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, January 6, 2017 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
The Human Fetal Globin Switch: A Paradigm for Disease-related Common Genetic Variation in Regulatory Elements
The Maclyn McCarty Memorial Lecture
Stuart Orkin, M.D., David G. Nathan Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Monday, January 9, 2017 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Biological Assembly of Macromolecular Machines: Insights into Ribosome Biogenesis
Faculty Recruitment Seminar
Joseph Davis, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, The Scripps Research Institute
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| Tuesday, January 10, 2017 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Epigenetic Mechanisms of Chromatin and Transcription Control
Brian Strahl, Ph.D., professor and vice-chair, department of biochemistry and biophysics, University of North Carolina
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| Friday, January 13, 2017 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
The RNA Exosome–Ribosome Connection: Coupling the RNA Degradation and Translation Machineries
The Bruce Merrifield Distinguished Lecture
Elena Conti, Ph.D., Honorary Professor, Ludwig Maximilian University; director and scientific member, department of structural cell biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
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| Monday, January 16, 2017 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Cell Biology Seminars
The Other Code: Ubiquitin and Its Role in Neurodegeneration
Michael Rape, Ph.D., professor and Dr. K. Peter Hirth Chair in Cancer Biology, department of molecular and cell biology, University of California, Berkeley; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Tuesday, January 17, 2017 |
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1:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Cardiovascular Research Institute Special Seminar
Jorg Grandl, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Duke University, “Mechanisms of Mechanotransduction by Piezo Ion Channels”
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Revisiting and Repurposing the Double Helix
Taekjip Ha, Ph.D., Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Single-molecule Spectroscopy of Unfolded and Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
Ben Schuler, Ph.D., professor and head, department of biochemistry, affiliated member, department of physics, University of Zurich
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| Wednesday, January 18, 2017 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Maintenance of Epigenetic Changes over Geological Time Scales
Hiten Madhani, M.D., Ph.D., professor, department of biochemistry and biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
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| Thursday, January 19, 2017 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Chemical Biology Seminar Series
Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Transcription Initiation
Eric Galburt, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, Washington University in St. Louis
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4:00 p.m. |
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Harvey Society
TBA
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8:00 p.m. |
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Harvey Society
PKA: Dynamic Assembly of Localized Signaling Complexes
Susan Taylor, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, department of pharmacology and department of chemistry and biochemistry, University of California, San Diego
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| Friday, January 20, 2017 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Hedgehog Signaling and the Stem Cell Niche in Regeneration and Malignancy
Philip Beachy, Ph.D., Ernest and Amelia Gallo Professor, member, Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Monday, January 23, 2017 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Molecular Biology Seminars
Chromosome Shattering and Hypermutation from Telomere Fusion
John Maciejowski, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics, The Rockefeller University
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Intra-tumoral Heterogeneity and Response to Therapy in SCLC
Julien Sage, Ph.D., professor, department of pediatrics and department of genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine
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| Tuesday, January 24, 2017 |
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1:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Cardiovascular Research Institute Special Seminar
Weill Cornell Medical College
Junichi Sadoshima, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, “Can YAP, the terminal effector of the Hippo pathway, be the target of heart failure treatment?”
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Discovery and Engineering of Plant Biosynthesis for Human Health
Elizabeth Sattely, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of chemical engineering, Stanford University
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| Thursday, January 26, 2017 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Precision in Developmental Pattern Formation
Ertugrul Ozbudak, Ph.D., associate professor, department of genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Mechanical Deformation of Plasma Membranes by HER2 Overexpression: Implications for Breast Cancer Cell Dissemination
Inhee Chung, Ph.D., senior scientist, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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12:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Biology Seminars
Understanding How Mismatch Repair Family Proteins Act in Meiotic Crossing Over
Eric Alani, Ph.D., Professor; Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Understanding How Mismatch Repair Family Proteins Act in Meiotic Crossing Over
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Chromosome Segregation: Maintaining Spindle Architecture with Dynamic Parts
Sophie Dumont, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of cell and tissue biology and department of cellular and molecular pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco
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4:00 p.m. |
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Science Outreach
Long-term Policy Considerations for Gene Editing
Science Education and Policy Association
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| Friday, January 27, 2017 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Biology Seminars
Emerging Roles of Mammalian R-loop Structures in Chromatin Regulation and Genome Dynamics
Frederic Chedin, Ph.D., professor, department of molecular and cellular biology and UC Davis Genome Center, University of California, Davis
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Epigenetic Mechanisms in Early Mammalian Development
Maria Elena Torres-Padilla, Ph.D., director, Institute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health; professor and chair, stem cell biology, faculty of biology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Applying Quantitative Genomics to Autism and Cancer
Michael Wigler, Ph.D., professor, department of genetics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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| Monday, January 30, 2017 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
A Multi-organism Approach to Understanding the Metabolic Basis for Sex, Reproduction, and Disease
Matthew Sieber, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, department of embryology, laboratory of Dr. Allan C. Spradling, Carnegie Institution for Science
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Connecting Conformation with Function in Transcriptional Regulation
Anna Mapp, Ph.D., professor, department of chemical biology, University of Michigan
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| Tuesday, January 31, 2017 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Molecular Biology Seminars
Translational Surveillance in the Maintenance of a Healthy Proteome
Joshua Arribere, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, department of pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Investigating the Structural Basis of Glutamate Receptor Gating Using Cryo-EM
Faculty Recruitment Seminar
Joel Meyerson, Ph.D., postdoctoral associate, department of biochemistry, Brandeis University
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1:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Cardiovascular Research Institute Special Lecture
Ziqiang Lin, Ph.D., Instructor, Harvard Medical School, “Hippo-YAP pathway regulation of heart development and its application in cardiac repair”
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| Wednesday, February 1, 2017 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
A Novel Enzyme-Metabolite Pathway of Energy Homeostasis
Jonathan Long, Ph.D., Instructor, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Fusobacterium and Its Associated Microbiome in Colon Cancers
Matthew Meyerson, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and American Cancer Society Research Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School
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| Thursday, February 2, 2017 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Topological Methods for Single-cell Genomics
Pablo Gonzalez Camara, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher, department of biomedical informatics and department of systems biology, Columbia University
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| Friday, February 3, 2017 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Mobile Elements, Polydactyl Proteins, and the Genesis of Human-specific Regulatory Networks
The Joshua Lederberg Distinguished Lectureship in Molecular Genetics
Didier Trono, M.D., Ph.D., professor and head, Laboratory of Virology and Genetics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; co-director, Lemanic Center for Personalized Health
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