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, 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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| Monday, November 4, 2019 |
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3:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Adaptive Immune Responses to Pathogens and Tumors
Matteo Iannacone, M.D., Ph.D., head, dynamics of immune responses, San Raffaele Scientific Institute
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| Wednesday, November 6, 2019 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Testing the T-loop Model of Telomeric End Protection
Leonid Timashev, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics, The Rockefeller University
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Small Cell Lung Cancer: New Insights and Approaches
Charles M. Rudin, M.D., Ph.D., chief, thoracic oncology service, department of medicine, joint appointee, SKI Molecular Pharmacology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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| Thursday, November 7, 2019 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Seminars
The Little Guy Rules: Non-canonical Micro RNA Regulates T cell Differentiation and Fungal Susceptibility
Peter Williamson, M.D., Ph.D., chief, translational mycology section, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Molecular Control of Organ Regeneration: Insights from Platypus, Anteaters, Bats, and Whales
Guo Huang, Ph.D., assistant 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
Detection Structure and Patterns in Big Biomedical Data
Smita Krishnaswamy, Ph.D., assistant professor, Yale University
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6:00 p.m. |
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Science and Media Lecture Series
Science and Nature Film Series: Earth’s Ekko
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| Friday, November 8, 2019 |
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8:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Crystallography in the 21st Century: Reflections on Raj Rajashankar
Christopher Lima, Ph.D., program chair, structural biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
New Insights into the Transcriptional Organization and Cellular Economy of Bacteria
The Norton Zinder Lecture
Carol A. Gross, Ph.D., professor, department of cell and tissue biology, University of California, San Francisco
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| Monday, November 11, 2019 |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Signaling and Selection in Germinal Centers
Mark Shlomchik, M.D., Ph.D., UPMC Endowed Professor and chair, department of immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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2:00 p.m. |
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Chemical Biology Seminar Series
Reprogramming the Genetic Code
Jason Chin, Ph.D., programme leader, professor of chemistry and chemical biology, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Centre for Chemical and Synthetic Biology, University of Cambridge
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Structural Vaccinology: Toward the Development of an Effective HIV Vaccine
Kai Xu, Ph.D., project team leader, Medical Science & Computing, LLC; contractor, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
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| Tuesday, November 12, 2019 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Transcriptional Gradients Regulated by S1P during Angiogenesis and Organotypic Specialization
Timothy Hla, Ph.D., Patricia K. Donahoe Professor, department of surgery, investigator, vascular biology program, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Building the Embryo: Mechanisms Controlling Tissue Flows during Development
Karen Kasza, Ph.D., Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor, Columbia University
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7:00 p.m. |
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External Events
Weill Cornell Music & Medicine: Fall Concert
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| Thursday, November 14, 2019 |
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
2nd Annual Single Cell Research Initiative Symposium
Alexander Rudensky, Ph.D., chair, immunology program, Sloan Kettering Institute Linas Mazutis, Ph.D., head, single cell research initiative, Sloan Kettering Institute Thomas Norman, Ph.D., assistant member, computational and systems biology program, Sloan Kettering Institute Thomas Vierbuchen, Ph.D., assistant member, developmental biology program, Sloan Kettering Institute Scott Lowe, Ph.D., chair, cancer biology and genetics program, Sloan Kettering Institute Andrienne Boire, M.D., Ph.D., assistant attending, human oncology and pathogensis program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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| Friday, November 15, 2019 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
How a Ubiquitin-like Protein Brings Ubiquitylation to Life
The William H. Stein Memorial Lecture
Brenda Schulman, Ph.D., director and scientific member, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
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4:00 p.m. |
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Science Outreach
RockEDU Presents
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| Monday, November 18, 2019 |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
CRISPR-Cas13 Immunity: Sacrificing the Host for the Population
