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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| Wednesday, May 1, 2019 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Spontaneity and Precision in the Drosophila Central Nervous System
Bennett Ferris, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Integrative Brain Function, The Rockefeller University
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| Thursday, May 2, 2019 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Distinct Populations of Layer 5b Pyramidal Neurons in the Primary Motor Cortex
Maria Vicky Moya, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University
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12:00 p.m. |
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Anderson Cancer Center Lecture Series
Nuclear Mechanobiology in Cancer Cell Migration
Jan Lammerding, Ph.D., associate professor, Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering/Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Cornell University
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| Friday, May 3, 2019 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Can Ancient DNA Reveal What Makes Us Human?
The Fairfield Osborn Memorial Lecture
Beth Shapiro, D.Phil, professor, department of ecology and evolutionary biology, associate director, UCSC Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz; professor and investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Monday, May 6, 2019 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
How Does Information Cross the Cell Membrane? Atomic-level Mechanisms of GPCRs, Channels, and Transporters
Ron Dror, Ph.D., associate professor, Stanford University
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| Tuesday, May 7, 2019 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Drive to Survive: In Vitro, In Vivo, and In Silico Studies of Generalized Arousal and Locomotor Drive
Adele Bubnys, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior, The Rockefeller University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Ribosome Dynamics Captured by Deep Sequencing and Deep Learning
Liana Lareau, Ph.D., assistant professor, University of California, Berkeley
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4:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
RNA Modifications: Their Function and Role in Cancer
Tony Kouzarides, Ph.D., FRS, FMedSci, director, The Milner Institute, deputy director, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
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| Wednesday, May 8, 2019 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Power of Chemoselectivity: Functional Protein-Conjugates for Intra- and Extracellular Targeting
Christian Hackenberger, Ph.D., Professor, Chemical Biology, Humboldt University of Berlin
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| Thursday, May 9, 2019 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
A Stress-induced tRNA Depletion Response Mediates Codon-based Translational Repression and Growth Suppression
Doowon Huh, biomedical fellow, The Rockefeller University
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4:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Gene Machine: A Conversation with Venki Ramakrishnan
Nobel Laureates Venki Ramakrishnan and Harold Varmus sit down to discuss Ramakrishnan’s newly published book, Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome.
Venki Ramakrishnan, Ph.D., group leader and joint head, structural studies division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
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| Friday, May 10, 2019 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Complex Regulation of Interferon-dependent Signaling in Cancer and Infectious Disease
Cancer Biology Lecture
George R. Stark, Ph.D., Distinguished Scientist, department of cancer biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic
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| Tuesday, May 14, 2019 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Moving with the Mushroom Body: Representations of Reward and Movement in Drosophila Dopaminergic Neurons
Aryeh Zolin, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior, The Rockefeller University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Chemotaxis: Linking Cell Shape, Behavior, and Strategy
Robert Endres, Ph.D., university reader (associate professor), Imperial College London
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6:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
L.E.K. networking event
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7:30 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
New York Chamber Soloists
Ensemble
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| Wednesday, May 15, 2019 |
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11:30 a.m. |
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Other Seminars
Communication and cognition in a tolerant society: evidence from wild Guinea baboons
Julia Fischer, Ph.D., professor, head of the cognitive ethology laboratory, German Primate Center (Goettingen, Germany)
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| Thursday, May 16, 2019 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Chemical Biology Seminar Series
A Chemical Biological Approach to Understanding Infection
Deborah Hung, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor, Broad Institute, departments of microbiology and immunobiology and of medicine, Harvard Medical School, department of molecular biology, Massachusetts General Hospital
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| Monday, May 20, 2019 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Mechanisms of Evasion: Anti-tumor Immune Suppression and tRNA Dependent Growth in Cancer Metastasis
Lisa Noble, biomedical fellow, Elizabeth and Vincent Meyer Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology, The Rockefeller University
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| Tuesday, May 21, 2019 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Special Events
Rethinking Autism and Animal Models: A Systems Perspective
Rockefeller Inclusive Science Initiative Guest Lecture
André Fenton, Ph.D., professor, New York University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
An Alternative View of What Neural Circuits May Be Doing
Christian Machens, Ph.D., principal investigator, Champalimaud Foundation
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4:00 p.m. |
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Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Protein and Small Molecule Engineering towards a Programmable Chromatin Landscape
Kabirul Islam, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of chemistry, University of Pittsburgh
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| Thursday, May 23, 2019 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
RNA Therapies for Metastatic Cancers
Bruce Zetter, Ph.D., Charles Nowiszewski Professor of Cancer Biology, Harvard Medical School
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| Friday, May 24, 2019 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Using Global Proteomics to Discover New Anti-TB Pathways of Macrophages
The Norton Zinder Lecture
Jeffery Cox, Ph.D., C.H. Li Endowed Chair of Biochemistry and Endocrinology; Faculty Director, Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases; professor of molecular and cell biology, University of California, San Francisco
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| Tuesday, May 28, 2019 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Mechanics of Gastrulation: The Forces That Shape the Early Avian Embryo
Francis Corson, Ph.D., French National Centre for Scientific Research, researcher, École Normale Supérieure
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| Friday, May 31, 2019 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Structural Biology in situ: The Promise and Challenges of Cryo-Electron Tomography
The Jerry A. Weisbach Memorial Lecture
Wolfgang Baumeister, Ph.D., director of molecular structural biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
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