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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| 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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| Monday, May 5, 2014 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Identification of a Functional Hotspot on Ubiquitin Required for Stimulation of Methyltransferase Activity on Chromatin
Matthew Holt, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Synthetic Protein Chemistry, The Rockefeller University
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Regulation of Dendritic Cell Development and Function
Boris Reizis, Ph.D., associate professor, microbiology and immunology, Columbia University
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| Tuesday, May 6, 2014 |
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3:30 p.m. |
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Science Outreach
LAB Talks - Refreshments
Data Science
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Spatially Orchestrated Enzyme Kinetics in Multi-enzyme Complexes
Urlich Gerland, Ph.D., professor, statistical and biological physics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
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4:00 p.m. |
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Science Outreach
Research Scientists and the Data Deluge
Heather King, Ph.D., senior science communication specialist, MDB, Inc. Victor Khangulov, Ph.D., consultant, Boston Strategic Partners, Inc. Kathy Copic, Ph.D., director of growth, Insight Data Science Pablo Meyer, Ph.D., research staff member and team leader, IBM Computational Biology Center
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| Thursday, May 8, 2014 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Stem Cell Systems for Studying Self-organized Developmental Patterning
Aryeh Warmflash, Ph.D., postdoctoral associate, Laboratory of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, The Rockefeller University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Dynamic Chromatin During Pluripotency and Organogenesis
Susan Mango, Ph.D., professor, Harvard University
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| Friday, May 9, 2014 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Seven Transmembrane Receptors
The Jerry A. Weisbach Memorial Lecture
Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D., James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and professor of biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Monday, May 12, 2014 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Cytokine Networks in Allergic Immunity
Richard Locksley, M.D., Sandler Distinguished Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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6:30 p.m. |
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Other Seminars
The Human Genome: New Opportunities for Contraceptive Research?
Sheldon Segal Lecture Series
Alan Guttmacher, M.D., director, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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| Wednesday, May 14, 2014 |
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9:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
2014 Memorial Sloan Kettering Convocation Symposium
2014 C. Chester Stock Award Lecture and 2014 Katharine Berkan Judd Award Lecture
9:00 a.m.: Craig Thompson, M.D., president and CEO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 9:15 a.m.: Joseph Schlessinger, M.D., Ph.D., William H. Prusoff Professor and chairman, department of pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, Cellular Signaling by Receptor Tyrosine Kinases: From Mechanism of Action to Cancer Therapy, http://schlessinger.yalemedicine.org/ 10:30 a.m.: Brigid Hogan, Ph.D., George Barth Geller Professor and chair, department of cell biology, Duke University Medical Center, The Life of Breath: Stem Cells of the Adult Lung, http://www.cellbio.duke.edu/brigid-l-m-hogan/
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| Thursday, May 15, 2014 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Advancing Diversity and Inclusion in the Translational Research Workforce
2014 Annual Successful and Productive Academic Research Careers (SPARC) Conference
Raja Flores, M.D., Ann Ames Professor in Thoracic Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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2:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Flight-crash Events and Irreversibility of Turbulence
Gregory Falkovich, Ph.D., professor, department of physics of complex systems, Weizmann Institute
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Neural Networks Controlling Innate Behavior
Michael Nitabach, Ph.D., J.D., associate professor, cellular and molecular physiology and genetics, Yale University School of Medicine
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8:00 p.m. |
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Harvey Society
Host Defense Strategies
Ruslan M. Medzhitov, Ph.D., David W. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Friday, May 16, 2014 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Epigenetic and Genetic Programing of Drosophila Development
The Norton Zinder Lecture
Allan C. Spradling, Ph.D., principal investigator and director, department of embryology, Carnegie Institution for Science; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Monday, May 19, 2014 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Molecular Axes of Epithelial T Cell Interactions at Steady State and Under Stress
Adrian Hayday, Ph.D., Kay Glendinning Professor of Immunobiology, King's College London School of Medicine
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4:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Insights to RNA Processing and Decay by the Eukaryotic RNA Exosome
Sloan Kettering Institute Talks
Christopher Lima, Ph.D., member, structural biology program, Sloan Kettering Institute
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| Tuesday, May 20, 2014 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Crawling and Sidewinding on Sand
Daniel Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor, school of physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
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| Wednesday, May 21, 2014 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Cancer Stem Cells: Reprogramming, Dedifferentiation and Trans-differentiation
Inder Verma, Ph.D., Irwin and Joan Jacobs Chair in Exemplary Life Science, The Salk Institute
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| Thursday, May 22, 2014 |
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3:00 p.m. |
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Science and Media Lecture Series
Science & The City
Tamara Johnson, Ph.D., science podcaster, The New York Academy of Sciences
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| Friday, May 23, 2014 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
What Cancer Is Teaching Us about Cellular Metabolism
The Jane Darnell Memorial Lecture in Cancer Biology
Craig B. Thompson, M.D., president and CEO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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| Tuesday, May 27, 2014 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Mechanism of ING4 as a Transcriptional Cofactor of p53
Jabez Bok, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Hydrodynamics and Collective Behavior of Tethered Microbes
Alexander Petroff, Ph.D., physics fellow, The Rockefeller University
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| Wednesday, May 28, 2014 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Histone Methylation and Hox Gene Expression in Normal and Malignant Hematopoiesis
Sloan Kettering Institute Talks
Scott Armstrong, M.D., Ph.D., member, human oncology and pathogenesis program, Sloan Kettering Institute
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| Friday, May 30, 2014 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Birdsong in Motor Coordinates
Gabriel B. Mindlin, Ph.D., associate professor, University of Buenos Aires
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12:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Biology Seminars
The Messenger's Tale: Decoding the 3'UTR
Andrew Grimson, Ph.D., assistant professor, molecular biology and genetics, Cornell University
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Regulation of Proteasome Activity by Ubiquitin Chain Editing
Daniel Finley, Ph.D., professor, department of cell biology, Harvard Medical School
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