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Additional Anderson Center Symposia

2010 Anderson Cancer Symposium – September 24, 2010

10:30-12:30 p.m.
Poster session

2:00 p.m.
Welcoming remarks
Lisa Postow, Rockefeller University
 
Presentation of poster awards
Paul Nurse, President
The Rockefeller University

2:10-2:55 p.m.
How does cytotoxic chemotherapy really work? Lessons from anti-mitotic drugs
Timothy Mitchison
Harvard Medical School

2:55-3:40 p.m.
Genetic mining of the cancer genome
Stephen Elledge
Harvard Medical School

3:40-3:55 p.m.
Coffee/tea break

3:55-4:40 p.m.
Grabbing the cat by the tail: Discrete steps by a DNA packaging motor and the inter-subunit coordination in a ring ATPase
Carlos Bustamante
University of California, Berkeley

4:40-5:25 p.m.
Synthesis at the interface of chemistry and biology: From stem cells to the genetic code
Peter Schultz
The Scripps Research Institute

2009 Anderson Cancer Symposium – September 11, 2009

11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Poster Session

2:00 p.m.
Welcoming Remarks
Alexander Kelly, Postdoctoral Fellow
Funabiki Laboratory, The Rockefeller University
 
Presentation of the Poster Awards
Paul Nurse, President
The Rockefeller University

2:05-2:50 p.m.
Activation of the Initiation of DNA Replication by Protein Kinases
Bruce Stillman
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

2:50-3:35 p.m.
Structural Mechanisms in Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Activation
John Kuriyan
University of California, Berkeley

3:35-3:50 p.m.
Coffee/Tea Break

3:50-4:35 p.m.
Molecular Basis of Cytokinesis
Thomas Pollard
Yale University

4:35-5:20 p.m.
Genes and Cells that Can Extend the Lifespan of C. Elegans
Cynthia Kenyon
University of California, San Francisco

2008 Anderson Cancer Symposium – September 12, 2008

11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Poster Session

2:00 p.m.
Welcoming Remarks
Alexander Kelly, Postdoctoral Fellow
Funabiki Laboratory, The Rockefeller University
 
Presentation of the Poster Awards
Paul Nurse, President
The Rockefeller University

2:05-2:50 p.m.
Input and Response in the Wnt Signaling Pathway
Marc Kirschner
Harvard University

2:50-3:35 p.m.
HSF and the Balancing Act between Neurodegeneration and Cancer
Susan Lindquist
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

3:35-3:50 p.m.
Coffee/Tea Break

3:50-4:35 p.m.
Defects in DNA Repair and Links to Human Disease
Stephen West
Cancer Research UK

4:35-5:20 p.m.
The Cohesin Ring Cycle: How Cells First Build and then Break Sister Chromatid Cohesion during Mitosis and Meiosis
Kim Nasmyth
University of Oxford

2007 Anderson Cancer Symposium – September 14, 2007

11:00am-1:15pm
Poster Session & Lunch

2:00pm
Welcoming Remarks
Alexander Kelly, Postdoctoral Scholar
Funabiki Laboratory, The Rockefeller University

2:05-2:50pm
Genetic and Genomic Analysis of the Gene Pathways that Mediate the C. Elegans Tiny RNA World
Gary Ruvkun
Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital

2:50-3:35pm
MicroRNAs as Oncogenes and Tumor Supressors
Scott Hammond
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

3:35-3:50pm
Coffee/Tea Break

3:50-4:35pm
Genetic Approaches to Identify Cancerous mRNAs
Reuven Agami
The Netherlands Cancer Institute

4:35-5:20pm
An RNA Amplification Loop Required for Heterochromatin Formation
Danesh Moazed
Harvard Medical School