Weill Cornell Medicine Events

Events

March 30 - April 28, 2023

Thursday, March 30

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Department of Medicine Division of Regenerative Medicine Guest Speaker: Pedro Herrera, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Genetic Medicine and...

11am
Virtual Event
CTL@Weill Cornell Special Panel on Healthcare Data Commercialization

Big data technology and healthcare data promise exciting advances in healthcare, but what risks come with it? Join the expert panel to discuss the impact on...

12pm
Virtual Event
Leveraging C. Elegans Genetics To Understand Membrane-associated Machinery

Biochemistry and Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture Series presents: Gunther Hollopeter, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Dept. of Molecular Medicine Cornell...

The Educator’s Portfolio: When, Why, and How Should I Maintain One?

Speakers: Judy Tung, M.D., Associate Dean for Faculty Development & Alice Tang, M.D., Director for Hospital Medicine Faculty Development & Medical Education...

12pm
Virtual Event
Rockefeller Research Laboratories

Robert Johnston, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Biology John Hopkins University School of Medicine Balitimore, MD Host: Dr. Eric Lai Tea: 1:45 p.m.

Identifying Regulators of Human Pluripotency Using Comparative CRISPR Screening

Bess P. Rosen Cell and Developmental Biology Chairperson: Dr. Thomas Vierbuchen Major Sponsor: Dr. Danwei Huangfu Minor Sponsors: Dr. Effie Apostolou and...

2pm
Virtual Event
Progress in Neuroscience

“Mitochondrial control of pyroptotic cell death and links to Parkinsons Disease.” Heidi McBride, Ph.D. Professor, McGill University Department of Neurology...

Ophthalmology Grand Round

Topic: "Orbital Inflammation and Optic Neuropathy: the Hunt for a Cause" & "Revenge of the Membranes" Speaker: Lisa Koenig, MD & James Winebrake, MD If you...

Friday, March 31

Drug Development and Food & Drug Administration Regulations

This workshop provides an overview of the drug development process including GLP, GCP, and GMP processes. It is ideal for early stage investigators from...

9am
Virtual Event
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Talk Title: Prioritizing Disease-Critical Variants, Genes, and Cell Types Using Genetic and Genomic Data Speaker: Kushal Dey, Ph.D. Assistant Member...

Alzheimer’s as a Disease of Protein-protein Interaction Networks Collapse — Implications for Treatment and Diagnosis

Gabriela Chiosis, Ph.D. Member and Tri-Institutional Professor, Program in Chemical Biology, Sloan Kettering Institute Faculty, Sloan Kettering Institute for...

Developmental Origins of Tissue Macrophages and Their Potential Role in Lupus Pathogenesis

Tomi Lazarov Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Chairperson: Dr. Joseph Sun Major Sponsor: Dr. Frederic Geissmann Minor Sponsors: Dr. Michael Glickman...

2pm
Virtual Event

Saturday, April 1

Weill Cornell Medicine Brooklyn Liver Symposium

The inaugural Weill Cornell Medicine Brooklyn Liver Symposium is a collaborative event focused on the diagnosis, treatment, and management of chronic liver...

Monday, April 3

Alexandria LauchLabs Breakfast

Join Dr. Whitney Snider, VP of Alexandria Venture Investments, for breakfast to learn more about their Early-Stage Venture Summit’s $100K Innovation Prize,...

Rockefeller Research Laboratories

"Mechanisms of Response and Resistance to KRAS Inhibition in Cancer" Andrew Aguirre, M.D., Ph.D. Medical Oncologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Assistant...

The Velocity of Life — Investigating the Temporal Dynamics of Molecules, Cells and Organisms by Single-cell Genomics

Institute for Computational Biomedicine (ICB) Seminar Series Junyue Cao, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Laboratory of Single Cell Genomics and Population...

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Ronald A. DePinho, MD Professor, Department of Cancer Biology, Division of Basic Science Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer...

Tuesday, April 4

Dermatology Grand Round

Topic: "Hidradenitis Suppurativa Pearls" Speaker: Hailey Naik, M.D., Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco Moderator: Tatyana...

8am
Virtual Event
Glucose Transporters GLUT1 and GLUT2 are Key Components in the Human Glucostat

Inbal Caspi Cell and Developmental Biology Chairperson: Dr. Eftychia Apostolou Major Sponsor: Dr. Danwei Huangfu Minor Sponsors: Dr. Shuibing Chen and Dr....

10am
Virtual Event
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Please join us and Weill Cornell Medicine/ NewYork-Presbyterian for a community health day! Genaral cancer education and prevention informationBreast and...

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Come learn about LabArchives, our secure, cloud-based electronic lab notebook (ELN) designed for research. This ELN system enables researchers to capture,...

12pm
Virtual Event

Wednesday, April 5

Jennifer Linden Ph.D.

Lecture Topic: "CNS-derived Extracellular Messengars as Biomarkers and Messengers of Specific Lesion Activity in Multiple Sclerosis" Jennifer R. Linden...

