| 9:00 – 9:05 a.m.(5 minutes) |
Welcome Remarks Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Ph.D. President and Carson Family Professor, Laboratory of Brain Development and Repair, The Rockefeller University Caspary Auditorium |
| 9:05 – 9:15 a.m.(10 minutes) |
Introductory Remarks Agata Smogorzewska, M.D., Ph.D. (MODERATOR) Associate Professor, Laboratory of Genome Maintenance, The Rockefeller University |
| 9:15 – 9:40 a.m.(20 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A) |
Trypanosomes, Telomeres and Titia (and a little base J) Piet Borst, M.D., Ph.D. Professor and Group Leader, Division of Molecular Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute |
| 9:40 – 10:05 a.m.(20 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A) |
Of Gels, Microbes and Innate Immunity Richard Flavell, Ph.D., F.R.S. Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and Department Chair, Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine |
| 10:05 – 10:30 a.m.(20 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A) |
Immune Magic and the Microbiome Dan Littman, M.D., Ph.D. Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Professor of Molecular Immunology, Department of Pathology, and Professor, Department of Microbiology, Skirball Institute at NYU School of Medicine |
| 10:30 – 11:00 a.m.(30 minutes) |
Break Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Lounge |
| 11:00 – 11:25 a.m.(20 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A) |
“Oh, no, not MYC again” Laura Johnston, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center |
| 11:25 – 11:50 a.m.(20 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A) |
Synthetic Lethal Drug Combinations for the Treatment of Cancer René Bernards, Ph.D. Professor of Molecular Carcinogenesis, Utrecht University Caspary Auditorium |
| 11:50 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.(20 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A) |
Remote Control of Hypothalamic Neurons Regulates Blood Glucose and Feeding Jeffrey M. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D. Marilyn M. Simpson Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, The Rockefeller University |
| 12:15 – 1:55 p.m. (100 minutes) |
Lunch Break There are three dining facilities available on Rockefeller’s campus – Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Dining Room, CRC Café, and Weiss Cafeteria (click here to view a campus map – see #2, #7C, #25) |
| 1:55 – 2:20 p.m.(20 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A) |
Engineering the Cancer Genome Tyler Jacks, Ph.D. Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; David H. Koch Professor of Biology and Director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCaspary Auditorium |
| 2:20 – 2:45 p.m.(20 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A) |
Signaling DNA Damage John H.J. Petrini, Ph.D. Member, Molecular Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute |
| 2:45 – 3:10 p.m.(20 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A) |
When Telomeres Go Bad Stephen Elledge, Ph.D. Gregor Mendel Professor, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School |
| 3:10 – 3:55 p.m.(45 minutes) |
Coffee Break Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Lounge |
| 3:55 – 4:20 p.m.(20 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A) |
It Was the Best of Times (A Tale of Two Sites) James Haber, Ph.D. Professor of Biology, and Director of the Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University |
| 4:20– 4:45 p.m.(20 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A) |
Learning from Post-Docs: New Lessons in Cancer Biology Harold Varmus, M.D. Lewis Thomas University Professor, Weill-Cornell Medical College |
| 4:45 – 5:00 p.m.(15 minutes) |
Closing Remarks Titia de Lange, Ph.D. Leon Hess Professor, Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics, The Rockefeller University |
| 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. |
Celebratory Dinner by invitation only Welch Hall, Great Hall |