Browse Events
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:
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| Monday, March 3, 2014 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Innate Lymphoid Cells in Mucosal Immunity
Marco Colonna, M.D., Robert Rock Belliveau, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine
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4:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Decoding Non-coding: Using Mouse Models to Explore the World of Non-coding RNAs
Sloan-Kettering Institute Talks
Andrea Ventura, M.D., Ph.D., assistant member, Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute
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| Thursday, March 6, 2014 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Beyond Sensory Bottleneck: Efficient Coding of Elements of Visual Form
Gasper Tkacik, Ph.D., assistant professor, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
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| Friday, March 7, 2014 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Biology Seminars
Forkhead (Fox) Transcription Factors Open a New Dimension in Understanding the Epigenetic Control of Replication Origins in S. cerevisiae
Oscar Aparicio, Ph.D., professor, University of California
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Using Fixed Circuits to Build Flexible Behavior
The Bruce Merrifield Distinguished Lecture; Ph.D. Recruitment Lecture
Cori Bargmann, Ph.D., Torsten N. Wiesel Professor, Head of the Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, The Rockefeller University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Saturday, March 8, 2014 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Meetings
Bari Koral CFC concert
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| Monday, March 10, 2014 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Abdominal-B Neurons Control Drosophila Virgin Female Receptivity
Jennifer Bussell, graduate fellow, Vosshall laboratory, The Rockefeller University
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
A Common Hematopoietic Precursor to ILC1/2/3 Innate-like Lymphocytes
Albert Bendelac, M.D., Ph.D., A.N. Pritzker Professor, department of pathology, The University of Chicago
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| Tuesday, March 11, 2014 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Action at a Distance in the Yeast Nucleus
Jane Kondev, Ph.D., professor, Brandeis University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Novel Mechanisms by which Adipose Cells Regulate Systemic Insulin Sensitivity and Diabetes Risk
Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series
Barbara Kahn, M.D., George R. Minot Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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7:30 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Scharoun Ensemble Berlin
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| Wednesday, March 12, 2014 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
The New Biology of Diabetes
Domenico Accili, M.D., Russell Berrie Foundation Professor of Diabetes and professor of medicine, Columbia University; director, Columbia Diabetes Research Center
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| Monday, March 17, 2014 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Follicular Helper Cells: Step-wise Differentiation
Stephen Hedrick, Ph.D., professor, division of biological sciences, University of California
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4:00 p.m. |
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External Events
Weill Cornell Music and Medicine Concert
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4:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
A Journey of Developing Chemical Probes to Interrogate Protein Methyltransferases
Sloan-Kettering Institute Talks
Minkui Luo, Ph.D., assistant member, molecular pharmacology and chemistry program, Sloan Kettering Institute
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| Tuesday, March 18, 2014 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Bacterial Signal Transduction: An E. coli View of the World
Mark Goulian, Ph.D., professor, department of biology, University of Pennsylvania
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7:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Weill Cornell Music and Medicine Concert
conductor: Yuga Cohler; performing Weber: Overture to Der Freischütz, Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Brahms: Symphony No. 4
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| Wednesday, March 19, 2014 |
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2:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Identification of a MicroRNA Network that Regulates Melanoma Metastasis by Targeting ApoE
Nora Pencheva, graduate fellow, Elizabeth and Vincent Meyer Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology, The Rockefeller University
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3:00 p.m. |
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Science and Media Lecture Series
Making the Web Work for Science
Kaitlin Thaney, director, Mozilla Science Lab, Mozilla Science Lab
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Antiviral Immune Defense at Mucosal Surfaces
Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D., professor of immunobiology, Yale University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Thursday, March 20, 2014 |
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8:00 p.m. |
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Harvey Society
A Neural Tipping Point: MeCP2 and Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Huda Zoghbi, M.D., professor, Baylor College of Medicine; director, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Texas Children's Hospital; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Friday, March 21, 2014 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Biology Seminars
