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| Monday, November 2, 2015 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Seminars
Building a Flagellum on the Bacterial Cell Surface
Gillian Fraser, Ph.D., head of the division of microbiology and parasitology, Senior University Lecturer in Cellular and Molecular Microbiology, Niccoli Fellow in the Natural Sciences, Queens' College, University of Cambridge
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12:00 p.m. |
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Cell Biology Seminars
The Cell Nucleus as a Mechanotransducer of Wound-induced Inflammation
Philipp Niethammer, Ph.D., assistant professor, cell biology program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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| Tuesday, November 3, 2015 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Function in Stress, Disease, and Aging
Emmanuelle Passegué, Ph.D., professor of medicine, division of hematology/oncology, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California, San Francisco
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Biomimetic Emulsions As Models of Cellular Aggregates
Jasna Brujic, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, New York University
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| Thursday, November 5, 2015 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Physics-based Modeling in Drug Discovery
Robert Abel, Ph.D., vice president, scientific development, Schrödinger
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Sugars and Proteins – Towards a Synthetic Biology
Chemical Biology Research Seminar
Ben Davis, D.Phil, professor, department of chemistry, University of Oxford
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2:00 p.m. |
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Cell Biology Seminars
Pinches and Pain: A Tour of Drosophila Tissue Repair
Michael Galko, Ph.D., associate professor, department of genetics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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| Friday, November 6, 2015 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
HSF1: A Shocking Factor in Malignancy
Cancer Biology and Genetics Program Research Seminar Series
Susan Lindquist, Ph.D., member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; professor of biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Monday, November 9, 2015 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
STAT3 is a Central Regulator of Human Lymphocyte Differentiation and Function
Stuart Tangye, Ph.D., head, immunology division, Immunology and Immunodeficiency Laboratory, Garvan Institute of Medical Research
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| Tuesday, November 10, 2015 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Dynamical Encoding of Looming, Receding, and Focussing
Andre Longtin, Ph.D., professor, physics department, University of Ottawa
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| Wednesday, November 11, 2015 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Biomedical Research Foundation Funding
10:15 a.m.: Yung Lie, Ph.D., deputy director and chief scientific officer, Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation 10:45 a.m.: Samantha Hutton, Ph.D., associate director of research programs, Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, https://www.michaeljfox.org/ 11:15 a.m.: Simi Ahmed, Ph.D., senior scientist, immune therapies, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, http://jdrf.org/
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| Thursday, November 12, 2015 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Rapid Adaptation and the Predictability of Evolution
Richard Neher, Ph.D., group leader, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
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| Friday, November 13, 2015 |
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8:30 a.m. |
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Other Special Events
Discovery Toy Sale
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
On Peculiarities of Being a Human: Gene Regulatory Mechanisms in Human Development and Evolution
Joanna Wysocka, Ph.D., professor, department of chemical and systems biology, department of developmental biology, Stanford University
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| Monday, November 16, 2015 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Signaling Pathways of the Innate Immune System
Jonathan Kagan, Ph.D., associate professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
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| Tuesday, November 17, 2015 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Random Representations in Neural Circuits
Larry Abbott, Ph.D., co-director, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
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6:30 p.m. |
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Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
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| Thursday, November 19, 2015 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Emerging Rules for the Design and Deployment of Sequence-specific Genome Targeting Drugs
Aseem Ansari, Ph.D., professor, department of biochemistry and The Genome Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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2:00 p.m. |
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Cell Biology Seminars
Kinase Chemical Genetics and Cancer Drug Discovery
Arvin Dar, Ph.D., assistant professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Neural Circuit Discovery Through Large-scale Imaging in Behaving Zebrafish
Misha Ahrens, Ph.D., Group Leader, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus
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8:00 p.m. |
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Harvey Society
LGR5 Stem Cells in Self-renewal and Cancer
Hans Clevers, M.D., Ph.D., professor, molecular genetics, Hubrecht Institute
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| Friday, November 20, 2015 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Cancer Cell Signaling and Metabolism
John Blenis, Ph.D., Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Professor in Cancer Research, Weill Cornell Medical College
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Nucleation and Spreading of Chromatin Domains in Epigenetic Models and in Cancer
Mitzi Kuroda, Ph.D., professor of medicine, departments of genetics and medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
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| Monday, November 30, 2015 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Necrosis-inducing Toxin of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
Michael Niederweis, Ph.D., professor, department of microbiology, University of Alabama
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| Tuesday, December 1, 2015 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Neural Dynamics of Cognitive Flexibility
Timothy Buschman, Ph.D., assistant professor, Princeton Neuroscience Institute and department of psychology, Princeton University
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| Thursday, December 3, 2015 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
Rethinking the Role of Adipose Tissue Macrophages in Obesity
Lev Becker, Ph.D., assistant professor, Ben May Department for Cancer Research, The University of Chicago
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1:30 p.m. |
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Cell Biology Seminars
ER-Mitochondrial Signaling in Cell Survival and Cell Death
Gyorgy Hajnoczky, M.D., Ph.D., professor, department of pathology and cell biology, Thomas Jefferson University
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3:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
C. elegans as a Model for Complex Trait Genetics
Matt Rockman, Ph.D., associate professor of biology, New York University
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| Friday, December 4, 2015 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Seminars
Evaluating Human Genetic (and Epigenetic) Adaption to Pathogen Pressures
Lluis Quintana-Murci, Ph.D., head, Laboratory of Human Evolutionary Genetics, Institut Pasteur
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Strategies and Circuits for Skilled Movement
Thomas Jessell, Ph.D., Claire Tow Professor, department of neuroscience, department of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, Columbia University Medical Center; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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