Drug Delivery to Intracranial Tumors by Active Transport of Targeted Nanocarriers

Daniel Tylawsky Pharmacology Chairperson: Dr. David Scheinberg Major Sponsor: Dr. Daniel Heller Minor Sponsors: Dr. Ming Li and Dr. Justin Perry Additional...

11am
Virtual Event
R. Dale Walker, MD

Lecture Title: "Indigenous America Over 500 Years: A Strategy For Taking Care Of Home" R. Dale Walker, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus Director of One...

11am
Virtual Event
Structural Biology Program

"Structural Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Replication Initiation and Fork Reversal Enzymes" Brandt Eichman, Ph.D. William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair at the College of...

Spine Time: The Evolution of Spine Treatment

An exciting update from our experts on clinical research taking place right now at the Spine Center. Hosted by Dr. Neel Mehta, M.D. Featuring Jessica...

5pm
Virtual Event

Thursday, April 6

Defining and Designing The Gut Stem Cell Microenvironment

Tae-Hee Kim, Ph.D. Senior Scientist, Associate Professor Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program SickKids Research Institute Toronto, ON Host: Dr. Mohamed...

Structure, Function, and Inhibition of G Protein-coupled Receptor Kinases

Biochemistry and Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture Series presents: John Tesmer, Ph.D. Walther Distinguished Professor in Cancer Structural Biology Dept....

Interferon Inducible Transmembrane Protein 3 in Alzheimer’s Disease and Tauopathy

Lauren A. Jonas Pharmacology Chairperson: Dr. Lonny Levin Major Sponsor: Dr. Yueming Li Minor Sponsors: Dr. Li Gan and Dr. Miklos Toth Additional Member:...

1:15pm
Virtual Event
Progress in Neuroscience

“APOE4-mediated microglial regulation has an opposite effect in Glaucoma and Alzheimer’s disease.” Oleg Butovsky, Ph.D. Associate Professor of...

Friday, April 7

Rockefeller Research Laboratories

Yukiko Yamashita, Ph.D. Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Professor, Department of Biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge,...

Mechanism Underlying Caffeine-induced Motor Dysfunction in Episodic Neurological Disorders

Heather Snell, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate and Associate Researcher Albert Einstein College of Medicine Part of the Emerging Leaders in Neuroscience...

Julia Graham, MD

Julia Graham, M.D. Fellow in Medicine Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine will present "Social...

Monday, April 10

A Computational Framework and a Novel Algorithm for Mapping and Sequence Analysis of Telomeres From Long-Read Sequencing Data

Kirill Grigorev Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology Chairperson: Dr. Dan-Avi Landau Major Sponsor: Dr. Christopher Mason Minor Sponsors: Dr. Iman...

3pm
Virtual Event
Advances in Metastatic Brain Tumor Treatment

Part of Dr. Philip E. Stieg's This Is Your Brain series, this month's webinar will focus on new approaches to treating brain mets. Dr. Rohan Ramakrishna, who...

4pm
Virtual Event

Tuesday, April 11

Dermatology Resident Presentations

Topic: Resident Presentations Speakers: WCM Dermatology Residents Moderator: Christina Del Guzzo, M.D.

8am
Virtual Event
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Instructor: Steve Lantz Description: Git is a widely used tool for revision tracking and collaborative code development. The talk introduces Git and how to...

9am
Virtual Event
A Multimodal Approach to Studying Disease Heterogeneity Using Machine Learning

Matthew B. Brendel Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology Chairperson: Dr. Shuibing Chen Major Sponsors: Dr. Iman Hajirasouliha and Dr. Fei Wang Minor...

12pm
Virtual Event
Dr. Marisa Bartolomei

Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture Series presents: Marisa Bartolomei, Ph.D. Perelman Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology Co-Director, Epigenetics...

Wednesday, April 12

Joan Stilling MD

Lecture Topic: "Non-invasive brain stimulation: Applications for prognosis and treatment in traumatic brain injury and stroke" Joan Stilling, M.D.,...

The HELQ Helicase Promotes Annealing in Homology-dependent DNA Double-strand Break Repair

Erika Buechelmaier Molecular Biology Chairperson: Dr. Kirk Deitsch Major Sponsor: Dr. Simon Powell Minor Sponsors: Dr. Jayanta Chaudhuri and William Holloman

11am
Virtual Event
Dr. jay johnson

2022 - 2023 Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology (PBSB) Seminar Series presents: Jay Johnson, Ph.D. Associate Research Scientist, Orentreich...

Dr. Daniel Geschwind

Dr. Daniel Geschwind, Senior Associate Dean & Associate Vice Chancellor of Precision Health at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA will be speaking...

Frederick A. Boop, MD

Frederick A. Boop, M.D. St. Jude Emeritus Chair of Pediatric Neurological Surgery J.T. Robertson Emeritus Chair, Department of Neurological...

5pm
Virtual Event
The Future of Female Pelvic Health: What to Know, and How We Can Help

Register for an upcoming community webinar that will discuss the range of pelvic disorders that affect women, featuring female pelvic medicine expert and...

7pm
Virtual Event

Thursday, April 13

Rockefeller Research Laboratories

Stefano DiTalia, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Cell Biology Duke University School of Medicine Durham, NC Host: Dr. Anna-Katerina...

