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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| Tuesday, October 1, 2019 |
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1:00 p.m. |
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Other Seminars
Life Slows Down with More Cortical Neurons: Implications for Health and Cognition
Rockefeller Inclusive Science Initiative (RiSI) Distinguished Guest Lecture Series
Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology, associate director for communications, Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Optimal Coding Strategies in the Peripheral Olfactory Systems: Compressed Sensing for an Array of Nonlinear Olfactory Receptor Neurons with and without Spontaneous Activity
Yuhai Tu, Ph.D., permanent research staff member, manager, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM
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| Wednesday, October 2, 2019 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
The Role of Adipocytes in the Tumor Microenvironment in Obesity-driven Breast Cancer Progression
Sarah Ackerman, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Molecular Metabolism, The Rockefeller University
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| Thursday, October 3, 2019 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Hybridization in Ants
Ian Butler, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior, The Rockefeller University
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12:30 p.m. |
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Science and Media Lecture Series
The Serengeti Rules: A Screening and Discussion with Sean Carroll
Sean Carroll, Ph.D., professor emeritus of molecular biology and genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Andrew and Mary Balo and Nicholas and Susan Simon Endowed Chair of Biology, University of Maryland; vice president for science education, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Dark Side of the Genome: Y Chromosomes, Centromeres, and Repetitive DNA
Doris Bachtrog, Ph.D., professor, University of California, Berkeley
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| Friday, October 4, 2019 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Kappa Opioid Receptor Agonists: Relationships between In Vitro Signaling and In Vivo Behavior
Amelia Dunn, graduate fellow, Laboratory of the Biology of Addictive Diseases, The Rockefeller University
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Butterfly Spots and Rattlesnake Tales: The Evolution of Novelty
The Fairfield Osborn Memorial Lecture
Sean Carroll, Ph.D., professor emeritus of molecular biology and genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Andrew and Mary Balo and Nicholas and Susan Simon Endowed Chair of Biology, University of Maryland; vice president for science education, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Monday, October 7, 2019 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
A Fantastic Voyage into the Cell: Control and Consequences of the Crowded Cell Interior
Liam Holt, Ph.D., assistant professor, New York University
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| Thursday, October 10, 2019 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Computational Biology and the Microbiome: Discovery and Prediction for Microbe-based Therapeutics and Diagnostics
Georg Gerber, Ph.D., assistant professor, Harvard University
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| Friday, October 11, 2019 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
The Genetics and Epigenetics of Rett Syndrome
The Joshua Lederberg Distinguished Lectureship in Molecular Genetics
Adrian Bird, Ph.D., Buchanan Professor of Genetics, The University of Edinburgh
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| Tuesday, October 15, 2019 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Strategies to Expand the GPCR-RAMP Interactome
Emily Lorenzen, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Signal Transduction, The Rockefeller University
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12:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Storage and Retrieval of Developmental Epigenetic Memory
Ramesh Shivdasani, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School
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1:00 p.m. |
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Other Seminars
Brain-Computer Interfaces for Basic Science
Byron Yu, Ph.D., professor, electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering, Gerard G. Elia Career Development Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Protecting the Genome by Homologous Recombination: Roles of the BRCA2 Tumor Suppressor
Maria Jasin, Ph.D., member, developmental biology program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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| Thursday, October 17, 2019 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Decreasing Tension and Increasing Sweetness: What Aids Macrophage Tissue Invasion
Daria Siekhaus, Ph.D., assistant professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
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12:00 p.m. |
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Chemical Biology Seminar Series
Metabolism Revisited
Joshua D. Rabinowitz, M.D., Ph.D., professor of chemistry and integrative genomics, Princeton University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Microbes under Pressure
Oskar Hallatschek, Ph.D., associate professor, University of California, Berkeley
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8:00 p.m. |
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Harvey Society
Modifying My Career in Pursuit of Histone Secrets: A Tale about Tails and More
C. David Allis, Ph.D., Joy and Jack Fishman Professor and head, Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics, The Rockefeller University
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| Friday, October 18, 2019 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
A Network Approach to Understanding miRNA Regulation in Adipose Tissue
Sean O'Connor, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Molecular Metabolism, The Rockefeller University
