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  • Developmental Biology

  • Events 

    Monday, October 4, 2010 | 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM

    Genome Integrity Discussion Group Meeting

    Speakers: Benoît Arcangioli (Institut Pasteur), Uttiya Basu (Columbia University Medical Center), Steve Brill (Rutgers University), Scott Keeney (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) and Hannah Klein (NYU School of Medicine)

    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.

    Wednesday, November 3, 2010 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

    Piwi-Interacting RNAs (piRNAs), the Guardians of the Germ-line Stem Cell Genome: Biogenesis and Function

    Organizers: Eric Lai, PhD (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) and Marta Murcia, PhD (The New York Academy of Sciences)

    This half-day meeting will explore recent research on piRNAs biogenesis and their role in self-renewing divisions of germ-line stem cells, genome integrity, and epigenetic regulation.

    Thursday, December 2, 2010 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

    New York Area C. elegans Discussion Group Meeting

    Speakers: Cori Bargmann (The Rockefeller University) and David Hall (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)

    The New York 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. Meetings are followed by a networking reception.

    Monday, December 6, 2010 | 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM

    Genome Integrity Discussion Group Meeting

    Speakers: Max Gottesman (Columbia University Medical Center), Nancy Hollingsworth (SUNY Stony Brook), Maria Jasin (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center), Titia de Lange (The Rockefeller University), and Chris Lima (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)

    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.

  • Past Events

    Tuesday, June 15, 2010 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

    New York Area Drosophila Discussion Group

    Speakers: Benjamin Bottner (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez (Sloan Kettering Institute), Ah-Ram Kim (SUNY Stonybrook) and Andrew Tomlinson (Columbia University)

    The New York Area Drosophila Discussion Group meetings includes 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, June 7, 2010 | 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM

    Genome Integrity Discussion Group Meeting

    Keynote Speaker: Richard D. Kolodner (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of California San Diego)

    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.

    Wednesday, May 19, 2010 | 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

    HIV/AIDS: Vaccines and alternate strategies for treatment and prevention

    Organizers: Sarah Schlesinger (The Rockefeller University), Yegor Voronin (Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise) and Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)

    Challenges in developing a vaccine against HIV / AIDS infection include genetic diversity of the virus, and predictive models of infection. This symposium tackles each challenge in turn, and covers other mechanisms to reduce HIV transmission.

    Thursday, May 13, 2010 | 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

    Mitochondrial Function as a Therapeutic Target for Alzheimer's Disease

    Organizers: Howard Fillit (Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation) and Sonya Dougal (The New York Academy of Sciences)

    Please join us for a critical discussion of potential drug therapeutics for mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease.

  • Publications 

    eBriefing

    HIV/AIDS: Vaccines and Alternate Strategies for Treatment and Prevention

    Organizers: Sarah Schlesinger (The Rockefeller University), Yegor Voronin (Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise), and Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)

    Challenges in developing a vaccine against HIV/AIDS infection include genetic diversity of the virus and predictive models of infection. This symposium tackled each challenge in turn, and covered other mechanisms to reduce HIV transmission.

    eBriefing

    How Do Pluripotent Cells Enable Drug Discovery?

    Speakers: John Hambor (Cell Therapy Group), Matthias Stadtfeld (Massachusetts General Hospital), Sheng Ding (Scripps Research Institute), and Timothy Kamp (University of Wisconsin)
     
    Organizers: Huiping Jiang and Katalin Kauser (Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals)

    Stem cells may be more physiologically relevant in drug discovery studies than laboratory cell lines. The cells can differentiate into mixed cell types that resemble tissues. This symposium focused on how stem cells can facilitate the development of new drugs and therapies.

    eBriefing

    RECOMB Regulatory Genomics/Systems Biology/DREAM Conference 2009

    Organizers: Manolis Kellis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Ziv Bar-Joseph (Carnegie Mellon University), Andrea Califano (Columbia University), Gustavo Stolovitzky (IBM)

    This meeting brought together computational and experimental scientists in the area of regulatory genomics and systems biology to discuss latest findings and establish new collaborations towards a systems-level understanding of gene regulation.

    Annals

    Breaking Ground on Translational Stem Cell Research: The New York Stem Cell Foundation Fourth Annual Translational Stem Cell Research Conference

    This Annals online meeting report presents an summary of the “Fourth Annual Translational Stem Cell Research Conference: Breaking Ground”, sponsored by the New York Stem Cell Foundation.

    Annals

    Analysis of Cardiac Development: From Embryo to Old Age

    Edited by Rafael Beyar and Amir Landesberg (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel)

    In this Annals issue cardiac development is approached from the perspective of integrated cardiac science.