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Wednesday, March 17, 2010 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speakers: Andy McMahon (Harvard University), Kenneth Olive (Columbia University), Robert Yauch (Genentech, Inc.)
The Hedgehog Signaling Pathway regulates processes essential for embryo development, offering a novel approach to the treatment of some cancers. This meeting reviews its role in disease pathogenesis and discusses potential therapeutic opportunities.
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Thursday, February 11, 2010 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speakers: Britta Gross (General Motors), Mike Ligett (Progress Energy) Neal Parikh (Office of Long-term Planning and Sustainability) and Bruce Schaller (New York City Department of Transportation)
This panel discussion will address the barriers to widespread market penetration of electric vehicles and battery dominant hybrids in New York City. This event is presented by the Greening Transportation & Infrastructure Discussion Group.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Marion Nestle (New York University)
There is a science to eating well, and an art to shopping for food. Nutrition expert and What to Eat author Marion Nestle explains, from a scientific perspective, how to decode diet advice, read grocery labels, and choose food wisely.
Monday, February 22, 2010 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Char Ullman (University of Texas El Paso)
The Academy's Anthropology Section is the crossroads for four-field anthropology in the greater New York area.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speakers: Mark Bear (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Bita Moghaddam (University of Pittsburgh), Colleen Niswender (Vanderbilt University School of Medicine), Jean-Philippe Pin (Université de Montpellier) and Jean-Philippe Rocher (Addex Pharmaceuticals)
This symposium will include detailed discussions of these unique GPCRs, considered by many to be the single most promising new collection of targets for CNS drug discovery.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speakers: Natalie Dennison (Bushwick School for Social Justice), Michael Holmes (High School of American Studies at Lehman), Homer Panteloglou (High School of Economics and Finance), and Nicola Vitale (Banana Kelly High School)
Whether you’re a science educator or considering it as a career or if you simply want to learn more about some of the great work being done by today’s science and math teachers, this is an event you won’t want to miss.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Speakers: Reynold Levy (Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts), Kate D. Levin (New York City Department of Cultural Affairs), and Tom Finkelpearl (Queens Museum of Art)
New York is one of the world’s cultural leaders. What is needed to sustain and strengthen this leadership and exploit global opportunities?
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Eugene Cittadino (New York University)
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.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Organizers: Dickson Despommier (Columbia University), Stephen Morse (Columbia University) and Gavin Schmidt (NASA)
Climate change has led to higher rates of emerging infectious diseases worldwide, reemergence of diseases previously under control, and redistribution of diseases across the planet. This symposium examines these complex relationships.
Monday, March 8, 2010 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speakers: Suzanne Seltzer and Kate Kalmykov (Klasko, Rulon, Stock & Seltzer, LLP)
Immigration options for students and researchers studying or working in the U.S. will be discussed by experts in immigration law. Join us at the Academy or log in to watch the live webinar.
Thursday, March 11, 2010 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speakers: Sasha Lyutse (Natural Resources Defense Council) and Alexia Kelly (World Resources Institute)
Panelists will explore how carbon offsets could achieve cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gases, and how to judge whether methods proposed for measuring and verifying offsets are capable of producing the intended environmental benefits.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Speakers: Steve Kleinstein (Yale University), Gustavo Palacios (Mailman School of Public Health - Columbia University) and Raul Rabadan (Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons)
This symposium covers the use of systems biology tools, genome analysis and bioinformatics, to better the host-pathogen relationships and the immune response.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speakers: Andy McMahon (Harvard University), Kenneth Olive (Columbia University), Robert Yauch (Genentech, Inc.)
The Hedgehog Signaling Pathway regulates processes essential for embryo development, offering a novel approach to the treatment of some cancers. This meeting reviews its role in disease pathogenesis and discusses potential therapeutic opportunities.
Monday, March 22, 2010 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speakers: Jane Schneider (Hofstra University), Sharryn Kasmir (American Ethnological Society ), August Carbonella (Memorial University), Ken Guest (Baruch College, CUNY), Andrew Newman (Graduate Center, CUNY), and Antonio Lauria-Perricelli (NYU)
The Academy's Anthropology Section is the crossroads for four-field anthropology in the greater New York area.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speakers: John Hambor (Cell Therapy Group), Konrad Hochedlinger (Harvard Stem Cell Institute), and Timothy Kamp (University of Wisconsin)
Induced pluripotent stem cells could maintain the potential of embryonic stem cells without using embryos. This symposium will cover the current and potential use of pluripotent stem cells to enable technology in drug discovery and therapeutics.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 | 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Speaker: Sheila Tobias (codirector, Science Teaching as a Profession project, and coauthor, Science Teaching as a Profession)
Join us for an evening with Sheila Tobias, codirector of the Science Teaching as a Profession project, aimed at elevating the status of secondary school science teachers.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: David E. Rowe (Mainz University)
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, March 25, 2010 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Organizers: Jane Hubbard (The Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine), Cathy Savage-Dunn (Queens College, CUNY), Shai Shaham (The Rockefeller University), Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)
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.
Friday, March 26, 2010 | 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Organizers: Alla Grishok, PhD (Columbia University) and Thomas Tuschl, PhD (Rockefeller University)
This 1-day symposium will explore the role of small non-coding RNAs in host-pathogen interactions from the perspectives of both Pathogenesis and Immunobiology.
Monday, April 5, 2010 | 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Organizers: Titia de Lange (The Rockefeller University), John Petrini (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) and Rodney Rothstein (Columbia University)
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.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 | 1:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Speakers: Helena Boshoff (NIH), William R. Jacobs, Jr. (Albert Einstein College of Medicine), Carl Nathan (Weill Cornell Medical College), Christopher Sassetti (University of Massachusetts Medical School), and (Dirk Schnappinger) Weill Cornell Medical College
TB kills nearly 2 million people yearly, and now shows drug resistance. This symposium highlights how the genetic information of the pathogen and genetic tools are utilized in the quest for new TB drugs.
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