Browse Events
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| Friday, March 1, 2013 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
The Incredible Diversity of K+ Channels
Inaugural Bruce Merrifield Distinguished Lecture; Ph.D. Recruitment Lecture
Roderick MacKinnon, M.D., John D. Rockefeller Jr. Professor, and head, Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics, The Rockefeller University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Saturday, March 2, 2013 |
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6:00 p.m. |
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Other Special Events
Movie for Kids
"Tangled"
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| Monday, March 4, 2013 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Special Seminar Series
Acromelic Dysplasia and TGFβ Signaling
Valerie Cormier-Daire, M.D., Ph.D., professor of genetics, Paris Descartes University; team leader, INSERM and Fondation Imagine
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| Tuesday, March 5, 2013 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Department and Lab Meetings
Full Genome Sequencing from Single Cells
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogs: Droplets Walking on the Impossible Pilot Wave
John Bush, Ph.D., professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| Wednesday, March 6, 2013 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Seminars in Clinical Research
Studies of a Human Retrotransposon
John V. Moran, Ph.D., Gilbert S. Omenn Collegiate Chair of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Inflammasomes in Health and Disease
Richard A. Flavell, Ph.D., FRS, chairman and Sterling Professor, department of immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine
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| Friday, March 8, 2013 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
The HIV Vaccine Problem
Ph.D. Recruitment Lecture
Michel C. Nussenzweig, M.D., Ph.D., Sherman Fairchild Professor, senior physician, and head, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, The Rockefeller University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Saturday, March 9, 2013 |
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1:00 p.m. |
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Other Seminars
Improving the Dialogue between Scientists and Educators: Implications for the Next Generation Science Standards
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4:00 p.m. |
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Science Outreach
Breakout Session 1: What Will the Next Generation Science Standards Mean for Scientists?
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4:00 p.m. |
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Science Outreach
Breakout Session 3: Teaching Critical Thinking outside the Science Classroom
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4:00 p.m. |
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Science Outreach
Breakout Session 2: Teachers and Principals Update on the Next Generation Science Standards
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| Monday, March 11, 2013 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Special Seminar Series
Genome-wide Identification of Pathogenic Mutations in Patients with Neurological and Developmental Disease
David Goldstein, Ph.D., The Richard and Pat Johnson Distinguished University Professor, department of molecular genetics and microbiology, and director, Center for Human Genome Variation, Duke University
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| Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Fluctuations and Stiffness of Cells
David Weitz, Ph.D., professor, Harvard University
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| Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Consequences of Repeated Asymmetric Cell Divisions: Organelle Deterioration with Age
Daniel E. Gottschling, Ph.D., member, basic sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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| Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
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7:00 p.m. |
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Science and Media Lecture Series
Title TBA
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7:00 p.m. |
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Science and Media Lecture Series
Mental Health in the Public Sphere
SpotOn NYC
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| Friday, March 15, 2013 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
The Regression of Atherosclerosis and its Molecular Regulation: Insights from Novel Mouse Models
Genetics of Lipid Disorders and Atherosclerosis: A Symposium in Honor of Jan Breslow's 70th Birthday
Edward A. Fisher, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., Leon Charney Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, director, Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and director, Marc and Ruti Bell Program in Vascular Biology, New York University School of Medicine
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| Monday, March 18, 2013 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Special Seminar Series
Malaria Infection, Superinfection and Co-infections: From Simple Models to Complex Interactions
Maria Mota, Ph.D., leader, Malaria Unit, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Lisbon
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Telescripting: A New Dimension in mRNA Biogenesis and Oncogenes Regulation
Gideon Dreyfuss, Ph.D., member, basic sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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| Tuesday, March 19, 2013 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
The Evolution of Transcription Factor Binding Sites and Modules
Joshua Plotkin, Ph.D., associate professor, University of Pennsylvania
