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MetAlert Mice: A Platform for In Vivo Imaging and Targeting of Premetastatic Niches

| 105 ZRC, MSKCC, 417 E. 68TH ST.
Tri-Institutional Events (at MSK & WCM), Other Tri-Institutional Events
Marisol Soengas, Ph.D., head, melanoma group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain

Resistance to Cancer Immunotherapy

| 105 ZRC, MSKCC, 417 E. 68TH ST.
Tri-Institutional Events (at MSK & WCM), Other Tri-Institutional Events
Kai Wucherpfennig, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chair, department of cancer immunology and virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; professor of microbiology and immunobiology, Harvard Medical School; professor of neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Glia-Neuron Interactions on Developing Circuits

| CARSON FAMILY AUDITORIUM (CRC)
Lectures and Symposia, Academic Symposia
Nicola Allen, Ph.D., assistant professor, molecular neurobiology laboratory, Hearst Foundation Development Chair, Salk Institute
Samantha Butler, Ph.D., associate professor, Brain Research Institute Neurobiology, University of California, Los Angeles
Frederic Charron, Ph.D., associate professor, department of medicine, Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM), McGill University
Claude Desplan, Ph.D., professor, department of biology, director, Center for Developmental Genetics, New York University
Cagla Eroglu, Ph.D., associate professor of cell biology, Duke University
Marc Freeman, Ph.D., director and senior scientist, Vollum Institute
Mary Beth Hatten, Ph.D., Frederick P. Rose Professor, Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, The Rockefeller University
Arnold Kriegstein, M.D., Ph.D., professor, University of California, San Francisco

CRISPR Based Functional Genomics for Studying the Cell Biology of Neurodegenerative Diseases

| A LEVEL PHYSICS SEMINAR ROOM, ROOM A30, SMITH HALL ANNEX (CRC)
Seminars, Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Ophir Shalem, Ph.D., assistant professor, University of Pennsylvania

The Mevalonate Pathway: A Rational Target to Enhance Efficacy of BH3 Mimetics in Blood Cancer

| M-107 MSKCC, 1275 YORK AVE.
Tri-Institutional Events (at MSK & WCM), Other Tri-Institutional Events
David Fruman, Ph.D., professor, department of molecular biology and biochemistry, associate director, Cancer Research Institute, University of California, Irvine

Genetic Evolution of Cerebral Cortex Size and Folding

| M-107 MSKCC, 1275 YORK AVE.
Tri-Institutional Events (at MSK & WCM), Other Tri-Institutional Events
Developmental Biology Research Seminar
Victor Borrell Franco, Ph.D., professor, developmental neurobiology, Institute of Neurosciences, Alicante, Spain

Markus Library Open House

| WELCH HALL

Telegraph Quartet with James Austin Smith

| CASPARY AUDITORIUM
Arts Events, The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Violins, Viola, Cello, Oboe

How Stem Cells and Positional Information Lead to Planarian Regeneration

| CASPARY AUDITORIUM
Academic Lectures, Friday Lecture Series
Peter Reddien, Ph.D., professor of biology, associate department head, member and associate director, Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Novel Pro-resolving Lipid Mediators in Inflammation and Infection

| ZUCKERMAN AUDITORIUM, MSKCC, 417 E. 68TH ST.
Tri-Institutional Events (at MSK & WCM), Other Tri-Institutional Events
Charles Serhan, Ph.D., professor and director, Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury, Brigham and Women's Hospital; The Simon Gelman Professor of Anaesthesia (biochemistry and molecular pharmacology), 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

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)

Spying on the Immune System

| CASPARY AUDITORIUM
The Philip Levine Memorial Lecture

News

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.

New engineered derivative of a natural molecule could translate into a powerful replacement for IVIG therapy for a wide array of autoimmune disorders

In experiments with mice, the new molecule accomplished the same job at a hundredth of the dose.

This new insight into T cell receptors may improve cancer immunotherapies

Researchers discovered that a crucial first step in the signaling system operates differently than previously thought, an insight that could lead to the next generation of treatments.

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