| 2005-2006 Lectures |
| Date/Time/Location |
Event |
Honoree |
Reception |
Lecture Topic |
Fri, April 7, 2006
12 noon - 1:00 p.m.
Russ Berrie Conference Rooms 1 and 2
|
Rudin Distinguished Visiting Professorship Lecture |
Ronald M. Evans, Ph.D.
Professor, The Salk Institute
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology
|
Light lunch will be provided
|
"Nuclear Receptors: Metabolic Engineering and the Dawn of Synthetic Physiology"
|
 |
Thu, Apr 6, 2006
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Alumni Auditorium
|
Rudin Distinguished Visiting Professorship Lecture |
Ronald M. Evans, Ph.D.
Professor, The Salk Institute
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology
|
N/A
|
"Nuclear Receptors: PPARs at the Crossroads of Inflammation and Metabolism"
|
 |
Wed, Feb 22, 2006
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
P&S Alumni Auditorium
|
2004-05 Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities |
Andrew Delbanco, Ph.D.
Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities
and Director of American Studies,
Columbia University
|
Reception - Alumni Auditorium Lobby
|
"Melville, Our Contemporary"
|
 |
Thu, Feb 9, 2006
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Alumni Auditorium
|
The 2005-2006 David Seegal Alpha Omega Alpha Visiting Professorship Lecture |
Jeffrey S. Flier, M.D.
George C. Reisman Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Chief Academic Officer and Harvard Faculty Dean for Academic Affairs
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
|
N/A
|
"The Periphery and the Brain: Critical Conversations in the Control of Energy Balance"
|
 |
Mon, Nov. 21, 2005
12:00 noon
The Faculty Room, Low Memorial Library
535 West 116th Street |
Horwitz Prize Lectures |
Dr. Ada Yonath
The Martin S. and Helen Kimmel Professor of Structural Biology, Director, Then Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly, Wiezmann Institute of Science
Horwitz Prize website
|
N/A |
"The Ribosome, an Ancient Biological Machine, is Targeted by Antibiotics" |
Mon, Nov. 21, 2005
3:00 p.m.
New Location
HHSC Room 401
701 West 168th Street
|
"Ribosome Architecture, Polypeptides Formation, Protein Folding and Antibiotics Action" |
 |
Thu, Nov. 17, 2005
4:30-6:30 p.m.
New Location
NY State Psychiatric Institute
1051 Riverside Drive
First Floor Auditorium, room 1601
|
Heidelberger-Kabat Lecture |
Max D. Cooper, M.D. Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Microbiology and Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
|
Reception -Atrium Lobby, NYSPI, First Floor.
|
"The Evolution of Adaptive Immunity"
|
 |
Thu, Oct. 27, 2005
4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
HHSC Room 401
701 West 168th Street
|
2004-2005
Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Clinical Sciences
|
David A. Brenner, M.D. Chair, Department of Medicine, Samuel
Bard Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center
|
Reception - Riverview Lounge, HHSC 4th Floor
|
"Why the Liver Scars" |
 |
Wed, Oct. 26, 2005
4:30 -5:30 p.m.
Alumni Auditorium
|
The 29th Annual Alexander Ming Fisher Lecture |
Kathleen M. Foley, M.D. Attending Neurologist, Pain & Palliative Care Service,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience and Clinical Pharmacology, Cornell University Medical College
|
N/A |
"Challenges in Advancing Palliative Care: Cure for the Rich, Care for the Poor"
|
 |
Mon, Sept. 19, 2005
4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Alumni Auditorium
|
Thomas Q. Morris Symposium
|
David M. Gaba, M.D. Associate Dean for Immersive &
Simulation-based Learning, Professor of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine
|
Reception - Alumni Auditorium Lobby
|
"The Route to Patient Safety through Simulation in Medical Education"
|
 |
Tue, Sept. 13, 2005
4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Alumni Auditorium
|
2004-2005
Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Basic Sciences
|
James E. Rothman, Ph.D. Director, The
Judith P. Sulzberger Columbia Genome Center, Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical
Biology Professor, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University Medical Center
|
Reception - Alumni Auditorium Lobby
|
"High Throughput Cell Biology and the Columbia Genome Center"
|
 |
Wed Feb 9, 2005
12:00 p.m.
Davis Auditorium
500 W. 120th Street, Campus Level
|
Special Lecture
The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize Lecture |
Anthony J. Pawson, Ph.D.
Director of Research, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute
& University Professor, University of Toronto |
|
"Modular Protein Interactions in Signal Transduction" |
 |
Wed Feb 9, 2005
3:00 p.m.
P&S Alumni Auditorium
650 W. 168th Street
|
Special Lecture
The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize Lecture |
Tony Hunter,
Ph.D. Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
|
"Tyrosine Phosphorylation: Past, Present and Future" |
 |
|
Dean’s Distinguished Lecture in the Basic Sciences |
|
Reception |
|
 |
Tues Jan 25, 2005
Alumni Auditorium
4:30pm-6:30pm
|
David Seegal Alpha Omega Alpha Visiting Professorship Lecture |
Harry Jacobs, M.D., DHC Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota |
|
The Danger of Staphylococcal Superantigens: From Toxic Shock Syndrome to Lymphoma and Beyond |
 |
Tues Dec 7, 2004
Alumni Auditorium
4:30pm-5:30pm
|
Rudin Distinguished Visiting Professorship Lecture |
Dr. Michael Karin |
|
The IkB Kinase (IKK) Complex: At the Crossroads of Inflammation and Cancer |
 |
Mon Dec 6, 2004
Alumni Auditorium
5:00pm-7:00pm
|
Rudin Distinguished Visiting Professorship Lecture |
Dr. Michael Karin |
|
The IkB Kinase (IKK) Complex as a Coordinator of Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses |
 |
Tues Nov 30, 2004
Alumni Auditorium
4:30pm-6:30pm
|
Heidelberger-Kabat Lecture
|
Dr. Klaus Rajewsky |
|
Antibodies: Essential regulators of normal and malignant B cells |
 |
Wed Oct 6, 2004
Alumni Auditorium
|
Alexander Ming Fisher Lecture & Dinner |
Dr. Arthur Caplan |
|
From Karen Quinlan to Terry Schiavo: Has Any Real Progress Been Made in the Withdrawal
and Termination of Medical Treatments |
 |
Tues Sept 28, 2004
Alumni Auditorium
3:00pm-5:00pm
|
Thomas Q. Morris Symposium |
Dr. Haile T. Debas and
Dr. Daniel H. Lowenstein |
|
The Academy Movement: Restructuring of Medical Schools to Advance the Mission of Education |