Seminars and Events
Winter/Spring 2013 Pharmacology Seminar Series
| When and Where | Presenter and Seminar Title | |
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| Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Room A-250, 4:00 pm |
Frank Giordano, MD Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine "Transcriptional Control of Transendothelial Nutrient Transport and Vascular Smooth Muscle Biology by the HIF-Pathway: Role in Blood Pressure Control and in Atherogenesis" |
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| Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Room A-250, 4:00 pm |
Peter Penzes, PhD Associate Professor in Physiology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine "Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptic Structural Plasticity and pathology" |
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| Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Room A-250, 4:00 pm |
Matthew Disney, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, Florida Campus "Decoding the Transcriptome with Designer Small Molecules" |
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| Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Room A-250, 4:00 pm |
Ana C. Krieger, M.D., M.P.H. Medical Director, Center for Sleep Medicine, NYPH-WCMC; Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine, WCMC "The Pharmacology of Sleep" |
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| Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Room A-250, 4:00 pm |
Steven S. Gross, PhD Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medical College "Untargeted Metabolite Profiling for Discovery of Gene Functions and Drug Actions" |
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| Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Room A-250, 4:00 pm |
Roger Hajjar, MD Professor of Medicine, Cardiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine "Targeting Calcium Cycling in Heart Failure" |
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| Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Room A-250, 4:00 pm |
Saeed Tavazoie, PhD Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University "TBA" |
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| Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Room A-250, 4:00 pm |
Geoffrey Sharp, PhD, Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University "TBA" |
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| Dr. Frank Giordano presented a research seminar in the Pharmacology Dept. on March 12, 2013. Here he is (left) before the seminar, talking with Dr. Dominick Falcone. | Dr. Leslie Parise, Chair of the Biochemistry and Biophysics Dept at the Medical College, UNC, Chapel Hill spoke on February 25, 2013. Here is Dr. Parise after her seminar with Dr. Aaron Marcus, a faculty member at WCMC, who attended the seminar. | |
| Dr. Stephen Wong, the Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Tx, an affiliate of Weill Cornell, delivers his talk on "Systems and Chemical Biology Methods for Pathway Driven Drug Repositioning," on January 15, 2013. | Dr. Stephen Wong, the Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Tx, an affiliate of Weill Cornell, delivers his talk on "Systems and Chemical Biology Methods for Pathway Driven Drug Repositioning," on January 15, 2013. | |
| Dr. Peter Rabinovitch presented his seminar titled: "Mitochondria and Oxidative Stress in Cardiac Aging, Hypertrophy and Failure" on December 18, 2012. Drs. Levi, Szeto, and Rabinovitch after the seminar. | Dr. Peter Rabinovitch presented his seminar titled: "Mitochondria and Oxidative Stress in Cardiac Aging, Hypertrophy and Failure" on December 18, 2012. | |
| Dr. Alexander MacKerell, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, presents his research talk on December 4, 2012. | Dr. Miklos Toth answers a question during his research talk on November 20, 2012. The title of his talk was: "Maternal Gene in Epigenetic Programing of Behavior and Disease Across Generations" | |
| Dr. Lester Binder speaks with interested members of the audience after his Pharmacology Dept. seminar on October 9, 2012. | Dr. Rene Hen from Columbia University gave a seminar in the Pharmacology Department on June 19, 2012. Here Dr. Arleen Rifkind speaks with Dr. Hen after his seminar | |
| Dr. Samie Jaffrey asks our Pharmacology Dept. seminar speaker, Dr. Ferre-D'Amare, a question after his seminar on April 10, 2012. | Dr. Roberto Levi, Dr. Roberta Gottlieb, and Dr. Marcus Reidenberg after Dr. Gottlieb's seminar on May 8, 2012. | |
| Dr. Adrian Ferre-D'Amare, from NHLBI, spoke on April 10, 2012, on "Riboswitches, Versatile RNA Regulators of Gene Expression." | Drs. Carl Nathan and Jon Clardy after the talk on February 28, 2012. | |
| Dr. John Schimenti, Professor of Genetics at the College of Veterinary Medicine of Cornell University, gave a research talk titled "DNA Replication and Cancer Genetics in Mice" on January 17, 2012. Here Drs. Sauve, Schimenti, and Szeto relax over dinner after the seminar. | Dr. Jon Clardy gave a research talk titled: "Bacterial Conversations and the Discovery of New Natural Products" on February 28, 2012. Drs. Anthony Sauve, Derek Tan, and Jon Clardy at dinner after the presentation. | |
| Drs. Ron Crystal, Steve Gross, and our Pharmacology Dept. seminar speaker, Dr. Kent Vrana, Chairman of the Pharmacology Dept. at Penn State, Hershey, PA. The three attended a reception after the seminar on December 6, 2011. |
Dr. Gary Brewer presented his research in the Pharmacology Dept. seminar series on December 20, 2011. Pictured at dinner after the seminar are Drs. Miklos Toth, Frances Gratacos, Dussica Curanovic and Dr. Brewer. | |
| Drs. Tim Hla, John Wagner, Mike Frohman (seminar speaker, Chair of Pharmacology Department at Stonybrook) and Lorraine Gudas at dinner after Dr. Frohman's seminar. January 19, 2010 |
Drs. Lorraine Gudas, Bonnie Sloane (seminar speaker, Chair of Pharmacology Department at Wayne State University) and Arleen Rifkind have dinner after Dr. Sloane's seminar. February 2, 2010 | |
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Dr. Al Baldwin, UNC Chapel Hill, April 13, 2010 | Drs. Al Baldwin (UNC Chapel Hill), Ari Melnick, and Selina Chen-Kiang enjoy dinner after Dr. Baldwin's Pharmacology Dept. seminar on April 13, 2010. | |
| Dr. John Boylan, the Pharmacology Dept. seminar speaker on October 5, 2010, with his postdoctoral mentor, Dr. Lorraine Gudas. | Drs. Gross, Rifkind, Sauve, and the Pharmacology Invited Seminar Speaker, Dr. Guengerich, at dinner after the seminar on November 30, 2010. | |
| Dr. Matt Gamble giving his research seminar on December 14, 2010. Dr. Gamble received his PhD from Weill Cornell and is now an Asst. Professor in the Dept. of Molecular Pharmacology at Albert Einstein Med. College. | Graduate student Alessia Deglincerti speaks with Dr. Susan Gerbi after Dr. Gerbi's seminar titled "Evolution of Ribosoma RNA: Ribosome biogenesis and coordination with cell division " on March 15, 2011. | |
| Dr. Loren Runnels, Pharmacology Dept. seminar speaker on April 12, 2011, with postdoctoral fellow Dr. Ron Perez after the seminar. | Dr. Lorraine Gudas visits with her former chairman, Dr. Chrisopher Walsh, Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Walsh presented the President's Seminar at MSKCC on April 13, 2011. Dr. Derek Tan was his host. | |
| Dr. Eduardo Farias, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, presented an excellent seminar titled: "Opposing Effects of RARs Isotypes in Breast Cancer: A New Perspective" on September 27, 2011. |
For more information, contact Lissett Checo at (212) 746-6250










