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  • Cell & Molecular Biology

  • Events 

    Thursday, December 3, 2009 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

    New York Area C. elegans Discussion Group Meeting

    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

    Genome Integrity Discussion Group Meeting

    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, January 11, 2010 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

    New York Area Drosophila Discussion Group

    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.

    Monday, February 8, 2010 | 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM

    Genome Integrity Discussion Group Meeting

    Organizers: Titia de Lange (The Rockefeller University), John Petrini (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center), and Rodney Rothstein (Columbia University Medical Center)

    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.

    Thursday, March 25, 2010 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

    New York Area C. elegans Discussion Group Meeting

    Organizers: Jane Hubbard (The Skirball Institute of 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.

  • Past Events

    Monday, November 2, 2009 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

    miRNAs and Other Non-coding RNAs in Nervous System Development and Function

    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.

    October 28 - 30, 2009

    4th International Conference on Oxidative/Nitrosative Stress and Disease

    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 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

    Is Alzheimer's Disease Type 3 Diabetes?

    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 5, 2009 | 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

    Genome Integrity Discussion Group Meeting

    Speakers: Hiro Funabiki (The Rockefeller University), Kim McKim (Waksman Institute), Bruce Stillman (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Xiaolan Zhao (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)

    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.

  • Publications 

    eBriefing

    Something Borrowed, Something New: Drug Discovery Approaches in Chemical Biology

    Speakers: John Koh (University of Delaware), Akira Kawamura (Hunter College, City University of New York), and Tom Kodadek (The Scripps Research Institute)

    From traditional Asian herbs to high-tech computational approaches, chemical biologists are using everything in their arsenal to identify promising new drug candidates.

    Annals

    Hypoxia and Consequences: From Molecule to Malady

    Edited by Chris Peers (School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK), Gabriel G. Haddad (University of California, San Diego, California), and Navdeep S. Chandel (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois)

    This Annals volume explores the transcriptional and pathophysiological responses to hypoxia and of the sensing mechanisms responsible for detection of oxygen level changes in the body.

    eBriefing

    Short RNAs in Stress and Longevity: Regulatory Pathways

    Speakers: Frank Slack (Yale University), Ramanjulu Sunkar (Oklahoma State University), Evgeny Nudler (New York University), Anthony Leung (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Irina Groisman (André Lwoff Institute), Germano Cecere (Columbia University)

    As a new eBriefing reports, researchers are identifying microRNAs and siRNAs that play roles in the molecular programs that regulate stress response and senescence.

    eBriefing

    Trends in Chemical Biology 2009: Year-End Meeting of the Chemical Biology Discussion Group

    Keynote Speaker: Adrian Whitty (Boston University)

    In this new eBriefing, graduate students and postdocs from chemical biology labs around the New York area describe efforts to find and synthesize molecules that bind to proteins or DNA in useful ways.

    eBriefing

    Pattern Recognition: Systems Approaches to Studying Cancer

    Speakers: Andrea Califano (Columbia University), Galit Lahav (Harvard Medical School), Chris Sander (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center), and Arnold Levine (Simons Center for Systems Biology)

    As a new eBriefing reports, computational and experimental tools for modeling cancer biology are helping to identify common patterns underlying pathogenicity at the cellular and genome levels.

  • Webinar Archives

    Webinar Archive
    October 27, 2009

    Is Alzheimer's Disease Type 3 Diabetes?

    What is the connection between dysregulated neuronal insulin signaling and Alzheimer's disease? In a recent Academy webinar, some researchers argued that the neurodegenerative disease should be considered a type of diabetes.

    Webinar Archive
    April 28, 2009

    Protein Kinases: Structure-Guided Drug Discovery

    Protein kinases play a key role in almost every major pathway in eukaryotic cells. Structural approaches, including a new method called fragment-based drug design, are identifying potential targets against diseases including cancer.

    Webinar Archive
    April 1, 2009

    Ribosomes and Protein Synthesis

    Imaging techniques and site-directed mutagenesis are revealing the details of translational fidelity and kinetics at the ribosome. Conformational changes in the ribosome appear to play a key role in these processes.