Schedule of Events

SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM

Caspary Auditorium

8:30 – 9:30 AM
Registration and Coffee
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Lounge
 

9:30 – 9:40 AM

Welcoming Remarks

Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D.
President and Carson Family Professor
The Rockefeller University
 

9:40 – 9:45 AM

Introduction

Robert B. Darnell, M.D., Ph.D.
Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor and Head
Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-oncology, The Rockefeller University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Senior Attending Physician, The Rockefeller University Hospital

Moderated by

David E. Levy, Ph.D.
Schneider Professor of Molecular Pathology and Professor of Microbiology
Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, New York University
Grossman School of Medicine
 

9:45 – 10:05 AM

45s RNA

Harriet L. Robinson, Ph.D.
CSO Emeritus, GeoVax, Inc.
Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Emeritus
Emory University
 

10:05 – 10:25 AM

Picking a Winner

Deborah Bernhardt Mowshowitz, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs and Labs
Department of Biological Sciences
Columbia University
 

10:25 – 10:45 AM

From Liver-specific Genes to Mucosal Immunity

Eva Derman, Ph.D.
President
Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews
 

10:45 – 11:05 AM

Transcriptional Control in Hepatocytes, HNF-3, and Fox Genes

Eseng Lai, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Vice President, Translational Medicine
Merck Research Laboratories
 

11:05 – 11:30 AM
Break
 

11:30 – 11:50 AM

The Darnell Lab in the 1980s: From Nucleus to the Cell Surface and Back

Jeffrey M. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D.
Marilyn M. Simpson Professor and Head
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, The Rockefeller University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
 

11:50 AM – 12:10 PM

Don’t Shoot the Messenger

Ronald M. Evans, Ph.D.
Professor, Head of Gene Expression Laboratory
March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
 

12:10 – 12:30 PM

E2F, Adenovirus, and Life in the Darnell Lab

Joseph Nevins, Ph.D.
Former James B. Duke Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Duke University Medical Center
Former Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
 

12:30 – 2:00 PM
Lunch Break
 

2:00 – 2:20 PM

Learning from Interferon, from Theory to Practice

Dr. Levy
 

2:20 – 2:40 PM

STATs Are Tyrosine Phosphorylated Transcription Factors

Christian Schindler, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Attending, New York Presbyterian Hospital
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
 

2:40 – 3:00 PM

STAT Signaling in the Darnell Lab

Ke Shuai, Ph.D.
Professor
Nanjing University, China
 

3:00 – 3:30 PM
Break
 

3:30 – 3:50 PM

STAT3 A Regulator of Breast Tumorigenesis

Jacqueline Bromberg, M.D., Ph.D.
Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Associate Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College
 

3:50 – 4:10 PM

STAT Structure and Function

Claudia Mertens, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate, Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology
The Rockefeller University
 

4:10 – 4:30 PM

Novel Functions of STAT2 in Cancer and Infection

George R. Stark, Ph.D.
Distinguished Scientist
Cleveland Clinic
 

4:30 – 5:00 PM
Break
 

5:00 – 6:00 PM

Reflections on a Life in Science:
A Conversation with James E. Darnell, Jr., and Jeffrey M. Friedman

James E. Darnell, Jr., M.D.
Vincent Astor Professor Emeritus
The Rockefeller University
 
Dr. Friedman
 

CELEBRATORY DINNER

6:30 – 9:00 PM
Anna-Maria & Stephen Kellen BioLink

Registration is required for the symposium and dinner. Guests have the additional option of registering to view the event virtually. If you register to view the event virtually, a link will be sent in advance of the event.
 
For more information, please contact Nathan Rudder at ruevents@rockefeller.edu or 212-327-8966.