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Past Events
Thursday, November 19, 2009 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Speakers: Angela DePace (Harvard Medical School), Stanislav Y. Shvartsman (Princeton University) and Antonio Iavarone (Columbia University)
This symposium focuses on computational, quantitative imaging and genetic approaches to understand patterning and morphogenesis, and the gene regulatory networks that control development and evolution.
Thursday, November 19, 2009 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker: Jim Browne (Management Engineer, Port Authority)
Please note the change in speaker for this meeting. The Lyceum Society is for the Academy's retired and semi-retired members. All NYAS members are welcome.
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.
November 13 - 14, 2009
Organizers: Keith Micoli (NYU School of Medicine) and Robert Tillman (New York Academy of Sciences)
A New York regional graduate career symposium for s.t.e.m. individuals sponsored by a regional consortium of schools and partners.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Organizers: Patricia Giblin (Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc), William Loging (Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.), Donna L. Mendrick (National Center for Toxicological Research), Matthew S. Bogdanffy (Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc), David W. Brewster (Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.)
The aim of this symposium is to provide a forum to discuss whether Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) that has been seen in multiple drug trails is a direct consequence of the mechanism of therapeutic action or whether it’s an off-target adverse affect of the therapeutic agent.
Monday, November 9, 2009 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speakers: Melissa Checker (City University of New York, Queens College), Russell Sharman (Brooklyn College, CUNY) and Paul Stoller (West Chester University)
The Academy's Anthropology Section is the crossroads for four-field anthropology in the greater New York area.
Monday, November 9, 2009 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: Lisa Borland, PhD (Evnine and Associates)
Dr. Lisa Borland applies methods from theoretical physics to understand the dynamics of financial markets. At this symposium, she will present her recent work “Statistical Signatures in Times of Panic: Markets as a Self-Organizing System”.
Monday, November 9, 2009 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Speakers: Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University), Shahar Dobzinski (Cornell Univeristy), Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania), and Larry Blume (Cornell University)
This meeting brings together researchers in the New York metropolitan area with interests in Computer Science, Economics, Marketing and Business, and a common focus in understanding and developing the economics of internet activity.
Friday, November 6, 2009 | 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Speakers: Robert Bell (AT&T Labs Research), Avrim Blum (Carnegie Mellon University), Thorsten Joachims (Cornell University), Philip Long (Google)
The aim of the annual Machine Learning Symposium is to build a community of scientists in machine learning from the NYC area's academic, government, and industrial institutions by convening and promoting the exchange of ideas in a neutral setting.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: Katayoun Chamany (Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts)
Learn how to incorporate issues of social responsibility into the traditional biology curriculum to attract and maintain the interest of a diverse population of students.
Monday, November 2, 2009 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Organizers: Eric Lai (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) and Thomas Tuschl (The Rockefeller University)
This 1-day symposium will explore the role of non-coding RNAs in nervous system development, function and etiology of disease.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Nathan Sivin (University of Pennsylvania)
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
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 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speakers: Eric W. Sanderson, PhD (Wildlife Conservation Society) and Charles C. Mann
Hear these authors speak on the ecology and landscape of New York City prior to European settlement. Discussion of the human and environmental history of our region, which informs the sustainable use of local resources, will follow.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Panelists: Ken Davis (Mount Sinai Medical Center), Jonathan Bowles (Center for an Urban Future), Donna Rounds (The Hospital for Special Surgery), and René Bastón (New York Academy of Sciences)
Moderator: Garrick Utley (The Levin Institute)
How can NYC convert its biomedical community into a more robust economic engine for New York? This panel will compare activities in New York and elsewhere to commercialize research in the life sciences.
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.
Monday, October 26, 2009 | 7:15 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Paige West (Barnard College and Columbia University), and Glenn Petersen (Baruch College, CUNY)
The Academy's Anthropology Section is the crossroads for four-field anthropology in the greater New York area.
Monday, October 26, 2009 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Rolando Diaz-Loving (University of Mexico)
The NYAS Psychology Section presents programs about contemporary issues and research in the field.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speakers: Kurt H. Becker (Polytechnic Institute of New York University), Simon J. L. Billinge (Columbia University), Scott Snyder (Columbia University), and Jim Yardley (Columbia University)
Join us for an evening with faculty and researchers who will discuss best practices for balancing the books and offer sage advice for those looking to run their own research group.
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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