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Tuesday, January 5, 2010 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Helen Fisher (Rutgers University)
A biological anthropologist who has conducted fMRI studies on the brains of people in love, Helen Fisher maintains that humans have evolved three core brain systems for mating and reproduction.
Monday, January 11, 2010 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Organizers: Mary Baylies (Sloan Kettering Institute), Laura Johnston (Columbia University), and Jennifer Zallen (Sloan Kettering Institute)
New York Area Drosophila Discussion Group meetings include four presentations by graduate students and post-docs selected from area laboratories by the program committee with an emphasis on new and emerging data.
January 12 - April 6, 2010
Lead Instructor: David Anthony (21 Ventures, LLC) and additional guest lecturers (TBA)
A course for those in science and technology who want to know how to take the right idea from the bench to the marketplace.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 | 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Organizers: David Eliezer (Weill Medical College of Cornell University), David Stokes (NYU School of Medicine), and Hao Wu (Weill Medical College of Cornell University)
The New York Area Structural Biology Discussion Group convenes twice annually and presents talks and poster sessions from graduate students, postdocs, and laboratory heads.
Thursday, January 14, 2010 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Speakers: Ned S. Wingreen (Princeton University), Alexander R. A. Anderson (H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) and John Jeremy Rice (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
This symposium will bring together researchers using systems biology tools to study a wide array of multi-scale processes including bacterial sensing and response to environment, tumor angiogenesis and invasion, and cardiac function.
Friday, November 13, 2009 | 1:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Speakers: Peter Courtland Agre (Bloomberg School of Public Health), Rita R. Colwell (University of Maryland College Park), Erik R. Peterson (Center for Strategic and International Studies), Kellogg Schwab (Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health)
Please join the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as we explore one of our planet's most valuable resources—water.
October 28 - 30, 2009
Organizers: Debra L. Laskin (Rutgers University), Howard Kipen (UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School),Val Vallyathan (NIOSH/CDC), Vince Castranova (NIOSH/CDC), Andrew J. Gow (Rutgers University), Jeffrey D. Laskin (UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School), and Diane E. Heck (New York Medical College)
The symposium will integrate basic science and clinical research so that both bench researchers and clinicians can discuss the role of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species in inflammation and lung disease.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speakers: Suzanne M. de la Monte (Brown Medical School), William L. Klein (Northwestern University), José A. Luchsinger (Columbia University), Mark Mattson (National Institute on Aging, NIH)
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has been called Type 3 diabetes, unique to the brain; others suggest that diabetes is a risk factor for AD. This symposium will discuss the significance of cerebral metabolic disturbances in Alzheimer's disease.
October 21 - 24, 2009
Organizers: Elliott Vichinsky (Children's Hospital and Research Center, Oakland, CA), Ellis Neufeld (Children's Hospital Boston)
This symposium will illuminate many unsolved but critically important issues in the understanding and treatment of thalassemia, thus offering the scientific, clinical, caregiving, and patient communities the most up-to-date exchange on the current and future perspectives of the disease.
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eBriefing
Keynote speakers: Alan Cohen (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia),
Chaim Hershko (Shaare Zedek Medical Center), and Sir David Weatherall (University of Oxford)
As this eBriefing reports, new treatments and a potential cure using gene therapy are bringing new hope and health to individuals who suffer from this heritable blood disorder.
Annals
Edited by Simon Lovestone (King's College, University of London)
In this Annals volume experts discuss the latest advances in biomarker technologies and biomarker development for brain disorders.
eBriefing
Organizer: Mary Ann Banerji, MD (SUNY Downstate Medical Center)
Minority populations in the United States bear a disproportionate burden of diabetes and related conditions. As a new eBriefing reports, the causes include genetics, social factors, and a need for more culturally sensitive approaches from the healthcare industry.
Annals
Edited by Lewis L. Judd (Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego) and Esther Sternberg (Integrative Neural Immune Program, Section on Neuroendocrine Immunology and Behavior, NIMH, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland)
New basic research provides important insights into possible mechanisms of action that promote negative sequelae in vulnerable and susceptible patients who receive glucocorticoid treatment.
eBriefing
Speakers: John Koh (University of Delaware), Akira Kawamura (Hunter College, City University of New York), and Tom Kodadek (The Scripps Research Institute)
From traditional Asian herbs to high-tech computational approaches, chemical biologists are using everything in their arsenal to identify promising new drug candidates.
Webinar Archive
November 13, 2009
Ensuring universal access to clean water has emerged as one of the most pressing issues facing public health officials and governments worldwide.
Webinar Archive
October 27, 2009
What is the connection between dysregulated neuronal insulin signaling and Alzheimer's disease? In a recent Academy webinar, some researchers argued that the neurodegenerative disease should be considered a type of diabetes.
Webinar Archive
September 15, 2009
Why do minority populations in developed countries bear a disproportionate burden of diabetes and related conditions? A NYAS symposium explored why, and discussed culturally sensitive approaches that could help control this epidemic.
Webinar Archive
May 28, 2009
Vaccine experts and public health officials met at the Academy on May 28, 2009 to discuss the latest about the outbreak.
Webinar Archive
May 20, 2009
Regions of Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America bear the greatest burden from infectious diseases, in part because life-saving vaccines have not been broadly implemented. How can they be delivered to those who need them most?
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