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| Wednesday, March 20, 2013 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Special Seminar Series
Reciprocal Regulation of Circadian Clock through GSK3ß and O-linked N-acetylglucosaminylation
Louis Ptacek, M.D., director, division of neurogenetics, and John C. Coleman Distinguished Professor in Neurodegenerative Diseases, department of neurology, University of California, San Francisco; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Building Selective Sensors for Gases: Nature's Way
2013 Marks/Sackler Lecture
Michael Marletta, Ph.D., president, CEO and Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Chair in Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute
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| Thursday, March 21, 2013 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Profile Substrates and Inhibitors of Protein Methyltransferases
SKI Scientific Colloquium
Minkui Luo, Ph.D., assistant member, Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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8:00 p.m. |
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Harvey Society
Chaperonin-assisted Protein Folding: Nature Leaves Nothing to Chance
Arthur L. Horwich, M.D., Sterling Professor of Genetics, professor of pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Friday, March 22, 2013 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Transcriptomes and Proteomes at Synapses
Erin Schuman, Ph.D., director, department of synaptic plasticity, and professor, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
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| Tuesday, March 26, 2013 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Science and Media Lecture Series
The Super Secret Formula for Crowdfunding Success
Ethan Perlstein, Ph.D., open scientist, Microryza
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
From mechanobiology to organ engineering
Donald Ingber, Ph.D., Professor, Harvard University
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| Wednesday, March 27, 2013 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Seminars in Clinical Research
Genomics of the Metabolic Syndrome: Lessons Learned from Engaging the Amish Community as a Founder Population
Alan R. Shuldiner, M.D., professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Evolution of Darwin's Finches
Graduate Student Lecture
Peter R. Grant, Ph.D., professor emeritus, department of ecology and evolutionary biology, Princeton University B. Rosemary Grant, Ph.D., professor emerita, department of ecology and evolutionary biology, Princeton University
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| Thursday, March 28, 2013 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
The Regulation of Hepatic Metabolism
Morris Birnbaum, M.D., Ph.D., Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor of Diabetes and Metabolic Disease, associate director, Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
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| Friday, March 29, 2013 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Autism: New Mutations, Genes and Genetic Models
Evan Eichler, Ph.D., professor of genome sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Monday, April 1, 2013 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Special Seminar Series
Non-coding Genome Alterations in Development Anomalies
Stanislas Lyonnet, M.D., Ph.D., professor of genetics, Paris Descartes University Medical School; clinical geneticist, department of medical genetics, Necker Hospital for Sick Children; principal investigator, INSERM, Imagine Foundation
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| Wednesday, April 3, 2013 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Seminars in Clinical Research
Microbial Complex Carbohydrate Metabolism in Colonic Health and Disease
Eric Martens, Ph.D., assistant professor, University of Michigan Medical School
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Title TBA
Grad Fellow, graduate fellow, RU
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4:00 p.m. |
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Special Seminar Series
Genomic Approaches to Cancer
Todd Golub, M.D., chief scientific officer and director, cancer program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Charles A. Dana Investigator in Human Cancer Genetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Operation of the Immune System Using Advanced Imaging Methods
Ronald N. Germain, M.D., Ph.D., NIH Distinguished Investigator, National Institutes of Health
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| Thursday, April 4, 2013 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
Regulation of Actin Dynamics, from Angstroms to Microns
Michael Rosen, Ph.D., chair, department of biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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5:00 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Mike Longo Trio
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7:30 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Mike Longo Jazz Trio
Mike Longo, piano; Paul West, bass; Ray Mosca, drums
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| Friday, April 5, 2013 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
The Molecular Mechanisms of Circadian Rhythm
Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences
Michael Young, Ph.D., vice president for academic affairs, Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor and head, Laboratory of Genetics, The Rockefeller University, Genes Controlling Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Drosophila Jeffery Hall, Ph.D., professor emeritus of biology, Brandeis University, Bio-genetics, of the Chrono-Variety, by the Numbers Michael Rosbash, Ph.D., professor of biology, Brandeis University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Genome-wide Approaches, Chromatin and Circadian Transcriptional Regulation
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