Histone Dynamics and ncRNAs Intersect to Drive Chromosome Fragility
Yamini Dalal, Ph.D., investigator and group director, National Institutes of Health
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1:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Hippo Signaling Pathway: From Developmental Biology to Translational Implications
Duojia Pan, Ph.D., professor, department of molecular biology and genetics, John Hopkins University School of Medicine; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Aire, a Transcriptional Regulator Critical for Immunological Tolerance
The Ernst A.H. Friedheim Memorial Lecture
Diane Mathis, Ph.D., professor, division of immunology, department of microbiology and immunobiology, Harvard Medical School
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| Monday, March 24, 2014 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Lineage Tracing and Cancer Exomes in T Cell Immunity
Ton Schumacher, M.D., Ph.D., senior member, department of immunology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute
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| Tuesday, March 25, 2014 |
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3:30 p.m. |
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Science Outreach
Outreach Talk - Refreshments
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4:00 p.m. |
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Science Outreach
Sharing Data to Reduce Bias, and Measuring Research Impact
Cesar Berrios-Otero, Ph.D., outreach director, Faculty of 1000 Kinga Hosszu, Ph.D., outreach director, Faculty of 1000
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| Wednesday, March 26, 2014 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
The Genomic Landscapes of the Ten Subtypes of Breast Cancer: Biological and Clinical Implications
Carlos Caldas, M.D., professor of cancer medicine and senior group leader, department of oncology, Cambridge Research Institute; director, Cambridge Breast Cancer Research Unit, University of Cambridge
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| Thursday, March 27, 2014 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Molecular Biology Seminars
Epigenetic Inheritance and Epigenetic Alterations in Brain Tumors
Zhiguo Zhang, Ph.D., professor, Mayo Clinic
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Mechanism and Evolutionary Origins of HIV-1 Virion Entrapment by Tetherin
Sid Venkatesh, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Retrovirology, The Rockefeller University
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| Friday, March 28, 2014 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Host-pathogen Interactions: A Biochemist's Perspective
Hidde Ploegh, Ph.D., professor of biology and member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
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| Monday, March 31, 2014 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Regulation of Cell Death and Inflammasome Activation during Bacterial Infection
Igor Brodsky, Ph.D., assistant professor of pathobiology, University of Pennsylvania
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4:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
New Forms of Cell Death Come to Life
SKI Talks
Michael Overholtzer, Ph.D., assistant member, cell biology program, Sloan Kettering Institute
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6:30 p.m. |
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Lewis Thomas Prize
The Doctor as Writer, the Writer as Doctor
Atul Gawande, M.D., M.P.H., professor of surgery, Harvard Medical School
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| Tuesday, April 1, 2014 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Invade, Co-opt and Swap: Evolution of G1/S Cell Cycle Control in Fungi and Other Eukaryotes
Nicolas Buchler, Ph.D., assistant professor, Duke University
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| Wednesday, April 2, 2014 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Drugging the Undruggable: How to Directly Target Mutant KRas
Kevan Shokat, Ph.D., professor and chair, cellular and molecular pharmacology, University of California, Berkeley
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| Thursday, April 3, 2014 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Elucidating the Mechanisms of Blood-Brain Barrier Impairment in Diseases of the Central Nervous System
Dritan Agalliu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of California
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6:00 p.m. |
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Other Seminars
2014 Henry Kunkel Society Meeting: Human Immunology in Health and Disease
Keynote Speaker: Shigekazu Nagata, Ph.D., professor of medicinal chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
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| Friday, April 4, 2014 |
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8:00 a.m. |
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Other Seminars
2014 Henry Kunkel Society Meeting: Human Immunology in Health and Disease
Shigekazu Nagata, Ph.D., professor of medicinal chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
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11:00 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
A Microbial Avenue to Plant Cell-cycle Control
Frej Tulin, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Cell Cycle Genetics, The Rockefeller University
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
The Sensory Neurons of Touch
David Ginty, Ph.D., Edward R. and Anne G. Lefler Professor, department of neurobiology, Harvard Medical School; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Saturday, April 5, 2014 |
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8:00 a.m. |
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Other Seminars
2014 Henry Kunkel Society
Shigekazu Nagata, Ph.D., professor of medicinal chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
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