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Monday, March 30, 2015

Mechanical Loads Dictate the Diverse Mechanosensory Roles of Hair Bundles

| CASPARY AUDITORIUM
Academic Lectures, Thesis Presentations
Joshua Salvi, biomedical fellow, Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University

Why Mosquitoes Bite Some People More than Others: Metabolic Correlates of Human Attraction in Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes

| CASPARY AUDITORIUM
Academic Lectures, Thesis Presentations
Lindsay Bellani, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University

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

| CASPARY AUDITORIUM
Special Events, Lewis Thomas Prize
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

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:

Upcoming Events

Pre-Seminar Coffee and Cookies

| LOWER LEVEL GREENBERG BUILDING (CRC)

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

| CARSON FAMILY AUDITORIUM (CRC)

Chemical Biology Approaches to Define Immunomodulatory Protease Functions

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

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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