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| Tuesday, January 6, 2015 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Seminars
The Drosophila Antimicrobial Response at the Time of the Cas9/CRISPR GeneTargeting Revolution
Bruno Lamaitre, Ph.D., professor and head of laboratory, Global Health Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne, Switzerland
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| Friday, January 9, 2015 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Probing the Role of the Long Non-coding RNA Malat1 in Breast Cancer Progression
David Spector, Ph.D., professor and director of research, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Therapy of Lymphoma Inspired by Functional and Structural Genomics
Louis M. Staudt, M.D., Ph.D., director, center for cancer genomics and co-chief, lymphoid malignancies branch and head, molecular biology of lymphoid malignancies section, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health
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| Saturday, January 10, 2015 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Talking Science
Making Sense of the Senses: A Census of Senses, and How Hearing Happens
An annual event for high school students and teachers
10:30 a.m.: Vanessa Ruta, Ph.D., Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Assistant Professor, laboratory of neurophysiology and behavior, The Rockefeller University, Welcoming Remarks 10:50 a.m.: A. James Hudspeth, M.D., Ph.D., F.M. Kirby Professor and head, laboratory of sensory neuroscience, The Rockefeller University
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| Tuesday, January 13, 2015 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Activity-based Profiling: New Insights into Metabolic Homeostasis
Keith Tan, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, The Rockefeller University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Cell Size Control
Jan Skotheim, Ph.D., assistant professor, Stanford University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Looking Beneath the Surface to Determine What Makes DNA Damage Deleterious
Marc Greenberg, Ph.D., professor, department of chemistry, Johns Hopkins University
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| Wednesday, January 14, 2015 |
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3:00 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Russell Thomas, tenor
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7:30 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Russell Thomas, tenor
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| Thursday, January 15, 2015 |
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6:15 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Hereditary Cancer — Should You Consider Genetic Testing?
Patient Education Seminar
Ann Carlson, M.S., genetic counselor, Weill Cornell Medical College
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| Friday, January 16, 2015 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
The Impact of Bone on Whole-organism Physiology
Gerard Karsenty, M.D., Ph.D., Paul A. Marks Professor and chair, department of genetics and development, Columbia University Medical Center
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| Tuesday, January 20, 2015 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Sloppy Models, Differential Geometry, and How Science Works
James Sethna, Ph.D., professor, department of physics, Cornell University
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| Wednesday, January 21, 2015 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Systematic Approaches to Study Metabolic Plasticity of Cancer Cells
Kivanc Birsoy, Ph.D., Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
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| Thursday, January 22, 2015 |
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6:15 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Risk Factors, Prevention and Treatment of Venous Blood Clots
Patient Education Seminar
Maria deSancho, M.D., service chief of the benign hematology service, division of hematology and medical oncology, Weill Cornell Medical College
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8:00 p.m. |
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Harvey Society
From the Cradle to the Grave: My Life in Science Watching Proteins Being Made, Folded and Degraded
Jonathan Weissman, Ph.D., professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Friday, January 23, 2015 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Robustness, Variability, and Neuromodulation in Neurons and Networks
Eve Marder, Ph.D., Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience, department of biology, Volen National Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University
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| Monday, January 26, 2015 |
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3:30 p.m. |
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Other Classes and Training
3D Modeling for 3D Printing
By the Precision Fabrication Facility
Kunal Shah, B.S., instrumentation engineer, The Rockefeller University
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| Tuesday, January 27, 2015 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Drugging the Undruggable: Therapeutic Potential of Targeting Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases
Zhong-Yin Zhang, Ph.D., Robert A. Harris Professor and chairman, department of biochemistry and molecular biology, Indiana University School of Medicine
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| Thursday, January 29, 2015 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Studies on the Maturation of Secreted Quorum Sensing Peptides that Regulate S. aureus Virulence
Jeffrey Johnson, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Pressure in Non-equilibrium (Active) Systems
Yariv Kafri, Ph.D., associate professor, physics department, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
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| Friday, January 30, 2015 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Altruism, Cheating, and Mutualism in Social Amoebas: Evolution and Mechanisms
The Fairfield Osborn Memorial Lecture
David C. Queller, Ph.D., Spencer T. Olin Professor, Washington University in St. Louis Joan E. Strassman, Ph.D., Charles Rebstock Professor of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis
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