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 2, 2015 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Transcriptional and Epigenetic Regulation of the Tumor Microenvironment
Mara Sherman, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher, Gene Expression Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
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| Friday, March 6, 2015 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Infectious Diseases of Childhood: Inborn Errors of Immunity?
Ph.D. Recruitment Lecture
Jean-Laurent Casanova, M.D., Ph.D., senior attending physician, professor and head, St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, The Rockefeller University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Monday, March 9, 2015 |
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5:00 p.m. |
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Science Outreach
Educator PD w MfA
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| Wednesday, March 11, 2015 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Development of Novel Chemical Biology Tools for Probing Structure-Function Relationship in G Protein Coupled Receptors
He Tian, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Signal Transduction, The Rockefeller University
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| Thursday, March 12, 2015 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Cell Biology Seminars
Building a Face, One Ubiquitin at a Time
Michael Rape, Ph.D., professor, Dr. K. Peter Hirth Chair in Cancer Biology, University of California, Berkeley; investigator, Howard Hughed Medical Institute
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Neural Circuits Underlying Operant Learning in Larval Zebrafish
Florian Engert, Ph.D., professor of molecular and cellular biology, Harvard University
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| Friday, March 13, 2015 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Synthesis of Designer Chromosomes from Scratch
The Detlev W. Bronk Alumni Lecture
Jef Boeke, Ph.D., professor, department of biochemistry and molecular pharmacology, director, institute for systems genetics, New York University
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| Monday, March 16, 2015 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Investigating Mechanisms of Telomere End-protection
Shaheen Kabir, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics, The Rockefeller University
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| Tuesday, March 17, 2015 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Seminars
Commitment in Social Life, Sex, and Symbiosis
Jacobus (Koos) Boomsma, Ph.D., director, Centre for Social Evolution and professor, department of biology, University of Copenhagen
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Programmable On-chip DNA Compartments as 'Artificial Cells'
Roy Bar-Ziv, Ph.D., professor, department of materials and interfaces, Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for Nanoscale Science, Weizmann Institute of Science
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| Wednesday, March 18, 2015 |
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9:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The World of Private Foundations
9:00 a.m.: Bob Lowman, Ph.D., associate vice chancellor for research (retired), The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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| Thursday, March 19, 2015 |
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8:00 p.m. |
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Harvey Society
Genetic Disorders of Dietary Excess: Getting to the Heart of the Matter
Helen H. Hobbs, M.D., chief, division of medical genetics, director, McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development, and professor, departments of internal medicine and molecular genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Friday, March 20, 2015 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Unraveling Therapy Response and Resistance in Mouse Models of Human Breast Cancer
Jos Jonkers, Ph.D., head, division of molecular pathology, Netherlands Cancer Institute
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| Monday, March 23, 2015 |
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5:00 p.m. |
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Science Outreach
Educator PD w MfA
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| Tuesday, March 24, 2015 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Cancer Cell Migration in 3D
Denis Wirtz, Ph.D., professor and vice provost for research, Johns Hopkins University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Exploring Chemoselectivity through Natural Product Total Synthesis
Scott Snyder, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry, The Scripps Institute
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| Thursday, March 26, 2015 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Cell Biology Seminars
Mechano-transduction at Cell-Cell Contacts: Mechanisms and Consequences
W. James Nelson, Ph.D., prinicpal investigator, molecular and cellular physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Whole-brain Neural Dynamics and Behavior in Freely Moving Nematodes
Andrew Leifer, Ph.D., principal investigator, Princeton University
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| Friday, March 27, 2015 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
‘Houdini’ Proteins: Discovery and Applications of Ultrafast Inteins
The William H. Stein Memorial Lecture
Tom Muir, Ph.D., Van Zandt Williams Jr. Class of 65 Professor of Chemistry, chair, department of chemistry, Princeton University
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| Monday, March 30, 2015 |
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11:30 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Mechanical Loads Dictate the Diverse Mechanosensory Roles of Hair Bundles
Joshua Salvi, biomedical fellow, Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Why Mosquitoes Bite Some People More than Others: Metabolic Correlates of Human Attraction in Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes
Lindsay Bellani, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University
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6:00 p.m. |
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Lewis Thomas Prize
A Conversation About the Joy of Math, the Pursuit of the Unknown, and Other Topics Inspired by the Curiosities of Everyday Life, with Alan Alda
Ian Stewart, Ph.D., F.R.S., emeritus professor of mathematics, The University of Warwick Steven Strogatz, Ph.D., Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, Cornell University
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| Wednesday, April 1, 2015 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Science Outreach
Title TBA
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| Thursday, April 2, 2015 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Biased Agonism and Structure-based Inhibition of Chemokine Activity
Brian Volkman, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin
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3:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Mechanisms of Olfactory Plasticity in Caenorhabditis elegans
Christine Cho, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, The Rockefeller University
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| Friday, April 3, 2015 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
From Disease in a Petri Dish to Clinical Trial: A New Type of Candidate for Stem Cell Studies of ALS
Kevin Eggan, Ph.D., professor, department of stem cell and regenerative biology, Harvard University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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