguished fellow, Crick-Jacobs Center Brenner Laboratory, Salk Institute

 Tuesday, May 22, 2012
4:00 p.m.   Pharmacology Seminars
Chemical Biology of Methyl-Lysine
The 2012 Nina W. Werblow Lecture

4:00 p.m.: Stephen V. Frye, Ph.D., professor, division of medicinal chemistry and natural products, and director, Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Eshelman School of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

4:00 p.m.   Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Statistical Mechanics of the Genetic Code: A Glimpse of Early Life?

Nigel Goldenfeld, Ph.D., professor of physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

 Wednesday, May 23, 2012
11:00 a.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Role of Next-generation Synthesis in Small Molecule Probe and Drug Discovery

Michael Foley, Ph.D., director, chemical biology platform, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

4:30 p.m.   Other Seminars
So You Want to Start a Biotech Company, Hmmm…?
RU Biotech Forum Seminar Series on Entrepreneurship

Ron Cohen, M.D., president and CEO, Acorda Therapeutics

 Thursday, May 24, 2012
10:30 a.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Signaling by WW Domain in Golabi Syndrome and Hippo Tumor Suppressor Pathway

Marius Sudol, Ph.D., staff scientist, Geisinger Clinic

11:00 a.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Harnessing the Complexities of Life with Synthetic Chemistry

Dirk Trauner, Ph.D., professor of chemical biology, University of Munich

11:00 a.m.   Chemical Biology Seminar Series
Dicer and Beyond: Regulatory RNAs in Humans and Bacteria

11:00 a.m.: Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry, biophysics and structural biology, University of California, Berkeley; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

2:00 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Molecular Mechanisms of Synapse Formation and Synaptic Specificity

2:00 p.m.: Peter Scheiffele, Ph.D., professor, University of Basel

 Tuesday, May 29, 2012
11:00 a.m.   Tri-Institutional Seminars at Rockefeller
Tri-Institutional SPARC Diversity in Research Conference
4:00 p.m.   Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Leaves Don't Lie: Their New Roles in Tropical Forest Management, Systematics and Art

Douglas C. Daly, Ph.D., B.A. Krukoff Curator of Amazonian Botany, The New York Botanical Garden

4:00 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
New Functions for Autophagy during Oncogenesis

Jayanta Debnath, M.D., associate professor, University of California, San Francisco

7:00 p.m.   Other Meetings
Psoriasis support group
 Wednesday, May 30, 2012
10:00 a.m.   Chemical Biology Seminar Series
Reprogramming the Genetic Code

10:00 a.m.: Jason Chin, Ph.D., group leader, Medical Research Council

2:00 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
Telomere-driven Tetraploidy and Its Relevance to Cancer

Teresa Davoli, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

4:30 p.m.   MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Histone Variants, Nucleosome Dynamics and Epigenetic Inheritance

Steven Henikoff, Ph.D., member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

 Thursday, May 31, 2012
10:30 a.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Synergistic Gene-Gene Interactions in Common Complex Diseases

Itsik Pe’er, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Columbia University

12:00 p.m.   Biochemistry Lectures
Amyloid Formation by Natively Unfolded Proteins

Daniel P. Raleigh, Ph.D., professor, department of chemistry, State University of New York, Stony Brook

2:00 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Dissecting the Building Blocks for Cilia and Basal Bodies using Computational and Genetic Approaches

Susan Dutcher, Ph.D., professor, Washington University, St. Louis

6:00 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Neurobiological and Genetic Studies of Specific Addictive Diseases
Female Association of Clinicians, Educators and Scientists (FACES) Annual Keynote Address

Mary Jeanne Kreek, M.D., Patrick E. and Beatrice M. Haggerty Professor, senior attending physician, The Rockefeller University

 Friday, June 1, 2012
12:00 p.m.   Other Tri-Institutional Events
Linking RNA to Human Health

John Rinn, Ph.D., assistant professor of stem cell and regenerative biology, Harvard University; senior associate member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

3:45 p.m.   Friday Lecture Series
Genes, Genomes and the Future of Medicine
Rufus Cole Lecture

Richard Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., director, Yale Center for Human Genetics and Genomics, chair, department of genetics and Sterling Professor of Genetics and Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute





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