Darwin Seminars
For complete information, visit http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/pages/ne/main/highlights/index.html
All seminars take place in Sherman Fairchild, Room 700 at 12PM unless otherwise noted
11/09/2009 Matthew W. Hahn, Indiana University, "Selection Theory of Molecular Evolution"
Please save the
date for lectures given by the 2009 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize winners, Victor
R. Ambros, Ph.D. and Gary Ruvkun, Ph.D., who are being honored for their
discovery of microRNAs - small molecules that are critical to gene regulation.
Lecture #1
"MicroRNAs in Development and Disease"
Victor R. Ambros, Ph.D., Co-Director, RNA Therapeutics Institute Silverman
Professor of Natural Sciences University of Massachusetts Medical School
Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 12:00 noon
Davis Auditorium (Rm. 412), Schapiro Center (CEPSR) 530 West 120th Street
Lecture #2
"The Roles and Possibilities of Tiny RNAs"
Gary Ruvkun, Ph.D., Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 3:00 p.m.
P&S Alumni Auditorium, 650 West 168th Street, First Floor
To learn more about the 2009 Horwitz
prize, please visit:
http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/horwitz/.
Inquiries: please contact Tina Hansen at 212-304-7215 or cumcevents@columbia.edu.
The Columbia University Center for Bioethics cordially invites you to The Gold Foundation Seminar Series
Ethics for Lunch:
Difficult Cases from the Columbia University Medical Center Ethics Committee
Deciding what to tell the patient and the patient's family is often a troubling
decision. Do you tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Do you postpone
the difficult conversation? Obfuscate? Join Dr. Prager to discuss some
especially challenging cases with which the Columbia University Medical Center
Ethics Committee has grappled.
Kenneth Prager, MD, Professor of
Clinical Medicine and Chair of the Ethics Committee of Columbia University
Medical Center
12:00 noon -- 1:30 pm, Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Auditorium, 7th Floor
Presbyterian Hospital Building, take elevator to 7th floor and turn left
Columbia University Medical Center
622 West 168th Street (Between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue)
New York, NY 10032
Lunch will be provided thanks to the generosity of the Arnold P. Gold
Foundation.
The event is free and all are encouraged to attend
To ensure lunch, please RSVP, or for more information, contact Jana Bassman at
212-342-0442 or by email jlb2205@columbia.edu
<mailto:jlb2205@columbia.edu>
For future events, visit our Web site: http://bioethicscolumbia.org
NYU Honors Program
Lecture Series
Visit the website for complete information: http://mdphd.med.nyu.edu/calendar/nyu-honors-program-lecture-series
Motion in the Macromolecular Machines
of Replication and Transcription
Thomas A. Steitz, PhD
Monday, November 16, 2009 | 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Schwartz Lecture Hall F
Neural Circuits for Emotional Behaviors in Flies and Mice
David J. Anderson, PhD
Monday, November 23, 2009 | 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Schwartz Lecture Hall F
Layered Complexity -- Mechanisms of
Regulation of Individual Synapses in the Mammalian Brain
Bernardo Sabatini, MD, PhD
Monday, December 7, 2009 | 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Schwartz Lecture Hall F
Nitric Oxide as a Unique Signaling
Molecule in the Vascular System
Louis J. Ignarro, PhD
Monday, December 14, 2009 | 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Schwartz Lecture Hall F