Luciano Marraffini, Ph.D., professor, Laboratory of Bacteriology, The Rockefeller University
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Unravelling Antigen Presentation Pathways in Diabetic Autoimmunity
Emil Unanue, M.D., Paul and Ellen Lacy Professor, department of pathology and immunology, Washington University School of Medicine
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Nascent Protein Selection and Triage at the Ribosome
Shu-ou Shan, Ph.D., professor, division of chemistry and chemical engineering, California Institute of Technology
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Inferring Gene Regulatory Dynamics from Single-cell Data
Erik van Nimwegen, Ph.D., professor, University of Basel
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| Tuesday, November 19, 2019 |
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9:00 a.m. |
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Academic Symposia
The Joshua Lederberg–John von Neumann Symposium: Towards Quantitative Biology
10:00 a.m.: Paul Falkowski, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Bennett L. Smith Chair in Business and Natural Resources, Departments of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Marine and Coastal Sciences, Board of Governors Professor and Founding Director, Rutgers Energy Institute, Rutgers University, Primary Productivity of the Planet 11:15 a.m.: Ron Milo, Ph.D., associate professor, department of plant and environmental sciences, The Charles and Louise Gartner Professional Chair, Weizmann Institute of Science, The Biomass Distribution on Earth 1:30 p.m.: Alexander Petroff, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of physics, Clark University, Structure and Dynamics of Microbial Ecosystems in Sediment 2:30 p.m.: Uma Ramakrishnan, Ph.D., associate professor, National Centre for Biological Sciences; senior fellow, Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance, Tigers in the 21st Century: Survival or Extinction? 4:00 p.m.: Mark Vellend, Ph.D., professor, department of biology, Université de Sherbrooke, Biodiversity Change During the Anthropocene
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Multi-scale Mechano-pharmacology for Treating Cancer and Inflammatory Diseases
Paolo Decuzzi, senior researcher and professor of bioengineering, director, Laboratory of Nanotechnology for Precision Medicine, Italian Institute of Technology
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6:30 p.m. |
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Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
2019 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
An International Award Recognizing Outstanding Women in Biomedical Research
Xiaowei Zhuang, Ph.D., David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science, Harvard University
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| Wednesday, November 20, 2019 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Fundamental Roles of Chromatin Loop Extrusion in V(D)J and IgH Class Switch Recombination
Frederick Alt, Ph.D., director, program in cellular and molecular medicine, Charles A. Janeway Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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7:30 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Michelle Bradley with Ken Noda
Soprano, piano
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| Thursday, November 21, 2019 |
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9:30 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Sympathy for the Microbiota: How Gut Microbes Influence Mammalian Physiology through the Sympathetic Nervous System
Paul Muller, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Mucosal Immunology, The Rockefeller University
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12:00 p.m. |
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Chemical Biology Seminar Series
Ultra-large Library Docking to Discover New Chemotypes with New Biology
Brian Shoichet, Ph.D., professor, department of pharmaceutical chemistry, University of California, San Francisco
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Lung Cancer Evolution, Genome Doubling and Immune Evasion: Insights from TRACERx
Charles Swanton, Ph.D., MBPhD, FMedSci, FRS, professor, Francis Crick Institute
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2:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Mapping Nutrient Utilization of T Cells In Vivo: Implication for Immunity
Russell Jones, Ph.D., professor, Center for Cancer and Cell Biology, program lead, metabolic and nutritional programming, Van Andel Research Institute
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8:00 p.m. |
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Harvey Society
From Mice to Molecules: Adaptation to Novel Habitats
Hopi E. Hoesktra, Ph.D., professor, department of organismic and evolutionary biology, department of molecular and cellular biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Friday, November 22, 2019 |
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
Understanding the Brain's Model of the External World
Loren Frank, Ph.D., professor, department of physiology, Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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| Tuesday, November 26, 2019 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Protein-DNA and Peptide-DNA Nanotechnology
Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Ph.D., assistant professor, school of molecular sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe
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