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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Grant Writing at the Next Level: Building on Success to Become a Leader

| CARSON FAMILY AUDITORIUM (CRC)
Tri-Institutional Events (at MSK & WCM), Other Tri-Institutional Events
Bob Lowman, Ph.D., associate vice chancellor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Lipids, Lipases and Liver Disease

| CARSON FAMILY AUDITORIUM (CRC)
Academic Lectures, Special Seminar Series
Rufus Cole Lecture
Helen Hobbs, M.D., chief, division of medical genetics, director, McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development, and professor, departments of internal medicine and molecular genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Genomic and Functional Studies of Resistance to Targeted Anticancer Agents

| ZUCKERMAN AUDITORIUM, MSKCC, 417 E. 68TH ST.
Tri-Institutional Events (at MSK & WCM), MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Levi Garraway, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School

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)

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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