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eBriefing
A Trip Down Memory Lane
Speakers: Enikö Kramár (University of California, Irvine), Feng Liu (Pfizer), Bruce McEwen (The Rockefeller University), and John Morrison (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)
Organizers: Feng Liu (Pfizer) and Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)
Estrogens play a role in memory processes, yet molecular mechanisms and the role of estrogen receptors remain unclear. This meeting discussed estrogen signaling for memory formation and advances in dissecting out the pathways underlying these effects.
In this eBriefing
- The mechanisms underlying estrogen actions
- How estrogen modifies the structure of synaptic spines and the underlying cytoskeleton
- The effects of estrogen on hippocampal synaptic plasticity and memory
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Recent eBriefings
August 17, 2010
Speakers: Enikö Kramár (University of California, Irvine), Feng Liu (Pfizer), Bruce McEwen (The Rockefeller University), and John Morrison (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)
Organizers: Feng Liu (Pfizer) and Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)
Estrogens play a role in memory processes, yet molecular mechanisms and the role of estrogen receptors remain unclear. This meeting discussed estrogen signaling for memory formation and advances in dissecting out the pathways underlying these effects.
July 30, 2010
Speakers: Lisa B. Marshall and Marc A. Wolfe (MarshallWolfe)
In both academia and industry a large part of professional success depends on the important ability to build and maintain your professional network. This seminar teaches skills for effective networking.
July 26, 2010
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.
July 23, 2010
Organizers: Doris Bucher (New York Medical College) and Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)
Influenza viruses such as H1N1 continue to pose a major global public health problem, so understanding their pathogenicity and transmission is crucial. This symposium revisited the 2009 outbreak and examined strategies against future outbreaks.
July 15, 2010
Speaker: Laura Stark Malisheski, Harvard University
This workshop, presented by a career counselor with ten years of experience counseling graduate students and PhDs, covered all the pertinent aspects of preparing for the academic job search.
July 13, 2010
Speaker: Paul Tumpowsky (InSITE, Square Zero)
This seminar addressed the challenges, risks, and blessings of the scientific mindset in the business world. It also discussed ways to leverage this perspective to successfully navigate business environments and produce positive results.
July 6, 2010
Organizers: Howard Fillit (Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation) and Sonya Dougal (The New York Academy of Sciences)
Damage to energy-producing organelles may lead to a cascade of events resulting in Alzheimer's disease. Insights into this process and the possibility of new drug targets were the topic of an Academy symposium.
June 29, 2010
Organizers: Ildiko Antal (Bristol-Myers Squibb), Chad E. Beyer (University of Colorado School of Medicine), Mark R. Bowlby (Merck Research Laboratories), Beth Winkelstein (University of Pennsylvania), and Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)
This symposium addressed clinical applications and new pain mechanisms for the treatment of chronic pain syndromes, and provided an update on the progress and barriers to developing effective preclinical models of pain, in particular fibromyalgia.
June 28, 2010
Speakers: Gregory Characklis (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Michael Hanemann (University of California, Berkeley)
Moderator: Upmanu Lall (Columbia Water Center)
This meeting focused on the importance of economic optimization of water usage to establish long-term sustainability of water resources.
June 25, 2010
Speakers: Karen Tingley (Wildlife Conservation Society), Howard Lurie (WGBH Boston), Sandy Goldberg (VITAL New York), Anthony Negron (New York Hall of Science), and Robert V. Steiner (American Museum of Natural History)
The 21st century classroom provides an opportunity for new technological tools to improve students' science understanding. NYC science and math teachers learned from world class scientific organizations about the technologies they have developed to augment classroom learning about science.
June 24, 2010
Speaker: Sharon Belden Castonguay (Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College)
Evaluating and negotiating job offers can be the most confusing and stressful—but exciting!—part of the job search process. This workshop, led by a professional career consultant, helped demystify the process.
June 22, 2010
Keynote speakers: Hari Manoharan (Stanford University) and David Weitz (Harvard University)
This biannual conference is organized by graduate students to bring together condensed matter researchers from around the tri-state area. Keynote speakers represented both hard and soft condensed matter fields.
June 15, 2010
A four-part series looking at the state of the art in green building technology and design.
The Green Buildings Solutions series looks at the use of new technology and off-the-shelf solutions to achieving green building goals, as well as how to evaluate building performance, and the financial aspects of sustainability.
June 7, 2010
Speakers: Suzanne Seltzer and Kate Kalmykov (Klasko, Rulon, Stock & Seltzer, LLP)
Two experts in immigration law discussed immigration options for students and researchers studying or working in the United States.
May 17, 2010
Speakers: William R. Jacobs, Jr. (Albert Einstein College of Medicine), Christopher Sassetti (University of Massachusetts Medical School), Dirk Schnappinger (Weill Cornell Medical College), Helena Boshoff (NIH), and Carl Nathan (Weill Cornell Medical College)
Organizers: Takushi Kaneko (TB Alliance) and Jennifer Henry (New York Academy of Sciences)
TB kills nearly 2 million people yearly, and now shows drug resistance. This symposium highlighted how the genetic information of the pathogen and genetic tools are used in the quest for new TB drugs.
May 13, 2010
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.
May 11, 2010
Speakers: Sasha Lyutse (Natural Resources Defense Council) and Alexia Kelly (World Resources Institute)
Theoretically, carbon offset projects can drive the costs of carbon cap and trade programs down and deliver environmental benefits. Do they? Should they? The jury is still out.
May 4, 2010
Speakers: Cliff McDonald (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Stuart Johnson (Loyola University Medical Center and Hines VA Hospital), Richard Novick (NYU School of Medicine), Jun F. (James) Liang (Stevens Institute of Technology), William C. Gruber (Pfizer Vaccine Clinical Research and Development), and Ginamarie Foglia (Sanofi Pasteur Inc.)
Organizer: Michael Watson (Sanofi Pasteur)
Hospital-acquired infections are a growing problem in the health care system. This symposium addressed the pathogenesis of select nosocomial bacteria, vaccine development, and the epidemiology of nosocomial infections.
May 4, 2010
Organizers: Peter Hutson (Merck and Co., Inc.) and Larry P. Wennogle (Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc.)
This symposium focused on phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitors for schizophrenia and cognitive disorders, reviewing the theoretical basis of different PDEs as possible drug candidates, and charting the most recent progress towards human clinical testing.
April 22, 2010
Speakers: Pere Puigserver (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), Carla Green (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center), Joe Bass (Northwestern University), Robert Levitan (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto), Michael Terman (Columbia University)
Organizers: John G. Kral (SUNY Downstate Medical Center), Andrew Swick
This symposium brought together leading researchers to examine the link between metabolic function, internal biological timing, and the physiological consequences of circadian disruption.
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