Sloan-Kettering Institute: Academic Lectures, Seminars & Workshops

Format: 02/03/2012
Showing 45 events

Friday, February 3, 2012

Seminar
Epigenetic Regulation in Adult Stem Cells-Common Regulatory Mechanisms Underlying Cell Mobilization
2:00 PM3:00 PM

David Sassoon, PhD
Director, INSERM Unit
UMR S 787-Groupe Myologie
Pitie Salpetriere Medical School
Paris, France

Monday, February 6, 2012

Seminar
Interplay Between Transcription Factors and Chromatin During Motor Neuron Specification
12:00 PM1:00 PM

Esteban Mazzoni, PhD
Research Associate
Department of Pathology
Columbia University

Seminar
Induction and Inhibition of Type I Interferon by RNA Viruses
1:30 PM2:30 PM

Adolfo García-Sastre, PhD
Professor of Microbiology
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Seminar
Watching Single Ribosome Translation in Real Time: A Quantitative Study of Ribosome Helicase Activity
11:00 AM12:00 PM

Xiaohui Qu, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley

Seminar
Immunity to Hematopoietic Serine Proteases to Treat Leukemia
4:00 PM5:00 PM

Jeffrey J. Molldrem, MD
Professor of Medicine
Virginia H. Cockrell Distinguished
Professorship in Immunology
The University of Texas
MD Anderson Cancer Center

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Seminar
An Expanding Job Description for the Master Transcriptional Regulator Blimp1/Prdm1 During Mammalian Development
4:30 PM5:30 PM

Elizabeth Robertson, PhD, FRS
Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
University of Oxford

Monday, February 13, 2012

Seminar
Towards Personalized Medicine: Chemical and Genetic Approaches to Patient-Specific Disease Models
1:30 PM2:30 PM

Justin Ichida, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Harvard University

Seminar
Notch Signaling in the Immune System: Switching an Oncogene to a Tumor Suppressor
1:30 PM2:30 PM

Iannis Aifantis, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology
Early Career Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
New York University School of Medicine

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Seminar
Mitochondrial Structure and Dynamics
11:00 AM12:00 PM

Suzanne Hoppins, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
University of California, Davis

Seminar
The Structure of the Eukaryotic Ribosome and Implications for the Regulation of Protein Synthesis
4:00 PM5:00 PM

Nenad Ban, PhD
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics
ETH Zürich

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Seminar
An Open and Shut Case: How the DNA Polymerase Sliding Clamp is Loaded onto DNA
11:00 AM12:00 PM

Brian Kelch, PhD
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
University of California, Berkeley

Seminar
Runx1-CBFbeta and the Origin of Hematopoietic Stem Cells
4:30 PM5:30 PM

Nancy A. Speck, PhD
Investigator, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Special Seminar
Structure-Based Ligand Discovery for Solute Carrier Transporters
10:30 AM11:30 AM

Avner Schlessinger, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
University of California, San Francisco

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Monday, February 20, 2012

Seminar
The Molecular Mechanisms of Mitochondrial Division and Positioning
11:00 AM12:00 PM

Laura Lackner, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
University of California, Davis

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Seminar
Synthesis and Study of Regenerative Natural Products
4:00 PM5:00 PM

Dionicio Siegel, PhD
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
The University of Texas at Austin

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Seminar
The Novel Endocrinology of Bone
4:30 PM5:30 PM

Gerard Karsenty, MD, PhD
Paul A. Marks, MD Professor
Chair, Department of Genetics and Development
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University Medical Center

Friday, February 24, 2012

Seminar
G-protein Regulated Chemotaxis and Invasion in Breast Tumor Metastasis
12:00 PM1:00 PM

John Condeelis, PhD
Judith & Burton P. Resnick Chair in Translational Research
Professor and Co-Chair, Anatomy & Structural Biology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Monday, February 27, 2012

Seminar
Metabolic Cell Signaling through Protein Glycosylation
11:00 AM12:00 PM

Michael Boyce, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley

Seminar
Mitochondria in Immune and Inflammatory Responses
1:30 PM2:30 PM

Sankar Ghosh, PhD
Silverstein and Hutt Family Professor and Chair
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Columbia University

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Seminar
The Changing Landscape of Cancer Genomics
4:30 PM5:30 PM

