PBSB Seminar Series

Spring 2017 Schedule
  • All Seminars will be held at 4:00 pm in Weill Auditorium (1300 York Ave. Rm C-200) unless otherwise noted
  • 5:00 pm "Students Only" session is mandatory for 1st and 2nd year students. This will also be held in Weill Auditorium (1300 York Ave., Room C-200) unless otherwise noted
  • Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm in the back of Archbold Commons (1300 York Avenue, 2nd floor)
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 Kevin Gardner
Director
Structural Biology Initiative
CUNY Advanced Science Research Center
Professor
Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry
City College of New York
Novel Chemo- and Optogenetic Tools: Turning Nature’s Sensors into Our Switches
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 Tibor Rohacs
Professor
Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience
New Jersey Medical School
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Regulation of the Heat-Sensitive TRPM3 Ion Channels by Membrane Phospholipids and G-Protein Coupled Receptors
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
Group Leader
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Janelia Research Campus
Emerging Fluorescence Technology to Study the Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Organelles
Wednesday, March 8, 2017 Sarah Keller
Professor of Chemistry
University of Washington
Demixing of Lipids and Proteins in Cell-Derived and Model Membranes
Wednesday, March 29, 2017 Anna Moroni
Professor
University of Milan
Schaefer Research Scholar
Columbia University
Insights into the Mechanism of cAMP Regulation of HCN Channels
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 Diomedes Logothetis
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Northeastern University
Allosteric Drugs to Target Ion Channels and Heteromeric GPCRs
Wednesday, April 19, 2017 Stavros Lomvardas
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain and Behavior Institute
Columbia University
Mechanisms of Olfactory Receptor Gene Regulation
Friday, April 21, 2017, 1 PM, LC-504 Dana Pe’er
Chair, Computational and Systems Biology Program
Director, Center for Metastasis and Tumor Ecosystems
Director, Single Cell Research Initiative
Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
The Power of Single Cells: Tumor Heterogeneity and Ecosytems
Wednesday, May 3, 2017 Sin Urban
Johns Hopkins University
Wednesday, May 17, 2017 Arjun Raj
Associate Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania
Single Cell Analysis of Therapy Resistance in Cancer
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Special Seminar
Belfer Research Building
413 East 69th Street
2nd Floor
Room BB 204-A
11:00 AM
Mauro Ferrari
Ernest Cockrell, Jr Presidential Distinguished Chair
President and CEO, Houston Methodist Research Institute
Director, Institute for Academic Medicine at Houston Methodist Hospital
Executive Vice President, Houston Methodist Hospital System
Transport Oncophysics and Post-Nanomedical Therapeutics
Wednesday, July 5, 2017 Pablo Artigas
Associate Professor
Department of Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Determinants of Electrogenicity and Stoichiometry in Na/K and H/K Pumps

If you have any questions about the PBSB seminars or would like information about scheduling a future seminar, please contact our Seminar Coordinator Ashley Daugherty at asd2005@med.cornell.edu or 212-746-6360