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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| Friday, May 1, 2015 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Prospects for Riboswitch and Ribozyme Discovery
Ronald Breaker, Ph.D., Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Monday, May 4, 2015 |
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2:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Functional Dissection of Brainstem Circuitry
Alexander Nectow, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, The Rockefeller University
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| Tuesday, May 5, 2015 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Exploring the Origin of Multicellularity through Experimental Evolution
William Ratcliff, Ph.D., assistant professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
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4:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Cysteine-mediated Redox Signaling: Chemical Tools for Biology Discovery and Beyond
Kate Carroll, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute Florida
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| Wednesday, May 6, 2015 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Neutrophils in Cancer: When Yin Becomes Yang
Cancer Biology and Genetics Guest Seminar
Zvika Granot, Ph.D., senior lecturer, developmental biology and cancer research department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
New Insights into the Early Events in Breast Cancer Metastases and Their Niches
Zena Werb, Ph.D., professor and vicechair, department of anatomy, University of California, San Francisco
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| Thursday, May 7, 2015 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Cell Biology Seminars
Heal the Worm: Mechanisms of Cellular Repair in C. elegans
Andrew Chisholm, Ph.D., professor, division of biological sciences, University of California, San Diego
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| Friday, May 8, 2015 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
The Origin of Specificity in Regulated Protein Degradation
Marc W. Kirschner, Ph.D., John Franklin Enders University Professor; chair, department of systems biology, Harvard Medical School
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| Monday, May 11, 2015 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
A Wntry Demise: Regulatory Architecture of a Non-apoptotic Cell Death Program in C. elegans
Maxime Kinet, biomedical fellow, Laboratory of Developmental Genetics, The Rockefeller University
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| Wednesday, May 13, 2015 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Follicular Lymphoma: Immunogenetics Ahead of Disease
The Andrew I. Schafer Endowed Lecture
Bertrand Nadel, Ph.D., group leader, Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy
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5:00 p.m. |
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Other Meetings
NYC Eczema Association Meeting
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| Thursday, May 14, 2015 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Multi-stimulus Scene Representations in the Macaque Face-processing System
Ana Hocevar, Ph.D., physics fellow, Center for Theoretical Studies, The Rockefeller University
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| Friday, May 15, 2015 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
UV, Cutaneous Signaling, and Melanoma Pathogenesis
David Fisher, M.D., Ph.D., chairman, department of dermatology; director, Cutaneous Biology Research Center; director, melanoma program, MGH Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
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| Tuesday, May 19, 2015 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Neural Codes for 2-D and 3-D Space in the Hippocampal Formation of Bats
Nachum Ulanovsky, Ph.D., professor, department of neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science
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| Thursday, May 21, 2015 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Cell Biology Seminars
Signaling Pathways Controlling Circadian Retinal Clearance Phagocytosis
Silvia Finnemann, Ph.D., associate professor, department of biological sciences, Fordham University
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8:00 p.m. |
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Harvey Society
Imaging Life at High Spatiotemporal Resolution
Eric Betzig, Ph.D., group leader, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Friday, May 22, 2015 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Adoptive Cell Therapy with Engineered T Cells
Carl H. June, M.D., Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy, department of pathology and laboratory medicine; director, translational research program, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
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| Wednesday, May 27, 2015 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Cell Biology Seminars
Innate Immune Sensing of Cytosolic Bacteria and Bacterial Virulence
Cell Biology Guest Seminar
Feng Shao, Ph.D., professor, investigator, and deputy director, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, China
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| Friday, May 29, 2015 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Therapeutic Potential of Epigenetic Modulators in Colorectal Cancer
Catherine O'Brien, M.D., Ph.D., scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network, Toronto
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Small Game Hunting
W. Ian Lipkin, M.D., John Snow Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, professor of neurology and pathology, college of physicians and surgeons; director, center for infection and immunity, Columbia University
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| Tuesday, June 2, 2015 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Genetic Dissection of Neural Circuits Underlying Value-based Decision Making
Hirofumi Nakayama, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University
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| Thursday, June 4, 2015 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Cell Biology Seminars
Outside Coding Genome, MicroRNAs Make a Big Difference
Lin He, Ph.D., assistant professor of cell and developmental biology, University of California, Berkeley
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2:00 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Mining Natural Products from Uncultured Bacteria: Functional Screening of Soil Metagenomic Libraries for Antibacterial and Colored Compounds
Hala Iqbal, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules, The Rockefeller University
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3:30 p.m. |
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Club Meetings
Tri-I Bacterial Club
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| Friday, June 5, 2015 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Cultivating the Seeds of Metastases: The Role of an Extracellular Reaction in Metastasis Formation
Jia Min Loo, graduate fellow, Elizabeth and Vincent Meyer Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology, The Rockefeller University
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Transcription Factors and Genomic Architecture
The Cancer Biology Lecture
Frank Grosveld, Ph.D., professor and head, department of cell biology; chair, research school, Medical Genetics Center Southwest Netherlands, Erasmus University Medical Center
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