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| Monday, March 19, 2012 |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Autophagy and Neurodegeneration
David Rubinsztein, Ph.D., professor, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
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1:30 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Natural Killer T Cells: Fighters at the Front Lines for Defense Against Microbes?
Mitchell Kronenberg, Ph.D., president and chief scientific officer, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
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2:00 p.m. |
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Cell Biology Seminars
Tales from the Cellular Underworld: Normal and Disease-associated mRNA Decay
Lynne E. Maquat, Ph.D., J. Lowell Orbison Endowed Chair and professor, department of biochemistry and biophysics, University of Rochester
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| Tuesday, March 20, 2012 |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Living on the Edge: Regulation of Host-Microbiota Interactions by Inflammasomes
Till Strowig, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher, department of immunobiology, Yale University
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
The Molecular and Cellular Basis of Breast Cancer Formation
Yi Li, Ph.D., associate professor, Baylor College of Medicine
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1:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Examining Intracellular Phosphorylation Gradients during Cell Division
Lei Tan, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University
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4:00 p.m. |
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Science and Media Lecture Series
Harnessing the Brain for Language and Music
4:00 p.m.: Mark Changizi, Ph.D., director of human cognition, 2AI
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4:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Design and Development of New Reactions Driven by the π-Acidity
Weiping Tang Tang, Ph.D., assistant professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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4:00 p.m. |
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Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Information Passing and Collective Animal Behavior
Naomi Leonard, Ph.D., professor, Princeton University
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7:00 p.m. |
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Science and Media Lecture Series
Setting the Research Record Straight
Science Online NYC (SoNYC)
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| Wednesday, March 21, 2012 |
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4:30 p.m. |
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MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Human Genome Structural Variation and Disease
Evan Eichler, Ph.D., investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; professor of genome sciences, University of Washington
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8:00 p.m. |
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The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Rachel Barton Pine, violin
Performing Niccoló Paganini's Twenty-Four Caprices
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| Thursday, March 22, 2012 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Biochemistry Lectures
Membrane Fusion: 5 Lipids, 4 SNAREs, 3 Chaperones, 2 Nucleotides, and a Rab, Dancing in a Ring!
William Wickner, M.D., professor of biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School
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| Friday, March 23, 2012 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Lost in Translation: Ribosomes, MicroRNAs and Cancer
Carl Novina, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology and immunobiology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School
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3:45 p.m. |
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Friday Lecture Series
How Telomeres Solved the End-protection Problem
Cancer Biology Lecture
Titia de Lange, Ph.D., Leon Hess Professor and head, Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics, The Rockefeller University
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