Calendar of Events & Lectures


Events

2014 Geoffrey Beene Symposium

| ZUCKERMAN AUDITORIUM, MSKCC, 417 E. 68TH ST.
Tri-Institutional Events (at MSK & WCM), Other Tri-Institutional Events
Autophagy and Cancer
Beth Levine, M.D., professor of internal medicine and microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
David Sabatini, M.D., Ph.D., professor of biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Eileen White, Ph.D., associate director for basic science, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

How to Trigger Left-Right Asymmetry in Organisms: Roots, Snails and Maybe Your Brain

| B LEVEL CONFERENCE ROOM & PHYSICS LIBRARY, SMITH HALL ANNEX (CRC)
Seminars, Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Christopher L. Henley, Ph.D., professor of physics, Cornell University

Entry and Entry Inhibition of Hepatitis B and Hepatitis Delta Virus

| 305 WRB
Stephan Urban, Ph.D., head of the hepatitis B research group, Heidelberg University

Shorts: Intimate Portraits of Lifespan and Disease

| CARSON FAMILY AUDITORIUM (CRC)
Community Events, Science and Media Lecture Series
Presented by Imagine Science Film Festival and SciComm&Media

A Gut Microbiome-Brain Interaction Symposium

| CARSON FAMILY AUDITORIUM (CRC)
Lectures and Symposia, Academic Symposia
Jun R. Huh, Ph.D., assistant professor, division of infectious diseases and immunology, department of medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School
John F. Cryan, Ph.D., professor and chair, department of anatomy and neuroscience, University College Cork
Emeran A. Mayer, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine, psychiatry and physiology; director, Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress, University of California, Los Angeles
Jane A. Foster, Ph.D., department of psychiatry and behavioural neurosciences, McMaster University
Christopher A. Lowry, Ph.D., associate professor, department of integrative physiology and center for neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder
Tracy L. Bale, Ph.D., professor of neuroscience; director, neuroscience center, University of Pennysylvania
Elaine Y. Hsiao, Ph.D., senior research fellow, division of biology and biological engineering, California Institute of Technology

C. elegans Surveillance of Conserved Cellular Components to Detect and Defend Pathogen Attacks, Real or Imagined

| CASPARY AUDITORIUM
Academic Lectures, Friday Lecture Series
Gary Ruvkun, Ph.D., Hans-Hermann Schoene Distinguished Investigator and professor, department of genetics molecular biology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital

mTOR, Metabolism and T cell Activation, Differentiation and Function

| AUDITORIUM, ROCKEFELLER RESEARCH LABORATORIES, MSKCC, 430 E. 67TH ST.
Tri-Institutional Events (at MSK & WCM), Other Tri-Institutional Events
Jonathan Powell, M.D., Ph.D., professor of oncology and pharmacology, Graduate Program in Immunology, John Hopkins University

Osmotic Spreading of Bacterial Biofilms

| B LEVEL CONFERENCE ROOM & PHYSICS LIBRARY, SMITH HALL ANNEX (CRC)
Seminars, Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Agnese Seminara, Ph.D., researcher, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis

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: