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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Novel Mechanisms by which Adipose Cells Regulate Systemic Insulin Sensitivity and Diabetes Risk

| WEILL AUDITORIUM, WCMC, 1300 YORK AVE.
Tri-Institutional Events (at MSK & WCM), Other Tri-Institutional Events
Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series
Barbara Kahn, M.D., George R. Minot Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Action at a Distance in the Yeast Nucleus

| B LEVEL CONFERENCE ROOM & PHYSICS LIBRARY, SMITH HALL ANNEX (CRC)
Seminars, Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Jane Kondev, Ph.D., professor, Brandeis University

Scharoun Ensemble Berlin

| CASPARY AUDITORIUM
Arts Events, The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts

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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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Pre-Seminar Coffee and Cookies

| LOWER LEVEL GREENBERG BUILDING (CRC)

Chemical Biology Approaches to Define Immunomodulatory Protease Functions

| 116 ROCKEFELLER RESEARCH LABORATORIES, MSKCC, 430 E. 67TH ST.

Microscale Biophysics of the Ocean: A Single-Cell Perspective on the Biological Carbon Pump

| CARSON FAMILY AUDITORIUM (CRC)

News

The value of publishing negative data

Scientific publishing has a bias against negative results and that hurts science, says Tim Fessenden, editor of Life Science Alliance, a publication of Rockefeller University Press. Here’s how journal editors can help.

Researchers identify gene that calms the mind and improves attention in mice

Study demonstrates that the Homer1 gene improves focus by reducing "noise" in the prefrontal cortex, with implications for the study of ADHD and other attention disorders.

Some mammals can hit pause on a pregnancy. Understanding how that happens could help us treat cancer.

New study reveals the molecular brake that lets embryonic stem cells enter suspended animation, while retaining the ability to develop normally—which could shed light on abnormal cell growth in humans.

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