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10:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Oncogenic Rag GTPase Signaling Links Cellular Nutrients with the Lymphoma Microenvironment
Alejo Efeyan, Ph.D., group leader, Metabolism and Cell Signaling Lab, Spanish National Cancer Research Center
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| Saturday, October 19, 2019 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Other Community Events
Open House New York Tours
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| Sunday, October 20, 2019 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Other Community Events
Open House New York Tours
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| Monday, October 21, 2019 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Cell Signaling, Systems-based Pharmacology, and the Future of Precision Cancer Medicine
Michael B. Yaffe, Ph.D., director, MIT Center for Precision Cancer Medicine, David H. Koch Professor in Science, professor of biological engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
NK Cell Activation and Desensitization: Mobilizing the cGAS-STING Pathway and Cytokines for NK-Mediated Immunotherapy of Cancer
David Raulet, Ph.D., professor, Schekman Chair in Cancer Biology, director, Immunotherapeutics and Vaccine Research Initiative, professor of immunology and pathogenesis, University of California, Berkeley
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Prebiotic Origins of RNA and the Emergence of the RNA
Jack Szostak, Ph.D., professor of chemistry and chemical biology, Harvard University
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| Tuesday, October 22, 2019 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Targeting Sodium Channels for the Treatment of Pain
Nieng Yan, Ph.D., Shirley M. Tilghman Professor of Molecular Biology, department of molecular biology, Princeton University
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| Thursday, October 24, 2019 |
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11:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Molecular Architecture of Lineage Allocation and Tissue Organization in Early Mouse Embryo
Naihe Jing, Ph.D., professor, principal investigator, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Determinants of the Toxicity of a Double-stranded DNA Break
Rene Medema, Ph.D., M.Sc., scientific director, chairman, Board of Directors, Netherlands Cancer Institute
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| Friday, October 25, 2019 |
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1:15 p.m. |
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Other Special Events
Mini-Symposium Celebrating the Life of Mitchell Feigenbaum
Torsten Wiesel, M.D., president emeritus, The Rockefeller University, Introductory Remarks William Bialek, Ph.D., John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor in Physics, Princeton University, Searching for Simplicity—The Lessons of Period Doubling Jean-Pierre Eckmann, Ph.D., professor emeritus, The University of Geneva, Feigenbaum's Work on Optics, Vision, and Evolution
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Circadian and Epigenetic Regulation of Hybrid Vigor
Z. Jeffrey Chen, Ph.D., D. J. Sibley Centennial Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics, department of molecular biosciences, University of Texas at Austin
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| Monday, October 28, 2019 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Roles of EPAC1 in Vascular Remodeling and Proliferative Vascular Diseases
Xiaodong Cheng, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Lectures and Symposia
A Travel in Nobel Archives: Nobel Prizes and Discoveries on Cancer
Erling Norrby, M.D., Ph.D., professor, The Center for the History of Science, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; vice chairman, J. Craig Venter Institute
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| Tuesday, October 29, 2019 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Chemical Biology Seminar Series
Force-sensing through Ion Channels
Christoph A. Haselwandter, Ph.D., associate professor, physics, astronomy, biological sciences, University of Southern California
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2:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Reimagining Druggability Using Chemoproteomic Platforms
Daniel Nomura, Ph.D., professor, departments of nutritional sciences and toxicology, chemistry, molecular and cell biology, University of California, Berkeley
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
A Single-cell View of Microbial Activity in the Dark Ocean
Anne Dekas, Ph.D., assistant professor, Stanford University
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7:30 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Alexi Kenney and Renana Gutman
Violin, piano
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| Thursday, October 31, 2019 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Lectures and Symposia
Dominant-negative IL6ST Mutations in Patients with Hyper-IgE Syndrome
Vivien Béziat, Ph.D., researcher, Insitut Imagine, Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Making of an Organ—A Roadmap towards Pancreatic Islet Formation
Nadav Sharon, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Melton Laboratory, department of stem cell and regenerative biology, Harvard University
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| Friday, November 1, 2019 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Lectures and Symposia
The Regulation of the Proteasome and Mitochondria by Fbxo7 in Parkinson’s Disease
Heike Laman, Ph.D., director of studies for pathology and genetics, Clare College, University of Cambridge
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Domesticated Transposases and NHEJ at Work during Developmentally Programmed DNA Elimination in Paramecium
Mireille Betermier, Ph.D., doctor, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Paris-Sud University, University of Paris-Saclay
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
The Cellular Basis for Somatosensation and Pain
The Nicholson Lecture
Patrik Ernfors, Ph.D., professor of tissue biology, Karolinska Institutet
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