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September 23 - 25, 2010
Keynote Speaker: Apostolos P. Georgopoulos (University of Minnesota Medical School)
Neural prosthetic devices to replace motor, sensory, and cognitive function lost by disease or trauma hold great therapeutic promise but have been widely used in people. This conference will examine how to use neural prosthetics therapeutically.
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010 | 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
The 13th Annual Summer Meeting will be held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and includes presentations by local researchers, a poster competition, and an evening reception. Registration is free, and transportation will be provided.
August 9 - 10, 2010
Symposium Chair: Congressman Steve Israel (2nd District, New York, US House of Representatives)
Expert panels will discuss business opportunities and challenges in new energy technologies, and entrepreneurs will pitch their business plans to a panel of investors and financial industry experts.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Nancy Etcoff (Harvard Medical School)
Nancy Etcoff, PhD, author of Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty, shares her latest research and thoughts on human beauty and its connection to happiness.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Speakers: Sam Danishefsky (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center), Lara Mahal (New York University), Suzanne Walker (Harvard Medical School) and Peng Wu (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
Glycosylation creates a range of carbohydrates or glycans, important in viruses, cancer and stem cells. Chemists and biologists collaborate to understand the analytical, synthetic and biochemical challenges of this important class of biomolecules.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Christiane Northrup (Christiane Northrup, Inc.)
A leading proponent of medicine and healing that acknowledges the unity of the mind and body discusses the vital connection between pleasure and health.
September 23 - 25, 2010
Keynote Speaker: Apostolos P. Georgopoulos (University of Minnesota Medical School)
Neural prosthetic devices to replace motor, sensory, and cognitive function lost by disease or trauma hold great therapeutic promise but have not been widely used in people. This conference will examine how to use neural prosthetics therapeutically.
September 24 - 25, 2010
Organizers: Mercedes McCormick (Pace University), Florence Denmark (Pace University, Joan Chrisler (Connecticut College) and Varda Muhlbauer (Netanya Academic College)
Women, Power, and Aging event will address the empowerment, self-confidence, and enhanced freedom of self-definition that have educated mid-life women today to change their experience of aging and improved their quality of life
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speakers: Fadi G. Akar (Mount Sinai School of Medicine), Roger J. Hajjar (Mount Sinai School of Medicine), Mariell Jessup (University of Pennsylvania College of Medicine), Walter J. Koch (Thomas Jefferson University), and Evangelia Kranias (University of Cincinnati College of Medicine)
Development of therapies to treat heart failure is hampered by a lack of understanding of underlying mechanisms. This symposium reviews current and potential therapeutic approaches, and research to identify useful molecular targets.
Thursday, September 30, 2010 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
The Board of Governors of The New York Academy of Sciences cordially invites members to the 192nd Annual Meeting.
Saturday, October 2, 2010 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Looking for field trips? Come learn about activities on Randall's Island with the NYAS Science Teacher Program. Join the Parks Staff on Randall's Island for a walking tour of the Randall's Island Wetlands, focusing on observation and inquiry-based exploration of the site. This tour will incorporate ecology, environmental impact, and inquiry skills from the NYC Living Environment Curriculum. This event is being held at Randall's Island.
Monday, October 4, 2010 | 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Genome Integrity Discussion Group provides a forum for interactions between basic and clinical research groups working on chromosome biology and function, and at the interface between chromosome integrity and onset and progression of malignancy.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 | 8:30 AM - 7:00 PM
Chair: Franz Hefti, PhD (Avid Radiopharmaceuticals)
This conference will highlight novel and innovative therapeutic targets for Parkinson’s Disease, biomarkers for early detection and assessment of disease progression, and emerging strategies to alleviate symptoms and/or to slow disease progression.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speakers: Katerina Akassoglou (Gladstone Institute & UCSF), Andrew Miller (Emory University School of Medicine), Malú Tansey (Emory University), Shi Du Yan (Columbia University) and Raz Yirmiya (Hebrew University)
Breakthroughs spanning neuroscience and immunology are rare, as they do not share a common language or purpose. This symposium highlights recent discoveries in clinical depression, the stress response, Alzheimer's and multiple sclerosis.
October 29 - 30, 2010
Organizers: Barry Lester (Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University), Edward Tronick (University Massachusetts Boston and Children's Hospital Boston), and Eric Nestler (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)
This 2-day CME-accredited conference will focus on the quest to understand how environmental factors affect behavioral outcomes (learning, memory, mental illness, normal development and developmental psychopathology) via epigenetic modulation.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Organizer: Eric Lai (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
This half-day meeting will explore recent research on piRNAs biogenesis and their role in self-renewing divisions of germ-line stem cells, genome integrity, and epigenetic regulation.
Monday, November 8, 2010 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Speakers: Richard Bonneau (New York University), Saeed Tavazoie (Princeton University) and Yuhai Tu (IBM Research)
Systems biologists and computational biologists combine methodologies to examine bacterial genomes and elucidate basic signal transduction mechanisms and the genetic basis of phenotypes in bacteria of biological, environmental and clinical importance.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speakers: Greg Hannon (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Pier Paolo Pandolfi (Harvard Medical School), John Rinn (Harvard Medical School), Ramin Shiekhattar (The Wistar Institute), David Spector (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Non- coding RNAs are emerging as important regulators of development and function in many physiological processes. Their role in controlling pathogenesis and their potential as targets for therapeutic intervention are becoming increasingly apparent.
Friday, November 19, 2010 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speakers: Benjamin Haley (Genentech), Philipp Keller (Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Ihor Lemischka (Mount Sinai School of Medicine), Hang Lu (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Stanislav Shvartsman (Princeton University)
Dynamic phenotypes are characterized to help us understand biological function and diagnose illness. This symposium covers high-throughput screening, novel microfluidics devices and modeling to understand biological systems and their environment.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speakers: Jayne Raper (New York University School of Medicine) and Honorine Ward (Tufts University School of Medicine)
Backpacking and city living facilitate the spread of parasites through food and water, via pets or through sexual contact. This symposium provides a research update into parasitic diseases, including sleeping sickness, malaria and Cryptosporidium.
Thursday, December 2, 2010 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speakers: Cori Bargman (The Rockefeller University) and David Hall (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
The New York area C. elegans Discussion Group presents meetings featuring talks by graduate students, post-docs, or laboratory heads from the tri-state area with an emphasis on new and emerging data. Meetings are followed by a networking reception.
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