Browse Events
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| Tuesday, May 1, 2012 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
The Diversity of Cortical Interneurons
Miho Nakajima, 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
Encoding Cellular Information through p53 Dynamics in Individual Cells
Galit Lahav, Ph.D., associate professor, Harvard University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Reengineering Vancomycin for Antimicrobial Activity against Vancomycin-resistant Bacteria
Dale Boger, Ph.D., professor of chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute
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| Wednesday, May 2, 2012 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Greasing the Wheels of Signal Transduction: Regulation of Meiotic Commitment by Protein Palmitoylation
Mingzi Zhang, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University
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4:30 p.m. |
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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
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| Thursday, May 3, 2012 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Anderson Cancer Center Lecture Series
Wnt Signaling and Asymmetric Divisions of Stem Cells
Roel Nusse, Ph.D., professor of developmental biology, Stanford University
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
Ca2+ Sensors for Neuronal Exocytosis
Edwin Chapman, Ph.D., investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; professor, department of neuroscience, University of Wisconsin
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12:00 p.m. |
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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
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Re-thinking Stroma: Lessons from the Blood
David Scadden, Ph.D., Gerald and Darlene Jordan Professor, Harvard University
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| Friday, May 4, 2012 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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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
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
The Ministry of Silly Walks: Quantitative Analysis of Patterns of Behavioral Change
David Jordan, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University
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3:00 p.m. |
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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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| Monday, May 7, 2012 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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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
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| Tuesday, May 8, 2012 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Integration of Chemical and Mechanical Signals in Cell Migration
Gaudenz Danuser, Ph.D., professor, Harvard University
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| Wednesday, May 9, 2012 |
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8:00 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Tao Lin, piano
Performing works by Johannes Brahms, Maurice Ravel and Sergei Rachmaninoff
Tao Lin
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| Thursday, May 10, 2012 |
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3:30 p.m. |
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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
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4:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Multi Catalysis in Chemical Synthesis
David MacMillan, Ph.D., department chair, chemistry, Princeton University
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| Friday, May 11, 2012 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Variability in Singing and in Song in the Zebra Finch
Cameron Wellock, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University
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3:00 p.m. |
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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
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3:45 p.m. |
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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
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| Monday, May 14, 2012 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Cell Cycle Regulation of Mitosis
Frank Uhlmann, Ph.D., Senior Group Leader, London Research institute
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Cell Cycle Regulation of Mitosis
Frank Uhlmann, Ph.D., senior group leader, Cancer Research UK
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| Tuesday, May 15, 2012 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Directed Eukaryotic Motility
Herbert Levine, Ph.D., professor, University of California, San Diego
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Using Small Molecules to Engineer and Explore Human Immunity
David Spiegel, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry, Yale University
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| Wednesday, May 16, 2012 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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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
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4:30 p.m. |
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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
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| Thursday, May 17, 2012 |
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9:30 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Identification of a Novel Regulator of ER Stress-induced Apoptosis in Drosophila
Genevieve Joseph, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University
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12:00 p.m. |
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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
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4:30 p.m. |
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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
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8:00 p.m. |
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Harvey Society
The Behavior of Mitochondria
Jodi Nunnari, Ph.D., professor and chair, molecular and cell biology, University of California, Davis
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| Friday, May 18, 2012 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Aging and Stem Cells
Anne Brunet, Ph.D., associate professor of genetics, Stanford University
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
NS5A, Cyclophilin A and Models of HCV Regulation
Thomas Oh, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Reading the Human Genome
Sydney Brenner, D.Phil., senior distinguished fellow, Crick-Jacobs Center Brenner Laboratory, Salk Institute
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| Tuesday, May 22, 2012 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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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
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4:00 p.m. |
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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
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| Wednesday, May 23, 2012 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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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
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4:30 p.m. |
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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
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| Thursday, May 24, 2012 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Signaling by WW Domain in Golabi Syndrome and Hippo Tumor Suppressor Pathway
Marius Sudol, Ph.D., staff scientist, Geisinger Clinic
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Harnessing the Complexities of Life with Synthetic Chemistry
Dirk Trauner, Ph.D., professor of chemical biology, University of Munich
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11:00 a.m. |
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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
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Molecular Mechanisms of Synapse Formation and Synaptic Specificity
2:00 p.m.: Peter Scheiffele, Ph.D., professor, University of Basel
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| Tuesday, May 29, 2012 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Tri-Institutional Seminars at Rockefeller
Tri-Institutional SPARC Diversity in Research Conference
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4:00 p.m. |
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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
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
New Functions for Autophagy during Oncogenesis
Jayanta Debnath, M.D., associate professor, University of California, San Francisco
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7:00 p.m. |
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Other Meetings
Psoriasis support group
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| Wednesday, May 30, 2012 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Chemical Biology Seminar Series
Reprogramming the Genetic Code
10:00 a.m.: Jason Chin, Ph.D., group leader, Medical Research Council
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2:00 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Telomere-driven Tetraploidy and Its Relevance to Cancer
Teresa Davoli, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University
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4:30 p.m. |
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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
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| Thursday, May 31, 2012 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Synergistic Gene-Gene Interactions in Common Complex Diseases
Itsik Peâer, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Columbia University
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
Amyloid Formation by Natively Unfolded Proteins
Daniel P. Raleigh, Ph.D., professor, department of chemistry, State University of New York, Stony Brook
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2:00 p.m. |
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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
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6:00 p.m. |
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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
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| Friday, June 1, 2012 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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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
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3:45 p.m. |
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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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