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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.
Saturday, November 21, 2009 | 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Keynote Speakers: Sidney Nagel (University of Chicago) and David Goldhaber-Gordon (Stanford University)
Graduate students in condensed matter physics have come together to organize this biannual conference. Students, postdocs and faculty should come to share ideas and research with fellow physicists training and working in the NYC Metropolitan Area.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speakers: Gerald M. Edelman (The Neurosciences Institute and The Scripps Research Institute), Paul Ekman (University of California, San Francisco and Paul Ekman Group LLC), and Terrence Deacon (University of California, Berkeley)
S&C celebrates the 150th anniversary of the publication of the landmark book, The Origin of Species, by the most legendary member of NYAS, Charles Darwin. Join Gerald Edelman, Paul Ekman, and Terrence Deacon for an evening of evolution.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Organizers: Cynthia Rosenzweig and William Solecki (Co-Chairs of the New York City Panel on Climate Change)
This discussion will highlight New York City as an example for cities around the globe and examine the key role cities play in climate change adaptation
Thursday, December 3, 2009 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Speakers: Til Schuermann (Federal Reserve Bank) and Allan Meltzer (Carnegie Mellon University)
The Quantitative Finance Discussion Group presents this discussion on regulation of capital markets.
Thursday, December 3, 2009 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Speakers: Roger Cooke (University of Vermont), and Loren Graham (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The History and Philosophy of Science Section of the New York Academy of Sciences holds multiple meetings covering a wide range of topics within the field.
Thursday, December 3, 2009 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Organizers: Jane Hubbard (The Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine), Cathy Savage-Dunn (Queens College, CUNY) and Shai Shaham (The Rockefeller University)
The NY 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.
Monday, December 7, 2009 | 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speakers: Jean Gautier (Columbia University), Tarun Kapoor (The Rockefeller University), Patrick Sung (Yale University) and Rachel O'Neill (University of Connecticut, Storrs)
The Genome Integrity 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 in the area of chromosome biology and function.
Monday, December 7, 2009 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speakers: Felice Frankel and George Whitesides (Harvard University)
Science & the City hosts renowned science photographer Felice Frankel and nanotechnology pioneer George Whitesides both of Harvard University, for an evening of astounding art and world-changing science at the launch of their coffee-table book No Small Matter, a book that reveals the virtually invisible realities of nanoscience.
Monday, December 7, 2009 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Barbara Mowder (Pace University)
The NYAS Psychology Section presents programs about contemporary issues and research in the field.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Organizer: Ernest Tollerson (MTA)
Panelists: Thomas Abdallah (New York City Transit), John Rhyner (P.W. Grosser Consulting)
The MTA pumps 8-13 million gallons of groundwater daily to keep subway tunnels dry. Currently, the water is treated as a liability and is routed into the city sewers. This panel discussion will explore possible beneficial uses of this groundwater.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speakers: Haim Einat (University of Minnesota), Rif S. El-Mallakh (University of Louisville School of Medicine), Todd Gould (University of Maryland School of Medicine), Alexander B. Niculescu, III (Indiana University School of Medicine)
This symposium will highlight new developments in Bipolar disorder models and biomarker identification, and will reveal how these new strategies can further our understanding of the disease and our ability to identify new therapies.
Thursday, December 17, 2009 | 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Lyceum Society is for the Academy's retired and semi-retired members. All NYAS members are welcome.
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.
Thursday, January 7, 2010 | 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Organizer: Gordon Feller (Urban Age Institute)
Thought leaders from around the world will gather at the Academy to explore how dual crises in the environment and the banking industry could converge to offer opportunities to transition to a cleaner, greener urban age.
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.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 | 1:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Organizers: Steven Gross (Weill Cornell Medical College) and Kyu Rhee (Weill Cornell Medical College)
This symposium will review recent technical and conceptual advances that highlight the unique, but largely unrecognized, potential of the metabolomics arm of systems biology.
Monday, January 25, 2010 | 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Speakers: John M. Denu (University of Wisconsin), Hening Lin (Cornell University), Anthony A. Sauve (Weill Cornell Medical College) and Song Tan (Penn State)
The Chemical Biology Discussion Group brings together chemists and biologists interested in learning about the latest ideas in this rapidly growing field.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Organizers: Lawrence P. Wennogle (Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc.) and Peter Hutson (Merck and Co., Inc.)
The symposium will focus on phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitors for schizophrenia and cognitive disorders and review the theoretical basis of different PDE isoforms as well as the progress towards human clinical testing of these agents.
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