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Past Events
Friday, February 3, 2012 | 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Organizers: Steven S. Gross (Weill Cornell Medical College ), Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)
Keynote Speakers: Lewis C. Cantley (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center & Harvard Medical School); Craig Thompson (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
Speakers: Marcia C. Haigis (Harvard Medical School), Steven M. Lipkin (Weill Cornell Medical College), Joshua D. Rabinowitz (Princeton University), Gary Siuzdak (Scripps Research Institute), Eileen White (Rutgers University)
Panelist: Steven Fischer (Agilent Technologies)
While cancer cells show distinct features, a complete metabolome picture is elusive. This symposium reveals strategies for metabolite profiling to distinguish cancer cells, signaling cascades that drive selective pathways, and novel chemotherapies.
Thursday, February 2, 2012 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Organizer: Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)
Moderator: W. Ian Lipkin (Center for Infection & Immunity, Columbia University)
Panelists: Arturo Casadevall (Albert Einstein College of Medicine), Laurie Garrett (Council on Foreign Relations), Michael T. Osterholm (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota), Peter Palese (Mount Sinai School of Medicine), Veronique Kiermer (Nature Publishing Group), Barbara R. Jasny (Science), Alan S. Ruldolph (Defense Threat Reduction Agency), Vincent Racaniello (Columbia University)
Following a government recommendation that Nature and Science authors remove methodological details from recent H5N1 studies, scientists, publishers, and legal experts will explore the censorship and biosecurity issues surrounding this controversy.
Monday, January 30, 2012 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Terry Harrison (New York University)
The Academy's Anthropology Section is the crossroads for four-field anthropology in the greater New York area.
Thursday, January 26, 2012 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speakers: Dennis Meadows (Author) and Thomas Graedel (Yale University)
Join us as we explore an updated view of the 1972 hit book The Limits to Growth, with thoughts by an original author and a world renowned industrial ecologist.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Kavita Sivaramakrishnan (Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia 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.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 | 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Organizers: David Cowburn (Albert Einstein College of Medicine), David Eliezer (Weill Medical College of Cornell University), Ming Zhou (Columbia University), and Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)
The New York Area Structural Biology Discussion Group convenes twice annually and presents talks and poster sessions from graduate students, postdocs, and laboratory heads.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: Carl Zimmer (author)
Award-winning science journalist Carl Zimmer will speak about the science and history of tattooing, and share the compelling personal stories behind his new book Science Ink.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speakers: Brian T. Gold (University of Kentucky), Simon Lovestone (MRC Centre for Neurodegeneration Research, London), John C. Morris (Washington University School of Medicine), John Olichney (University of California, Davis), and Reisa Sperling (Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School)
New clinical tools suggest that events underlying AD begin many years prior to diagnosis. This symposium explores these structural, functional, and biochemical events that precede and may predict both AD and amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI).
Friday, January 20, 2012 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Speakers: David C. Morrison, PhD (Grant Writers’ Seminars & Workshops, LLC) and Christopher J. Papasian, PhD, D(ABMM) (Grant Writers’ Seminars & Workshops, LLC)
Workshop participants will learn what the most efficient approach is for producing publishable data; how to decide who will be included as authors, and in what order; how to write with maximal clarity and precision; how to avoid giving the perception of conflict of interest; and much more!
Thursday, January 19, 2012 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker: Joy Zagoren, PhD
The Lyceum Society is comprised of the Academy's retired and semi-retired members. Talks cover various scientific fields. All Academy members are welcome.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 | 4:45 PM - 7:30 PM
Organizers: Andrea Califano (Columbia University), Manuel Duval (Network Therapeutics Inc.), Aris Economides (Regeneron Pharmaceuticals), Gustavo Stolovitzky (IBM Research), Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)
Speakers: Narendra Maheshri (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Johan Paulsson (Harvard Medical School), Chris Wiggins (Columbia University), Grégoire Altan-Bonnet (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
Fluorescence microscopy advances have opened new vistas in the study of the dynamics of molecules in single cells. This symposium brings together systems biologists working on the elucidation of the effects of noise in single cells using mathematical and experimental methods.
Thursday, January 12, 2012 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Moderator: David Roberts (Grist.org)
Speakers: Stewart Brand (Long Now Foundation), Joe Fargione (The Nature Conservancy), Jesse Jenkins (Breakthrough Institute), Arne Jungiohann (Heinrich Boell Institute) and Jeff Opperman (Nature Conservancy)
How can Earth possibly meet its growing energy demands without destroying the environment? Experts on wind, nuclear, hydropower and other energy forms debate the most promising paths forward. The first installment of our four-part series Discourses on Nature and Society.
Friday, December 16, 2011 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speakers: Sergiu P. Pasca (Stanford University School of Medicine), Ole Isacson (McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School), Marc Lalande (University of Connecticut Health Center), Hongjun Song (Johns Hopkins University), Lorenz Studer (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) offer a rare opportunity to study viable neurons potentially representative of the disease state. This symposium examines the generation of patient specific iPSCs, technical challenges and patient consent.
Friday, December 16, 2011 | 12:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speakers: Valeri Lantz-Gefroh (Stony Brook University) and Steve Marsh (Stony Brook University)
This innovative program, pioneered by Alan Alda, uses improvisational theater games to help you improve your public speaking skills.
Thursday, December 15, 2011 | 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Review and Discussion of 2011 Nobel Awards
The Lyceum Society is comprised of the Academy's retired and semi-retired members. Talks cover various scientific fields. All Academy members are welcome.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speakers: Jonathan N. Barasch (Columbia University Medical Center), Colin Meyer (Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc.), Nick Vaziri (University of California, Irvine), David Warnock (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Diabetes mellitus and hypertension are thought to cause chronic kidney disease (CKD), and some link CKD with chronic inflammation and oxidative stress. This symposium presents results from trials with a drug that modulates inflammatory pathways.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Organizers: Robert Martone (Covance Biomarker Center of Excellence), Sean Pintchovski (Lundbeck Research USA), and Roland Staal (Lundbeck Research USA), Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)
This symposium gathers experts on microglia and monocyte biology to discuss the role of inflammation in neurological diseases and disorders, insights into their biology, and possible therapeutic interventions.
Monday, December 5, 2011 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Gabriella G. Modan (Ohio State University). Discussant: Jillian Cavanaugh (Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY)
The Academy's Anthropology Section is the crossroads for four-field anthropology in the greater New York area.
Monday, December 5, 2011 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Speakers: Chris Bregler (New York University) and Heather Knight (Carnegie Mellon)
For the fourth installment of the Being Human in the 21st Century Series, roboticists Heather Knight and Chris Bregler discuss our familiar but strange robot-human relations.
Monday, December 5, 2011 | 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Speakers: Wenwen Fang (Princeton University), Jean Gautier (Columbia University Medical Center), Isabel Kurth (The Rockefeller University), Simon Powell (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center), Lorraine Symington (Columbia University Medical Center), Mamta Tahiliani (New York University) and Matthew Weitzman (University of Pennsylvania)
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.
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