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