"Intracellular Optogenetics:  Moving Proteins and Assembling Organelles to Control Cell Behavior"

Biochemistry and Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture Series presents: Jared Toettcher, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Molecular Biology Princeton University

Friday, April 14

Progression in the absence of relapses: the unmet need in Multiple Sclerosis

Tim Vartanian, MD, PhD, Chief, Multiple Sclerosis and Neuro-Immunology, Professor of Neuroscience and Neurology, BMRI, Neurology, WCM Part of the Bedside to...

Monday, April 17

Cardiology Grand Rounds

“Clinical Innovations To Improve Outcomes in Older Adults With Heart Failure” Parag Goyal, M.D., M.Sc. Associate Professor of Medicine Director, Heart...

Epigenetic Memory of COVID-19 in Innate Immune Cells and Their Progenitors

Jin Gyu Cheong Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Chairperson: Dr. Tobias Hohl Major Sponsor: Dr. Steven Josefowicz Minor Sponsors: Dr. Lionel Ivashkiv...

1pm
Virtual Event

Tuesday, April 18

John A. Carpente, Ph.D., MT-BC, LCAT

Lecture Title: "Orchestrating Affective Relationships in Music Therapy with Autistic Individuals: Implementing a Developmental Relationship-based Framework...

11am
Virtual Event
Molecular Mechanisms of IP3 Receptor Regulation

Navid Paknejad Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology Chairperson: Dr. Alessio Accardi Major Sponsor: Dr. Richard Hite Minor Sponsors: Dr. John Chodera...

1pm
Virtual Event

Wednesday, April 19

Andrew Charles, MD

Lecture Topic: "Advances in The Basic and Clinical Science of Migraine" Andrew Charles, M.D. Professor of Neurology David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Stewart Adelson, M.D.

Lecture Title: "Yale Law School’s Youth Equity Science/YES Project: Combining Science and Human Rights to Amend LGBT Youth Mental Health...

11am
Virtual Event
Trust and Medical Publishing: A View from JAMA and the JAMA Network

Presented by: Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS; Editor in Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Associationand the JAMA Network; Lee Goldman, MD;...

4pm
Virtual Event

Thursday, April 20

"Mechanisms of Axon Degeneration in Lysosome-transport Disorders"

Biochemistry and Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture Series presents: Juan Bonifacino, Ph.D. NIH Distinguished Investigator Neurosciences and Cellular &...

Characterizing the Protein Synthesis Program that Fuels the Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition

Jake E. Batchelder Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Chairperson: Dr. Steven Josefowicz Major Sponsor: Dr. Scott Blanchard Minor Sponsors: Dr. Andrea...

12pm
Virtual Event
Regulated Changes in Cell Metabolism that Impact T Cell Function

Erika Pearce, Ph.D. Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Co-Director, Cancer Immunology Program John Hopkins University School of...

Ophthalmology Grand Round

Topic: “Gene Therapy for Common Retinal Disorders” Speaker: Szilard Kiss, MD – Weill Cornell Medicine If you have any questions please contact: Kate...

Friday, April 21

Optical imaging of oxygen

Sergei Vinogradov, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences Part of...

Monday, April 24

How To Make an Impact: Dissemination and Implementation Lessons From Experts

Do you ever wonder how you can maximize the real-world impact of your research? We are excited to invite you to “How to Make an Impact: Dissemination and...

12pm
Virtual Event

Tuesday, April 25

Dermatology | Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Topic: "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" Moderator: Andrew Alexis, M.D., MPH

8am
Virtual Event
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Instructor: Chris Myers Description: An examination of some of the Python packages that support data visualization for various use cases, providing both a...

9am
Virtual Event

Wednesday, April 26

Lisa R. Fortuna, MD, MPH

Lecture Title: "Time of Opportunity: Working inclusively with communities to address mental health inequities” Lisa R. Fortuna, MD, MPH Professor and...

11am
Virtual Event
The Heberden Society presents Jaipreet Virdi, PhD

Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History This is a hybrid lecture. Virtual attendance for the general public is available at...

Thursday, April 27

Transcriptomic and Epigenomic Analysis of Dsup Expressing Human Cells Reveals Open Chromatin Architectural Dynamics Underlying Radioprotection

Craig D. Westover Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology Chairperson: Dr. Jessica Tyler Major Sponsor: Dr. Christopher Mason Minor Sponsors: Dr. Effie...

11am
Virtual Event
Ophthalmology Grand Round | Diversity Week

Topic: “My DEI Journey: Lessons Learned” Speaker: Ore-ofe Adesina, MD - McGovern Medical School at UT Health Science Center If you have any questions...

Friday, April 28

Deep Learning Approaches for Fine-grained Spatial Modeling of the Tumor Microenvironment from H&E-stained Histopathology Images

Chao Feng Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology Chairperson: Dr. Christina Leslie Major Sponsor: Dr. Thomas Fuchs Minor Sponsors: Dr. Quaid Morris and...

2pm
Virtual Event

March 30 - April 28, 2023