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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| Thursday, September 6, 2018 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Cell Biology Seminars
Braking the Cycle for Cancer Therapy: Spotlights on CDKs and Nucleotide Pools
Robert Abraham, Ph.D., senior vice president and group head, oncology research and development, Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development
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| Friday, September 7, 2018 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Genomic Analysis of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Neurodegenerative Disorders
John Hardy, Ph.D., head, department of molecular neuroscience, chair, molecular biology of neurological disease, Institute of Neurology, University College London
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| Monday, September 10, 2018 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Chromatin Replication and Epigenome Maintenance
Molecular Biology Research Seminar
Anja Groth, Ph.D., professor, group leader, Biotech Research & Innovation Centre (BRIC), University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
New Insights on Apoptotic Cell Clearance: Relevance to Health and Disease
Kodi Ravichandran, Ph.D., professor and chair, department of microbiology, immunology, and cancer biology, University of Virginia School of Medicine
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| Wednesday, September 12, 2018 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Seminars
A Stress-induced Bias in the Reading of the Genetic Code
Hanna Engelberg-Kulka, Ph.D., professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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| Thursday, September 13, 2018 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Road Map for Human Tissue Progenitor Diversification from Pluripotent Stem Cells
Developmental Biology Research Seminar
Kyle Loh, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of developmental biology, Stanford University School of Medicine
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Opposing Roles on Interferon Signaling Coordinate Innate and Adaptive Responses to Cancer Immune Checkpoint Blockade
Andy Minn, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania, Opposing Roles on Interferon Signaling Coordinate Innate and Adaptive Responses to Cancer Immune Checkpoint Blockade
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| Monday, September 17, 2018 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Seminars
The Structural Basis of Mycobacteria Transcription: Expanding the Dogma
Elizabeth Campbell, Ph.D., senior research associate, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, The Rockefeller University
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Vulnerabilities and Opportunities in the Metabolic Ambivalence of Lymphocytes
Steven Reiner, M.D., Charles H. Revson Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pediatrics, Columbia University
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| Tuesday, September 18, 2018 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Active Agents and the Buckling Behavior of a Semiflexible Polymer
Christina Kurzthaler, Ph.D., postdoc, University of Innsbruck, Austria
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Electron Cryomicroscopy of ATP Synthase and Vacuolar-type ATPases
John Rubinstein, Ph.D., Canada Research Chair, senior scientist, The Hospital for Sick Children, professor, departments of biochemistry and medical biophysics, University of Toronto
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| Thursday, September 20, 2018 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Cell Biology Seminars
Unraveling the Complexities of the p53 Family in Cancer and Metastasis
Elsa Flores, Ph.D., chair and senior member, department of molecular oncology, leader, cancer biology and evolution program, senior member, department of cutaneous oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center
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12:00 p.m. |
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Chemical Biology Seminar Series
Chemical Thinking about the Neurobiology of Need
Scott M. Sternson, Ph.D., group leader, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Friday, September 21, 2018 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Biology Seminars
Ex Vivo Functional Profiling of DNA Repair Capacity in Ovarian Cancer
Liisa Kauppi, Ph.D., assistant professor, genome-scale biology program, University of Helsinki
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Phase Separation in Cells and Its Implications for Organization of Cellular Biochemistry
Anthony Hyman, Ph.D., director and group leader, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
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| Monday, September 24, 2018 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
MetAlert Mice: A Platform for In Vivo Imaging and Targeting of Premetastatic Niches
Marisol Soengas, Ph.D., head, melanoma group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Resistance to Cancer Immunotherapy
Kai Wucherpfennig, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chair, department of cancer immunology and virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; professor of microbiology and immunobiology, Harvard Medical School; professor of neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
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| Tuesday, September 25, 2018 |
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9:00 a.m. |
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Academic Symposia
Glia-Neuron Interactions on Developing Circuits
Nicola Allen, Ph.D., assistant professor, molecular neurobiology laboratory, Hearst Foundation Development Chair, Salk Institute Samantha Butler, Ph.D., associate professor, Brain Research Institute Neurobiology, University of California, Los Angeles Frederic Charron, Ph.D., associate professor, department of medicine, Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM), McGill University Claude Desplan, Ph.D., professor, department of biology, director, Center for Developmental Genetics, New York University Cagla Eroglu, Ph.D., associate professor of cell biology, Duke University Marc Freeman, Ph.D., director and senior scientist, Vollum Institute Mary Beth Hatten, Ph.D., Frederick P. Rose Professor, Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, The Rockefeller University Arnold Kriegstein, M.D., Ph.D., professor, 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
CRISPR Based Functional Genomics for Studying the Cell Biology of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Ophir Shalem, Ph.D., assistant professor, University of Pennsylvania
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| Wednesday, September 26, 2018 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Mevalonate Pathway: A Rational Target to Enhance Efficacy of BH3 Mimetics in Blood Cancer
David Fruman, Ph.D., professor, department of molecular biology and biochemistry, associate director, Cancer Research Institute, University of California, Irvine
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| Thursday, September 27, 2018 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Genetic Evolution of Cerebral Cortex Size and Folding
Developmental Biology Research Seminar
Victor Borrell Franco, Ph.D., professor, developmental neurobiology, Institute of Neurosciences, Alicante, Spain
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7:30 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Telegraph Quartet with James Austin Smith
Violins, Viola, Cello, Oboe
Eric Chin, violin; Joseph Maile, violin; Pei-Ling Lin, viola; Jeremiah Shaw, cello; James Austin Smith, oboe
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| Friday, September 28, 2018 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
How Stem Cells and Positional Information Lead to Planarian Regeneration
Peter Reddien, Ph.D., professor of biology, associate department head, member and associate director, Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Monday, October 1, 2018 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Novel Pro-resolving Lipid Mediators in Inflammation and Infection
Charles Serhan, Ph.D., professor and director, Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury, Brigham and Women's Hospital; The Simon Gelman Professor of Anaesthesia (biochemistry and molecular pharmacology), Harvard Medical School
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| Tuesday, October 2, 2018 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
How the Languages We Speak Shape the Ways We Think
Lera Boroditsky, Ph.D., associate professor, University of California, San Diego
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| Friday, October 5, 2018 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Human Telomerase RNP Biogenesis, Activity, and Action at Telomeres
Molecular Biology Research Seminar
Kathleen Collins, Ph.D., professor, department of molecular and cell biology, University of California, Berkeley
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