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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Physics of Information Processing in Living Systems: On Sensory Adaptation and Biological Oscillations

| CARSON FAMILY AUDITORIUM (CRC)
Seminars, Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Yuhai Tu, Ph.D., research staff member and manager, theory and computational physics group, IBM Research

Hep C Seminar—Development of Live Recombinant Flavivirus Vaccines

| 305 WRB
Thomas Monath, M.D., chief scientific officer and chief operations officer, infectious disease division, NewLink Genetics Corporation

Ninth Annual Imagine Science Film Festival

| CARSON FAMILY AUDITORIUM (CRC)
Arts Events, Other Arts Events
The theme of this year's Imagine Science Film Festival is LIGHT

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)

Liquid Biopsies in Pediatric Solid Tumors

| 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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