Calendar of Events & Lectures

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Writing, Medicine, and Testimony: A Scientist as a Humanist

| CASPARY AUDITORIUM
Special Events, Lewis Thomas Prize
Followed by a Conversation with Thomas P. Sakmar, M.D.
Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., D.Phil., assistant professor of medicine, Irving Cancer Research Center, Columbia University

The Interplay of Metabolism and Structure in Microbial Biofilms

| A LEVEL PHYSICS SEMINAR ROOM, ROOM A30, SMITH HALL ANNEX (CRC)
Seminars, Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Lars Dietrich, Ph.D., associate professor, Columbia University

Transporting Cargo over Long Distances: Insights from Cryo-EM of Dynein/Dynactin

| WEILL AUDITORIUM, WCM, 1300 YORK AVE.
Tri-Institutional Events (at MSK & WCM), Other Tri-Institutional Events
Andrew Philip Carter, Ph.D., program leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, United Kingdom

Human Frontiers of Science Application Talks

| A LEVEL PHYSICS SEMINAR ROOM, ROOM A30, SMITH HALL ANNEX (CRC)
Seminars, Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Vincent Noireaux, Ph.D., professor, University of Minnesota
Yusuke Maeda, Ph.D., associate professor, University of Tokyo

R(e)SPONDIN' to WNT Signaling for Organogenesis

| 305 WRB
Seminars, Other Seminars
Bruno Reversade, Ph.D., research director, Institute of Medical Biology, A*STAR, Singapore

Science, Society, and Sustainability

| CARSON FAMILY AUDITORIUM (CRC)
Community Events, Science and Media Lecture Series
An Evening with Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey Sachs, Ph.D., director, Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University

Non-coding RNA Features Critical to the Replication of HIV-1

| CARSON FAMILY AUDITORIUM (CRC)
Academic Lectures, Thesis Presentations
Matthew Takata, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Retrovirology, The Rockefeller University

Transgenerational Inheritance of Pathogen Avoidance (or, How Getting Food Sickness Might Save Your Species)

| CASPARY AUDITORIUM
Academic Lectures, Friday Lecture Series
Coleen Murphy, Ph.D., professor, department of molecular biology and Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, director, Glenn Center for Quantitative Aging Research, Princeton University; HHMI-Simons Faculty Scholar, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Making Scents of C. elegans Olfactory Integration

| CASPARY AUDITORIUM
Academic Lectures, Thesis Presentations
May Dobosiewicz, graduate fellow, Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, The Rockefeller University

Exploring Ligand Binding Space to Discover New Lipid Biology

| 105 ZRC, MSKCC, 417 E. 68TH ST.
Tri-Institutional Events (at MSK & WCM), Other Tri-Institutional Events
Ku-Lung (Ken) Hsu, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry and pharmacology, University of Virginia

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

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 understanding of 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.

What these scientists revealed about the structure of the T cell receptor could help resolve a decades-old debate over how T cells get activated

Researchers discovered new characteristics of a T cell receptor that’s essential to a variety of cutting-edge T cell immunotherapies.

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