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Tri-Institutional Calendars

The close proximity among the three institutions which comprise the Tri-I has led to a culture that encourages interinstitutional interactions and shared resources, including access to lectures and seminars from internationally renowned scientists and clinicians:







 Tuesday, October 1, 2013
7:30 p.m.   The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Pacifica Quartet
Violins, viola, cello
 Wednesday, October 2, 2013
4:30 p.m.   MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Clinical Implications of the Cancer Stem Cell Hypothesis

Max Wicha, M.D., distinguished professor of oncology, University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center

 Thursday, October 3, 2013
12:00 p.m.   Science Outreach
Planning for a Fulfilling Career: A Primer for Science Ph.D.'s

Thomas Magaldi, Ph.D., director of science alliance, New York Academy of Science

4:00 p.m.   Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
The Maps Inside Your Head: How the Brain Represents Sensory and Cognitive Spaces

Vijay Balasubramanian, Ph.D., Cathy and Marc Lasry Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania

 Friday, October 4, 2013
3:45 p.m.   Friday Lecture Series
Spindle or Envelope: Building Right on Chromosomes in Mitosis

Hironori Funabiki, Ph.D., associate professor, Laboratory of Chromosome and Cell Biology, The Rockefeller University

 Monday, October 7, 2013
3:00 p.m.   Other Seminars
Giant Viruses: Discovery, Unique Features and Significance

Jean-Michel Claverie, Dr.Sc., professor, Mediterranean Institute of Microbiology /Aix-Marseille University School of Medicine

5:00 p.m.   Other Seminars
Exposure of Phosphatidylserine and Engulfment of Apoptotic Cells

5:00 p.m.: Shigekazu Nagata, Ph.D., Professor, Kyoto University, Exposure of Phosphatidylserine and Engulfment of Apoptotic Cells

 Tuesday, October 8, 2013
3:00 p.m.   Other Seminars
Practical and Theoretical Medicine and Pharmacology in Medieval Eastern Societies: The Case of Cairo Genizah

Efraim Lev, Ph.D., Professor, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Practical and theoretical medicine and pharmacology in medievel eastern societies: The case of Cairo Genizah

 Wednesday, October 9, 2013
4:30 p.m.   MSKCC President's Research Seminar
How Bacteria and Cancer Cells Regulate Mutagenesis and Their Ability to Evolve

Susan M. Rosenberg, Ph.D., Ben F. Love chair in Cancer Research, Baylor College of Medicine

6:00 p.m.   Other Meetings
National Eczema Association Town Hall: New Therapeutic Developments for Eczema
 Thursday, October 10, 2013
2:45 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
The Structural and Biochemical Characterization of a Salmonella Host Specificity Determinant

Amanda Kohler, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Structural Microbiology, The Rockefeller University

 Friday, October 11, 2013
3:45 p.m.   Friday Lecture Series
Manipulating Quorum Sensing to Control Bacterial Pathogenesis

Bonnie Bassler, Ph.D., Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology and director, Council on Science and Technology, Princeton University

 Sunday, October 13, 2013
7:00 p.m.   Science and Media Lecture Series
Title TBA
 Monday, October 14, 2013
4:00 p.m.   Insight Lecture Series
Daniel Huttenlocher
6:00 p.m.   Insight Lecture Series
Daniel Huttenlocher
 Tuesday, October 15, 2013
4:00 p.m.   Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Dislocation-mediated Elongation of Bacteria

David Nelson, Ph.D., Arthur K. Solomon Professor of Biophysics and professor of physics and applied physics, Harvard University

 Wednesday, October 16, 2013
6:00 p.m.   Science and Media Lecture Series
IMAGINE Science Film Festival
6:00 p.m.   Science and Media Lecture Series
IMAGINE Science Film Festival
 Thursday, October 17, 2013
4:00 p.m.   Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Phase-locking and Multiple Attractors for the Coupled Mammalian Clock and Cell Cycle

David Rand, Ph.D., professor of mathematics and director, Warwick Systems Biology Centre, University of Warwick

 Friday, October 18, 2013
3:45 p.m.   Friday Lecture Series
Reprogramming Cell Identity
Maclyn McCarty Memorial Lecture

George Q. Daley, M.D., Ph.D., Samuel E. Lux, IV Professor of Hematology and director, Stem Cell Transplantation Program, Boston Children's Hospital; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

 Tuesday, October 22, 2013
10:00 a.m.   Academic Symposia
Joshua Lederberg - John von Neumann Symposium: Towards Quantitative Biology
Hosted by The Rockefeller University and The Simons Center for Systems Biology, Institute for Advanced Study

Freeman J. Dyson, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, "Is Life Analog or Digital?"

Michael P. Brenner, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology, Harvard University, "The Shape of Bird Beaks"

Naama Brenner, department of chemical engineering, The Lorry I. Lokey Interdisciplinary Center for Life Sciences and Engineering, Laboratory of Network Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, "Universality of Scaling in Biological Fluctuations"

Leonid Mirny, Harvard-MIT, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Genome Folding Problem"

L. Mahadevan, department of organismic and evolutionary biology and department of physics, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, "On Growth and Form: Problems and Prospects"

 Wednesday, October 23, 2013
4:30 p.m.   MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Inflammation, Dysbiosis and Cancer

Richard A. Flavell, Ph.D., Sterling Professor and chairman, Yale University School of Medicine

 Thursday, October 24, 2013
2:00 p.m.   Other Seminars
Chromosome Biology Seminar
Chromatin Structure and Dynamics in Living Mammalian Cells

Kazuhiro Maeshima, Ph.D., professor, National Institute of Genetics

7:30 p.m.   The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Alexander Kobrin, Piano
 Friday, October 25, 2013
3:45 p.m.   Friday Lecture Series
Molecular Mechanisms for the Health-promoting Effects of Exercise: Why Muscle Matters!
Nicholson Lecture

Juleen R. Zierath, Ph.D., professor of physiology, department of molecular medicine and surgery, Section for Integrative Physiology, Karolinska Institutet; professor of integrative physiology and scientific director, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Copenhagen University

 Monday, October 28, 2013
6:30 p.m.   Lewis Thomas Prize
Singing the Body Electric

Frances Ashcroft, Ph.D., Royal Society Research Professor, department of physiology, anatomy and genetics, University of Oxford

 Tuesday, October 29, 2013
4:00 p.m.   Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Life and Death in a Petersham Cemetery: Dispersal and the Potential Immortality of Filamentous Fungi

Anne Pringle, Ph.D., associate professor, Harvard University

 Wednesday, October 30, 2013
4:30 p.m.   MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Long-Term Outcomes Among Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer

Leslie L. Robison, Ph.D., chair, department of epidemiology and cancer control, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

 Friday, November 1, 2013
1:30 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
Split Inteins: From Mechanistic Studies to Novel Protein Engineering Technologies

Neel Shah, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

3:45 p.m.   Friday Lecture Series
Normal and Neoplastic Stem Cells
The Philip Levine Memorial Lecture

Irving Weissman, M.D., director, Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine; V&D Ludwig Professor of Clinical Cancer Research; and professor, departments of developmental biology, pathology and neurosurgery and biology, Stanford University School of Medicine





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