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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| 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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| Monday, April 7, 2014 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Symphony of the Ninth: Th9-dependent Orchestration of Allergic Inflammation
Mark Kaplan, Ph.D., professor and director, pediatric pulmonary basic research, Indiana University School of Medicine
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| Tuesday, April 8, 2014 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Long-term Immune Consequences of Gastrointestinal Infection
Timothy Hand, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
New Methods for Learning Dynamic Regulatory Network Models with Priors on Network Structure: What Works in B. subtilis Works in Mouse (?)
Richard Bonneau, Ph.D., associate professor, biology and computer science, New York University
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| Wednesday, April 9, 2014 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Matching Motivation to Behavior with Wireless Circuits in C. elegans
2014 Marks Sackler Lecture
Cornelia Bargmann, Ph.D., Torsten N. Wiesel Professor, The Rockefeller University
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| Monday, April 14, 2014 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Cancer Immunotherapies Based on Overcoming Resistance Mechanisms in the Tumor Microenvironment
Thomas Gajewski, M.D., Ph.D., professor, department of pathology, University of Chicago
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| Tuesday, April 15, 2014 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend: Enlisting the Novel Bacteriophage Lysin PlySs2 to Kill Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria
Daniel Gilmer, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology, The Rockefeller University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Inferred Model of the Prefrontal Cortex Activity Unveils Task-related Cell Assemblies and Memory Replay
Remi Monasson, Ph.D., professor, statistical and theoretical physics, Ecole Normale Superieure
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
(Some) Laws that Govern Macrophages' Physiological Functions Within Tissues
Frederic Geissman, M.D., Ph.D., professor and AR UK Chair of Inflammation Biology, King's College London
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| Wednesday, April 16, 2014 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
A Symposium on Public Access to Scholarly Research
Moderated by Peter Berkery, J.D., executive director, Association of American University Presses
Frederick Dylla, Ph.D., president, American Institute of Physics Michael Tanner, Ph.D., vice president and chief academic officer, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities Linda J. Miller, Ph.D., editor in chief, The Rockefeller University Press John Inglis, Ph.D., executive director, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Carol Feltes, university librarian, The Rockefeller University Donna Gibson, director, library services, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Genomics of Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma
Riccardo Dalla-Favera, M.D., Uris Professor and director, Institute for Cancer Genetics, Columbia University
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| Thursday, April 17, 2014 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Genome-wide Characterization of the Effects of Activation-induced Cytidine Deaminase in B Cells
Eric Fritz, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Lymphocyte Biology, The Rockefeller University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Functional Connection between Genome Instability and Malignant Growth in a Drosophila Cancer Model
Cayetano Gonzalez, Ph.D., ICREA Research Professor, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
A Statistical Physics Perspective of Control Theory
Bert Kappen, Ph.D., professor, Radboud University
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8:00 p.m. |
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Harvey Society
Biological Time Travels: A Circadian Rhythm Story
Michael Rosbash, Ph.D., professor of biology, Peter Gruber Endowed Chair in Neuroscience, Brandeis University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Friday, April 18, 2014 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Forces Generated by Cell Intercalation Tow Epidermal Sheets in Mammalian Tissue Morphogenesis
Evan Heller, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, The Rockefeller University
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12:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Biology Seminars
Sensing and Signaling DNA Damage by the Checkpoint Pathways
Lee Zou, Ph.D., professor, department of pathology, Harvard Medical School
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Fishing for the Secrets of Vertebrate Evolution
The Fairfield Osborn Memorial Lecture
David Kingsley, Ph.D., professor, developmental biology, Stanford University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Monday, April 21, 2014 |
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1:00 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Causes and Consequences of Genetic Robustness and Fragility in HIV-1 Proteins
Suzannah Rihn, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University
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5:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Diversity and Design: New Chemical Probes for Biology and Medicine
Sloan Kettering Institute Talks
Derek Tan, Ph.D., member, Molecular Pharmacology & Chemistry Program, Sloan Kettering Institute
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| Wednesday, April 23, 2014 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Can Aneuploidy be Targeted by Anti-cancer Therapeutics?
Tak Mak, Ph.D., professor, departments of medical biophysics and immunology, University of Toronto
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| Thursday, April 24, 2014 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Chaperones for RuBisCO, the Most Abundant Protein
Manajit Hayer-Hartl, Ph.D., research group leader, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
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| Friday, April 25, 2014 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Reinventing Human Immunology
Mark M. Davis, Ph.D., The Burt and Marion Avery Family Professor of Immunology; director, Stanford Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection; member, Bio-X, Child Health Research Institute and Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University
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| Monday, April 28, 2014 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
From Multipotency to T-cell Lineage Commitment: Mechanism of a Stem Cell Fate Decision
Ellen Rothenberg, Ph.D., Albert Billings Ruddock Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology
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| Tuesday, April 29, 2014 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Self-Replication, Exponential Growth and Evolutionary Selection of Artificial Systems
Paul Chaikin, Ph.D., professor of physics, New York University
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7:30 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Lise de la Salle, piano
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| Wednesday, April 30, 2014 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Modeling Familial Cancer with iPS Cells
Ihor R. Lemischka, Ph.D., director, The Black Family Stem Cell Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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| Thursday, May 1, 2014 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Niche Games: The Marriage of Niche and Game Theories
Hugo Fort, Ph.D., professor, Institute of Physics, University of the Republic, Uruguay
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
A Genetic Suppressor Screen in Mice Reveals that Lipid Metabolism is a Therapeutic Target for Rett Syndrome
Monica Justice, Ph.D., program head and senior scientist, Hospital for Sick Children
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| Friday, May 2, 2014 |
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2:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Charting the Vasculome: High Resolution Maps of the Vasculature of Entire Organs
Jacob Oppenheim, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Mathematical Physics, The Rockefeller University
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Multicopy Genes Encoding Functional RNAs and Their Role in the CNS
Susan L. Ackerman, Ph.D., professor, The Jackson Laboratory; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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