Kenneth W. Kinzler, PhD
Professor of Oncology
Director, Ludwig Center at Johns Hopkins University
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Monday, March 5, 2012

Seminar
Structural Characterization of Silent Chromatin’
11:00 AM12:00 PM

Karim-Jean Armache, PhD
Department of Molecular Biology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Seminar
Evolution of Adaptive Immune Systems
1:30 PM2:30 PM

Max Cooper, MD
Professor
Emory University

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Seminar
Elucidating Telomerase Function Using Genetically Defined Human Stem Cell Models
3:00 PM4:00 PM

Dirk Hockemeyer, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
The Whitehead Institute
Cambridge, MA

Friday, March 9, 2012

Seminar
Genome-Wide Inter-relationships Between Chromatin and the Transcription Machinery
12:00 PM1:00 PM

B. Franklin Pugh, PhD
Willaman Professor of Molecular Biology
Pennsylvania State University

Monday, March 12, 2012

Seminar
Structural Basis for Camping of Membrane Fusion by Complexin
11:00 AM12:00 PM

Daniel Kuemmel, PhD
Department of Cell Biology
Yale University School of Medicine

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Seminar
Consequences of Aneuploidy
4:30 PM5:30 PM

Angelika Amon, PhD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor of Biology
Kathy and Curt Marble Professor of Cancer Research
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Monday, March 19, 2012

Seminar
Natural Killer T Cell Antigens from the Elements, Earth, Water and Air
1:30 PM2:30 PM

Mitchell Kronenberg, PhD
President and Chief Scientific Officer
La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology
La Jolla, CA

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Seminar
Living on the Edge: Regulation of Host-Microbiota Interactions by Inflammasomes
10:00 AM11:00 AM

Till Strowig, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Immunobiology

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Seminar
Human Genome Structural Variation and Disease
4:30 PM5:30 PM

Evan Eichler, PhD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor of Genome Sciences
University of Washington

Friday, March 23, 2012

Seminar
Lost in Translation: Ribosomes, MicroRNAs and Cancer
12:00 PM1:00 PM

Carl Novina, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunobiology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Seminar
Beyond the Double Helix: Varying the "Histone Code"
4:30 PM5:30 PM

C. David Allis, PhD
Joy and Jack Fishman Professor
Head, Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics
The Rockefeller University

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Seminar
Epigenetic Regulation of T Cell Differentiation
10:30 AM11:30 AM

Keji Zhao, PhD
Senior Investigator and Director of Systems Biology Center
National, Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Bethesda, MD

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Friday, April 20, 2012

Seminar
DNA Methylation Dynamics in Development
12:00 PM1:00 PM

Alexander Meissner
Assistant Professor, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology;
Senior Associate Member
Harvard University and Broad Institute

Friday, April 27, 2012

Seminar
MicroRNAs as Targeted Therapeutics and Therapeutic Targets in Cancer
12:00 PM1:00 PM

Frank Slack, PhD
Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Yale University

Friday, May 4, 2012

Seminar
Understanding the Dynamics of Cancer: from Molecular Pathways to In Vivo Imaging
12:00 PM1:00 PM

Tannishtha Reya, PhD
Professor, Department of Pharmacology
University of California-San Diego

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Seminar
Sloan-Kettering Institute Scientific Colloquium
4:30 PM5:30 PM

Malcolm Moore Lab

Friday, May 18, 2012

Seminar
Aging and Stem Cells
12:00 PM1:00 PM

Anne Brunet, PhD
Associate Professor of Genetics
Stanford University

Friday, June 1, 2012

Seminar
Linking RNA to Human Health
12:00 PM1:00 PM

John Rinn, PhD
Assistant Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Senior Associate Member
Harvard University
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Seminar
Sloan-Kettering Institute Scientific Colloquium
4:30 PM5:30 PM

Scott Lowe Lab

Friday, June 15, 2012

Seminar
Potentiating Signal-Responsive Transcription: a Dynamic Dance Between Paused Polymerase and Chromatin
12:00 PM1:00 PM

Karen Adelman, PhD
Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Research Triangle Park, NC

Monday, June 25, 2012

Seminar
Vita-PAMPs: Signatures of Viability
1:30 PM2:30 PM

Julie Blander, PhD
Associate Professor
Immunology Institute, Department of Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine