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eBriefing
Organizers: Erica Friedman, David Muller, and Karen Zier (Mount Sinai School of Medicine) & Sonya Dougal and Monica Kerr (The New York Academy of Sciences)
This eBriefing discusses the benefits, such as improved analytic, creative, and critical-thinking skills, and the practical issues associated with implementing mandatory research training for all medical students.
In this eBriefing
- Unpacking the impact of research programs on MDs' career choices and skills
- The value of mandatory research programs and their possible displacement of other curricular activities
- The broad goals and implementation of medical student research programs
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Recent eBriefings
May 17, 2012
Moderator: Bill Ulfelder (The Nature Conservancy)
Speakers: Marielle Anzelone (NYC Wildflower Week), Jon Christensen (Stanford University), Susannah Drake (dlandstudio pllc), Rob McDonald (The Nature Conservancy), and Phil Stevens (Urban Creeks Council)
Across the United States, people are newly inspired to recapture nature in cities, but can these efforts rebuild biodiversity? In this eBriefing, leading scientists, authors, and urban conservationists discuss the science behind and the promise of today's urban conservation efforts.
May 15, 2012
Speaker: Matthew R. Marcello (UMDNJ–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School)
This eBriefing provides current and future faculty the knowledge and skills to incorporate scientific teaching principles (active learning, diversity, and assessment) into their courses.
May 10, 2012
Speakers: Bonnie Bassler (Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Princeton University) and Arturo Casadevall (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
Organizers: S. Marvin Friedman (Hunter College, CUNY), Jennifer S. Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)
Research into obscure organisms can aid drug development in unexpected ways. In this eBriefing, Bonnie Bassler and Arturo Casadevall discuss, respectively, the exploitation of quorum sensing to develop anti-microbial agents and a potential therapy for human melanoma discovered in the study of fungal melanin.
May 8, 2012
Moderator: Julia Rankin (The Science Collaborative, Inc.)
Panelists: Michael Holmes (High School for American Studies at Lehman College), David M. Steiner (Hunter College School of Education), and Preeti Gupta (American Museum of Natural History)
With a third of new teachers leaving after three years and almost half after five, the problem of teacher retention calls to mind the image of bailing out the lifeboat with a sieve. Visit this eBriefing for a panel discussion on teacher retention strategies.
May 4, 2012
Speakers: Chris Garvin (Terrapin Bright Green), Cliff Majersik (Institute for Market Transformation), and Chris Pyke (U.S. Green Building Council)
There is an increasing focus on policy, standards, and interoperability of building data. Without the proper tools, the virtual tsunami of building data can overwhelm potential users. This eBriefing focuses on refining the data stream to drive green building innovation.
May 3, 2012
Speakers: Darrell R. Abernethy (U.S. Food and Drug Administration), Angela Birnbaum (University of Minnesota), Jenny Y. Chien (Eli Lilly and Company), Jeremy D. Walston (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine), and Molly E. Zimmerman (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
Organizers: Seongeun (Julia) Cho (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) and Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)
Older individuals are the major users of many medications, yet clinical data to support evidence-based therapy are often lacking. This eBriefing presents clinical, regulatory, and industry considerations in investigating drugs for older patients.
May 3, 2012
Keynote Speakers: Amos Avidan (Bechtel), Mauricio Futran (Rutgers University), and Eric Toone (U.S. Department of Energy)
The field of chemical engineering—poised at the interface of chemistry, engineering, and biomedicine—is well positioned to solve global challenges. This eBriefing reviews the role of chemical engineering in energy and healthcare research: from new renewable energy sources to improved methods of tissue engineering.
May 1, 2012
Moderator: Karen Zier (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)
Panelists: Don Hoang (Yale University School of Medicine), Samuel Vanderhoek (Mount Sinai School of Medicine), Edward Vazquez (New York Presbyterian Hospital–Columbia Campus), and Annie Wang (The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University)
This eBriefing covers the student panel discussion of the "Integrating Student Research into the Medical School Curriculum" conference. Participants in medical school research programs discuss the impacts of their research experiences on career choices, scientific knowledge, mentor relationships, and more.
May 1, 2012
Organizers: Erica Friedman, David Muller, and Karen Zier (Mount Sinai School of Medicine) & Sonya Dougal and Monica Kerr (The New York Academy of Sciences)
This eBriefing discusses the benefits, such as improved analytic, creative, and critical-thinking skills, and the practical issues associated with implementing mandatory research training for all medical students.
April 23, 2012
Keynote Speakers: Lewis C. Cantley (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School) and Craig Thompson (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
While cancer cells show distinct features, a complete metabolomic picture is elusive. This symposium reveals strategies for metabolite profiling to distinguish cancer cells, signaling cascades that drive selective pathways, and novel chemotherapies.
April 23, 2012
Speakers: Dennis Meadows (author) and Thomas Graedel (Yale University)
This eBriefing explores an updated view of the 1972 hit book The Limits to Growth, with thoughts by an original author of the book and by a world-renowned industrial ecologist.
April 20, 2012
Speakers: Elizabeth Boon (Stony Brook University), Kim D. Janda (Scripps Research Institute), and Kyu Rhee (Weill Cornell Medical College)
Organizers: Elizabeth Boon (Stony Brook University), Lorrence H. Green (Westbury Diagnostics), and Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)
This eBriefing covers infectious disease at a molecular level, including bacterial "group behavior" called quorum sensing, bacterial signal transduction pathways, and the development of new chemistry-based antibacterials.
April 17, 2012
Speakers: Grégoire Altan-Bonnet (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center), Narendra Maheshri (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Johan Paulsson (Harvard Medical School), and Chris Wiggins (Columbia University)
Organizers: Andrea Califano (Columbia University), Manuel Duval (Network Therapeutics Inc.), Aris Economides (Regeneron Pharmaceuticals), Gustavo Stolovitzky (IBM Research), and Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)
Fluorescence microscopy advances have opened new avenues in the study of molecular dynamics in single cells. This eBriefing features systems biologists working on the elucidation of the effects of noise in mathematical and experimental methods analyzing single cells.
April 16, 2012
Speakers: Jonathan M. Barasch (Columbia University Medical Center), Colin Meyer (Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc.), ND Vaziri (University of California, Irvine), and David Warnock (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Organizers: Colin Meyer (Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc.), George Zavoico (MLV), and Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)
Diabetes mellitus and hypertension are thought to cause chronic kidney disease (CKD), and some link CKD with chronic inflammation and oxidative stress. This eBriefing presents cutting-edge research on understanding and effectively treating CKD.
April 11, 2012
Speakers: Ted Nordhaus (Breakthrough Institute), Sanjayan (The Nature Conservancy), Michael Shellenberger (Breakthrough Institute), Gernot Wagner (Environmental Defense Fund), and Hazel Wong (The Nature Conservancy)
Moderator: David Owen ( The New Yorker)
How can we build a new U.S. conservation and environmental movement to meet the challenges of the new century ... or is the desire to mainstream environmentalism just a symptom of the problem? This eBriefing explores the conundrum.
April 6, 2012
Keynote Speakers: Vinothan N. Manoharan (Harvard University) and Shoucheng Zhang (Stanford University)
The eBriefing of the Sixth Gotham-Metro Condensed Matter Meeting features keynote speakers in hard and soft condensed matter physics, student talks highlighting current research, and a panel discussion.
April 4, 2012
Moderator: David Roberts (Grist.org)
Speakers: Stewart Brand (Long Now Foundation), Joe Fargione (The Nature Conservancy), Jesse Jenkins (Breakthrough Institute), Arne Jungjohann (Heinrich Boell Foundation), and Jeff Opperman (The 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 in this eBriefing.
March 29, 2012
Speakers: Ole Isacson (McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School), Marc Lalande (University of Connecticut Health Center) Sergiu P. Pasca (Stanford University School of Medicine), Hongjun Song (Johns Hopkins University), and Lorenz Studer (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) Organizers: Mercedes Beyna (Pfizer), Susan DeLaura (Cellular Dynamics International, Inc.), Sandra Engle (Pfizer), Ken Jones (The Biochemical Pharmacology Discussion Group), and Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) offer a rare opportunity to study viable neurons potentially representative of the disease state. This eBriefing examines the generation of patient-specific iPSCs for experimental models, novel drug screening platforms, and perhaps in the future, cell-based therapies for major neurological diseases.
March 26, 2012
Organizer: Valentin Fuster (Mount Sinai Medical Center and Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares)
This eBriefing covers an international conference focused on the promotion of cardiovascular health through molecular biology, clinical pathophysiology, and population research and features Dr. Valentin Fuster.
March 26, 2012
Organizers: Eric Lai (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center), Benjamin R. tenOever (Mount Sinai School of Medicine), Thomas Tuschl (The Rockefeller University), Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences), and Marta Murcia (The New York Academy of Sciences)
This eBriefing explores the current understanding of RNA nucleases as they relate to a diverse array of cellular functions including in mRNA quality control and non-coding RNA biogenesis.
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