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| Monday, March 30, 2015 |
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11:30 a.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Mechanical Loads Dictate the Diverse Mechanosensory Roles of Hair Bundles
Joshua Salvi, biomedical fellow, Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University
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2:00 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Why Mosquitoes Bite Some People More than Others: Metabolic Correlates of Human Attraction in Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes
Lindsay Bellani, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University
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6:00 p.m. |
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Lewis Thomas Prize
A Conversation About the Joy of Math, the Pursuit of the Unknown, and Other Topics Inspired by the Curiosities of Everyday Life, with Alan Alda
Ian Stewart, Ph.D., F.R.S., emeritus professor of mathematics, The University of Warwick Steven Strogatz, Ph.D., Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, Cornell University
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| Wednesday, April 1, 2015 |
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4:00 p.m. |
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Science Outreach
Title TBA
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| Thursday, April 2, 2015 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
Biased Agonism and Structure-based Inhibition of Chemokine Activity
Brian Volkman, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin
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3:30 p.m. |
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Thesis Presentations
Mechanisms of Olfactory Plasticity in Caenorhabditis elegans
Christine Cho, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, The Rockefeller University
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| Friday, April 3, 2015 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Other Tri-Institutional Events
From Disease in a Petri Dish to Clinical Trial: A New Type of Candidate for Stem Cell Studies of ALS
Kevin Eggan, Ph.D., professor, department of stem cell and regenerative biology, Harvard University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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